Photographic equipment

I have been interested in photography for eight years, of which the investment is nearly 65,438+million (only photographic equipment), involving landscape photography, portrait photography, product photography and other fields. Today, I want to talk about my views on equipment.

Photographic equipment is basically equivalent to drugs in the eyes of many people. The general idea is that it is addictive and expensive. Speaking of photographic equipment, it's scary. It's like all you have to do now is press buy, pay by fingerprint, and then the wallet is gone.

Without the consent of the other party, you kindly recommend photographic equipment to the other party, and the other party will suspect that your motives are impure. What is your intention, and do you want to drag people into a fire pit? Since then, there have been cracks in friendship.

People often ask me what camera I used to take photos, and I will be happy to tell them the model of the camera, because I am glad that the other party did not ask how the photos were taken. This question is like asking a Michelin chef what pot you fried it in.

If the other person asks how the photo was taken, I will start with Pangu, chaos separation, sun and moon competing for brilliance, then light, physics and optics, and then talk about pinhole imaging and film development. Finally, by the way, why did Kodak invent the digital camera but still die? By the way, let's evaluate the differences between Japanese companies and German optical companies today and the advantages and disadvantages of their business models.

The other person will definitely say, you are crazy.

Wait, I'm not finished. I haven't said the evolution history of high-end equipment, so I can't shut it for three days and three nights.

Go on, the other side will have the heart to kill.

So I am very grateful to those friends who only ask about the camera model, and thank them for not killing.

There have been some unreliable rumors circulating in the photography industry, such as Canon is suitable for portrait shooting, Nikon is suitable for landscape shooting, Sony Dafa is black technology, Pentax is a minority, and local tyrants love Leica. If there are too many rumors, people will believe them.

In the martial arts world, people with high martial arts are swords, not swords. A branch can defeat a low hand with an eternal sword. But this is actually the result of a specific scene, which does not mean that the branch is more powerful than the sword. If you let the master and the low hand compete near the volcano or in the fire, the branches will have melted long ago, and the master may be hacked to death by the sword.

It's like asking Alto and Audi to get a road racing car and replace it with Benben and Mercedes-Benz. Even if the driver's level is superb, I am afraid that stepping on the gas pedal will feel very weak. A word difference, a world of difference.

Taking a beautiful landscape photo, the more colorful the scene, the more important the equipment. The equipment mentioned here includes not only the camera lens, but also the filter system, which is divided into 100mm, 150mm, 175mm and so on according to the size of the lens group. The bigger the size, the more expensive it is.

The filter is divided into polarizer, subtracter, gradient grey mirror and inverse gradient grey mirror. Polarizers are used to eliminate reflections and make photos more vivid. Reducing agents are used for long-term exposure. Graded ash can solve the problem of dead white sky or dark ground. Inverse gradient gray scale can solve the problem of banded light ratio at sunrise and sunset.

Shoot good scenery films, especially when the lighting environment of the scene is very complicated. In order to fully mobilize your forgotten elementary school mathematics, it is very difficult to use several filters in the calculation, just like solving a quadratic equation and calculating it with shutter and ISO as parameters.

This is already the advanced stage of landscape photography, and most people stop at the step of primary school mathematics. Once at this level, it is not enough to have a heart, but also to have money. Compared with the camera, the filter system belongs to a niche range. Few people buy it, and under the high research and development cost, the price can't come down. If the price can't come down, fewer people will buy it.

With heart and money, it takes time. You must be able to run to the barren hills in the morning and face ghosts everywhere. You must have a firm belief in Marxism–Leninism. I believe that Laozi is the best in the world, and ghosts and gods avoid it.

It's not enough to have this heart. You need physical strength to carry a huge camera bag, a heavy tripod and filtering system, headlights, flashlights and water. Climbing mountains, wading through obstacles.

It is not enough to rely on these physical strength and perseverance. If you are lucky enough, you can see that there are no dark clouds when the sun rises, but there are some clouds and glow, and the air is transparent. It can't rain or be cloudy. Without sunshine, there would be no light, shadow and color, and even black and white could not be photographed.

When the above conditions are met, it will take time to take good photos, organize photos, convert and export them. Most people have reached this point and almost nothing can stop them. But my friend San Mao is an exception. He only likes taking pictures. After taking photos, he always copies them to the hard disk at home, so that he will never see each other again. This is a realm, I might as well sigh.

I'm confused. The original camera and lens were stolen by a group of people in Huxian Botanical Garden. Later, the carbon fiber tripod I bought was left by the lake when shooting in Huidong. It's not easy to break the lens and filter. Follow my equipment. I am unlucky, but I have one advantage. I never resell my second-hand equipment. If I really don't want it, I'll give it away. I think, in this case, the equipment will feel better, at least it won't be sold again.

The Tang Priest was frightened, the meat would be sour, and the camera would be sour. Be kind to your camera and lens. Before each use, be as loving as a lover. After filming, you should meditate in your heart and put it back in your bag. Thank you very much. In the long run, your camera and equipment will be dead set to help you take good photos.

It is actually a false proposition to say what kind of photographic equipment is cost-effective. Usually we ask this question for only one reason: poverty. Go and see how many Leica buyers pay attention to cost performance. A Leica lens UV mirror costs several thousand RMB, which is equivalent to the price of a SLR lens. Its function is only to protect Leica lenses, and there are tens of thousands of good Leica lenses.

Photographic equipment and dating can't be measured by cost performance. It is enough to buy equipment that does not affect the quality of life within your power, because you can't afford it no matter how high the price is, and you won't regret it after buying it.

If you have money, you can buy top-class equipment, so you can't blame Lao Wang and the equipment next door if you don't shoot well.

The knowledge about lens can almost be classified as metaphysics, just as the Hifi circle of hi-fi audio discusses which genre of songs is more suitable for listening to thermal power generation or hydropower generation. The lens made in Germany is an aristocrat in the lens industry, and the photos taken have their own German flavor. As for what is German flavor, the accepted explanation is that red and blue are rich in color and the picture is excessively natural and greasy.

Everyone's perception of color is different, and oiliness is an index that can only be understood but not quantified, which has become metaphysics.

Optical lenses can preserve their value, and it is common for good lenses to be passed down from generation to generation. Occasionally, future generations are unfilial, and their families are falling. Selling lenses can also alleviate the urgent need. It is also a blessing for future generations. Do you think diamonds can last forever? That's a beautiful lie woven by merchants. What you believe is true, and what you don't believe is false. If you love TA, send a German head.

Hate TA can also send a moral head, and from then on, it is as deep as the sea.

I have touched Leica, and the Leica lenses have been weighed. It is heavy and small, as if holding a gold nugget. This experience can undoubtedly make my life more perfect, and I can also tell beginners in a faint tone in the future. Do you know how to write Leica?

The scope of photographic equipment is not limited to camera lens, filter and tripod flash, but also includes headlights and flashlights. A good headlight is worth three Zhuge Liang. Photography is the knowledge of using light, how can it be separated from lighting equipment?

Headlights, like lenses, are divided into wide angle and telephoto, long distance and irradiation radius. Now manufacturers are developing artificial intelligence headlights, which can intelligently and automatically adjust the focal length according to the distance of the object you are looking at. If you look closely, the light spot will automatically enlarge, if you look far, the light spot will automatically focus into a beam of light. Not to mention the strobe function, even its own code can generate Morse telegraph code at will.

Speaking of it, the biggest photographic equipment is still a car, a good car, which can climb mountains and wade for the night. Bring your own wireless base station and share photos with your friends online at any time. Cars are mobile steel tents, cars are air-conditioned rooms, cars are castles against wild animals, and cars are huge mobile power charging treasures.

In this way, if you want to take wonderful scenery photos, you must first go to the traffic police website and shake a number.

Ordinary people should not expect to make a fortune by shooting Taobao Tmall products. Photography lamps, props, venues, reflectors, shading plates, light absorbing plates, exposure meters, electric background frames, background paper, macro guide rails, flash devices, high-speed photography trigger devices, lamp frames, kt boards and acrylic boards.

If you like delicious food, you can cook it yourself and do whatever you want. It doesn't matter if you slow down. It doesn't matter if it tastes bad. But opening a restaurant is different. If you like photography, you can shoot it yourself and do whatever you want, but opening a studio is different.

Preparing these messy accessories can make a 180 kg fat man lose 30 kg quickly. Many accessories are still not available, so you need to make them yourself.

Behind every glamorous photography studio, there is a messy grocery store for storing these messy photography accessories.

The equipment for portrait shooting is relatively simple, which is simpler than landscape photography. All that is needed is a large aperture lens, and Jiao Wai is oily. Then flash with a flash to illuminate the shadow of those pores, and the whole face will be much whiter.

A relatively poor photographer looks almost like a refugee from a distance, carrying a camera bag that regards life as life, holding a flash in one hand and pressing the shutter in the other.

Rich photographers usually have an assistant with a dull expression, who is responsible for holding the flash, standing in a position staggered from the photographer and holding the light at people. When you don't shoot, you have to bear the responsibility of porters and shoot props and clothes with a flashlight. Even with the responsibility of makeup.

I don't know why, every time I go to the seaside, I can always see photographers and assistants who take wedding photography. In order to reflect the artistic style, photographers have to grow beards and wear ponytails, which is actually related to the face value. If the face value is better, the style will be there, but the face value is poor. This is completely counterproductive and looks very obscene.

Having said that, Yan value is high enough to eat by face. Who will be a photographer?