Oldies Are Still Goodies
I like to trawl through the MacLean Photographic archives looking for hidden gems from yesteryear. Today I was going through the 2005 archive and I found this shot from Glen Etive in the Highlands of Scotland taken on a Fujifilm Finepix S304 bridge camera. At just 3.2MP this camera now considered to be obsolete but eight years ago this was a mainstream consumer camera with a sharp 6x optical zoom and a great sensor to capture the images. This got me thinking about the obsession with the latest spec cameras with 16+ MP and 8 frames per second motor drive etc. Don't get me wrong, I love my Nikon D800, for my work there is no better camera, but not everyone is a professional photographer. There seems to be a line of thinking that a more expensive camera will make you a better photographer and, to be quite frank, in 99% of cases I've come across that is complete rubbish. My Nikon D50 was a superb camera and has produced some great images in my archiv...