it'sawhat?
Established
less is more except when you need more then too much is almost enough. I'm at the point where 1 camera and 2 lens in 2 formats work for me. ymmv and if it does ,enjoy.
daveleo
what?
For making images, less is much more. "Less" gets me more involved in the process.
For making images, I have a core "user" setup, one D5100, a 24mm, a 35mm, a 50mm.
I also have, for the purpose of entertaining friends, a cabinet filled with photo gear that comes and goes. For this purpose, more is better
For making images, I have a core "user" setup, one D5100, a 24mm, a 35mm, a 50mm.
I also have, for the purpose of entertaining friends, a cabinet filled with photo gear that comes and goes. For this purpose, more is better
gns
Well-known
Sometimes more is less. Like with solarization.
Koni Kowa
Well-known
Less gear, more quality.
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
it depends ...
DougFord
on the good foot
Photographically speaking, from where I'm standing, more often than not, less is indeed more. More or less.
dcsang
Canadian & Not A Dentist
“Trop de choix tue le choix”
Dave
Dave
John Bragg
Well-known
Less is more. I have started carrying pocket cameras more often. Less is also more in developing film. Minimal agitation in the right developer is definitely something I like. Slow and gentle and coax all the detail in the shadows and highlights.
Paul Luscher
Well-known
Well, to steal from the former Duchess of York (Ms. Wallace Simpson): "One can never be too rich or too thin...or have too many cameras...."
hteasley
Pupil
Less is more, more is fun.
And one has less gear, but fewer cameras. You wouldn't say "fewer gear", so don't say "less cameras". Grammar peeve over.
And one has less gear, but fewer cameras. You wouldn't say "fewer gear", so don't say "less cameras". Grammar peeve over.
dct
perpetual amateur
Less is more, up to a certain point. I like to carry a two camera setup for faster film type change in different light and object situations (if only film cameras), for the mix of digital and film pictures, for the 50mm always ready on one of the bodies. It's all about comfort and good feeling at the end.
Vince Lupo
Whatever
For personal work, less is more. For business, you can never have enough!
robert blu
quiet photographer
Yes, less is more. I have more cameras (and lenses) but when I go taking photo I like to have one body and 2 lenses. I feel more free to concentrate on the subjects. Only when traveling I prefer to haver a backup body.
robert
robert
helen.HH
To Light & Love ...
Godfrey
somewhat colored
More is more, except when it is too much.
Then less is more, until it's not enough.
This applies to all things.
G
EdwardKaraa
Well-known
Best path is the middle path
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Best path is the middle path
"Everything to extremes, moderation is for monks."
- The Notebooks of Lazarus Long by Robert Heinlein
EdwardKaraa
Well-known
Good one Godfrey!
Here's one to agree with you. The author is quite known
But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!
unixrevolution
Well-known
More is More, but sometimes less is better, even if it isn't more.
I look at less and more this way:
Less negativity, more creating.
I look at less and more this way:
Less negativity, more creating.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Doesn't matter a damn.
More REAL choice can equal more creativity. That's why I have film cameras from sub-min to 12x15 inch, plus three digis.
But a lot of people go for fake choice: three different SLR systems, five different RFs, four different TLRs or two MF systems or...
Playing with different cameras is fine. But I firmly believe that in the long run, you need (a) the right camera for a particular job and (b) to be familiar with that camera -- which ain't gonna happen if you keep chopping and changing. And I'm better qualified to wrote about this than most people because, for many years, writing about cameras was part of my job (which is one reason I have so many). Nowadays, I want to review ONLY cameras that will let me do something new, or let me do what I do, better. From http://www.rogerandfrances.com/subscription/howmany.html (How Many Cameras Do You Need?):
The bottom line is very much the same as the top line. No one camera can do everything perfectly. The sort of pictures you take may (or may not) be best served by something out of the ordinary. If you are interested in more than one style of photography, you may well find that you need more than one sort of camera. You almost certainly don't need as many cameras as we have, because (to be honest) we have a lot of near-duplicates: there's not much advantage in having both the Kowa/SIX and the Pentacon 6 TL, for example, and we only have the Linhof Technika V 13x18cm because we didn't know there was a Gandolfi Variant 5x7 inch on the way. But you might do well to have a 35mm SLR AND a digital SLR AND and rangefinder camera AND...
Cheers,
R.
More REAL choice can equal more creativity. That's why I have film cameras from sub-min to 12x15 inch, plus three digis.
But a lot of people go for fake choice: three different SLR systems, five different RFs, four different TLRs or two MF systems or...
Playing with different cameras is fine. But I firmly believe that in the long run, you need (a) the right camera for a particular job and (b) to be familiar with that camera -- which ain't gonna happen if you keep chopping and changing. And I'm better qualified to wrote about this than most people because, for many years, writing about cameras was part of my job (which is one reason I have so many). Nowadays, I want to review ONLY cameras that will let me do something new, or let me do what I do, better. From http://www.rogerandfrances.com/subscription/howmany.html (How Many Cameras Do You Need?):
The bottom line is very much the same as the top line. No one camera can do everything perfectly. The sort of pictures you take may (or may not) be best served by something out of the ordinary. If you are interested in more than one style of photography, you may well find that you need more than one sort of camera. You almost certainly don't need as many cameras as we have, because (to be honest) we have a lot of near-duplicates: there's not much advantage in having both the Kowa/SIX and the Pentacon 6 TL, for example, and we only have the Linhof Technika V 13x18cm because we didn't know there was a Gandolfi Variant 5x7 inch on the way. But you might do well to have a 35mm SLR AND a digital SLR AND and rangefinder camera AND...
Cheers,
R.