On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>>
>> You can always find situations where some device doesn't do exactly
>> what you would prefer.
>>
>> My philosophy is to find the situations where the device does exactly
>> what I need, and work around or avoid the situations where it's not
>> exactly the right thing. I buy a couple of different devices to cover
>> the situations where one is deficient.
>>
>> By adopting this philosophy, I find myself complaining about stuff a
>> lot less: looking for how cameras are really very good, and for what
>> they do, rather than worrying about how they're crappy or not to my
>> taste.
>> ...
>
> That's a fair point and a reasonable attitude, but I tend to be a
> single-device person (for example, my partner has an Android phone, an
> iPod Touch, a regular iPod, and an iPad -- I just use my Android phone
> for everything). I prefer to stick with what I know I'll use rather than
> getting greedy and getting something I won't use ("the better is the
> enemy of the good").
I only buy what I know I'll use too. I didn't buy an iPhone until last
year because my ancient Motorola L2 and an iPod touch did what I
needed in pocketable devices nicely ... the iPhone 4S improved on that
by letting me carry one less device and having a very high quality
camera. But it is not the same thing to use as an iPad or iPad mini,
and I use it for those things that it does best, use the iPad for
those things that IT does best. The fact that they are compatible and
complementary is what counts, one of them cannot be 'best' at all
things.
Trying to fit all needs with one camera is just as impossible. Every
camera has its range of things it does well and things it does not. I
would not go shooting motorsports with my Hasseblad SWC any more than
I'd try to do architectural interiors with a 300mm telephoto on a
Nikon D3 (to name a particularly egregious set of extremes).
--
Godfrey
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