I have to agree with John's poignant and philosophical comment about sensor size, and its relative importance, or lack thereof, in the overall scheme of things. And I really also need to echo Tony's praise of John's (aka
john m flores here on Cameraderie) numerous shots, both published and otherwise, taken with various Q's and Nikon V1's. They (John's words, as well as his photos) have inspired and occasionally enthralled me.
For my own final entry on this last day of the Small Sensor Look Challenge, I'm including 3 photos. The first was taken 9 months ago with a wonderful small sensor camera I briefly owned and appreciated, a Ricoh GRDiii; its subject is a beer can whose artwork I found cool - and for some reason, at the time, the tiny GRD was the camera 'at hand'---
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The other two were taken today, in the wee hours of this morning, with a physically much larger camera (than the tiny GRD3) whose 1" sensor is right on the limit of small sensor cameras, a Sony RX10 mark III. The first is an SOOC jpeg (taken with the RX10M3's High-Contrast Mono 'picture effect'); the subject is the bags that I keep in my writing office-- a shoulder bag covered with bicycles, and a shopping bag which features a stylized photo of Rosalia de Castro, the poet, who was one of the first writers who dared to write in her native Galician, instead of Spanish---
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The last is an old stand-by, a midnight self-portrait in the bathroom mirror, trying to test out the ISO limits of the RX10iii's lens (and processed in Silver Efex Pro)---
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For me at least, John was right: the sensor will always be an element, but nowhere near the most important one. We (the metaphoric race of photographers) always make use of the tools at our disposal but I'm afraid the 'look' of my own pictures tends to be more a reflection of my own inner perspectives, no matter what/which camera or lens or sensor I happen to be using.