In spite of the comment I made on Geof's post yesterday about cameras not being important, I love new cameras. New digital cameras in particular can open whole new worlds of storytelling possibilities, but even more than that a new camera encourages you, calls to you to shoot it. Maybe a painter feels the same way about a new brush or a furniture maker about a new set of tools. A new camera urges you to make new pictures, all the time.
This picture of flowers on my dining room table was one of the first images I made with a new EOS 1ds Mark II when I got it years ago. Would I have shot the picture without a new camera burning in my hand?
Don't know. But I do think that the biggest reason people believe new cameras make them better photographers is that they will tend to shoot a new camera more often. Remember we are all better photographers when we actually make pictures.
-Stephen Alvarez
Washington, DC
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