daveptt wrote:
Hearing you fellows talk, as an 89 year old who earnt his living from photography, I wonder how we managed to take any pictures at all, the most important thing is who is behind the camera, top gear does not make top photographers, know your composition, know your light, know your subject, and then shoot a great picture. People won't be able to tell what camera you have or care.
You are absolutely right. It is the person behind the camera that is the most important thing for a photograph. But what is the second? Equipment. We don't know the OP's skills, so we are required to assume they know how to operate a camera. The OP's question is about equipment, the second most important thing. It is obvious to me from the majority of answers we UHHs want to start with the best glass possible so no matter how much we increase the IQ of the camera body the lense still surpasses the sensor's ability and is still able to produce the image we, the important part of the picture, want to produce. If one does not have a tool to produce the image they want or need, it doesn't matter how good a photographer they are. A good photographer can do things with inferior tools that most of can't. But at some point how good the tool is becomes important to producing anything at all.