Entry level cameras can do the work for a professional

A debate on threads after i posted:

Cameras can teach you more? Yes, I am a proof of that. But with time you will learn that a Photographer with capital P will be able to produce great work even with an entry level camera. I am a special case too: I work as professional with entry level cameras. And I love them for several reasons, by working often in unsafe places to the need to count with light and no hiding face behind a camera.

All over these years I always preferred to work with compact and light cameras. As I said it is a matter of where I live and the kind of photographs I make, especially in the barrios. That is why, the main reason, because photographing with expensive cameras (sometimes it happened for example I worked with the Fujifilm GFX in the barrio) doesn’t make me feel serene. Nothing happened to me in these years but I believe also because I feel myself serene and this affects the experience and so my body language. To work with light cameras even when I use DSLRs allow me to move me better and making my photos that are most of the time street and documemtary photos. While for clients, as commercial portraits my entry level DSLRs are good.

I am not a sport photographer in need of burst mode. My work is art and meditative, counting on single shot,

THE CAMERAS

DSLR cameras

Canon EOS Rebel T7 (released in 2018) used mostly for documentary, portraits, sometimes street photography

Canon EOS Rebel T3 (relesed in 2011) used mostly for documentary, portraits, rarely for street photography

Mirrorless cameras

Olympus Pen EP5 (released in 2013) used for street photography

Olympus Pen EPL2 (released in 2011) used for street photography

Canon EOS M200 (released in 2019) used mostly for videos

It is a no sense to consider almost unusable digital cameras just because today tech imposes the rush of megapizel and any kind of super features. It is like to say that photography older than 15 years is not good. I started as a professional exactly those years when my cameras were released. Through the Mexican photo magazine CUARTOSCURO I learned to love certain aesthetics that was proper of film or the digital cameras of those times. And I love to see how my cameras are deeply connected with a certain approach and aesthetics.

It is not the camera, it is the photographer, guys. And photography is not about the technique, is more about the emotions, how we are good to convey emotions in a image. I strongly believe that, and my photography reflects this way of thinking.