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Disclaimer: to be quite clear, while not a full-time photographer, and certainly not a world class one, I do make five digits a year from my photography on the side, and while I may not remember how many fps a body is, or whether it's 26 megapixels or 28, but I could tell you about each of the 8 lenses I own, focal range, f-stop, and whether a given body's high ISO performance compares to another. I think at this point I probably have $40K of camera gear. Whilst it's not about the camera, as such, it is a known aspect. It'd be akin to a developer not knowing whether his computer had an SSD or hard drive, or how much memory


Until you can afford to employ someone to look after your cameras you aren't in the category where you'll start ignoring the specs.

It'd be akin to a developer not knowing whether his computer had an SSD or hard drive, or how much memory

Beyond the fact it's a 2015 Macbook Pro I couldn't tell you the specs of the laptop I'm using right now. It just doesn't matter to me what the specs are. So long as it's fast enough to do what I want when I ask it to I don't care. Plus I'm old and forgetful.


It's not about the gear, as long as you have a lot of really expensive gear.


You actually don’t need to know that either. Your employer gives you a laptop, for example. You don’t need to know what the specs are to do good work.

There’s always the gear heads in everything you do. They’re rarely the best


You’ll soon know if it only has 4gb of ram!


> akin to a developer not knowing whether his computer had an SSD or hard drive, or how much memory

which is definitely not unheard of -- particularly for some of us who use a number of different devices any day.




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