>> Michael said: "As a side note, it's kinda funny but the best pictures I've ever taken have been on what a lot of people would call crummy cameras, I hear about how this or that camera walks on water etc etc. Then someone with real skill or dumb luck takes a great shot with a crummy iPad. Well, for me the iPad as a camera is more than enough to take great pictures even with little skill. We're not all magazine photographers. I believe it's more the picture taker than the camera with the great technology we have today."
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> I agree with you 100% regarding great pics being taken with "crummy" (in the eyes of "serious" photographers, that is) cameras! I haven't taken a lot of pics with my iPad, but I use my iPhone all the time and sometimes I get better pics with it than with my "good" camera! I, too, believe it's more the picture taker than the camera with the great technology we have today. You can get the best pics with the camera you are the most comfortable with and that is AT HAND you when you need it!
You can take GREAT pictures with crappy hardware. Many, many photographs qualify, but they are far overwhelmed by the crappy pictures that people have taken with GREAT hardware.
There is no fixed correlation there.
BUT:
Some GREAT hardware has features that enable a GOOD photographer to obtain GREAT images in circumstances where simpler or crappier hardware would fail.
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