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The feeling of having a camera in my hands is mixed.
The object of the camera itself and the lenses became as a fetish,
in the sense that for example there are some lenses, particularly the old ones from the 50s,
60s and 70s, the manual ones which are more full-bodied, more metallic. In my opinion,
they are a tactile and physical pleasure.
It is a physical pleasure the use of the object, not only for its performance and for what you will be able to get from it,
but for the object itself.
This is interesting because this attraction paradoxically has also an effect on the outcome you get,
because if you feel pleasure in working with an object you like, this pleasure can
-- in some cases -- make you work better,
allowing yourself to go to a more interesting and productive state of mind
and work attitude.
Besides, the feeling I have while holding a camera in my hands is mixed
as I said.
On one hand it is a pleasure, on the other hand it is an unbearable feeling because it is heavy,
in order to feel strong and confident about what you can do, a camera and a lens
are not enough,
you need other tools, especially other lenses, and they are heavy,
expensive and they could break or get stolen...
My collarbones are both dislocated because of the heavy photographic equipment I carried all around the world.
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It is also true that this negative aspect of the camera
depends on how much confident you are, because, if we see in the history of photography,
some of the greatest photographers of all times
shot all their lives using a rangefinder camera and a 50mm or 35mm lens
and they were certainly geniuses.
Therefore the volume, the weight of the photographic equipment is also inversely proportional to
one's substance as an artist, as a photographer,
in the sense that the higher your depth as a photographer is, the lighter is the equipment weight
you have to carry,
you don't need all those technological tricks.
This is obviously a sort of slogan and it is partly true and partly not,
because there are great photographers who travelled with tens of kilos of equipment anyway
moreover, to a certain extent, it depends on what you do.