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I agree. Took the $728 (including lens) Sony RX100 today to a famous ally way here (famous for it's graffiti, will post some pictures later). I was surrounded by folk (lots of them) wielding DSLR's, some even with tripods.
I felt quite sorry for them all, my camera was small, discrete, ego free and slipped into my pocket as I walked away and popped into a nice local Tapas restaurant.
Will they have taken better photos than me? Maybe, but not because of the camera they were wielding. Watching them one or two seemed to have a different idea, a dead flower in the foreground, one girl climbed into a window to take a shot from a different angle (I got a shot of her doing this). On the whole they were probably taking a lot more time to get the same shot as me, and I'm sure mine will hold up IQ wise, and I went through a lot quicker than anybody else (an inpatient wife can influence this).
Maybe I need the expensive D3s with selected expensive 2.8 lenses at home not to feel intimidated by the the DSLRs, whilst I'm walking around with a P&S, but maybe I've just grown up.
Of course the Sony RX100 isn't the same as a P&S that was available 2 years ago, so maybe I'm just ahead of the curve.
Part of me has for some time cringed at DSLRs.
I have lugged my D3 to shoots only to encounter 'the boss's son' taking snaps of the same product with a Casio, Sony or Panasonic compact. Sure( fortunately) my results were superior, but increasingly, as compacts improved, it was the operators lack of technique that made most of the difference.
I am sure, given his camera, I could have approached the results of my D3 ....probably close enough for most clients.
The phrase " it ain't what you got, it's the way that you use it" springs to mind.
I cringed, not just because of all the hardware I apparently needed, but because in some ways digital photography could be paralleling personal computers.
We look back at the computers of 30+years ago, filling rooms, and see them now. The power and compactness of things like the iPad.
So you could regard the DSLR as almost Dickensian! Certainly people in 30 years time will!
Just like 'compact' computers, the development of 'compact' cameras requires a change in approach, maybe even compromise.
But then, one wonders if photography will still be an artistic hobby in 30 years time. Or just 'event recording' on our personal recording devices.
Last edited on Sat Jan 12th, 2013 19:48 by Eric
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