Hey, take me for example... I have been away from DPC for over a year, have never meddled in a challenge with my old equipment... and now make a living out of cinematography. This "living" has given me many high end cameras and lenses (2 D2xs's and a few more not in my profile that hit ebay last week). Now, I am back to take the crown (i hope) with $30K invested in Nikons but both time and space do not serve me well at the moment so I am left to shoot San Francisco for every new challenge. My highest ranked photo was my first. And now that i have color correction nailed and printers costing more than my first car I should be a shoe in right? Not exactly; This is art. It takes time, and practice. I have 20 years of photography under my belt and I just can't find the right subject and the right time to enter a challenge. Now my wife has my D70 and on a trip to the zoo with our cameras... Her with my old D70 and a $100 70-300 F4-5.5 (about $700 today) and me with a D2Xs and a 70-200 VR AFS F2.8 (about $7000) whom gets the best shot? She dose. So look at it this way... It's not the camera, it's the photographer, and it's not the photographer... It all comes down to the split second between thought and action (shutter lag not included) that makes a snapshot a masterpiece. I'm just hoping to improve my odds.
AJS
That was also 2 years ago...when there was less members with there big fancy cameras lol
Two years ago there were still thousands of active DPC members, and vast majority had DSLRs. It was a big deal at the time that Ben ribboned with such a lowly camera.
Two years ago there were still thousands of active DPC members, and vast majority had DSLRs. It was a big deal at the time that Ben ribboned with such a lowly camera.
To quote one of the comments on Ben's entry ...
just goes to show, it's not the camera, it's the photographer :)
That was also 2 years ago...when there was less members with there big fancy cameras lol
Two years ago there were still thousands of active DPC members, and vast majority had DSLRs. It was a big deal at the time that Ben ribboned with such a lowly camera.
Yes, I have seen. But they are with Minolta Dimage 7Hi camera, which is perhaps fairly advances camera. (Not sure if it is DSLR or not).
He has ribbons with a 1.3 megapixel Olympus POS P&S ...
Megapixels are meaningless here. It wouldn't surprise me if he gets better quality resizing since he doesn't have to resize much to get it down to 640x. Besides we all know it's not the camera it's the photoshop! *cough*andthatdamncreativity*cough*
