More than One Horse in your Stable

I was watching an awesome documentary last night called IT MIGHT GET LOUD. Its a film about three famous guitar players. Jimmy Page from Led Zepplin, Edge from U2, and Jack White from the White stripes.

Out the three I am a big fan of the Edge. I think he is amazing, though I'm not taking anything away from Jimmy Page because I know he has been such an influential musician to the world. But he was way before my time. The Edge was there when I was growing up, when music mattered, though it still mattered, but music always means more when you are a teenager.



In the photography field, and probably more than any other field people are very proud of their name brand cameras. This person shoots with a Canon, this one with a Nikon, that one Pentax, and this here a Sony and an Olympus. It becomes such an exclusive club of people toting their cameras proudly with their big lenses. But when you look at these machines we carry around our necks are nothing but tools. Just like a guitar is a tool for these three musicians in the documentary. But what is surprising real about these musicians is that they have more than one guitar. They are not set in stone on only using a Fender or a Gibson or Rickenbacker or what ever. No they have a stable of guitars each with its unique ability and and unique sounds and well to me that is what a photographer should have, a stable of cameras.

Each Camera has a strength and a weakness. Each camera has a unique way of capturing the world. Some are more vivid, some are more sharp, some a faster, some have better detail. Some are weather sealed and can be used in the rain. So since these are tools for either capturing moments in time, or creating art, as artist or simply creative people it would benefit us to have more than one type of camera at our disposal from many brands. Just like each guitar making a unique sound, each camera will produce pictures in a totally different way.