New toy!
It does not matter what type of camera you have. The fact of purchasing a brand new SLR camera will not make anyone a better photographer. Well, seems reasonable so far. However there is a question: “Why is there so many different types of cameras with effects and special lenses?”
I think there is two obvious answers. 1) To make people, who are unacquainted with the art of picture taking, buy more things and spend more money. 2) To help photographers take better pictures.
Everyone learns how to write in school, and photography is an art of writing with light. Therefore, as it takes time to learn writing beautifully it also takes time to learn photography. In the kindergarten kids use pencils – the most primitive and useful tool for writing. It is fun to play with and easy to erase. Once person grows up he or she has to sign thousand of documents. And one is supposed to use a pen for this particular reason. Pen is more advanced and complicated in design and it is impossible to erase. Once one moves even higher in rank the person changes the normal pen to a fancy one.
Almost the same things happen with photography. One starts learning professional photography with a basic film camera and slowly moves on to advanced versions of photographic equipement.
However in the age of digital technologies things are slightly different. The majority of people has the ability to take pictures with a single click on their digital point and shoot cameras, or even with cell phones. All the settings are preset and camera is ready to capture. An equivalent of an erasable pen, perhaps, if we compare to writing.
But once decided to move from a point and shoot to professional SLR camera, many people think that the quality of their pictures will increase dramatically. Doesn’t alvays happen this way. Practice and patience make it happen.
