Originally posted by biz-engineer If you have a pre-conceived positive idea of a camera brand, you are going to get the most out of it, and you tell yourself that Pentax is not good you are never going to make the most out of any Pentax setup. It all starts in the mind, only a very small part is true if true at all. Some people are going to have talent and take amazing photographs with poor equipment, much less equipment than what Pentax has in catalog. Other people will know all the specifications, will have read all the reviews, will own the camera from the award winning camera brand, but their photographs will not trigger a single emotion, mostly boring without any interest. My point was, in all of your comments, sadness transpire, this is not going to get you any happy photo shooting, no matter how many times you switch brands, never, ever.
Regarding this part of your comment "but their photographs will not trigger a single emotion, mostly boring without any interest", let me ask you something: who can say about my images or about your images that are either boring or excelent? I'm asking because I went to Paris and I stopped to see Mona Lisa painting at Louvre museum. That painting didn't trigger a single emotion to me. It was a boring painting, at most. Sure, technicaly may be without any flaws, but still, it remains boring to me.
I don't take photographs to trigger emotions for strangers on internet and social media. I take photographs that trigger emotions for me, for the ones related to me and for the ones involved in the shooting session. I have images that may be boring for every person from the entire univers, but to me and to the ones related to me those images trigger a lot of emotions because they have a story behind.
Your message is nice and motivating, but it is suited mostly to unexperienced photographers, to the ones that loves gadgets more than taking pictures and to the ones that makes compromises for different reasons.
I may have all the love for a brand, but if the camera that I love can't deliver when my nephew score his first goal because my camera decided that the player from the other team is more interesting because his shirt has more contrast, or that I couldn't get in the frame the small bird that I waited the entire day because my af was distracted by the background, then maybe choosing another brand may be the best solution. People sometimes get too much attached to a brand...