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What makes the picture? Camera body or high end lens?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alex66" data-source="post: 110851" data-attributes="member: 12398"><p>On the whole a better lens should give better results, garbage in garbage out being the adage. However that is given the sensor in the camera is not a poor one or working outside its optimal limits. Then if you are not taking a photograph of/with movement a tripod with a reasonable lens say the old 50mm 1.8d will give you a technically better quality photograph than what ever the best 50mm is hand held. There is also the point of diminishing returns, some lenses are good enough that the better sensor will shine through, say a D90 over a D70 with greater resolution. It is a lot harder in these digital days, when we used film we could take a low end body say an EM and put K25 in it say and get as good a quality photo graph as an F3 with the same lens.</p><p> The most important thing and it is the thing that accounts for 99.99% of a photographs quality is the person taking the photograph. Like most things just because you buy the so called best does not make you any better, better to spend the money on books of photographs by some of the greats of the area you are interested in. Perhaps on a good course though a year of going to evening classes will give you more than a wk end one and should get you in-touch with other photographers in your area.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alex66, post: 110851, member: 12398"] On the whole a better lens should give better results, garbage in garbage out being the adage. However that is given the sensor in the camera is not a poor one or working outside its optimal limits. Then if you are not taking a photograph of/with movement a tripod with a reasonable lens say the old 50mm 1.8d will give you a technically better quality photograph than what ever the best 50mm is hand held. There is also the point of diminishing returns, some lenses are good enough that the better sensor will shine through, say a D90 over a D70 with greater resolution. It is a lot harder in these digital days, when we used film we could take a low end body say an EM and put K25 in it say and get as good a quality photo graph as an F3 with the same lens. The most important thing and it is the thing that accounts for 99.99% of a photographs quality is the person taking the photograph. Like most things just because you buy the so called best does not make you any better, better to spend the money on books of photographs by some of the greats of the area you are interested in. Perhaps on a good course though a year of going to evening classes will give you more than a wk end one and should get you in-touch with other photographers in your area. [/QUOTE]
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