{"id":294334,"date":"2021-01-03T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=294334"},"modified":"2021-01-03T14:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:28:32","slug":"why-specialized-tools-are-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/03\/why-specialized-tools-are-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Specialized Tools are Best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently got an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all in one\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Black + Decker oventop baker, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153air fryer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, toaster and oven and learned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>None of it works that well. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare this to this funny \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nuwave \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcInfared oven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cindy and I got which actually works very well. Super simple \u00e2\u20ac\u201d one function (to cook stuff), super simple buttons and controls, and it just works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which makes me think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Perhaps the best tools are specialized tools. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, iPhone Pro is great for photography but ultimately if your goal is to maximize your photography, RICOH GR III is perhaps 20x better. Why? The Ricoh has only one function \u00e2\u20ac\u201d make photos, and all the functionality is optimized towards that\u00e2\u20ac\u201d fits well in your hand, compact, lightweight, great high ISO performance, etc. Whereas the iPhone needs to do a lot of stuff \u00e2\u20ac\u201d make phone calls, text message, play games, operate apps, use as GPS, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus the takeaway is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get suckered by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all in one\u00e2\u20ac\u009d solutions and tools \u00e2\u20ac\u201d there will always be a compromise somewhere. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently got an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all in one\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Black + Decker oventop baker, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153air fryer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, toaster and oven and learned: None of it works that well. Compare this to this funny \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nuwave \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcInfared oven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cindy and I got which actually works very well. Super simple \u00e2\u20ac\u201d one function (to cook stuff), super simple buttons and controls, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BE27449F-C06A-41A1-A67D-FC28918D4D93.jpeg?fit=1242%2C1863&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294339,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294334\/revisions\/294339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}