Photographers Are Tired of Big Cameras

On June 11th, PetaPixel published a post entitled Photographers Are Tired of Big Cameras by Jaron Schneider, which had an intriguing premise but fell a bit flat on delivery. This article is my attempt to fix that. This is perhaps what Jaron should have said. While sitting at a train station in Osaka, Japan, Chris Niccolls stated, “I’m thinking of buying a new camera.” This might seem extremely innocuous, a common phrase uttered by most photographers as frequently as trains depart the Osaka station; however, coming from Chris, this was nothing short of shocking. You see, as a camera reviewer, Chris is constantly using new gear. Each week he has a different camera in his hands. Since 2009, when Chris and Jordan Drake began making videos for The Camera Store TV on YouTube, he has used pretty much every model released from every brand. But he very rarely buys them. It’s highly unusual for Chris to be in the market for a new camera. For the last few years, he has been carrying a Sony a7R…