at 7:00 in the morning on the coast of Georgia the Black Sea looking beautiful
the beach is already getting busy here and we are leaving the beach we're
heading back to Tbilisi
okay I'm back into play see and I'm back in my little studio by the window and
today I kind of wanted to talk here because I feel like I feel like I
haven't talked camera gear a lot and I think the reason I haven't talked to your a
lot is because I don't think gear matters as much as most people do and I
do think it does matter gear does matter a little bit it matters
enough that every now and then we should talk about it so today I'm going to talk
about it today I'm gonna talk about the age-old question of should I upgrade my
camera? should I upgrade my camera? I get asked this question all the time every
time I do a Q&A for example I always get one person at least usually a half dozen
who ask what should I upgrade my camera to? I'm shooting the Canon 200 D for
example and I want to upgrade it but I don't know what to upgrade to and I
think that it's an important question to ask and also probably one that maybe
you're not ready to be asking if you're asking it that way so I want to discuss
today should I upgrade my camera not me personally but you guys should you guys
upgrade your cameras and I want to just like dive into talking about this and I
kind of surveyed my facebook group as well to kind of get some answers on this
or some questions on this and yeah so that's what we're gonna talk about today
and before you decide to upgrade your camera I want you guys to start thinking
why why do I need to upgrade my camera what's my reason for upgrading my camera
and that's what I kind of want to dive in today because I think that the vast
majority of people who answer that question answer because I want to take
better pictures and that's the wrong answer
if you're answering because I want to take better pictures you don't need to
upgrade yet you probably have some work to do so I want to talk about that a
little bit I'm about to blow your mind the only time you should ever upgrade
your camera is if you're limited by something that your camera can't do that
you need to do that's the only reason the only reason to buy a new camera is
for that reason or if you broke your old one but there's so many other reasons
that people give me for why they want to upgrade their camera so I kind of want
to talk about those things because I do think it
interesting I do think it's important for one I get a lot of people that
answer the question should I upgrade my camera with the question I want to be
taken seriously and I kind of get this point especially if you're a
professional photographer are trying to be a professional photographer
perception matters how people see you as a photographer is important especially
in getting work the vast majority of people that hire photographers aren't
photographers they have no idea what photography gear is so when you rock up
using a big camera and a big lens they go oh that person knows what they're
doing and to give you a bit of an example my sister is a wedding
photographer and a very good wedding photographer and you should check her
out on Instagram but click by not clicking here but by following you know
this Instagram handle and going and checking her out and for years and years
and years she shot 5d Mark 3 then 5d mark 4 all the best lenses and she
wanted to switch to mirrorless because it's lighter and easier to get around
and in many cases just as good of a camera but she didn't do it because of
perception because she would walk into a job and it was hard for people to take
her seriously if she had small gear hanging around her neck they expect you
to rock in with a big camera to big lens and in many industries word-of-mouth is
so important so for example in the wedding industry my sister shoots a
wedding does a good job a lot of the clients are the people watching there
they're thinking who was that person that shot Jimmy's wedding we should
contact them to see who it was that shot the wedding but they only really want
that person if they saw them looking like a professional photographer if they
see them walking around with like point-and-shoot or just a smartphone
they're probably not gonna want that person even if you can take incredible
wedding photos with a smartphone as Peter McKinnon recently showed in a
video I'll link somewhere up here perception matters but even my sister
has changed because the perceptions have changed in photography people are now
more educated on camera gear so you can kind of get away with shooting something
like you know a mirrorless camera in fact my sister switched to the I think
she's on the Fuji XT 2 or whatever it's called and there's a great camera
another antic I was in Antarctica on my first ever job
and I was shooting a Canon t2i and 70 to 200 f4 nan is that was the only gear I
could afford for this job in Antarctica where I'm taking pictures of penguins
and landscapes and everything that's incredible there and there was another
guy on the tour and he was shooting a Ken and one D s mark three I think it
was and he had a four hundred millimeter F 2.8 also by Cannon and the first half
of the trip I just assumed the guy was a professional photographer I just assumed
this guy must be like for Nat Geo Park something like that and then about
halfway through the trip I was sitting in like the lobby area of the boat doing
some photo editing and he came up and sat next to me he looked at my images
and he said wow I should have bought the gear that you have and I just looked at
him and I was like so confused and I was like is this guy serious and then he
brought his computer over and all of his images were like a shot f-22 they were
shot the wrong shutter speed there was a lot of blurry the composition was
terrible and I realized he was just a rich dude that had money and bought gear
that he thought would be needed for that job but it doesn't matter if you don't
know how to use it and I guess that's the other point is that is important as
perception is is important that it as it is for clients to see you with the right
gear and think oh this person's gonna be able to do the job
it doesn't matter if you have that right gear or not if at the end of the day you
take the pictures you send them to the clients and they're unhappy because if
that happens you're not gonna find more work beyond that so as important as
perception is what's a much more important as actually delivering good
images the other answer I used to get a lot that's starting to be less of a
thing is people always used to say I want more megapixels I think how many
more megapixels everybody is obsessed with megapixels and it's almost the trap
that camera manufacturers a tricked us into for so many years as the only thing
they were upgrading on cameras was the megapixel count but the reality is after
maybe like 12 16 megapixels it doesn't matter that's that's more than
enough and you also have to start thinking what am i shooting for what
what do I need the megapixels for am i shooting for an IMAX movie am i shooting
for billboards and the chances are you probably not especially this era in
digital media where you're probably shooting for people to view on laptops
or TVs or things like that and let me kind of break this down for you to kind
of like show you that you don't need megapixels the front camera on this this
Google pixel 2 is 8 megapixels 8 megapixels is enough to print in
good-quality meaning like over 80 dpi a print that's 2 feet by 3 feet so you can
basically print this big by this big I guess more or less and the image is
still totally sharp no pixelation no issues at all you could probably even
blow that up to like 3 feet by 4 feet and still not really show pixels and
that's just a front camera on this phone that old Canon t2i I had which is now
like maybe a ten year old camera at 12 megapixels which is the same as the
front camera on the pixel phone and with 12 megapixels you can blow up to 40
inches by 60 inches that's massive that's that's enormous and still get the
good quality and that's a ten year old camera the 5d Mark four which is filming
this shoots I think 30 megapixels let me check my notes 30 yes 30 megapixels I
don't even know how big you can blow that up to but it's more than you'll
probably ever need in fact megapixels matter so little that I didn't even know
how many megapixels my camera shot until I did the research for this video
megapixels don't matter anymore because every single camera now produces enough
megapixels that you can do whatever you want and the other thing with the
megapixels that people don't realize is too many megapixels can actually be a
problem if the sensor is too small if the pixel density is too big it can
cause issues with dynamic range for example so too many pixels is actually
can be a problem megapixels should never be the reason
are you upgrading unless you're shooting on the phone right now and maybe you
want to blow things up bigger or if you have a job that requires you to shoot
like you know for IMAX so I asked the Facebook group what are your reasons for
wanting to upgrade your camera or what were some of the reasons that you gave
yourself before upgrading your camera when you did it and by far and large the
answer that people gave was that they were missing features on their current
camera there's a lot of people saying things like I want a touchscreen
I want dual card slots and I think that these really aren't things that will
improve your photography and in my opinion the only reason you should ever
upgrade your camera is because you're wanting to improve your photography so
if you're going for features I think you're falling into the trap of camera
consumerism and yes these features are great I love them on my 5d Mark 4
absolutely love them but I went with this old camera my old 60 for like 5
years because as much as those features are nice I didn't want to spend three
four thousand dollars upgrading my camera so I could touch the screen at
the back it's not worth it that being said once your old camera dies as my old
60 is starting to really really really get old it might be worth to get those
features in the future but don't fall into the consumerism idea of needing to
always upgrade to get the newest features in video I was actually shocked
in the group how many people mentioned video upgrades is the reason for
upgrading their camera video was one of the bigger reasons I went with a 5d Mark
four just because I love the time-lapse feature on the inside video is the
reason also though that I went with the 200 d one of the cheapest DSLRs in the
market so video is a good reason if you're I guess shooting a lot of video
but again in video especially with camera gear a lot of times it's not
about upgrading it's about moving sideways or down and 50s a great camera
very affordable the 200 d very good camera for video also very affordable so
maybe don't think so much about upgrading as trying to find the camera
that suits your needs best so I kind of want to get back to the first reason
that mentioned the reason of I want to
upgrade my camera so I can take better pictures there is a right answer there
that's not always the wrong answer I can't always say hey if you're saying I
just want to upgrade my camera to take better pictures it means that you're not
good enough photographer yet because there is reason there I think maybe some
of you are just saying it wrong if you're saying I want to upgrade my
camera to take better pictures what may be your meaning is I want to upgrade my
camera because I'm limited by my current camera and there that's a right answer
but there's absolutely no point in upgrading your camera if you don't know
what you're missing and how you're limited so I always recommend to people
shoot your current camera until you know what's limiting you if you've going out
and shooting Astro and just being like I can't get these stars without there
being a massive amount of noise then maybe that's time to start thinking but
upgrading or if you go out and shoot a concert and you're like I can't get
these images without getting a ton of noise it might be another reason to
answer or you're going out and shooting like some urban architecture or
something like that and you're like wow the distortion on my crop sensor is just
massive I need to upgrade there we're starting to get into some real reason so
I'm gonna go back to my notes and I'm gonna go to some of the limitations that
people have given me again in the Facebook group that I kind of disputed a
little bit one of the reasons somebody said they wanted to upgrade was they
wanted more depth of field they wanted to blur out stuff in the background but
I think a lot of people actually confuse their need to upgrade their lenses with
the need to upgrade their camera if you're looking to get blurry background
out of focus background bokeh its your lens it's not really your camera and yes
on full-frame you do get a bit of better back bokeh better better bokeh Peter
Piper picked a pet you get the point you get better bokeh on a full-frame but
really not that much so if you're looking for bokeh you're looking for a
blurry background go out and get a 50 millimeter F 1 point 8 they cost like a
hundred and twenty bucks and I've just saved you three thousand dollars from
upgrading your camera you'll get that blurry background that way the other
limitation people said quite a bit is my camera isn't sharp I'm always surprised
by this and I see this all the time and the fee
I see people with 5d mark fours or even 1d X's and with tripods that can't
support them with flimsy little tripods that even a little bit of wind rattles
and of course you're not getting sharp images the tripod is what you need to
upgrade more than likely if your images aren't sharp especially in landscape
photography or long exposure photography in general don't worry about upgrading
your camera until your tripod is good enough or that you're not locking up
your mirror or turning off your image stabilisation on your lens or shooting
with the timer on long exposures your problem more than likely isn't sharp
pictures because this $500 camera the 200 d it takes photos that are sharp as
hell as long as you use it right by far the limitation most people talked about
was noise they said when I shoot stars when I shoot low light my images are
just too noisy I shot that Canon t2i for like two years when I started and then I
upgraded to a 60d for another two years both crop sensors and I'm really glad I
did because it kind of forced me to be like a technical beast if you will I had
to shoot landscapes at ISO 100 or 200 I had to find ways to be creative or else
my images weren't right technically I had to expose a hundred percent
perfectly or else I would get noise I think camera technology has made a lot
of photographers a lot of new photographers kind of lazy because now
the gear is so good that you can fix so many issues
I'll give this example that's not fair to my buddy curbs because he's and he
didn't really like it wasn't his intent to shoot it wrong it was just it was a
dark image that we played with in Patagonia so my buddy Richard Kirby shot
this image out in the field in Patagonia and he shot it iso 100 30 seconds at eff
2.8 and the image came back black it was just there was nothing you could see a
couple speckles of light but it was black it was five six stops underexposed
there was nothing there but we took all the sliders just for fun in Lightroom
and we went plus five on the exposure and we went Plus whatever on the shadows
and we played a with it a lot and we had an image that
was exposed properly and old cameras like a lot of old crop sensors they
would have they would have never been able to do that the shadow recovery
first of all wouldn't have been there and even if it was it would have just
been noise it would have just been a bunch of you know a bunch of grain but
on the sony a7 3r or whatever it is it was brought back and it was a usable
sellable image and it was mind-blowing to see that but it's also dangerous
because as a photographer you can get lazy about not worrying about shooting
things a hundred percent correct because you can you know fix and adjust things
much better on these bigger cameras so I think that really you should get as good
as you can with a smaller crop sensor camera and then when you're totally
limited and you can't do things that you want to be doing anymore then it's time
to upgrade the other one I found quite curious is a lot of people saying I want
more frames per second and I think that this comes down to the same discussion I
talked about video in that sometimes you actually need to make a sideways
movement in your camera purchases or even a downgrade for example if I was
shooting my 60 which I believe shoots like four frames per second I wouldn't
want to be shooting sports with this just because it's not fast enough it
doesn't shoot enough frames per second but I would have been totally happy
shooting the 70 mark - which is actually a you know a lower camera crop sensor
camera it was lightning fast a great autofocus had a better auto focusing
system in general and it shot like 10 12 frames per second something like that so
I think the most important thing to take away from this video is don't worry
about upgrading your camera ask yourself what do I need in the camera and then
searching out a camera that suits those needs if you're a sports photographer on
a budget the 7d mark ii is a much better camera than the 60 mark - which is a
much more expensive camera so the kind of thesis statement of this now very
very long video is that you don't need to upgrade your camera in fact most
people that upgrade their camera probably shouldn't be upgrading their
camera but you guys might be looking at me like a little bit of a hypocrite
because I did upgrade my camera eight months ago I
went from the 60 to the 5d mark 4 but the truth is I wasn't gonna upgrade I
was gonna go from the 60 to the 60 mark - after using this camera for a hundred
years and just wearing it to death I was gonna go sideways I was just gonna
upgrade to the newer version of it because honestly the features in the 60
mark - were exactly what I needed I was scared away by the reports that
the dynamic range on the 60 mark - weren't even as good as the dynamic
range on the 60 mark one so I went to the 5d mark 4 so I could get that
dynamic range I shoot a lot of colorful images I shoot a lot of images with
filters I'm trying to save as much light and dynamic range as possible so I
couldn't have that loss of dynamic range with the 60 mark - so I upgraded because
I was limited by the 60 mark - and the truth is I think that other than that
dynamic range the features are basically the exact same on the 5d Mark 4 is the
6d in fact from the 60 mark - I really wish I had a flippable screen on the 5d
Mark 4 so there's actually things from the lower camera I wish they had in the
5d Mark 4 so for me it's not about upgrading it's not about shooting the
absolute best camera it's about shooting the one that works best for me there's a
reason why guys like me and a lot of landscape photographers are a lot of
travel photographers or a lot of photographers in general don't shoot a
1d X because we don't need it I have no need for the features of a 1 DX there's
nothing in the 1 DX that I'm like I wish I had that so why would I spend an extra
$4,000 on a camera just because it's an upgrade I'm gonna bring us back now
widen us all up by just saying finally there are only two reasons to ever
upgrade your camera the first being you broke your other one or you used it too
long and they no longer produce it so you need to go to the newer camera and
the second reason is that you're limited by your current camera there's things
that your current camera can't do that another camera that's upgraded is able
to do those are the only two reasons ever why you should upgrade your camera
and yes there's arguments - I want to buy the absolute
best camera because then I want to learn how to use it and that's fine too if you
have the money if you have the money go crazy I know lots of hobbyists just they
buy gear because it's fun because they don't you know they don't have money
issues and they like new gear and it's fun to play with like with new gear and
I get that as well whenever I go in the field the hobbyists always have the
nicest camera gear in fact most of my workshops the participants have way
better gear than the actual instructors do so I get that side of things too
sometimes you just need to upgrade gear because it's fun and because you can hey
yeah I'm gonna leave it at that I think the last thing I want to say is don't
forget about glass if you were to say Brendon we can give you a 1dx
with some pretty average lenses or we can give you a 6d mark one with just the
best glass I take that 6d mark one every single time glass is more important than
the body and I think that's just something you need to remember and maybe
that's a discussion for another day what camera lens should I buy so maybe
we'll do that next month and before I wrap it up I should mention that I'm now
for the next at least couple weeks couple maybe even month or so I'll be
taking Tuesdays and Fridays off so we're gonna go down to five videos a week
sorry about that but it's just I've been doing too much office work recently too
to film everyday five videos a week and they should be fun I'll see you guys on
Wednesdays episode peace
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