Originally posted by hayavuk I can't remember a single photography device with which I haven't had at least some fun. I've had as much fun on an Xperia Z1 Compact as I have had on a full-frame DSLR. But each device gives me different kinds of fun, and there's none that gives me all of those kinds.
Sorry for the late response. I'm preparing images to compare and contrast between my K1 and D500 now that I figured out how to get the images viewable here without the use of links. I'm gona pop up another post soon with pictures rather then long wording of what I think and how I feel.
I think a lot of what you say I agree with. Photography should be about fun and enjoying imaging the environment. It becomes a little different though when you are trying to image specific things. Having a manual lens or ill performing AF can get frustrating very quickly for imaging wildlife and sports. Especially if your in-focus rate is really low.
Walk-about photography is different though and then it's just about having a camera there in order to grab the shot. When I got my Samsung Ultra cell with 4x cameras, I initially tried it in the garden. Overall the image quality was good but for some reason it couldn't render my fence well and kept doing strange things with the AI processing which you can't turn off.
That drove me nuts as it was not an accurate representation of the wood at all.
In contrast though, I went travelling with an old Nokia N95 phone with Zeiss optics. In bright conditions it actually worked pretty well and I ended up with some nice shots with it. Sure my Pentax could have done better and especially adding a few grad filters and CPL would have helped even more.
With my Sony Cybershot (we are talking 20 years ago here), as a walkabout camera it was nice... what it failed at though was that it wasn't wide enough in some circumstances and not long enough at the top end in other circumstances. I didn't have a tripod at that time either so night time shots were spoiled by heavy motion blur.
Gota shoot now, as we have a clear sky so gona try imaging Andromeda M31, using the D500 and Sigma 105mm macro. No tracking mount so will try 2s sub frames and see where that gets me, provided I can nail the subject in the first place as light pollution is a nightmare in the center of the city.