Here's a story for you Gary...
Shooting weddings for a number of years, it was bound to happen
that I'd eventually run into guests who had better equipment than
I do -- you know, the doctors and lawyers or whoever that can
afford to get their new toys each year.
And some of them would strut their stuff with an air about them
which almost said "Look at me -- I have better camera
gear than even the PRO has!!"
And over the years, I've learned to just quietly smile at them.
But inside, what I quietly think to myself is... "You might have the
bigger or newer camera, but I'm willing to bet that at the
end of the day, I'll be the one who walks away with the
better images."
And so I never find myself at odds with whatever gear anybody
else has. Indeed, these days, sometime I even take great pride
and strut around like a peacock not with my big camera, but
rather just with my seemingly non-serious little Elph...
Because the thing is that even with that little camera, I'm still
pretty sure that I'll probably come home with better images
than those doctors and the lawyers (or whoever) with their
"big guns."
So there you have it: from where I sit, size doesn't matter....
.... or at least not as much as just making good images.
Know what I mean?
CJ
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