{"id":20971,"date":"2022-10-31T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=20971"},"modified":"2022-10-31T16:01:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:01:57","slug":"guest-contributor-tomd-daymonthyear-photo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/guest-contributor-tomd-daymonthyear-photo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor – TomD – 31OCT2022 – Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

TomD<\/a><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s now been very close to a year since we ditched our Sony A7III\u2019s and procured Sony A7IV camera.<\/p>\n

As a now pushing 2 decade user of Sony Cameras, starting with the A100 in 2005, I was used to each subsequent camera generation being a huge improvement over the preceding in at least several important aspects. That is until the A7III to A7IV jump. Other than the sensor resolution change from 24 to 33 megapixels, the rest of the differences seem that they were closer to a firmware update than a generational change. And, frankly, I\u2019m not at all certain that my image quality has changed much at all over the last several generations.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m now hearing rumors of the Sony A7V but I\u2019m pretty sure I won\u2019t be an early adopter.<\/p>\n

I think the Sony that I liked the most was the small APS-C Sony A-6300. It was so small that I could carry it anywhere and you would have had to study long and hard to tell the difference between than camera\u2019s images and the images from it\u2019s much larger brothers. It did give up a LOT in low light though.<\/p>\n

In 45 years of semi-serious photography starting with a early 70\u2019s Nikon F1, I\u2019ve come to a couple of conclusions about the order of importance of the various elements to the system that, combined, make a good photograph:<\/p>\n

1: The photographer (at least 80% right there)
\n2: Lens
\n3: Camera body
\n3: (tie) The rest of the equipment, filters, tripods, etc.<\/p>\n

Though this is hard to admit for an engineer, I question the extent that technical merit even plays in a good photo. Below is a shot that I took 15 years ago standing at my Fathers grave at Arlington National the day after my mother\u2019s body was added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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