Tom Caldwell
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This does not make your camera work any better, nor does it improve your photographic capabilities.
Sometimes you have a moment of clear thought and you wonder why it had not occurred to you before. But maybe it had and it was one of the few things I had left unarticulated (grin).
I went out on a serious mission - you know, one of those instances where you should be getting paid but it is not going to happen if money has to change hands.
In any case I usually take my dslr gear as most suitable for "really serious" work.
This time I took my GXR-M as well. Did most of the shooting with the GXR-M and a Rikenon 55mm f1.4 until suddenly a very wide angle was needed so I used the dslr.
Nothing wrong with that and anyone with a GXR would know it is capable enough for serious work.
However much of serious "professional" photography is about re-assuring your "customer" with your image as a capable photographer. This usually has needed a big bag of photographic gear and some very black large cameras and even larger lenses. Obviously demonstrating your capability of buying huge amounts of photographic gear that any sensible person would blanche at the thought. "Expertise" that is bought to prove that you know what you are doing, or foolishness, take your pick.
Obviously old manual lenses on the GXR are sufficient for the part and the GXR body has always looked quite professional. Therefore the GXR-M suitably equipped looks right even if it is just an illusion in the mind of the sitter.
Compare the NEX in both current models - looks like a jumped up point and shoot even if it is a capable camera. Lenses do not add to the "atmosphere" the NX100 and some of the "plastic" M4/3 gear are similar although Olympus manages somewhat better with their "rangefinder" style. The Samsung NX10/11 also does look like a "proper" camera and a big enough lens is sure to impress there as well.
Obviously I am not on here to brag that my camera looks impressive. Like any serious photographer I am more interested in whether my camera outfit can actually work. I am more noting the sea change that e GXR can actually be seen as an equivalent serious photographer's camera by others who not knowing good from bad equate tinsel-looking gear to being "like their camera" and a serious person in the game must have kit that actually impresses them as being up to the job in hand.
Of course this is no good unless the camera kit is really capable ... It was.
Also anyone owning a Ricoh would know that these are serious cameras for serious photographers - it is nice to see that the aura of professionalism can be transmitted to others as well.
Of course this is exactly what the makers of large dslr cameras fear - that professional photographers might start using EVIL type cameras. Some professionals may in fact use a NEX, but I might wonder if that image can carry the professional photography industry. The GXR-M just needs a big fat lens and I think it might just be accepted. Compact size is just a personal thing and not one designed to impress others.
Roll on the aps-c zoom module and make it a big black-coloured fast one!
Of course manual slr lenses are not as big as electronic dslr lenses in general but they are capable enough to do the job and they have not lost their looks with age. Therefore a GXR-M kit with some manual lenses migth fit in a gladstone type bag much more compactly than an equivalent dslr kit. But maybe get a bigger bag and throw in a few bricks to bulk it up a bit or your image will suffer.
Tom
Sometimes you have a moment of clear thought and you wonder why it had not occurred to you before. But maybe it had and it was one of the few things I had left unarticulated (grin).
I went out on a serious mission - you know, one of those instances where you should be getting paid but it is not going to happen if money has to change hands.
In any case I usually take my dslr gear as most suitable for "really serious" work.
This time I took my GXR-M as well. Did most of the shooting with the GXR-M and a Rikenon 55mm f1.4 until suddenly a very wide angle was needed so I used the dslr.
Nothing wrong with that and anyone with a GXR would know it is capable enough for serious work.
However much of serious "professional" photography is about re-assuring your "customer" with your image as a capable photographer. This usually has needed a big bag of photographic gear and some very black large cameras and even larger lenses. Obviously demonstrating your capability of buying huge amounts of photographic gear that any sensible person would blanche at the thought. "Expertise" that is bought to prove that you know what you are doing, or foolishness, take your pick.
Obviously old manual lenses on the GXR are sufficient for the part and the GXR body has always looked quite professional. Therefore the GXR-M suitably equipped looks right even if it is just an illusion in the mind of the sitter.
Compare the NEX in both current models - looks like a jumped up point and shoot even if it is a capable camera. Lenses do not add to the "atmosphere" the NX100 and some of the "plastic" M4/3 gear are similar although Olympus manages somewhat better with their "rangefinder" style. The Samsung NX10/11 also does look like a "proper" camera and a big enough lens is sure to impress there as well.
Obviously I am not on here to brag that my camera looks impressive. Like any serious photographer I am more interested in whether my camera outfit can actually work. I am more noting the sea change that e GXR can actually be seen as an equivalent serious photographer's camera by others who not knowing good from bad equate tinsel-looking gear to being "like their camera" and a serious person in the game must have kit that actually impresses them as being up to the job in hand.
Of course this is no good unless the camera kit is really capable ... It was.
Also anyone owning a Ricoh would know that these are serious cameras for serious photographers - it is nice to see that the aura of professionalism can be transmitted to others as well.
Of course this is exactly what the makers of large dslr cameras fear - that professional photographers might start using EVIL type cameras. Some professionals may in fact use a NEX, but I might wonder if that image can carry the professional photography industry. The GXR-M just needs a big fat lens and I think it might just be accepted. Compact size is just a personal thing and not one designed to impress others.
Roll on the aps-c zoom module and make it a big black-coloured fast one!
Of course manual slr lenses are not as big as electronic dslr lenses in general but they are capable enough to do the job and they have not lost their looks with age. Therefore a GXR-M kit with some manual lenses migth fit in a gladstone type bag much more compactly than an equivalent dslr kit. But maybe get a bigger bag and throw in a few bricks to bulk it up a bit or your image will suffer.
Tom