Fleetwood271
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Anyone have any advice, or maybe a link to a good site that would help me explain SLR vs P&S to a non-photographer? Here's what I mean:
A guy at work who doesn't know anything at all about photographer saw my camera a few weeks ago and said, "What's the zoom on that one?" I mean, it's like someone who doesn't know anything at all about lifting weights walking up to a bodybuilder and asking, "So, what do you bench?" That's all they know to ask.
Then today my Sigma 50-500 lens that I rented from Lensrental.com came in and he saw it on my camera. Again, he said "How far will that thing zoom in?" When I focused on a car's license plate across the parking lot, he said, "My camera will get closer than that." "Why would you want to carry around that big thing when my camera will do a better job?" He went on to say that his camera "...was just about the best you can buy..."
I started by trying to explain about the small sensor in his P&S as compared to an SLR, and why that mattered. But since he didn't know what a sensor was, his eyes kinda glazed over. I realized very quickly that we were not speaking the same language.
I want to be able to answer his question, but where do I start? I'd appreciate any advice you have.
Thanks!
A guy at work who doesn't know anything at all about photographer saw my camera a few weeks ago and said, "What's the zoom on that one?" I mean, it's like someone who doesn't know anything at all about lifting weights walking up to a bodybuilder and asking, "So, what do you bench?" That's all they know to ask.
Then today my Sigma 50-500 lens that I rented from Lensrental.com came in and he saw it on my camera. Again, he said "How far will that thing zoom in?" When I focused on a car's license plate across the parking lot, he said, "My camera will get closer than that." "Why would you want to carry around that big thing when my camera will do a better job?" He went on to say that his camera "...was just about the best you can buy..."
I started by trying to explain about the small sensor in his P&S as compared to an SLR, and why that mattered. But since he didn't know what a sensor was, his eyes kinda glazed over. I realized very quickly that we were not speaking the same language.
I want to be able to answer his question, but where do I start? I'd appreciate any advice you have.
Thanks!