Cameras: How much Technology needed for Amazing Photographs

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We live in a new age world where the latest and greatest is all that matters for most of the young harpooned 25 years ago and injected with digital addiction that has become a way of life.

Change is defiantly a constant, cash will be obsolete soon ? so they say, if so we will only be as good as our battery's last LOL or until someone shoots down a satellite LOL.
Life is like being on the train, at which station is your choice to step off...............

I wasn't built for LR or PS need or obsession, i am not thrilled with to much super tech savvy stuff by choice, that doesn't mean it should be banned or is bad, look at how they do surgery now, Its about what fits and works.

Look at Musk and how he has brought space travel up to date in record time, it doesn't mean he has necessarily better technology, maybe its its always been there just in the wrong hands.

Its not the rich and powerful or educated or smart that mostly survive its the adaptable............

Camera companies make their money mostly on lenses but first they need to get the bodies out there, after all its a business.

I think Canon as i have always said is and will always be the dark horse, the R1 will basically be impressive, why because it needs to be.
The Canon glass and range is superb, R3 is excellent and a low light performer with excellent overall performance.
The R1 will be the flag ship as we are told, i have said from the beginning forget about Sony i have never liked them as a company, Nikon has excellent image files and i have been with them for a long while, if i had to move to another brand i have always said its Canon.........they have had time to get the R1 right, it has to be.

It seems Collectively the industry works as a whole, first its Sony then Nikon then Canon then it will be Sony's turn followed by Nikon....and life goes on like Samsung and Apple, or

Apple and Microsoft but collectively there strong.

I feel 80-100 mp sensors will come, its crazy but I feel if Nikon is smart they will drop in a high ISO performer to fill a gap. Sony and canon have done so.

For me My question is not so much the gear or technology any more i am past that, its what do I like doing or looking at, reading an article as apposed to watching U Tube clip on the same subject just speaks volumes, give me U Tube.

Taking - looking at stills to evoke emotion for the viewer has no comparison to watching a living sounding moment, be it a person animal or wave rolling in on the beach.
Young mum and dad in the park with bubs or the dog video moments on their smart phones 95% of the time as they can watch it on their home screen or send it around the world in a second all with sound motion and living moment in time.

My question to be answered this year is, do i want take still photos anymore other than on my IPhone going forward...........is it time to buy some fishing rods to go with the new van, new IPhone, and 13 inch M1 Mac lap top.

Only and opinion

Happy days.........

 

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

Question #2: Will technology replace skill and technique required for great photos??? Never!

Some techniques require technology, features/abilities that simply do not exist / are not possible without the technology. And they take some skill to use properly

This is why such questions are slippery

 

[Doug Herr]

For those who are wondering if we need all the technology the current equipment offers I suggest an experiment: take a year using only a manual focus film SLR and see if your photos are any different.

 

[EricBowles]

Some techniques require technology, features/abilities that simply do not exist / are not possible without the technology. And they take some skill to use properly

This is why such questions are slippery

An example from last week is an extreme low angle to the subject. While photographing shorebirds, getting the camera down low nearly on the sand normally requires a very awkward position lying on your stomach and trying to compose and focus using the viewfinder. It's possible but difficult. With Subject Detect Auto Area and teh rear LCD, you can hold the camera at a similar position while sitting or lying, and the camera focuses on the subject. Your attention is on composition - not focus. The camera handles focus. But you have to be able to trust your camera completely in choosing the right subject and achieving good focus without assistance.

With modern tech, the degree of difficulty is dramatically reduced and the keeper level more than quadruples.