Armanius
Bring Jack back!
- Location
- Houston, Texas
- Name
- Jack
No cure for me.
"It is far too late for me, my son."
"It is far too late for me, my son."
This guy has forever cured me of GAS. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see his "setup"
Could be NSFW
The Reclusive Peeping Tom Photographer and his Cardboard Camera
Lucille, maybe you are misunderstanding the gist of what Paul is saying. The files from your RX1 ARE superior to the ones you were getting out of your RX100. But your RX100 photos are as great as your RX1 photos.
I have started looking at a lot more old photos lately, and the greatness of the photo rarely has anything to do with "image quality"
But what I am also interested in is looking at pictures, thinking about photography, and how images look, and whether they work as images. Yet the endless threads I see devoted to the latest, newest, betterest, superiorest cameras (not just at the moment, it's been going on since the dawn of photography, but recent developments in imaging have boosted it almost beyond my comprehension) go on and on repeatedly and without cease about the "features" and specifications, sensors, pixels, bit depths, post processing, "sharpness", "100% crops", menu systems, AF speed ... well, you know, you name it, it gets discussed.
It's much more difficult to talk about photography in a meaningful way, particularly online, than it is to talk about gear. We usually either say "nice image" if we like something or say nothing if we don't or very occasionally offer some very politely couched criticism that's hopefully both constructive and perceived that way by whoever it's intended for.
A related problem is that generally we don't know how to offer a critique of an image. We may respond instinctively but we don't have the language to express ourselves and so we don't know how to critique in away that minimises the possibility of misunderstanding. This aesthetic language (and even the formal elements of composition etc are aesthetic) is much harder to learn and deploy than the largely technical language we use to discuss gear.
Lucille, maybe you are misunderstanding the gist of what Paul is saying. The files from your RX1 ARE superior to the ones you were getting out of your RX100. But your RX100 photos are as great as your RX1 photos.
I have started looking at a lot more old photos lately, and the greatness of the photo rarely has anything to do with "image quality"