#DSLR shopping
Over the past couple weeks and months1 I have reached that stage and am now laboring over the decision to upgrade to a DSLR camera. It’s mostly (as a I admitted to one friend) “lens lust” but there’s also an amateur artistic element to it. I’m looking for some more control over the pictures (i.e., the aperture size and shutter speed) and I believe I have taken my point-and-shoot about as far as it can go. Then I came across this quote (via DF) which helped to capsulize it:
Christ on a bike what a difference. I feel like someone handed a slice of hot toast spread with cultured butter after a lifetime breakfasting on Skittles and government cheese. I mean, it does what I want it to! It autofocuses in less time than it takes my eyes to imagine what a proper focus would be! You can take pictures in tungsten light without tacking a fucking white card to the wall and metering fifteen times! You push the button and it takes a fucking picture! I am in consumer ecstasy! I am in consumer ecstasy! NyQuil! Advil! Malt liquor!
Begging the question: if a DSLR also happens to be the best point-and-shoot then why am I wasting my time on the point-and-shoot?
- It’s been months but I put the research project on the shelf for a while and then resurrected about two or three weeks ago.[↩]
