I'm all for slow, smaller and lighter lenses.
I've lugged Canon DLSRs all round the world, on holidays, on work trips, from the 10D all the way up.
But increasingly I feel like a fool. My £500 Android, while not perfect really is very impressive. Not perfect yet, but impressive.
To the point where I sometimes wonder why even bother with all the hassle of carrying all the camera kit.
The only way camera manufactures can compete is smaller lighter slower lenses and then use software etc to correct the images
It's very telling that I can get 15mm super wide angle on my phone - yet for my RP there is no lens anywhere near that, aside from something that costs £2500+
Who is really buying all these huge, heavy and expensive optically perfect lenses?
It's not just the price, but the weight too - well maybe in USA where you can drive everywhere, but as soon as you deal with planes or trains etc, weight is a killer!
Maybe a handful of pros but even there many will have seen a lot of their work vanish over the last 18 months due to Covid lockdowns and won't be in a place to splash out on new gear.
I've lugged Canon DLSRs all round the world, on holidays, on work trips, from the 10D all the way up.
But increasingly I feel like a fool. My £500 Android, while not perfect really is very impressive. Not perfect yet, but impressive.
To the point where I sometimes wonder why even bother with all the hassle of carrying all the camera kit.
The only way camera manufactures can compete is smaller lighter slower lenses and then use software etc to correct the images
It's very telling that I can get 15mm super wide angle on my phone - yet for my RP there is no lens anywhere near that, aside from something that costs £2500+
Who is really buying all these huge, heavy and expensive optically perfect lenses?
It's not just the price, but the weight too - well maybe in USA where you can drive everywhere, but as soon as you deal with planes or trains etc, weight is a killer!
Maybe a handful of pros but even there many will have seen a lot of their work vanish over the last 18 months due to Covid lockdowns and won't be in a place to splash out on new gear.
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