Originally posted by Winder I work with people who do care or they wouldn't pay me. This is not simply about resolution. We are talking about a 2EV improvement. We are talking about better color accuracy. I was at a 13,000sqft house today where the interior designer flew in from San Diego (4 hour flight) just for this meeting at this house. The interior and exterior photography package will be over $6,000. The house won't get staged and the landscaping won't be ready until spring of 2017 and they are already 18 months into construction.
We are not talking about $600 wedding packages. We are talking about people who really care about the little details. I have not shot interiors and architectural since before the recession in 2008, but I use to work with the builder a good bit and if Ricoh has the right gear I will price the project for him. I was shooting Canon at the time and renting a T/S lens when I needed it. The K-1 is really the perfect camera for this type of work. I just need the prefect lens.
Man there 2 ways to look at it. Either what you did before 2008 was not that great. And not because of you as a photographer but because really the gear was too basic. Bad dynamic range, low resolution. Well what you provided in the end was not satisfying. Maybe it was the best of theses time, but not satisfying.
On the final product you delivered, the highlights were cliped, and your photos once printed or displayed on a screen basically looked soft. The colors? There was no color deph, it looked posterized.
Your client, while knowing they got the best available at that time clearly saw the flaws of your work and other photographers and basically, if you were to shoot again with the same gear, in today market the result would look so ancient, so low quality that nobody ever would want to pay for that.
In that case, then yes the gear make a difference.
Either the client was overall satisfied with the quality and you delivered great work. In that case, the new gear, while sure welcome may not be that important.