Me: I am planning to buy a DSLR, it captures amazing photos
Him: Why DSLR, whats wrong with the normal point and shoot camera?
Me: DSLR clicks good photos and that's what everyone seems to have these days
Him: Don't buy DSLR for that reason...buy only if a normal point and shoot camera is restricting you from capturing the kind of photos you want, that is, if point and shoot camera can do everything you want, why go for a DSLR?
We want what's best in the market but the question is, do we really need it?. A lot of us like photography and we want to click really beautiful snaps; now that shouldn't push you to buy a DSLR, because you can click great photos with a point and shoot camera...forget that, you can click great photos with your iPhone. We should think about what is it that we can't do with an iPhone that we really want to do and that a DSLR can? if you have a good answer for that, a DSLR is a superb purchase..just go buy it.
In general, we don't necessarily have to buy what's best in the market. Think about what is it that you want to do and what is the best for doing *just* that. It is like hiring a CEO of one big shot company for a customer care job, just because he is the best sales men of the company. It doesn't make sense, does it?. Decide what you need and then decide what's the best for those needs...the best in the market can do everything, but you may not be able to do everything it allows you to do...a lot of us waste a lot of money by pursuing things that are the best in the market simply because they are the best.
Now go on and click snaps with you phone...you will surprise yourself when you see the kind of potential you have in photography.
