I’m a child of the DSLR era. Back in 2009, when I truly decided to make photography my career, if you wanted to be taken seriously as a digital pro, you had to have your eyes set on a high-end DSLR camera. My first love (creatively speaking) was a Nikon D80, then a Canon EOS 40D, at the time considered to be amongst the best DSLRs available, at least for enthusiasts.
However, it was the likes of the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III and the Nikon D3 – the photographic equivalents of Concorde – that most aspiring professionals sought to own. These monster cameras were often as useful for weight training as for photography, and they looked as powerful as they did expensive.
