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Comment by esafak

1 day ago

I shoot candid and I am at the age and stage where my philosophy is simply "Just bring anything and take the picture". Tomorrow's technology will easily fix it; it's already pretty close.

Former Magnum and NatGeo photographer David Alan Harvey can get by with a cell phone.

I will say that shooting with a camera was way more engaging, active, exciting in the moment. And I haven't done studio photography in years. But I still take pictures that give people joy, and that's ultimately what counts.

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traceroute66  1 day ago

> Former Magnum and NatGeo photographer David Alan Harvey can get by with a cell phone.

I reluctantly joined them last year after selling my DSLR and lens collection.

I enjoyed my many DSLR years, but recently its become problematic :

     1. The whole personal security thing, the world has changed and not in a good way.  The number of places you can comfortably walk around with $$$ worth of camera kit in a bag ... LET ALONE take the camera out of the bag without needing eyes at the back of your head is decreasing FAST.

     2. I got sick and tired of being subjected to secondary screening at airports in certain parts of the world where the security guys are not used to seeing a bag of DSLR kit and/or it being a country where they are "sensitive" about what long-lenses can be (theoretically) used for.

     3. The whole insurance thing has become a pain the backside.  Premiums constantly increasing, but more importantly, so do all the get-out clauses which means you struggle to find a policy that deals with the reality of traveling with cameras.

So, yeah, previously I would sneer at the iPhone brigade. Now I've joined their ranks.