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”How many guitars do you need, dear?” To which the answer is “Just one more”.
So, if the optimum number of cameras is “Just one more”, the answer to “How many cameras is too many?” becomes “Two more.”
With proper understanding of the media and the camera you use then you will consistently outperform a phone even for ideal conditions for a phone (which is all it's designed for when all said and done). Phones are OK for 90% of shots but it's the really great shots that make it onto a wall that you'll never capture. Even then, of that 10%, probably a lot less than that actually do. Even for that 10% you will never better a proper camera. If a phone was just as good they'd never sell a camera costing thousands more. The bottom wouldn't drop out of the older digital cameras market if the new models. didn't provide an improvement. If phones were that great then cameras would now be obsolete; so why aren't they if they're no better than a phone?
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
I wouldn't expect a photographer I'd hired to capture a major life event to use a phone to do it. Or only own one, or one lens. I get that.
I ended up selling them both, and buying a used X-T4 and I'm very glad I did. I was in something of an unusual situation though where I'd bought the X-T1 used and didn't lose much on it, and got such an amazing deal when I bought the X-T30 that I actually sold it for a profit.
But a Seitz ain't one
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
I just got another one today...I now have....
Wotancraft Ryker, Peak Design 10L Sling, Tenba Fulton 14L backpack, Crumbler Geekstar, Crumbler Base Park 20L Backpack, Crumpler Italian Job backpack.
I have three Tenba DNA messengers - the best work bag yet devised. And a Crumpler (something) Roadie backpack.
It used to be a little different - such lenses were quite soft wide open, giving a quite dreamy look to everything, but the modern ones are furiously sharp and it doesn't work for me.
And yet every now and then, one will show up that blows me away, which means it's not the depth of field I'm fatigued by - there is some level of artistry I don't get. Perhaps expression, or colour, or tone... Or all of them, most likely. When someone really knows what they are doing, they can take a shot I think I won't like, but I will.
I'm a big fan of "subjects in their surroundings" though so it makes sense I don't care for the bokeh balls. Photographers like Bruce Percy or James popsys spring to mind.
My favourite wedding photo was taken by a friend with my rolleiflex. It's technically in focus, but the lens is nigh on 100 years old, and the film was about a decade out of date. It's stopped down to f/8 so you'd think it be sharp, but it's not.