Photography Thailand Forum

[Markus]

This page by Thom Hogan (A usually very Nikon-critical Nikonian) explains quite well the Nikon and Canon line-up with their new models and discusses Nikons release strategy. It should clarify a couple of issues discussed here


- http://www.bythom.com/D3comments1.htm

[bjorn slis]

Amateurs worry about equipment,
professionals worry about money,
masters worry about light,
I make pictures...

Hey Marc did you just admit to being an amateur ?   :P

[gregoire]

Watch out Bjorn, I can feel the heavy breath of the "does gear matter" debate on my neck!

[bjorn slis]

55555

not from me, I have a 1.2 MP motorola

[Marc Schultz]

The day I stop learning more about photography Bjorn is the day I might as well give it up all together. Its the journey that is the best part :)

[bjorn slis]

  just making fun of the Nikon-Canon thing Marc

[Marc Schultz]

No problem. I don't mind. But I was trying to make a point which I believe is more important than any of this talk about equipment branding.

[Gus]

I look at it this way.  When my ability matches technology I will be happy.....but hell I may even die before that happens.

[Markus]

I would say, that I will be dead when technology finally matches my abilities, since I am the one who pays for the technology.  :P

[epixx]

As a side-note to all this, but with regards to camera technology: I get an increasingly strong feeling that parts of the camera technology, particularly the user interface, is moving further and further away from my abilities. Having started with an Olympus OM-1 more than 30 years ago, a camera with no hidden secret, and with only the simplest form of metering, I often feel removed from the realities of photography when using current cameras.

This has been said a million times before of course, but it's still as true as ever: using a D200 or a 5D in manual mode is not, and will never be, the same as using an old style camera like my current OM-3 or a Nikon FM3A. Unfortunately, there will probably never be an FM3D or an OM-4D.

Does it matter? Yes, I think it does. All the technology of modern cameras is often helpful, but can also be distractions between the photographer and a good photograph.

Maybe there's an M8 somewhere in my future. That seems to be a nice, simple camera. I just need to find that bank that hands out piles of thousand-baht notes for free   

[bjorn slis]

yes, that's a big thing, technology almost forces you to buy a new camera every year/two years, I would like to have a good tool (camera in this case) to last me a lot longer than that.

Let's force them camera brands to stop developing for 10 yrs., and make one good body to last the next 10 !!!!! 

maybe I should just buy a F6 and skip the whole digi era   

[Markus]

  just dont buy a Canon 

[bjorn slis]

peace !

[epixx]

maybe I should just buy a F6 and skip the whole digi era   

Don't even mention the F6. Technology or not, it's just the sweetest camera on earth. I'll never be able to say that I need one, but sooner or later, I just got to have it.