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  • ukcarper
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    I rarely take photos in the extreme sun; it bleaches out the highlights and it's just too bright. I prefer early mornings, just after the rain or late afternoons. Again, it's about the light.

    I am used to taking analogue photos on my holga and other array of film cameras, plenty of which come without a viewfinder at all...and I often shoot from the hip rather than the eye...so am well used to not framing everything before taking.

    I suppose it's all about subject matter.
  • ukcarper wrote: »
    I suppose it's all about subject matter.

    Not really.

    It's about light - a camera is just a light capturing machine.
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  • ukcarper
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    Not really.

    It's about light - a camera is just a light capturing machine.

    Lighting is important but so is the subject but what I was saying is that it depends on subject matter as to whether you need a viewfinder try taking a picture of a bird with a telephoto lens without a viewfinder.
  • A._Badger
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    I didn't in any way say that it is time to build a camera themselves. I actually recommended looking at a Micro 4/3 which is perfectly fantastic as an everyday camera...alot of people don't even know they exist hence responding to someone asking about which next camera to get on an internet forum. Next time, I'll remember to run my opinions by you before bothering eh?

    Although building your own camera can be a fantastically exhilarating experience.

    You must have real trouble getting that high horse in through the forum door.
  • A._Badger
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    edited 4 August 2013 at 12:32AM
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Lighting is important but so is the subject but I was saying is that it depends on subject matter whether you need a viewfinder try taking a picture of a bird with a telephoto lens without a viewfinder.

    You're right - having a high quality optical viewfinder is one of the real advantages of an SLR. Whatever advances have been made in rear screen technology, there are still a lot of photo opportunities where an optical viewfinder is a superior tool.
  • Pinkypants
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I suppose it's all about subject matter.

    To a degree, take a picture of a super model in bad light and your'll have a bad picture.

    Take a picture of a super model in good light and your'll have a good picture.

    BUT

    Take the same picture in good light but exchange the model for an ugly bloke and you'll get a bad picture.

    Good photography needs both, an interesting or beautiful subject AND good light.
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  • Pinkypants wrote: »
    To a degree, take a picture of a super model in bad light and your'll have a bad picture.

    Take a picture of a super model in good light and your'll have a good picture.

    BUT

    Take the same picture in good light but exchange the model for an ugly bloke and you'll get a bad picture.

    Good photography needs both, an interesting or beautiful subject AND good light.

    Not necessarily, take the ugly bloke, turn him so that the light is side on or back lit, and switch to black and white and you may well have a stunning photo.
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  • A._Badger wrote: »
    You must have real trouble getting that high horse in through the forum door.

    Que? I thought we were having a discussion about cameras, and you accused me of suggesting something I clearly didn't...if you can't take it, don't dish it.
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  • ukcarper wrote: »
    I don't think I have referred to anybody.

    "The amount of people who spend thousands on D/SLRs and lenses and don't understand light, f-stops, exposures, shutter speeds and ISO/film speeds and take the same photo that they would have done with a £50 compact camera is astonishing. You see them all the time; on every facebook photo group etc. They'd have been better off spending the money on a photography course to be honest."

    ??
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