Everybody is a photographer — Part 3

Tools

Photography forums and chats are usually very boring places full of people that talk about equipments, sensors, compositions, tech stuff. But isn't photography supposed to be something quite easy to understand in the end? It’s something we can all see and appreciate, more or less. Why does it have to be surrounded by all these words? An explanation might be that photography is an art and therefore it’s composed by a visible part and by an hidden nature, that must be explained. Another explanation is that there’s really a lot of technical stuff involved and sometimes it is worth talking about it.

I presume eventually that we talk a lot about it instead of just doing it and watching it because photography starts in many cases from reality but it something different from it.

Photography is not the reality, it’s an interpretation of it.
Therefore it has to be explained and understood.

Nonetheless, it’s useful to talk a little bit about the equipment.

I started to photograph on film a long time ago. I eventually switched to digital around 2003. Back in those days digital cameras were more or less the same as their analogue cousins: heavy and bulky pieces of hardware able to deliver — at least in the…