Canon S-120 versus Canon G7X

On 23/05/2016 12:42, Me wrote:
On 23/05/2016 09:06, newshound wrote:

But of course it is really the photographer who takes the picture, not
the camera. It's easy to get too obsessed with the "tech".

While I generally agree with that, and it's often quoted as if it was a
law or absolute, it also irks me somewhat with regard to what I actually
see:
What I see now is photos in magazines (not photographic magazines - I
don't read them much), some of which are marvelous not just in context
of composition etc, but they would not have been technically possible to
achieve until recently, low/natural light, high-speed etc.
Hit the send button too early by accident there. I blame damned "tech".

I'd also comment that among the cat photos, posed selfies, and portrait
format video posts I get to cringe at on facebook, the typical quality
of other photos posted by people using cellphones, taken probably having
no understanding of the "tech" beyond setting a scene mode or some
automatic post-processing, the average photo quality seems vastly better
than many old photo albums I've see. An exception being the very old
albums taken when people got dressed up to go to town for a formal
session with the local photographer. However many of the posted photos
on FB etc are not "formal", but candid records of the times. They're
very dependent on use of "tech" and the photos have got better as that
tech has improved.