The Camera Does Not Matter
Or so they say.
Funny, then, that good photographers like Paul Butzi devotes no less than six (6!) lengthy posts on his blog to just the metering system on his digital camera. And these six posts just follow one where Paul derides people who equate good photography with a good camera. Go figure.
A fair share of post on Colin Jago’s blog is devoted to his Leica. A great camera if there is one, and a great photographer too.
Mike Johnston, on his own blog goes on and on about how seemingly almost any camera is badly designed.
And these are the blogs I find interesting! Mike’s blog is about his feeling of the day around photography, and Paul and Colin are primarily artists, not the like to be interested in gear first!
I don’t really understand many of those posts. Cameras have never been that good. We never had such a choice, new or second hand. I find most of those writings mere repeats of what was written all along the last six decades.
I started this blog to describe my digital photography adventure after I decided to switch. Lately my rhythm of posts went sharply down, for a number of reasons (new job, moving, photo projects) but it never was frantic to start with. Main reason: there is very little to write. The gear part of photography is quite uneventful for me. Most of what I learned with film still works the same, the gear itself and associated computer, software and printer are just working along. Digital B&W printing was an adventure four years ago, it is not anymore. Photo processing software was a challenge for computers a few years ago, not anymore. Digital cameras were maybe once strange beasts with all sorts of problems, I don’t find anything serious with the ones I use now.
When I started this blog I thought I would report on how my different lenses work, what I did for this or this. Well, there is not much to report: the lenses are plenty good enough, I sometimes think of replacing one or another for some minor improvements, but not for any design flaws or insufficient quality.
After seven months of using only digital, the single biggest change it brought to me was freeing time for picture taking and allowing me to start studio portraiture. So this blog will probably go on, but it won’t be about my digital photography thing, it will be about what I do with photography.
Now, about that name…
Stephane :: May.19.2007 :: Photography :: No Comments »
