A good photographer can make a great image with any camera because they understand the limitations and benefits of any piece of equipment, understands optics, light, exposure and is experienced with composition and other fundamentals. It’s understanding that makes the statement “cameras don’t matter” true.
While you can see a clear analogy between video tapes, cassette, and film, for film-enthusiasts it's not the same at all. Video tapes and cassette tapes gave results which were technically inferior to the technology which replaced them. Film-photography is just a different process which gives results which are not necessarily inferior.
What would be the advantage of having to wait for photos 1 hour or such? I remember the old 1-hr photo shops at Walgreens and such that used to be around.
As primarily a slide photographer I never even got the benefit of 1-hour processing, but I still used to enjoy film photography and still occasionally shoot film. Film photography is a completely different mindset and different discipline. Waiting a week for my slides to come back and laying them out on the light box for the first time was part of the fun. (My dad used to process his own slides at home but I never got into that.)
I see. Interesting... Well I see to you using film is fun, but to me its not so to each their own. I used an Olympus film camera in the old days and did experience exposure issues more often then than with my Powershot these days. Like for example I take a shot that has too much light or whatever went wrong and the picture comes back with issues that require photoshop to fix. I am not having this problem with my Powershot and do most shooting in the auto mode. Strange.. Perhaps my film cameras in those days were just too cheap, while my own Powershot cost me $500.
I agree photography is fun. But to me Canon is more fun. But then again in the film days I ddi use an Olympus camera and it was fun whenever it did not have exposure issues or whatever producing pictures that required Photoshop to fix.
What are 5 specific features of your camera that you feel make photography fun in general and set it apart specifically from other camera brands?
No it's because in those days you were expected to have a certain degree of knowledge to manually override the settings to allow for the desired exposure in 'non typical' scenes, such as backlit shots. Towards the end of film's dominance, the most complex fully-electronic bodies from m'frs like Canon, Nikon, Pentax and Minolta had matrix metering modes that tried to best-guess what the actual subject in your image was. Commonly it would figure the largest shape closest to the lens was the thing you wanted to correctly expose, so it would meter for that.
I don't have much experience with other camera brands, but I used to own a Vivitar, Nikon, and Kodak digital cameras. When I moved almost year ago I believe I left the Nikon behind.
OK, what are 5 things about your p&s that for you makes it your choice of camera? If, for you, photography is fun because your camera, for you, makes it fun, why is that? What are the specific features that make your camera fun for you?
Don’t have my camera in front of me but I’d say the following.
Thanks! And the great thing is that the world of digital cameras is such that people can get the same capabilities in any brand of their choice and therefore spreads the fun.
True. My experience is just mostly with Canon but I understand Sony, Olympus and such also offer such features. But does a standard IPhone 13? No. For one iPhone 13 can only shoot at 12MP now probably does not have as nice of sensors as Powershot.
12 MP or 48 MP, it doesn't matter really. It's all about the sensor. I would bet the sensor in your iPhone is better than the Powershot.
Or even better, compare them at the 10mp setting on the Powershot that the OP seems to prefer...
Just did. Shot one shot at 10MP, another at 20MP and then one on iPhone and compared them. Honestly they looked better on the Powershot. The 20MP image was 7MB while the 10MP image was 2MB.
Go outside, take a picture of something of interest. Like this.
