"There are two kinds of photographers," my dad once said, "artists and equipment men. I'm an equipment man." I said, "No, you're an artist." But one can be both. I saw this over and over at the photography site where I used to hang out. I say "used to" because whenever I visited I developed a painful case of lens envy.
As birders, we are in a state of extreme lens envy. Turns out that some big lenses really do cost $11,000.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it amazing? And discouraging . . . I used to see these beautiful photos online, and then I looked up the equipment used. Oy.
ReplyDeleteWhen I went on my second safari, I suffered zoom envy. These days, with my first interchangeable lens camera, I am learning all about lens envy. And their prices!
ReplyDeleteSo I'm thinking, if I ever go on safari again, I'll resort to a bridge camera, with a mega-zoom.
Mali, I'm with you. After years of SLRs and DSLRs, all of which I still have with their various lenses, more and more the camera I reach for is a Panasonic Lumix superzoom bridge. So much easier, and the quality was good enough for me to exhibit when I was doing that.
ReplyDeleteSusan, that's exactly what I had on my first safari - a Panasonic Lumix superzoom (with 18X zoom) and I got some fabulous shots. By my second, people were using 60x zooms! My 300mm equivalent telephoto lens is by contrast about a 9-10x zoom. Sigh. So now I have both zoom and lens evny.
DeleteYes, lens envy -- I hear you.
ReplyDeleteI (Tim) has so much to learn about lenses.
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