JerryPH
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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We've said it time and again... using the same equipment, a good photographer will get better results. Give the better photographer lower end equipment, they may outdo the person with the better camera, but there is a very really easily definable line there. You can be the BEST photographer in the world with a noisy camera and a slow lens and if you are in a dark room where people are moving around, no amount of skill or knowledge will help in any other way other than the photographer KNOWING that all his pics are going to come out looking like crap.
Then you have that little newbie with the camera in P or A-mode and auto ISO up to 6400... and who is snapping away and getting pictures INCREDIBLY better than mr good photographer under those conditions (they may be compositional crap, but they are at least motion-blur free and properly exposed!). Now, what each person needs to define within themselves is how often are you going to be in these conditions to justify such a camera for them? For some, never, for others, always. Most people will be somewhere in the middle, but I can promise you this... everytime you are in a low light scenario and are taking pictures, pushing the ISO higher and higher on your camera and *will* be needing the crutch of noise removal software (which is currently me, and I am doing it with some success, but would not mind doing better without it.. lol), you *will* be wishing you owned a camera like the D700/D3 and a F/1.4 lens.
Yeah, you have to KNOW what you are doing... but you can do so much more when you BOTH know what you are doing AND have a camera that is literally redefining the standards in high ISO - low noise photography as we know it today (now, throw into that mix a fast quality lens and things start to get very interesting!).
Then you have that little newbie with the camera in P or A-mode and auto ISO up to 6400... and who is snapping away and getting pictures INCREDIBLY better than mr good photographer under those conditions (they may be compositional crap, but they are at least motion-blur free and properly exposed!). Now, what each person needs to define within themselves is how often are you going to be in these conditions to justify such a camera for them? For some, never, for others, always. Most people will be somewhere in the middle, but I can promise you this... everytime you are in a low light scenario and are taking pictures, pushing the ISO higher and higher on your camera and *will* be needing the crutch of noise removal software (which is currently me, and I am doing it with some success, but would not mind doing better without it.. lol), you *will* be wishing you owned a camera like the D700/D3 and a F/1.4 lens.
Yeah, you have to KNOW what you are doing... but you can do so much more when you BOTH know what you are doing AND have a camera that is literally redefining the standards in high ISO - low noise photography as we know it today (now, throw into that mix a fast quality lens and things start to get very interesting!).
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