camera or person behind camera?

[iSuse123]

I find that even a person like you and me holding a pro camera will eventually become skillful some day with constant practice and guidances whereas a pro photographer holding a normal camera, create take good photos but got limitations. Good photographers deserved to have good cameras as well.

I voted 'camera' in this case.

 

[SnapJaX]

90% photog.
10% equipment.

But!
The camera is akin to a paintbrush as the pictures are your canvas.

Knowing how your "paintbrush" can do and cannot do, will go a long long way

 

[maswu]

for me i think its evenly weighted...

50% equipment
50% photog

yes, you can take nice pictures with lousy/average equipments but what if you have much better equipments...wouldnt the same pictures be of better and higher standard?

but since theres no 50-50 option, then i guess i'll go with man behind camera...

 

[wootsk]

Its the angle, timing, location, luck, skill of the person behind the camera. Its the performance and functions of the camera that help the person achieve the result easier. It takes two hands to clap. The camera cannot shoot and decide how to shoot on its own, similarly the person MIGHT not be able to achieve such result with out certain equipment (example he has a handphone camera shooting the sky without a filter, it shows that he is limited even with skill)
I believe in the phrase, "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." By Ansel Adams

 

[mahathir]

I vote for the person behind the photographer.

BUT... What happens if?

a. The sensor is so small and the MP is so high that the camera is super noisy.
b. There's no PASM
c. To summarise the camera is just plain lousy.

Cheers

mahathir

 

[kenkht]

I find that even a person like you and me holding a pro camera will eventually become skillful some day with constant practice and guidances whereas a pro photographer holding a normal camera, create take good photos but got limitations. Good photographers deserved to have good cameras as well.

I voted 'camera' in this case.

Wrong. sorry. photographers 50 years ago do produce excellent iconic photos even though their cameras are not even up to par compared to ours today. It is how you compose and capture the subject that you want to convey. A tool is never going to get you anywhere if you're lousy.

 

[Shen siung]

Person behind the cam is slightly important. If don't know how to use the cam effectively, no point.........

 

[bengchiat]

camera- 75%

man- 25%

but the 25% is something u either have or u don't.

 

[bengchiat]

Person behind the cam is slightly important. If don't know how to use the cam effectively, no point.........

point n shoot is for those who can't be bother to use it effectively.
n u find the point at the start of PnS.

 

[vii_haven]

IMHO, its 80% the photographer, and 20% the equipment.

The equipment serves to compliment and enhance the photographer's skill, not to mask the photographer's skill (or lack thereof). As with what calebk says, a noob with a Hasselblad will not give you awesome pics.

 

[wootsk]

Wrong. sorry. photographers 50 years ago do produce excellent iconic photos even though their cameras are not even up to par compared to ours today. It is how you compose and capture the subject that you want to convey. A tool is never going to get you anywhere if you're lousy.

I do understand what you mean, but if you do pratice, you have a passion for it. It quite hard that you will still shoot poor photos. Secondly, there are certain shots like the side view of flying a flying eagle etc that requires fast shutters. A good camera help make certain shots impossible 50 years ago possible, but a good camera is wasted on a untrained hand with no passion for photography. Thats what I feel

 

[bengchiat]

Wrong. sorry. photographers 50 years ago do produce excellent iconic photos even though their cameras are not even up to par compared to ours today. It is how you compose and capture the subject that you want to convey. A tool is never going to get you anywhere if you're lousy.

80yrs ago,
ford model t,
difference between a good n bad driver can be HUGE.

today,
nissan skyline gtr,
a good n bad driver's diff is down to a few sec per lap.

technology has compensated for general technical skill needed.

a good tool helps when u r lousy.

 

[bengchiat]

IMHO, its 80% the photographer, and 20% the equipment.

The equipment serves to compliment and enhance the photographer's skill, not to mask the photographer's skill (or lack thereof). As with what calebk says, a noob with a Hasselblad will not give you awesome pics.

what is good for the lousy photographer may not be a Hasselblad,
but maybe a Pan LX3?

assuming the same constant,
LX3,
photogs r me(lousy) n u(good),
how much different can our pics be?

modern cam mask my ignorance of technical know how generally with the green window.

 

[kenkht]

80yrs ago,
ford model t,
difference between a good n bad driver can be HUGE.

today,
nissan skyline gtr,
a good n bad driver's diff is down to a few sec per lap.

technology has compensated for general technical skill needed.

a good tool helps when u r lousy.

Nope, cannot agree with that. Photography is an art, cars not. wrong analogy.

 

[eosandy]

John Lennon said "I'm an artist, and if you give me a tuba, I'll bring you something out of it."

If you have the eye, any photographic equipment will produce results. Good or bad is subjective.

 

[maswu]

John Lennon said "I'm an artist, and if you give me a tuba, I'll bring you something out of it."

If you have the eye, any photographic equipment will produce results. Good or bad is subjective.

yeap...i agree...what you like, mayb what others do not like and what you dun like, others may like it...

 

[Yoricko]

I would say, its both the Camera, and the person behind it. But more importantly, the person behind it.

You cannot take pictures without tools (unless you took some imaginary photograph from your head ), and you cannot produce anything without the person using the tools.

 

[kezumix]

wat is a good picture?

 

[eosandy]

http://www.wikihow.com/Take-Better-Photographs

 

[findjk]

It's not so much of the camera but the person.