If you’re serious about photography it’s time to switch to a ...

[BJL]

The subject line above was the add teaser in my Facebook feed for this gloriously mistimed article
https://thehhub.com/2018/11/13/if-youre-serious-about-photography-its-time-to-make-the-switch-to-a-dslr-camera/

[Ken Bennett]

I was so glad to see their first recommendation "features high megapixel quality".

[langier]

And every example shown...could be done with a non-DSLR easily.

[Two23]

And every example shown...could be done with a non-DSLR easily.

Or my 1942 Leica for that matter.


Kent in SD

[luxborealis]

What a misleading pile o’ crap. Those photos could have been shot with an iPhone! Want to take your photography to the next level...learn how to be creative, use light, and be out there!

[Alan Klein]

What a misleading pile o’ crap. Those photos could have been shot with an iPhone! Want to take your photography to the next level...learn how to be creative, use light, and be out there!

Buy a Ferrari and drive like Mario Andretti.  At my 55+ community camera club, the leaders bless them are trying to get the newcomers to move their photo taking up a notch.  So they explain manual control.  Meanwhile, 90% of them are still shooting snapshots and don't understand anything about what makes a good picture.  I tell them to leave it on A or P and just learn how to get a decent shot that has some interesting and likable content and good lighting.  When it comes to exposure, any camera's smarter then they are. 

[Ken Bennett]

I tell them to leave it on A or P and just learn how to get a decent shot that has some interesting and likable content and good lighting.  When it comes to exposure, any camera's smarter then they are.

My students all try to shoot on manual exposure mode. They have seen hundreds of Youtube videos about how manual exposure is the only real way to shoot photos, that professionals only shoot manual, etc. They are shocked to find out that I shoot in aperture priority 90% of the time, and manual only when shooting with studio flash. I try to explain that I am far more interested in what is happening in front of me -- waiting for the "moment" -- and not at all interested in fiddling with the exposure settings and missing photos.

I sometimes have a hard time getting through. I have had more than one student give me photos shot outdoors in bright sunlight, at f/22 and 1/8000 sec at ISO 3200 or something just as ridiculous. Not for any sort of special effect -- just because they fiddled with the settings until the got the "right" exposure, and gave no thought to what any of the individual settings meant. But they were shooting in Manual so it was Right.

[langier]

My evolution from M & A, setting my ISO, lighting, etc. has evolved to P and S if I need to control the motion, auto ISO, one last thing to deal with when moving quickly from a dark church out into the bright sun, and back-button autofocus to let the camera do the work, but allow me to choose the focus.

At one time and even now, it was about the quality of the pixel. But with the cameras and lenses today having great image quality at almost every setting, it's about the picture. Photography should be about the picture and not the pixel. If an iPhone is the best tool, it can be a marvelous tool to get the best photo and with good craft along with good vision, there are few limits in creating a great photograph with this tool.

[rdonson]

That article is FUNNY!!!

Just before Canonikon, etc. all start offering mirrorless this shows up.  Too funny.

Anyway, teaching how to use a camera is good but far less valuable than teaching composition and expression (IMHO). A perfectly captured snapshot is still a snapshot.