Originally posted by biz-engineer My experience too. Most people actually are fairly basic sheep. Big corporations dictate their lives. Some people are different. The question is whether you don't mind being a sheep.
One could say that the sheep are the ones buying big SLR cameras because they’ve been told they have to have them to take decent pictures. When point and shoot cameras got good enough for most people in the 1980s, they left SLR cameras in droves, and they never looked back. When digital came along, they changed out their film point and shoots for digital point and shoots. When cell phone camera got good enough to take over for their digital point and shoots, they abandoned cameras entirely.
Most images are now viewed on a phone or tablet, and are pretty low resolution. A 12mp camera allows for lots of cropping, the very basic image editing built into them is sufficient for most people.
We sit behind our computers waxing on about how enthusiastic we are about our cameras and photography, and totally ignore the fact that as a percentage of the population we are insignificant.
We are also the sheep. We buy new cameras when we are told to by our corporate masters, we get onto Internet forums and buy accessories as dictated by the advice of others. Meanwhile most people ignore all of this tripe that rules our lives, and quite happily snap pictures that are more meaningfull to them than the most carefully crafted picture of a bug on a flower that our local “experts” shoot will ever be to anyone, and they are the ones who ignore all the hype.
When you point fingers at people and label them, just remember, there are three fingers pointing back at you, all ready to apply the same labels to your forehead.