If you, like many of our fellow photographers, are wondering which camera is the best, you ask the wrong question.
The brandnames are the least important. What is important is how you make the best out of a camera. If the metering had been left to the automatic pilot, the camera would have come up with images totally different from the ones posted here today. Since a camera sees the world in an average grey tone, the images would have turned out either with unpleasingly bright areas in the background or with extremely dark tones in the foreground.
I primarily go on full manual with my GX200. For the scene of these photos, I exposed the image for the background and dial up one step to faithfuly recreate the brightness of the background while lightening up the dark foreground a wee bit (so that the first few flights of stairs are not reduced to pitch black).
So, any photographer should be obliged to train up not only his/ her eye for good shots but also the ability to utilise any camera. In a word, make your camera part of your intuition. Then you will own the best camera on earth.
Then, bring your camera with you to take photos for different scenes, escpecially in unfamiliar situations when you should take more shots for practice. Through these endeavours, you will develop your own style and vision. With your photographic skills growing, your eye becoming trained and your camera being in one with you, you are ready to foresee the decisive moments. That will be very close to, if not already, what a great photographer is expecte to be.
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