It’s a pretty common topic in technology-circles these days to “what is a photo”…

With AI, computational photography, and just outright opinions being expressed creatively at the device level, the answer to that question has never been more up for grabs… 

But in this week’s episode, we’re getting way down beneath that question to the types of photos take far less often than the ones you’re endlessly scrolling past on Instagram…

Yep, I’m talking about photos taken on an actual, purpose-built, Camera… 

No, not the camera on your smartphone or the app on your Lock Screen, but the  dusty hunk of metal, glass, and plastic taking up space on your shelf assuming you’ve even owned one in the last decade..

So, in true Solid Station fashion, we set out to get hands-on with a couple rather exceptional examples of these f-stop laden gadgets to see what we might all be missing out on by relying too heavily on the camera you always have with you versus the one you should have brought all along…