15-07-2018, 04:26 PM
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As an ex pro wedding photographer/videographer. All my equipment is a tad bulky and ‘involved’! Haven’t got out much with it lately though.I currently drive a Nikon P200 with an 18-170mm & 150-500mm lenses. The latter being even longer than any of the lenses the two guys in the video had. Very useful for my hobby of bird watching.
15-07-2018, 04:57 PM
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I'd say it depends upon the application.I used to use a Canon T90 (with film, of course).
Now, however, I usually use just my smartphone camera.
The former was capable of producing photographs of high quality, capable of great enlargement should that be necessary.
The latter is perfectly adequate for producing images for use on the internet.
15-07-2018, 05:19 PM
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I used to use a Canon which I was very happy with apart from the developing costs. I now have an Olympus Pen digital which had pretty good reviews but I think I still prefer my old Canon. The Pen takes so long to set up that the subject has normally gone by then. I know it's a case of me really getting to know the camera but it does seem unnecessarily complicated.15-07-2018, 06:06 PM
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Just a couple of ‘more or less’ relevant tales.You might be aware of the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament square in central London.
Back in the 1970s I was a junior sales assistant in a camera shop in Whitehall just off Trafalgar Square. One morning a gentleman came in and told me that he was a sculptor and had entered a competition to create a new statue for the square. And that he needed a decent camera to take pictures to submit of his progress. So I sold him a 2nd hand Rolleiflex.
Well. He won the competition and came in afterwards to thank me for assisting him. The sculptor was Ivor Roberts Jones.
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Also, in that same shop. We had a beaten up, manky old Leica camera which must have been manufactured in the Stone Age. We never tried to sell it and just used to use it as a paper weight. As I said, this was back in the 70s.
Well. 3 years ago, an identical camera (maybe even that one) sold at auction in London for 1.5million pounds!
15-07-2018, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Longdogs
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I used to use a Canon which I was very happy with apart from the developing costs. I now have an Olympus Pen digital which had pretty good reviews but I think I still prefer my old Canon. The Pen takes so long to set up that the subject has normally gone by then. I know it's a case of me really getting to know the camera but it does seem unnecessarily complicated.
Now that constraint no longer applies. My memory card, and I have a spare, is about 30GB. Or 30,000 Megs. Each shot is typically under 2 Megs unless I mess with it. So I can store around 15,000 images. More than I would take in several years.
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