At 2/20/2026 08:19 PM, multi-Schnozz wrote:
>While I've been heavily focused on SONY FF for the past two years, I
>will say that there are times when it's the most joyless photographic
>appliance known to man. My 70-200/4 mk2 is easily the very best
>telephoto-zoom I've ever used, but it's inspiring. the 20-70 is
>extremely useful and handy, but the last thing it does is give you any
>ideas. The 200-600 is in another league, though. THAT lens is reason
>enough to have a Sony FF camera.
>
>I'm not one to usually see the image in my head and then force the
>camera to succumb to my will. My camera is a creative partner. I use
>the camera as a contributing source of inspiration to my vision. This
>is why I still love the Olympus cameras so much because they
>communicate ideas to me that no other camera ever has.
>
>I still have the E-M5 mk2, and got a brand new set of Wasabi batteries
>for it. For all its ills, that camera does something that I haven't
>seen in any other of my cameras. It gives me E-1 color/contrast vibes.
>The E-M1 Mk2 doesn't do it for me. (Side note, my latest/greatest
>GoPro camera actually does a remarkable job of providing that
>familiarity).
>
>I say all of this, because I would really like to get a quality zoom
>in the m43 mount for hiking, and lower-profile travel when I don't
>want to haul the Sony FF around. I've taken the Sony to Australia
>twice and I'm like "can I please have my m43 camera?"
>
>I don't regret buying all the Sony FF camera gear. I DO regret
>carrying it around on a long day.
>
>AG Shnozz
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An interesting article:
https://fstoppers.com/gear/how-your-camera-trains-shoot-safe-photos-900079
Which speaks to some of what you are saying. Basically that the
camera improvements over time affect the way we shoot and see.
He says the camera is designed to take the safest photos possible.
It now decides auto-focus, highlight errors, wide dynamic range compressing
the tonal range... all adding up to subtle changes in how we take photos.
It affects our creative process into taking safe photos.
The OM-4t was how I learned to see photographically and am very grateful
for that experience. I could scan the scene with the multi-spot meter,
spotting on various parts to adjust the exposure for what I wanted.
It forced me to view the whole scene and decide. Now my FF Sony
makes all those decisions, and oh, it has enough dynamic range I can just
adjust in post... and then, how to turn that blah into what I saw in post.
"There is a reason so many photographers periodically return to film cameras,
manual-focus lenses, or stripped-down digital bodies with minimal automation.
It is not nostalgia. It is that those tools reintroduce friction into the
process, and friction forces decisions. When you have to choose an exposure
rather than accept one, you have to think about what you want the image to feel
like. When you have to place focus manually, you have to decide what matters in
the frame. When you cannot chimp after every shot, you have to commit to your
instincts rather than auditing them."
WayneS
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