In photography, the practice of comparing cameras is widespread as part of the process of choosing a camera.
Today I’m going to tell you why I don’t like these camera comparisons and why we don’t do them much on the photographer’s blog.
- The first reason is that in most camera comparisons the end result is known in advance.
- And is that there are no differences or that they are minimal.
All brands (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Pentax, Fuji, etc. ) play under the same rules and with similar resources, use the same technological knowledge, some have patents and others have patents, the same engineers compete with each other and, as a result, move almost in unaison.
No camera brand was able to invent anything that was considered the “Holy Grail”. Cameras and other brands could not create and launch immediately. They are all making similar technological advances at more or less similar rates.
When one major brand sells an amazing SLR camera, at a price, with a resolution of 20 MP, the others already do the same the following month.
We insist on looking at the specifications with magnifying glass, not that camera A has an internal electronic component that exceeds that of camera B because otherwise, uuuuuh, it would be the end of the world, when in reality they all offer almost the same thing.
When we compare cameras of a similar range, I think the differences, if any, are minimal and do not justify the time we spend analyzing them, as if what really mattered were the camera.
We all know it’s not the camera that counts, it’s you, the photographer.
What happens if you compare camera A to camera B and conclude that camera B is the best?Buy the B? Well, what if, a few minutes before you made this purchase, you’re out of your mind with an option you hadn’t considered, camera C?What are you doing? Since you haven’t made the purchase yet, would you be in time to compare camera B with this new camera you just discovered, C or not?
Come on, let’s compare B to C
You finally stayed with C. Il convinced you. Fortunately, you saw it just before you bought the B, otherwise you would have regretted it all your life, of course. What a horror! Ala, here we go for camera C.
Then a friend comes and swears that buying C would make the biggest mistake of your life. He recommends D. Si don’t believe it, at least compare the C you were going to buy with camera D, his.
See if your colleague is right
In psychology, there is an effect called “analysis paralysis. “You start analyzing something and you mix there to analyze over and over again, and you stay there, paralyzed, not being able to make a decision. Every time you’re about to solve the problem, you decide to discuss the issue “a little more,” as if analyzing things gives you some kind of pleasure.
Today, the camera options are endless, for example, for a range of DSLR cameras for beginner photographers, there are millions of options, what do we do, we compare them all?
Right now a famous video comes to mind (I think it’s also a book) titled The Paradox of Choice, it’s beautiful and I invite you to watch it, your main idea is that, regardless of the living environment (restaurant, clothing store, etc. ), the more options we have to choose from, the harder it will be for us to make that decision, if you’re interested , you can watch this video.
It’s paradoxical, you’d think that the more options you choose, the better, but no, the more options you choose, the greater the mental effort and the harder it is to make the decision.
The more camera comparisons there are, the more paralysis there are and obviously fewer photos, because the time you make these comparisons or this search is when you don’t take pictures.
Each comparison hides our desire to take the best, to stay, in this case, with the most advanced camera, which offers the best features.
Listen friend: your camera was designed by the brand that marketed it so that in a short time it would become obsolete, do not bother too much, it is a battle that you have a loss of input (unless you firmly believe that the photo is not made by the camera, but by the photographer).
I’m not even talking about programmed obsolescence. It’s a different matter. What I’m saying here is that if you’re ashamed to have a camera considered old on the market, yours will be less than a rooster sings. salivating when they look at the latest models on the market.
Camera brands have a long-term development strategy (R
There are other considerations such as the maturity of this technology, the ability of the brand to fine-tune it over time, patent problems, etc. , but there is also a will and determination on the part of the “Dose” marks. commercialization of its technology.
What would be more cost-effective for a camera manufacturer?Launch a 50MP camera now and you’ve already bought this camera and that’s it, the end?Or first launch a 20MP camera and let some users buy it, after 1 year, launch another 24MP camera and generate money with, after a while another 30MP (more sales), and so until the final launch of this 50MP camera?
(This also happens, by the way, with mobile phones, TVs and a variety of product types).
It’s a legitimate business model. Each brand is free to launch its technology at once, or to dose it gradually, the camera brands are not to create a more beautiful world, but to make money, I understand.
What I’m saying is that when you know how the camera game works you start relativizing the importance of having the latest camera model, your fever from comparing one camera starts to go down a little, camera with another, you start to stop worrying about dating a camera supposedly worse than the neighbor’s.
You begin to take your look to another level, that of “see who makes the most beautiful photo”.
Good picture.