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A friend has a Canon 5D 12MP and im thinking im going to have to show here by taking a pic of the same item and enlarging to demonstrate the difference.
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Bob,
photography as a hobby (e.g.: not regular profession) can be divided into two quite separate areas: technical and aesthetic.
1st one (I'm a bit overemphased here): one taking macro shots of coins in a moonlight. Moreover: those coins are moving around, it's a coin-fall! Coinfall in a moonlight, clouded moonlight.
In this case this geek definitely needs excellent low-light performance in terms of noise, sparkling-fast auto-focus, high fps (frames per second) and so on. Lens should be best of the best too (assuming we care about all the microscopic details on those coins): highest resolution possible from edge to edge, contrasty, and on, and on. Oh, lens must be black (if Nikon system) or silver (in a case of Canon) - then everybody on the block will know that here lives a real photographer!
2nd one: this type of photography is just about taking shots that are interesting and not only to you but others as well as soon as they are shown. There're two subtypes of this way of photography: when post-processing is not even enabled but moreover encouraged (also known as photoshoping) - on one hand - and when you are just taking photo's and their are impressive and interesting right from the cam (or raw-converter) - on the other hand.
You can classify a photographer into the ranks above just upon a quick look over his equipment:
- has the quickest cam currently on the market, also may often sell all his C-branded gear to go for N-brand and vice versa; lenses may be not the fastest ever made, but claimed to be very sharp all over across the frame. Works with zooms but also may have some copies of macro fixes. Assumes Zeiss to be the god of photo gear. Cares about MP, MTF-graphs, FPS, knows all the details on CCD tech vs xCMOS technology. Reads dpreview and dxomark.com and regularly takes part in those holy wars on MP, FPS, MTF, resolution and microsecs that his AF needs to travel from infinity to snap on the object in the lowest light ever seen. He usually wins these battles but should he fail one he sells all his gear and goes to another brand. He assumes D3s/D3x (if he currently owns N-branded gear) or 1Ds MKx (in a case of C-brand) to be the best ever, but he excuses himself since he's running his hobby on a budget and has no free kidney to sell to afford that stuff. This is definitely our tech geek.
- probably tried several types of cams but finally stuck with one brand. Has dSLR. Often has BIG BLACK 24-70/2.8 and another BIG BLACK 70-200/2.8 (those MUST be of white color in case of C-brand since canon's L-series considered to be the toppest from canon is painted with white only). Has several quick primes and his 1st lovely prime was of 50mm focal length. Some of his lens are originals, some are from Tampron/Sigma 3rd parties (or hardly Tokina), one of his primes carries Zeiss logo on the face. Has top-model flash, sometimes even a herd of flashes. Once online he loves to talk about resolution, bokeh, contrast, composition, light. Shoots in raw, has the latest version of adobe's photoshop s/w with lot's of add-ons and plug-ins. Studies HDRI. Recently ordered special tools to calibrate his display and printer.
Sometimes he thinks he should give a try to film photography but he never puts this into real. Reads dpreview but doesn't write there much. That's about 2.1 person.
- he shoots well whatever camera being given with. He shoots and prints. Color and b/w. Digital and analogue. Can not be seen online any often but he may be reading TOP (theonlinephotographer.com) every week or two. Or once a couple of months. Or he even may be of no clue about TOP and he hardly checks his inbox for new emails two times a year. Although we shoots great with any cam he's given with - he's got only a couple of lens for his cam, both primes and these primes have about F2.0-3.5 max aperture, he finds fast 1.4's and 1.2's to be of no use in real life but too big and too attractive for others. The badge of his cam can be hidden with piece of adhesive tape (darm it often falls off!) - that's 2.3 guy.
So back to the quote I quoted in the beginning of the post - if you shoot smth - that is not quite interesting - with your p'n's and shoot it again with 5D/D700/K7/A700/D15/NX10/GF2/whatever - it will remain being not that interesting and you will be hardly impressed with increased quality of the photo - unless you scene demands very low depth of field that can not be obtained with p'n's lens. Or unless you care about details of each coin in a coinfall in a cloudy moonlight and you find it excitenly interesting.
Zig
posted by 77.37.1...
, Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:43:18
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