Do you choose the type of camera , or which feels right ?

[dee]

Thanks everyone .

I tend to be too analytical of why something seems more real than something else .
If , I understand , it helps me to create some kind of context - for example , is preferring a lesser/outdated camera caused by my keeping inside my comfort zone , or do others chose a favourite camera irrespective of low light performance , old sensor , lesser IQ etc .
I know why a camera helps isolate me from others [left alone to my dee-vices ] but could not work out why one camera is s'right' and another actually creates anxiety .
Photography may have no connection to the Autistic spectrum , but is an essential escape clause of me personally .
In fact my question has been answered , so I now understand that others sometimes prefer a favourite camera .
Respect
dee

 

[sara]

I used to pick a camera upon reading up on it briefly, and of course, visual aesthetics but now if I pick one, I'd made sure it's a bloody good camera first. Wish I had known this earlier as I have all sorts of cameras and I don't want to be a collector.

 

[dee]

jdi -
It's my ASDee? glitch which dictates the 'sameness' preference , but , it may be the confusion/isolation/dislocation of the guy/girl/me? which creates the need for the comfort/separation/filtering of a camera.
It's difficult to separate it all at times .
sara - I find the X-Pro 1 with all it's glitches [ don't we all /] to be that 'bloody good camera ' in the wake of my Minolta SRTs ]
I guess I should be clearing the Pentax K10D bought to use manual lenses , plus the Sony A35 with it's odd EVF , but these entry level cameras are worth peanuts.
I know because I bought a second Sony A390 [ with flip screen and ,live view ] with lenses for £100 - why ? Because the colour rendition and handling suits me , which is all the matters ... and I wanted the 'waist level finder' from my Praktina .LOL

dee

 

[CMur12]

I could adapt comfortably to the function and ergonomics of most any camera (match-needle SLRs, compact fixed-lens RFs, a variety of TLRs) until the advent of auto-focus SLRs.

When auto-focus SLRs came onto the market, they added new controls, a number of which became grouped on the right-hand back side of SLRs. This didn't work for this left-eye-dominant eyeglass wearer, so I never migrated to auto-focus SLRs or to the digital SLRs that had similar control layouts. This was my first ergonomic crisis.

- Murray

 

[dee]

Zuiko85
I have the CV 35 f2.5 original as it was all I could afford for the M8
I find it excellent , but I also like my Summitar and Elmar .
I can,be too fussy on IQ .
dee