This is how DSLR users look in 2017 according to some guy on Craigslist
Mar 15, 2017
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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You know, it’s funny. The only people who seem to care what DSLR users look like are the people who no longer use DSLRs. Most users aren’t so publicly vocal about it as a particular user on Craigslist. This was spotted by our buddy Mitch over at Planet5D on Facebook. When looking a little deeper into things, he discovered the listing was on his own town’s Craigslist.
It’s quite an amusing little rant to go on. Why he thinks DSLR users really care, I’m not so sure. Perhaps he switched to something else that he wasn’t happy with, and is simply trying to justify his own buying decisions. Who knows?
The listing has since been removed from Craigslist. It reads…
The basic body style of the dslr has been around for 30 years now looks like a Star Wars design for a star fighter…..
Every one of them looks like every other one of them……black and star fighter shaped only a small brand label separates them
Big Giant Bulky Heavy Black Molded Black Plastic Hanging from your Neck – Makes you look so 80’s
Little old ladies over 80, that’s who it impresses
Look up the Canon EOS 620, 650, and 630? They are the root evil of the design that won’t go away!!!!!!!! Everything dslr you see today is just a clone from the 80’s Canon design that later spawned the EOS 1…… 30 YEARS IS ENOUGH
Just a word, SO….wearing a huge ass dslr around your neck does not “dress” you for any part, real or imagined … it makes you appear like a walking Canon ad from the 80’s in reality……
It’s time to bury the dslr, it’s ran the course and served the purpose for 30 years now and frankly I’m fed up with the look/style so it’s time to notify you….the person perpetuating this tired, worn out, and so mundane style ….. bury the DSLR, put it down on the ground and walk away….walk away with a better self-esteem knowing you have broken yourself from a 80’s marketing hype that has locked your brain …. wake up to 2017
The new icon for photography is anything but a black, molded plastic, streamlined, and capable of space travel look created by Canon in the 80’s ….???
OK?
He also attached several well known memes to illustrate his point.
I’m not sure what might have pushed this guy over the edge, and cause him to go on such a rant. Nor do I have any clue why he thinks we’re trying to impress anybody with how our camera looks. He does seem to have something against Canon, though.
But, he’s fed up with the look and style of them, so it’s time to notify us, apparently. Consider us notified – and not really giving a hoot what you think.
[via Planet5D]
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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25 responses to “This is how DSLR users look in 2017 according to some guy on Craigslist”
hook line and sinker… I’m not sure if you don’t really give a hoot if you need to write an entire article about it. xD
Exactly. Here is a whole article about something that nobody cares about?
Just what I was about to say
I personally don’t think professional photographers care what this person thinks, or how they look.
Its a tool to get the job done not a fashion accessory
exactly
No doubt an iPad photographer!
truth
Literally every other word is “style”. This was written by a guy who doesn’t give one single rip about photos. lol
Just wants no one to use an SLR so his crappy cell phone photos won’t look so bad.
He needs to work out to be able to lift a DSLR. Poor chap! :)
Form follows function. The lens is made to capture light, the camera is made to fit a sensor to the lens. Sorry bud, but the laws of physics are never going to change.
…sad, it’s usually boys with small members that do this sort of thing.
I think his whole point is there’s mirrorless cameras that are much smaller now that do the same thing, if not better, than DSLRs.
The hammer shape has not changed for centuries… each of them looks like any other of them :P
He does make some valid points about what looks like stagnation in the design of camera bodies. You also have to consider that smartphones are rapidly catching up to entry level DSLRs in terms of features and performance at an effective fraction of the cost and size.
You need to start pricing phones that aren’t part of a two-year contract.
An iPhone 7 by itself costs $750. (For the 128GB model)
Canon is currently offering the T6 with 2 lenses for $550. (And ironically enough, it’s gray not black.)
Pentax, Nikon and Sony all offer cameras that are under the true cost of an iPhone 7, it’s just that the cost of the phone is stretched out over the contract period and is hidden from the consumer.
Then there’s sensor size.
The typical phone camera has a 1/2.3″ sensor. That’s a sensor that has an area of 30 square mm.
An APS-C sensor is 370 square mm.
The problem is that larger sensors tend to interfere with the ability of the phone to function as a phone. (They have to be made thicker which adds weight and makes them harder to carry.)
I’ll keep that in mind the next time I’m hauling my Fuji GX680 with Hassy back down the street in my kids’ wagon.
This has millennial written all over it.
Honestly, it’s probably a photographer who’s not cutting it in business and is losing jobs to “guys with a camera.”
The only thing you really need to know about the person that posted this is that they have no idea about why DSLR cameras have the “style” they have.
It’s largely an example of form following function. The SLR started in the 1930’s and has evolved over the last next 60 years to a shape similar to the one used by modern DSLR cameras. That shape proved to be the nest shape given the SLR camera’s purpose: to produce the best photographic images possible in a portable camera.
35mm film was chosen because that was large enough to produce usable prints abut was still small enough for a portable camera. That set the size of the camera.
The mirror was added to allow photographers to actually see what they were shooting., This set the depth of the camera.
Combined, those factors controlled lens design.
Ergonomics lead to the addition of a grip.
There are reasons for DSLR cameras to keep the design beyond “tradition”. That grip happens to be a very convenient place to stash the large battery needed to meet a DSLR camera’s power demands as well as the memory card, and it makes the camera more comfortable to hold.
Yes, you can alter the design especially if you eliminate the mirror.
But even mirrorless cameras tend to look similar because it’s the most convenient shape for a camera to have.
“… like a Star Wars design for a star fighter…..”
Well I think the x-wing and Tie interceptors from Star Wars are some of the coolest spaceships sci-fi has done ever LOL…
Very very immature article, may be, by a totally ignorant one, who have no idea what a DSLR is!
Can we say trolls? John, you are a sucker for even reading that CL post…lol.
Why even bother sharing this kind of drivel?
Keeps saying Canon and none of the photos are Canon. Most are Nikon. This seems a sad attempt for recognition and that said, the lens is not DSLR which is Digital Single Lens Reflex and not huge at all as it’s just the body. Sad.