Comments on: Professionals and their equipment http://groupof10.com/unveiled/2008/08/06/professionals-and-their-equipment/ Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Alessandro Rosa http://groupof10.com/unveiled/2008/08/06/professionals-and-their-equipment/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Alessandro Rosa Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:17:06 +0000 http://groupof10.com/unveiled/?p=136#comment-22 Wow! Comparing yourself to Mozart and Tiger Woods! That's modesty for you. While I agree with you about the wierd need to chase the latest and greatest in DSLR's (oddly enough golfers are guilty of that as well...) I think that there are times when there might be a legitate reason for it. Take the recent example of a Canon Wedding Pro who sold all of his equipment to go with the D3. He tried to make some excuse about back focusing, but if he were honest it is very clean photos at ISO 6400 that really make the difference. It is a paradigm shift in what a pro can do with their tool. It gives them more options to work with available light than another tool would. It is obviously the skill of the tool user, but that being equal, the better the tool, the better the result. Wow! Comparing yourself to Mozart and Tiger Woods! That’s modesty for you.

While I agree with you about the wierd need to chase the latest and greatest in DSLR’s (oddly enough golfers are guilty of that as well…) I think that there are times when there might be a legitate reason for it. Take the recent example of a Canon Wedding Pro who sold all of his equipment to go with the D3. He tried to make some excuse about back focusing, but if he were honest it is very clean photos at ISO 6400 that really make the difference. It is a paradigm shift in what a pro can do with their tool. It gives them more options to work with available light than another tool would.

It is obviously the skill of the tool user, but that being equal, the better the tool, the better the result.

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