Cleveland, OH: A local shooter recently switched from Canon to Sony and was pleased to discover that he awoke the next morning as a master photographer.
The photographer, Alan Coors, notes he was not having the sort of success he had hoped:
My business was not really flourishing. A lot of people seemed uninterested in my work. A friend suggested that perhaps my technique was lacking, but I’m using the latest automatic portrait retouching app, so it’s obviously not that.
Coors notes that he has been a Canon user since he first began shooting six weeks ago, his kit consisting of a 5D Mark IV and an assortment of at least eight L lenses. When he opened his business two weeks after buying the kit, he initially expected an influx of clients:
I was surprised that business was so lukewarm. I mean, I had all the nicest lenses and a great body.
Coors’ friend, Jordan Givens, a successful wedding and portrait photographer, spoke to Fstoppers about the situation:
Alan is really enthusiastic, but I think he's putting the cart ahead of the horse a bit. I told him to drop by my studio so we could talk about the situation. I spent hours discussing business strategy and photographic technique. Unfortunately, Alan’s eyes glazed over after about five minutes and he seemed to stop listening.
Coors picks up the story there:
Jordan is really nice and all, but he kept babbling on about pricing and learning how to set a ‘white balance.’ Isn’t that what P mode is for? That’s why I bought a nice camera. Anyway, while he was prattling on, I noticed a Sony camera on his desk. I went home and started Googling... They have way more megapixels than my Canon! I found a photography forum that said the Sony had two more stops of dynamic range and then I found a site that said their new 85mm lens resolves like 10 percent more detail than my Canon! I was so embarrassed. No wonder I had no business.
Coors immediately returned his kit and picked up a Sony setup. Sure enough, he awoke to a flurry of emails the following morning and is pleased to report business is booming.
Business is great! I’ve had to hire an assistant I'm so busy. I’m just glad the Sony has a P mode as well. No white balance issues!
Coors’ business shows no signs of slowing down.
This article was funny, what is even funnier is people are believing it.
Very funny.
Makes so much sense now, I am shooting the wrong system...
With Sony it will be so much better. I do not even have full frame camera .... Of course with a full frame and mirror less it would all be so much better.
:D
Tongue firmly planted in cheek!
I got that beat. After I switched to expired film processed in pond water, all my clients grew beards! Except the women, who ironically grew handlebar mustaches. Boudoir is a lot more fun, now.
Nice Alex! But from some of the comments it would appear it is possible to think like the protagonist in your skit :-)
Gosh - I switched from Canon to the same Sony model, but this didn't happen to me! Maybe it's because I switched from a 5D Mark II, not a Mark IV? If I bought a Mark Iv now and sold it right away, would that fix things?
I was reading this like a serious PR article until "I’m using the latest automatic portrait retouching app, so it’s obviously not that" ROTFL !
FStoppers included, photography websites hype new gear constantly. When I was a total noob, it was distracting and I wasted time reading articles about gear that I didn't own and didn't plan on getting.
I am heading over to B&H site right now to get a tilt shift lens.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Im dying right now!!!!
It's a very unfortunate feeling to realize that I've been taking pictures the WRONG WAY since 1966. I will immediately delete my files and start throwing coins in a cup toward the purchase of a Sony A9!
Should I buy a Mac?
"automatic portrait retouching app"...................Seriously?
Sheesh. He would be rich if used a smartphone. In fact, I'm shooting a wedding tomorrow and just use a mini DVR spy cam instead of the bulky smartphone. Won't the bride be surprised...
Stupidity begets Stupidity.
People think 'reality TV' is some how cool too.
You know these kinds of posts sometimes really annoy; it's like, if there was no news or press releases today, we promise we'll still visit, just knock that dumb crap off!!
But then there's the other days - children with more money and free time than brain cells telling you this and that, about what new tech is doing and how even composition will be done by A.I. soon enough, and at the same time drooling over prints from your pre-digital days. And you want to smack them. Really really hard. But you smile.
And then, still fuming about life and change, you 'accidentally' catch the article title in the corner of your eye and in a fever of rage and malice, you click - ready to spew vitriolic filth on any reader dumb enough to also click.
And then you read it.
So: thank you. Not that there's anything new or original about a gear vs skills rant, but it was damn funny. And for me, the timing was as important as it was for Edgerton's apple, and I think you may have saved me from burning a bridge I really (really really) need in this sh*te economy.
Thumb definitely up.
-Bill
Brilliant satire -- worthy of "The Onion". (The influence is obvious.)
Brilliant satire, worthy of "The Onion". (The influence is obvious.)
Bit last week all this, I thought the world was moving forward away from digital to film? Just think of all those cruddy LR filters you can delete when you dust off 20 year old rolls of Velvia.
First rate satire!
I had the same experience, sold all my rubbish Canon junk and bought into the Sony full frame system and now things are fanatastic and I expect to win (something) photographer of the year really soon.
I spoke to a SONY engineer and he confirmed that all is true (I speak Japanese) Thank God I shoot with Nikon