Throwing money at cameras and lenses cannot buy excellent photographs; the
photographer must *make* them. Acer (currently lurking on this list) took
a college level photography class with an OM-1n and just a couple of
lenses (IIRC, a 50mm and a 28mm).
I took my college class with a Kodak Instamatic. The professor took one
look at that equipment and pronounced in no uncertain terms I would receive
no higher grade than a C, and this assumed I would do everything else
perfectly. Sure enough, he gave me a C at the end, which was, by the way,
the lowest grade I ever got in college. My final photograph was better than
okay, though, and this teacher admitted as much--albeit grudgingly. <g>
Other things being equal, superior equipment must count. But first the
photographer needs to get that far through other means.
Tris
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