12-18-2006, 01:42 PM
white_2kgt Wrote:Something APOC quoted from a website Wrote:Buying new gear will NOT improve your photography.
That's Bullshit, to a point, true, yes, but you are just not going to get the same shot w/ a Canon Powershot as you will w/ an EOS.
You're entitled to your opinion but a lot of professionals agree with him. As he said, some of the best pictures of the modern era were taken before the techbological advances of today (read: Ansel Adams). If you think a Powershot can't take a picture as good as an EOS than I honestly feel sorry for your wallet because you're just going to keep buying lens upon lens convinced money eqauls good pics. (Ask me how I know.)
You may not have the lucritive adaptability with a Powershot but I'd take a Powershot and a photographer who knows what they're doing any day. It's the person behind the camera that makes good pictures, not the camera. Ask all the people who take shitty pictures with dSLRs why their pics suck? It's ain't the lens.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not sayin' dSLRs are a waste as the cost of my Nikon gear is worth more than my motorcycle. I'm just sayin' that the person, and experience, goes much farther into making great pictures.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth