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The relationship between photographic equipment and photography

In traditional film photography, different photographic equipment is generally selected to shoot different objects.

For example, a large-format camera is generally used to shoot scenery; Shooting news, usually with a portable small camera; Generally speaking, medium format cameras are used to photograph buildings.

Another example: the choice of camera lens. 135 cameras generally choose the lens with the least distortion, such as 85- 135mm fixed focus lens; When shooting scenery, generally choose a fixed-focus lens of 28 or 35mm; Sports photography, generally choose a large aperture lens with strong light absorption; When shooting buildings, use a lens of about 100mm or an equal ratio lens.

Nowadays, there is a trend in the design of digital cameras. It seems that the camera is not designed for photography, but has chosen a wider range of applications. There are fewer fixed focus heads and more zoom heads. Is this related to the development and popularization of digital camera technology? But another possibility is to make more money. Now when we talk about the relationship between photographic equipment and photography, we often take the photographic crowd as the condition to distinguish photographic equipment. For example, the card machine is aimed at ordinary families and ordinary users; Micro-single and single electricity seem to be aimed at female groups; General SLR, differentiated according to economic conditions. Personal feelings have been divorced from photography itself. Medium format and large format cameras are now mostly used in photo studios. Hundreds of thousands of digital shadows have discouraged many photographers. Not to mention the purpose of the lens type, the lens with the same focal length has several levels in design. Most of these levels are also due to economic conditions.