My mother has been using the same camera since the 90s and has only rellaced equipment if it was really unfixably broken. She did photography as her only source of income up until pretty recently and still does it as a hobby. Going on shoots with her quickly made me realize that the quality of an artistic piece doesnt directly correlate with the price and newness of their equipment at a pretty young age. She complained a lot about talking to other photographers at classes/conventions and being forced to listen to some dudebro talk about the specs of their equipment and how expensive it was as well as feeling constantly advertised to. Its interesting how prevelent this is in even non tech focused artistic pursuits. I wonder if this is a direct result of capitalisms influence on art or if some artists would still blame their short comings on material failure even without the profit motive encouraging that narrative.
My mother has been using the same camera since the 90s and has only rellaced equipment if it was really unfixably broken. She did photography as her only source of income up until pretty recently and still does it as a hobby. Going on shoots with her quickly made me realize that the quality of an artistic piece doesnt directly correlate with the price and newness of their equipment at a pretty young age. She complained a lot about talking to other photographers at classes/conventions and being forced to listen to some dudebro talk about the specs of their equipment and how expensive it was as well as feeling constantly advertised to. Its interesting how prevelent this is in even non tech focused artistic pursuits. I wonder if this is a direct result of capitalisms influence on art or if some artists would still blame their short comings on material failure even without the profit motive encouraging that narrative.
I used to used Facebook groups for photography and there are 2 types of people. Artists and Equipmentist.
One talked about how to use lighting and the other talked about the lumen output for a certain speed light.
Mostly tech bros. They are always the ones suggesting hiring “models” for photoshoots.