A few weeks into getting used to the new camera and I’m probably not alone in thinking “Did I need it?” or “Have I done the right thing?”, commonly known as upgraders remorse.
In terms of camera kit, I’ve done a system change a couple of times over the years, once back in the days of film I switched form Olympus to Canon when auto-focus first arrived and Olympus simply didn’t produce a conventional auto-focus 35mm SLR camera and I was really happy making the change. When digital arrived, I was fine as my Canon EF lenses fitted the new digital bodies and it was 20 years all tolled before I did another complete switch and moved to Olympus again to use the new micro four thirds series. Switching back to Olympus I was delighted with what I’d done, loved the new kit and the results it gave me, lighter and smaller kit meant I could easily take it on holiday in cabin luggage when needed, a great results.
This time, it’s not quite gone as expected and it may take a little while to fully appreciate I’ve made the right choice. It’s not the “why I’ve swapped again” bit, the new camera does exactly what I wanted it to do, the results are stunning and my reasoning has been vindicated. It’s the realisation that it will take a good while to build a kit up to the equivalent of what I had, mainly because I’ve stepped up into the big league and there’s a price to pay! Aside form a couple of additional lenses, I’ll even end up having to buy a new set of bigger filters should I want them for landscape shots to avoid vignetting, I’ve no flash gun of any sort, so at some point one of those will doubtless be needed and of all things, more memory cards to hold the larger files it produces. Talk about first world problems.
Here’s a comparison of why I switched to a full frame camera from Micro 4/3. Although it’s got some natural light coming in from the side, the actual light level in the building were pretty poor. This is taken at 10000 ISO and my Olympus would have been really struggling.
This is with my Micro 4/3 camera, same aperture, f8, a fraction faster shutter speed and 6400 ISO. Click on either to see what I mean.
