Originally Posted by
SRPHOTO
Originally Posted by
Keith B
Use what you got, get good with it. Develop a style and just be you.
People will seek out your style, not your gear.
Spot on.
I find both Keith's original statement, and SRPHOTO's assessment that it is spot on, to be spot on.
That said, I do think you need specific gear to take specific kind of pictures. When I bought my first macro lens (before that I had a kit lens on my rebel xt), my friend said "you dummy, why did you buy that? Don't you know that it is the photographer that makes the picture, not the lens?" Well, I wanted to take macro pictures. I wasn't going to take *better* pictures, but I was going to get to do a new kind of photography. (And, in case anyone is wondering, I don't regret getting the lens [img]/emoticons/emotion-1.gif[/img])
I believe that it is mostly true that the better photographer will take better pictures. When I buy a new lens, it isn't because I think I'll be able to take better pictures with it, but new kinds of pictures.
In short, I agree with the statement. But still, I like to buy lenses [img]/emoticons/emotion-11.gif[/img]