Photography Gear Philosophy - No Such Thing as Best

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If you are part of any Photography groups or forums you have most likely seen questions posted along the line of.

” Best lens for product… Go”

” What’s the best camera for portraits please”

” What is the best light for product photography”

You have probably also seen some of the sarcastic and unhelpful answers provided. I get it these questions can be annoying and repetitive, especially when they provide little information or context.

Let’s take a moment and think about this.

If you are wanting to know which direction to go when looking at adding some new gear to your kit you need to pause and take a moment to think what you want.

1. What problem do you need to solve. Maybe it can be solved without buying new gear?

2. What’s your budget?

3. What do you need the light to do for you?

Now to be fair you might not know the above when starting out but you can elaborate, show example images or explain what you are photographing to provide more information for the folk offering help to go off.

Now I you are commenting or replying on one of these posts don’t be a dick. If it bugs you just scroll on by.

If you do want to help may be point them in the right direction by suggesting they provide more information for people to go off.

It’s good to help people but sometimes they do need to help themselves / need a little guidance.

Remember. No such thing as best as we have simply too many variables to consider.

Thank you for reading.

Rick