“i just bought a Nikon D300!”, said a guy who was roughly my age to his friend.
“Really? well i just bought this extremely long lens! which is just amazing! with an f/2.8 and a bla bla bla bla bla.”
9 years.
9 years i have been studying photography(and still am). and yet i have never felt such grief and anger when i pick up my camera, until now. the age when film is no more and where everyone thinks a photo thats blurred out is an art. the age of easy to use, digitalized and donkey ass cheap cameras.
don’t get me wrong here i am not trying to be a hypocrite. i have, beside me right now a Nikon D80 with all its bells and whistles with a rather hefty price tag(which in fact i still do owe a friend for these equipments). so what am i complaining about?
study the conversation above dear readers.
the conversation i heard above reminded me of me in my first years of photography.
buy, buy, buy, more, more, more.
everyone wants the best gear for there cameras. this happened when everyone was using film and is happening again in this digital age. but the difference between now and then, is the accessibility, the easiness of..well everything.
i don’t want to go all philosophical on things here but basically my main argument is that by buying more better cameras/gear/equipments/thingamajigs they think that they can get better pictures.
yes,pure stupidity(or perhaps innocence) in action.
i damn this situation. i damn them for not wanting to learn with what they have. but by learning by first buying the things they need. and buy more they shall.
the camera, from what i have learned. is not merely an equipment. it is me. it is a part of me.
it is my hands. my eyes. my mind. and my heart. to use it is to synchronize all of those into one.
but the heart.
yes, the heart, the soul, the conscience, has and will always play a major role in photography. and that can never be substituted by any type of expensive, high end cameras or equipments.
by all means, learn. not only about the camera itself but about yourself. you as the soul of the medium.
learn about yourself and you will find photography.
