I started with SLR's in high school photography and loved how you could see just what the camera was doing. Using the Pentax K1000 with a 50mm 2.0 lens (at the time was a super cheap combo kit) just inspired me to really learn more about photography. When I moved to DSLR's later, it was even better, I could now see the images and taken nearly endless amount photos.

But I started to get bogged down trying to take a full bag of lenses and large DSLR to social events or traveling. I found that I was spending more time behind the lens with the technical side vs spending time capturing the moment. Sold off my kit and went with a Fuji X100T, fixed length compact camera. It's not great for action but worked wonderfully capturing the kids and with the fully silent mode, very well for weddings.

Once my phone camera quality started to approach my camera, I stopped using the Fuji as much and followed the rule of "the best camera you have is the one you carry". While I love having that dedicated camera, just having the live cloud backup, apps to edit, made my next decision to be an upgraded phone over a camera. It's hard to hear the news about Canon especially, the 70-200mm F/2.8 IS lens is simply amazing and I rented a 85mm f/1.2 which is the lens for portraits.