cameras guys please help

[Mister Ed]

I buy older camera equipment with older lenses.

I'm in the Sony Ecosystem, so I picked up a sony A7II with several lenses for the price of just your camera body

 

[Fuzzywuzzies]

I buy older camera equipment with older lenses.

I'm in the Sony Ecosystem, so I picked up a sony A7II with several lenses for the price of just your camera body

A great camera! And usually pretty good glass too.
That's the way, I reckon. "Old" DSLRs are seriously underrated, and ton of fun too.

Have you tried your hand at light painting with a good torch...?

 

[bykfixer]

I buy older camera equipment with older lenses.

I'm in the Sony Ecosystem, so I picked up a sony A7II with several lenses for the price of just your camera body

I had some Cybershot cameras before my first Nikon DSLR. Good cameras but by the time their DSLR's arrived I was heavily invested in Nikon gear.

I'm a Nikon guy but have not spent a penny on their digi-cams or point and shoot. They never figured out how to make one as good as Canon, Fuji, Panasonic or Sony.

The DSLR's with in body shake reduction make it possible to use old non computer lenses you can buy cheap and often have better glass than the new gizmo, plastic body ones.

My first actual digital camera was made by Hewlett Packard. They were killing the competition for point and shoot for a little while, and they were inexpensive.

 

[raggie33]

bykfixer its weird how a samsung phone can have 10x opitical zoom when u dont eve see the elens extend

 

[alpg88]

Phones do not have optical zooms, at least vast majority of them it is all digital, some phones have several lenses with different magnification. but not variable focus lens, there is no room for that, they just have much better processors now, so picture doesn't look grainy as in old cameras, My i phone 12 has 2 lenses, when I use "zoom" I can see how picture quality deteriorates.

 

[Burgess]

Been active Photographer for 52 Years now.
Even set up a Darkroom in my basement,
back in the old Film days !

Digital is *SO* much better !

My Canon EOS R5 camera is AMAZING.
Wish I could've had it way back
when I first Started !

Yes, I agree --
Good camera equipment is Expen$ive.

But this is the ONLY bad habit i have.

 

[alpg88]

I had a darkroom when i was a kid, It was the only time when my parents would not tell me "do your homework" , cuz they could not open the door. so I spend as much time as I could there. I only did B/W photos, color was too complicated and expensive. I still have several old film cameras, I have one that is ultra rare, with a spring winding mechanism that was good for 7 shots as fast as you can press the button. still works properly,

 

[raggie33]

digital rocks i can try stuff with no film wasted. i shoot shuterless to save my shutterlife but wish it would make a fake clcik when i took pics

 

[Fuzzywuzzies]

bykfixer its weird how a samsung phone can have 10x opitical zoom when u dont eve see the elens extend

That's another "fake" thing unfortunately, Raggie. It's usually a small amount of actual zoom (by moving internal parts of the lens or switching to the longer lens), and then a lot of "digital zoom". That's basically the same as pinch-and-zoom on an existing photo, but with some digital "enhancement" thrown in. I strongly dislike it.

They're basically just using the massively excessive resolution (megapixels) to crop the photo.