Big Cameras Make you look MORE Pro!?

10 years 8 months ago #292904 by Stealthy Ninja


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10 years 8 months ago #292927 by mr9a
This is quite true yes...

I have seen alot of guys with bags and bags of equipment and their photos look almost the same as mine and i only have a 450D but then again I've seen guys shoot with a damn iphone and it looks epic.

I know alot has to do with the editing part but still you dont need tons of equipment but it does make you "look" better.

Just my 2c.

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10 years 8 months ago #292931 by Hassner
Big cameras do impress non SLR people. When you work with a smaller body and kit lens, no-one cares. When you work with a bigger body with battery pack and long 2.8 lens, you get people coming up to you for a chat.

In the film days reporters at magazines were so impressed with medium format slides on the light table, the said wow even before the used a lupe. We ended up shooting 120 for them, even though 35mm was good enough for full page. You could not see the difference. All in the name of impress your client.


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10 years 8 months ago #293013 by digitalpimp
:agree: Hassner is so true on this. Manufacture Marketing brain wash 101


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10 years 8 months ago #293036 by Joves

Hassner wrote: In the film days reporters at magazines were so impressed with medium format slides on the light table, the said wow even before the used a lupe. We ended up shooting 120 for them, even though 35mm was good enough for full page. You could not see the difference. All in the name of impress your client.


Medium Format was great for film though. Well it is great now if you can afford it. But yeah unless you were printing really large it was over kill. I had friends in our high school photography classes that lusted after the shots I got from my Speed Graflex, or it was more the size of the negative really. I thought I got better images with my 35 really, simply because it was easier to get them.


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10 years 8 months ago #293102 by mj~shutterbugg
I shoot with a battery grip, I like vertical shots and it helps get them sharper. I had one photographer walk up and ask why my camera was so big and what was on it (the grip), I was shocked. Not because of the size of his camera, but that he'd never heard of a vertical grip.

The bigger the camera set up, the more people assume you know what you are doing. I mean why would a no talent hack be doing with thousands of dollars worth of equipment, who pays for crap images- right? *insert sarcastic voice*

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10 years 8 months ago #293228 by Roy Wilson
You see these types of people every photography meet up :rofl:

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