Oh, and it is wrong. When I bought a better camera and lens, it improved my photography significantly....[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=186321\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
A new camera "improved" your photography? What do you mean by improve? You mean to say it improved the image quality of your shots? Well then, image quality is NOT composition, and really, the ONLY way to improve one's photography where it matters is in composition. The improvement of image quality simply means one's craap work is just sharper, less noise, and cleaner, but at the end of the day, it's still craap.
In other words, a better kit has never improved one's photography where it matters, and that is composition.
Don't get me wrong, as I am in the "the kit matters" camp, but at the same time I think the only way to improve one's pictures is when one improves their vision, their ability to compose.
On the other hand, image quality is just that, and has NOTHING to do with composition, as IQ only supports the composition and not is the composition.
Another way to say it: Take the cheapest digital point & shoot, and you will find that that camera will compose no worse then the most expensive digital DSLR available for purchase. The only really big advantage of the expensive DSLR is that it provides better image quality, but what good is better IQ if the composition is craap?
Kit does matter, but for reasons that might be different from yours. ;-)