Equipment

IT ALWAYS AMAZES ME how photographers have a horrible tendency to be complete equipment fanatics. The “my camera is better than yours” and the “Canon versus Nikon” discussions rage on the Internet, at pubs, and at the sidelines of sporting events; wherever photographers meet, there’ll be a fierce discussion about what’s best.

Let me let you in on a secret: On the whole, very few photographers are held back by their cameras, especially when it comes to camera bodies. To prove that point, I made a decision many years ago to only use bottom-of-the-line camera bodies. With very few exceptions, all the photos in this book were taken with affordable equipment. The picture on the cover of the book? It was taken with a Canon EOS Rebel XSi (or ...

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