»Some Things don’t make Sense«

In the good old days, there were one or two cameras from one manufacturer. Canon, Nikon, Leica, ... +2, three other manufacturers. Then it became more and more and more. Today, there are a dozen different camera models from one manufacturer. All of which can do the same thing, so to speak. Which, all in all, deliver the same thing.

If four instead of 12 frames per second are enough for you, if your focus is not on previewing the image on a touch display - the marginal differences are hardly worth mentioning in the end.

Does a photographer recognize these differences in the finished image? Maybe. If by hook or by crook, he's looking for differences. Or (ridiculous) “pixel peeping”. But maybe not. 

99% of people don't see it. 

We follow this market. We keep an eye out for rumors. We're as curious as a bow when the new model finally (!) comes onto the market. And think to ourselves, this camera is now tailored to us. That's what we've been waiting for. But in the end, we don't take better photos as a result. In the end, only the camera manufacturer wins - and the market. The system. 

In the meantime, I can no longer understand a lot of things in photography. Among other things, that people buy the very latest cameras with the highest resolution sensors, which display the motifs completely digitally (almost artificially) - and then put a filter over them to give them as nostalgic a look as possible.

With grain.

Why is that?

Feels to me like buying a modern new car to put the engine of a 1972 VW Beetle in it. 

Some things just don't make sense.