Photography is emphatically not about equipment

Photography is about light and the ability to capture what you see in your minds eye.

It is emphatically not about equipment. Equipment is merely a means to an end i.e tools that allow you to make photographs.

Equipment freaks are deluded and brand tribal members the most deluded of all. Remember the old saying “Buying a Nikon does not make you a photographer, it simply makes you a Nikon owner”.

Is Zeiss better than Leica or Nikon better than Canon? Don’t know and don’t care - they are simply different. Shoot out comparisons are just so much tosh.

As you can see I prefer cameras without mirrors (non reflex cameras) and that use film, but that is me, choose whatever works for you.

Photography comes from the Greek; photon = light and graphus = drawing, so drawing with light.

That drawing is made by lenses, so invest in a few good lenses and really get to know them and how they draw.

Do not waste money on gadget laden, expensive camera bodies - the complexity of driving them will get in the way.

he costly extras will be mostly unused and serve to confuse. Spend your money on quality lenses.

Although I own a couple of flashguns, they rarely gets used as I much prefer working with available light using fast lenses and fast film (Fuji 1600).

For me, digital imaging is a very different medium to film photography with a completely different look and feel that is less true to real life than film.

I do use digital occasionally and have a Panasonic Lumix G1 and three zooms for the purpose. This is a micro four thirds outfit with no mirror box which I really like, making it compact and highly portable.

When I need very high quality digital I simply use scanned film; quick, clean and easy and (using 48 bit colour scans) of a higher quality than anything digital out there.

Finally, my best photographs seem to be made when I am engaged at an emotional level with the subject I am photographing.

As for what kit they were taken on then I really don’t care, provided there are no nasty, slapping, vibration inducing mirrors involved, preferring film.

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