Buying an SLR camera and seeing it obsolete in a few months generates a lot of frustration, so I would like to show you a tip with which you can always have the latest SLR camera.
If you’ve ever felt like you own an old-fashioned camera compared to other photographers, I know the feeling, I know it because we all experience it sooner or later, unless you have infinite money and don’t buy new models. as it is to go on the market it is impossible not to feel obsolete with a camera, no matter the brand, the model, the performance, if it is expensive, if it is cheap, if you bought it with one goal or another. Your camera is made to become obsolete.
- This is the well-known and accepted game of manufacturers.
- A camera brand does not seek to sell cameras.
- But selling more is better.
- To achieve this nothing is more effective than putting a model on the market.
- Promoting it and getting them to buy it.
- And in a short time reviving a similar model.
- But top model in some respects.
- Unfortunately (fortunately for these manufacturers) most of us fell in love with this game.
- Over time.
- We get used to wanting to have the best.
- There’s nothing wrong with wanting to have the best.
- It’s the human condition.
- It just gives me the feeling that we’re getting confused as photographers about what we’re after.
Do we really want to have the latest cameras? Because photographers love to expose. Any work of ours that produces admiration of “Ohhhs!” It makes us happy. By nature we like to show and observe the admired faces that surround us, however, there is a small detail that sometimes escapes us: what we have to expose is the photo, not the camera.
The camera, as the title of this section indicates, is not an end in itself, it is a simple means with which we take photos that we enjoy and share later, these yes without something that we can worry about, try to improve, not the camera. .
I am a firm critic of the idea that directly links the quality of a photograph to the performance of the camera. A top camera won’t always give you a top photo. And vice versa, not always a modest performance camera will produce poor quality. photo We assume that it is you who takes the photos (etsh, do not be surprised now, you are supposed to know and appreciate it).
Obviously everything can be nuanced, of course a Canon 5D Mark III camera offers much higher performance than the Nikon D60, and obviously this in some cases can help, but these are very specific cases, professional photographers who need to work in extreme conditions, looking to get a concrete and technically specific result. However, we have no guarantee that the Canon 5D photographer Mark will get a better photo than the Nikon D60, or the other way around. The camera doesn’t tell me anything, he’s the photographer.
The best camera, as I’ve said many times, doesn’t exist. There is a camera suitable for each of us, it is true, but a “better” for all and absolutely, I do not know any. And even if there was, don’t worry, it would soon become obsolete.
The way out of this situation is to buy a camera and realize, from the beginning, that it will not become obsolete, it is about getting married out of love and starting to imagine future projects, sustainable and sustainable, you can not invest money in buying a camera with the only argument that ‘man, has very advanced features, has the latest technology’ , if you think so, you will have succeeded at first, you will feel huge doses of satisfaction when exposing it to your friends the first days and months, but shortly after Pentax, Canon, Sony or any brand will come out a model that will give you a thousand tricks, and you will feel that your camera is very outdated. A terrifying feeling.
Forget the adjective “obsolete. ” Pick a camera you like, one that meets your photography needs and is affordable for you. Once you buy it, forget about buying cameras, at least for a while. Just have eyes for her and for the compositions you are traveling with. Enjoy it. Forget the evolution of profits. If the world starts to think of your camera as outdated but still lives up to your expectations, don’t listen to anyone but your own opinion.
When I say don’t listen to anyone, I’ll still include something with you: in the article where I recommend SLR cameras, I recommend cameras that have been relatively replaced by other models, younger, more powerful. Anyway, every time I update this article I keep the same models that I have always recommended, they are cameras that, I think, a year ago or two were worth it, so they were always worth it. How could I set a camera on fire, and a year or two later I was going to stop recommending it?The cameras I recommended a year or two ago are cameras that I still love to this day.
I know people who know more about cameras, models and functions than about photography. These are people who spend most of their time trying to prove that they have the most powerful camera out there, they are able to make the case based on processor technology, sensor nanotechnology. , battery specifications, etc.
Others like to immortalize the world they know through something called photography. Thank you for reading this article.