Your Expensive Camera Can't Take Photographs…
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- I bought a Sony NEX 5 for £47 and I hopefully proved the point that the camera doesn't really matter when it comes to taking nice photographs.
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You proved the point well Chris. Too many people concentrate on the pixels and not the picture. 👍
Thanks Dave, glad you understood the point of the video!
Anyone who thinks you need the latest, greatest and most expensive is every camera store owners dream. I am still trying to get the grey matter that's 2 inches behind my camera to work.
Yet for some reason pro photographers are not running around with 56 punds cameras. Why's that? They are the ones who are supposed to know the craft, aren't they?
Never a truer word spoken. I've just bought an om1 and sold all my full frame gear. The reason was it was three times the weight of my new kit. Yep it has superb technical quality. But so does the new gear. It's a few pixels less but unless you're printing huge images 5 foot or so you cannot really tell. I am still learning the camera but I know I'm going to get good images with this.
I did the same, purchased a Lumix g9ii, in love with this system!
Spot on, Chris! I recently went to a zoo and found a lion up on the hillside looking like Mufasa from "The Lion King." Went to shoot it with my Lumix G95 and found I hadn't packed a long lens (Note to self: don't do that again).
There only other gear I had with me was an 11 year old Pentax Q7 with it's 12 megapixel, tiny 1/1.7" sensor. BUT it had the telephoto zoom on it, so I zoomed to about a 204 mm equivalent field of view and took the shot.
Is it perfect? No! Should I enter it in a contest? No! Did it capture a priceless memory? YES! would I rather have this imperfect photo than to have missed the shot? YES!
[Imagine imperfect but priceless photo here.]
I’ve always shot with my trusty D750. But I’ve recently bought a used EM MKii, and it’s changed the way I take images totally. I use it for macro with the 60mm and landscapes with the 14-150. I love it, I shoot handheld a lot more now and the 750 stays at home a lot more now. 😂
I'd suggest buying a better lens over buying a new camera, any day. Great glass will last you a long time.
So very true Chris. I shoot with M4/3 and get so sick of people saying you can’t get great pictures, print big with it due to its lack of megapixels, utter rubbish. I take and print great pictures with my 12mp iPhone that look great on the wall. Great video as always really enjoyed this one.👍
See? Proper TH-cam photography channels do still exist! Excellent stuff Chris 👍
Thank you, I appreciate that.
Probably mentioned before but some of my best recent photos were taken with my original 12 year old 12 mega pixel, steam powered Olympus E-PM1 with the LUMIX 12-32 kit lens. I just learnt to use Manual, Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority properly to get the best results.
Hi Chris, I have 5 digital cameras, one of which is 20 yrs old. Two of my cameras only cost around £100 used. They are superb, have loads of features, but as you say, it is down to me to get the photo. Often when hiking longer distances I will only take my phone to save weight, but even then I get great shots. I vary the height I take photos from and always try to get some interesting close foreground in to create ‘depth’ to the shot. Imagination, and composition is the key!
Hi Chris, while THE camera isn’t important to have a camera is important. You cannot take an image without an image taking machine. It doesn’t matter if it’s a pinhole camera or a $10,500 Canon R1 (that’s in Australian dollars). Yes, the photographer takes the photo but it needs to be recorded some how. I personally have given up watching gear review TH-cam channels as I have the equipment I both want and enjoy. I choose to shoot film and digital. Shoot with whatever gear you like as long as you are inspired to get out and use it.
The camera and all the accessories that go with it are a tool - how you use that tool is up to you AND it is the result you create with it that ACTUALLY really matters! Any relationship between image quality and cost is a complete myth - again it is down to how you get the best out of the tools.
A camera from a hundred years ago can do a good job. If you know what you are doing. Same thing with cameras from the last ten years. You know what your'e doing with 10 year old gear, you can take great photos.
This is just what I need to hear today. I only started taking photos about 4 months ago and have been really enjoying the process. I have an art background and access to a few old cameras. I love taking pictures and constantly want to improve. Now the imposter syndrome is settling in and the camera I love so much doesn't seem good enough!
The truth is that I just need to be patient and experiment with what I have. You are absolutely right about the time of the day. I have recently been busy at work and with family so I have been putting pressure on myself to take pictures when I can but this can lead to some quickly taken uninspiring images.
Like I said I needed to watch this video today. Thank you 😊
I've come back from Bempton Cliffs recently and bless them the Olympus, Nikon and Sony shooters were awesome but the Canon folk....oh my gosh you would not believe what those people will spout about their £5k cameras LOL
I was the only Lumix guy there 😂
Very true, seen a bit of a backlash to the usual larger YT gear review channels recently I unfollowed pretty much all of them as they over exaggerate even the most minor upgrades and often ignore/belittle downgrades. Some people are very swayed by brands, sensor sizes and the latest gear though, I remember telling someone in a camera group I was in that I bought the then new Fuji X-Pro 3, all of a sudden they thought my photos were great till I told them it was a secondhand GX80...they were not happy
Great video Chris. Gear absolutely doesn't matter...Need to get my Em1mkii out again and have a play👍👍
It’s about time we are keeping it real
Thank you Sir.
Well put Chris! Still use my Em1. It’s more about just getting out and enjoying.
Really enjoyed this one pal, and you’ve proven that point perfectly. I really can’t get my head around some people 🙈some beautiful lighting and compositions here Chris 🔥
Totally true. This was a very good reminder.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Nicely done and your point was demonstrated with your pictures not just your words.
Excellent video Chris, your thoughts are very relevant always in this age of high tech cameras. My Em 1 mk 1 has been my trusty friend for many years.
Really enjoyed this one. I actually stoped watching many TH-camrs because I am sick and tired of hearing about gear and mega pixels or "opinion" that the camera makes a great photo (not true). I watch people who accept all brands and who are interesting. Lets talk more about photography. By the way, great photos Chris. Cheers from southern Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada
You definitely showed the proof that skill trumps equipment those shots are awesome.
I remember watching a TH-cam channel about 10yrs ago where they had pro-photographers do something called the cheap camera challenge. They were given cheap like really cheap cameras (one was a Barbie doll with a digital camera in it), they showed that it doesn’t make a difference what the cost of the camera is it only matters how your composition skills are. When I was about 6 we went on holiday for Christmas I had a cheap film camera that was in the shape of a panda face, my mum had a film Canon SLR . When she took in couple of our rolls, all of mine turned out but not of hers did.
Wow another NEX-5 video in 2024. You deserve even more respect. Your photography is great, you are talented experienced so you can afford taking making photography with an NEX-5, which is anyway a great camera just perfectly enough.
This is a great video and should be viewed more widely.
Great video Chris, thanks for making this, very informative and some stunning results. Top work 👍
To right it's not just about the gear, I started with a olympus 10 mk3 then a olympus omd1 mk2 I still have it it's a great camera. I now have an OM1 . Piont, being it's not the gear it's the photographer.
We all heard the expression "all the gear and no idea ". Or
It's not what you've got but what you do with it.
Rock on, great videos.
I love this so much because it bucks the system of TH-cam. The platform is pushing the latest and greatest gear more than just getting out to shoot. I have found over the last few years that TH-cam has become a huge commercial for products in every industry. It’s said because I learned everything that I know about photography from this platform but now you just get people pushing the newest gear on here. Thanks for this video showing that it’s more about the experience than the ad sale
Brilliant video Chris with some important take-home points! I think back to decades ago when I got the latest and greatest Canon A-1, and then years later spent a fortune on my Canon 50 D, and then moved onto my Canon 5D mark IV which at the time revolutionized the photographic world. Now, how is it any of those cameras which each at their own time took world class, incredible photos, suddenly no longer be any good because they are not a mirrorless? ie expensive!
Now, having said that I’m definitely someone that can suffer from bouts of GAS (gear acquisition syndrome.) I think the bane of all photographers is to hear the comment “what a nice picture you must have a really good camera!“ Aargh. Great session. Thank you
Bam, dead on.
Cracking video Chris. I was at Paull on Thursday evening with a mate and it is a good location if you take the time to look around. The person takes the photo, not the camera. Looking forward to your next video.
Well said Chris.Your so right. Love the channel, keep it up!
As ive always said its the person behind the camera that takes the photo ,no matter what camera your using . S o well put chris .
Chris, you are the real deal. Thanks for sharing what is really important. Awesome content 🙌🙌
P.S. these images are stunning 📷🙌
I appreciate that! Glad you enjoy the content.
I LOVE your videos!! Your point is well taken. Thanks for making it.
Thanks for watching! And glad you enjoy them!
Wow, the photos you took this video I thought were all amazing shots!
Really enjoyed this video Chris, especially as it was about photography in general. 100% agree with you on this topic although if you could afford the best quality lens you would get a sharper image. Maybe your viewer thinks we all have creative flare but just need a better camera. I think people have to ask themselves what they want from this first. For me, photography is about escaping from the four walls and enjoying the outdoors on my own. It doesn’t matter to me whether I take a single picture or not, photography is about me time.
Keep up the good work mate 😊
Great video! It’s the emotional state of the person behind the camera that makes the shot. Angel Adam’s said the most important component of a camera is the 12 inches behind it. Thanks for sharing.
That was one of the best videos l have watched for a good while and one that every one new to photography should watch. Well done and the keep the common sense videos coming.
Wow, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it and understood the point of it.
Spot on Chris 👍
I always liked the image quality from my NEX-3. I didn’t keep it because I already had some Canon gear and found used Sony lenses to be not that affordable (for me)
Third party Sony lenses are where it’s at for me. I only own the one Sony lens.
Great poits you made! Thanks! Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
Great points Chris. Invest in yourself first, and then you’ll discover if any of your gear needs upgrading. If you convince yourself that you didn’t get the shot because you don’t have the last 982 gigapixel triple stacked salted caramel sensor with sprinkles, you’re on a hiding to nothing anyway and won’t enjoy photography- which is the whole point of it!
Bought on used market, DSLR's: D810 (2014) & D750 (2014), even a D70 (2004).. Bought all in 2024, mint.
Also its all about the photographer always
Expensive camera, poor photographer Cheap camera good photographer! We all know who’s going to win!
Thanks for understanding the point of the video!
People that sneer at photographers with older gear, are just insecure and feel the need to justify their own expensive purchases to themselves. I think.
Meanwhile I take advantage of their shiny new kit syndrome, and buy their discarded gear off them at the fraction of what they cost new. And it is still good.
Currently shooting Canon L glass on my 10 year old Sony mirrorless that I could never afford good Sony lenses for. 😀
Spot on chris point well proven. I do a lot of fishing as well as photography and it’s exactly the same thought process with that people think u have to spend a thousand pounds on a fishing rod to catch a fish 😂. It’s all about snobbery in my mind just let them crack on if it makes them feel better. Cracking photos from an excellent photographer well done 👍🏻 👍🏻👍🏻
Hold on… a photography channel that talks about taking pics and not trying to sell the latest and greatest? This is crazy! I might just go out and try some of these things with my old D750. This has been one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long time. I still have pictures on my wall that were taking with a Nikon 4mp point and shoot that you can’t tell the difference from my Z9 for work. I love my older cameras for fun, they’re lighter and take great pics! Now to check out some of your other videos.
A camera is nothing but a light tight box. In the case of a film camera it only has two duties, to house the shutter and its mechanism and to transport the film. Not so different with digital, although a very different and advanced computer technology is at work. Leave a camera on the table for a thousand years and see if it manages to walk to the beach and take sunrise photo by itself? I have a few Leica and Nikon cameras, two Hasselblads and a few digital cameras from different manufacturers. None of them makes the photograph, I do. I think the sooner people realise this the better.
Loved this video Chris. Really well thought out and some beautiful pictures!
A camera is a peice of computerized metal,plastic and glass with a battery, it becomes a camera when you pick it up and put it in use, then it becomes something special.
Love your videos Chris! Each one inspires me to get out and shoot and practice. Thanks!!
Awesome buddie
Thanks Stu. I was on my backside when I got home 🫣
Had someone comment my latest video saying I'm 8 years too late to review that camera... Cool but you still watched it so can't be that late
Old gear is what allows people to dip their toe into photography and not break the bank, I'm all for shooting with yesterday's gear if it means you can actually afford it
Some photos really do need expensive gear to be good. But those photos are in the minority. Most of us just need a decent camera and lens to get all the photos we want to take. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to photograph a supermodel for Vogue anytime soon.
Nice pictures! And 4K 😊finally! Now I can really enjoy the good stuff. Well done.
Any camera can take photographs. However, if you can't take a better picture with a better camera, then it's not the camera's fault. Just saying 😇
Thanks Chris. “Invest in yourself as a photographer and not the gear” - love it. However it is easier to do the latter than the former, and I suppose that is what leads to the dreaded G.A.S. Guilty as charged and not proud of it, so that is why I loved what you said. Cheers 👍🙏
Its no different to a bloke that buys a Bentley and uses it just to go to Waitrose. No imagination, purpose or point in life.
I used to think this however it's all relative to purpose. For what you are doing here then yes of course it doesn't really matter however you will have a much easier time with a more modern setup for something like high end sports or wildlife and not to say you wont get a shot or two but I know if I went to the Olympics with the camera you are using here then the guy next to me shooting with a Sony A7IV will 100% be leaving with more shots to choose from and a bigger smile on his face. All cameras are capable for these types of shots, especially in good light but there is definitely an element of gear mattering more for very specific genres where modern technology is more superior than that of old.
Did you say what lens you used? A decent lens on a cheap body can really elevate the results
The lens was the Sony 28-70mm kit lens.
Thanks Chris :)
Beautiful photos.
Sothere are photographers and there geaecheads tharvjusthappen to have a gear approch to taking pcitures
Great video buddy.
This is only half of the truth. It is true, that you can take great photographs with almost any camera. However "bad" camera limits you. That's the difference between the cheap and expensive kit. Cheap one will let you take great photographs 10% of the time. Expensive one will let you do that 95% of the time. Try shooting sport events indoors with 8Mpx camera with a slow focus and 6,3-8 zoom. How many good ones you will go home with? Zero.
So have a camera that does not limit you . Is it 56 quids camera? Great. Is it 15 000 setup? Great.