So much discussion about the wonders of Nikon cameras but is photography as much fun and does it requires that much skill or application.
My Z8 with 600mm lens attached just seems to need to be aimed at the sky while I press a button and take 30 images in 1 second so sharp I can see the birds eyelashes. (Yes I know !).
I used to have to think when I used my D810 or my Z6 or the Braun Superpaxette I used in 1956. Now the boot of my electric car has enough gear to stock the Photo Warehouse but I have a nagging feeling that if I hold up my Samsung Fold and push that button and use AI in Photoshop, my pictures won't end up that much different to the other billion that upload to InstaTok that day.
Other than enjoying the actual trip or outdoors, actual Photography is not as much fun anymore.
So many people are taking the same images of so much already, photography has become somewhat
generic.
A lot of the hard earn t skill sets are not that critical anymore.
Composition and creativeness is pretty much all that's left to consider as the cameras these days do it all basically.
You do require different new skill sets for mirror less hybrid video still cameras, mainly for setting up presets, but nothing like before, that's good for the masses i guess, my girlfriend with no photographic experience could grab my Z9 Z8 and if things are set up for wide bird tracking auto iso etc, she can take money shots by just keeping the subject in the frame, she says this is just a form of videoing isn't it.
Phones are the way to go for so so many people and situations.
The demand for video is outweighing the demand for still shots, the internet demonstrates this.
Drone footage is much more appealing.
Sills are and will continue to be derived more from video sources going forward.
Yet today i saw at a side walk Japanese food stall at the Rocks in Sydney a group of Japanese tourist in their mid to late 20s, each had a camera with a zoom lens, they were small units expensive high end Sony and Fuji cameras, i was having my Miso soup, when i asked about their journey, things eventually touched on their gear and what they did with them and liked about them, the takeaway answer was small compact light versatile high quality optics. Their back up camera was a their phone.
What they do is mostly video with the occasional still snaps all for Instagram Tik Tok Face Book............where people want to see short video clips 90% of the time over stills.
Are things the same before mirror less became the new kid on the block, NO just new easier and different, is it as much fun,
less so for more people than we think.
Am i negative ? No just expressing an opinion.
Video and drone footage seems to be on the radar more so than ever before, its new and different and frankly more appealing than stills for many people, above all its backed by major capital, and vertical integration, we will simply adapt over time and become videographers in stead of photographers.
Only an opinion
. I am seeing a lot of images posted these days that could be greatly improved.
