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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951
I'm locked into 2000's Canon glass like a 1980's flock of seagull's haircut.
Cool thing is, it plays well with 2000's slrs to present day r5' mirrorless with simple adaptors.
I gave my canon D5 MKII to my daughter. I've still got my MKIII and R5. This is plenty of punch for what our skills are.
My uncle from Tx. pulled out his I phone (whatever) and we had a shootout of my daughter at a horse event. I had a 100-400 zoom. He had better AI autoexposure, I had better range but was fighting my skill set to shoot into the sun and get manual shots. The apple thingee was doing composite hdr exposures on the spot as far as I could tell.
In the end, I think he had more useable pics, but I lugged around a ten pound camera and the pride I had set the single exposure shots up myself on the fly!
(okay... he won...) 
For newer stuff, a camera guy I know who shoots professionally for DMB and such has a simple sony (about the size of my wallet) and loves it. He was a Nikon guy and dumped the lot for his sony. |
And if you had been shooting film, you would not have been close to the iPhone quality.
Digital images, especially ones shot in RAW mode, and processed with Photoshop are just amazing. Back in the olden days of film, we shot oblique aerial photos for customers with a Pentax 6X7 camera and a 300 MM lens. It was huge, bulky and we got 10 images per roll of 120 film, and ended up with a negative that was 2.25x2.75 inches (6x7cm) and made prints in the darkroom as big as 30x40.
Now wee use a full frame Canon camera that produced a 287 MB file, 8688x5792 pixels. It makes a wonderful 40x60, and clearly superior to the old large format film camera. The files are so big we have to make lower resolution images for our customers. The other advantage of course is we can blast 200 images of a building or site and pick the best ones, or just give the client all of them and let them pick the ones they like to print. No more restrictions of running out of film.
Whatever you buy, be sure the shutter count is not past, or close to the mean time between failure.