Meld the Skill with the Equipment
In answer to the question of photographer or equipment; I believe it requires the melding of the photographers education, training, skill, and desire with that of the equipment photographer selects. The photographer has created that particular mental vision and then attempts to impart that vision upon his selected media method. In times past, photography required a camera device to capture/create a document, now software can compile and create photographic compositions in multiple media methods.
Will equipment, create better images? It depends upon what the mental vision of the photographer/ creator is. As DPS has written about numerous photographic methods of photography; Holga, Pinhole, large format, etc.. For as many photographers as there are in the world, I think that is the amount of styles of photography. And that is not taking into account those that create photography on a computer or without any camera or recording equipment.
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