Problems With Your Photography?

[Mike Farley]

Thom Hogan's got a ton of them, some with solutions and others with explanations of why we cannot get what we want. Some fixable, others less so.

http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/hom ... iewed.html

[davidc]

In the vast majority of cases he describes the solution is either practice of RTFM.

[Mike Farley]

In the vast majority of cases he describes the solution is either practice of RTFM.

Sure, a few are, and in other instances there are workarounds, but what Hogan is really after is for the manufacturers to up their game. Personally, I do not find some of the things he mentions to be issues. There are relatively few things which I want to control at the time of shooting (there is another thread on this forum which explores this) and the cameras I use allow me to do this readily. Moreover, I expect anything I produce will need additional post capture work to get the best from it and I have no interest in posting OOC images straight to Facebook or wherever. In fact, I invariably shoot Raw only in the anticipation of manipulating the shot afterwards, although I do know of some serious photographers who treat JPEGs in a similar way to slides and look to nail the shot in camera.

[Mike Farley]

According to Thom Hogan, the maufacturers are solving problems most people outside of the DPReview fora do not have, namely too few megapixels, lack of dynamic range and frame rates which are too slow.

http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/the ... -dont.html

As a Canon user, I will take slight issue with the dynamic range comment. It's not that Canon's DR is poor exactly, but the highlights go just that bit sooner compared to other cameras and greater care is needed with exposure. A more capable sensor would definitely help make me feel inclined to consider Canon's products more favourably.