It's one of those days — and I have decided that I want to get into photography.

now mind you, I don't even have a single clue about photography, I don't even know what the average price of a good camera might be.

so take this post as an invitation to write a rant or an effortpost about cameras, literally anything on your mind regarding this topic, i'm content enough with learning anything about it.

edit: you can also just recommend me a video or something if you'd like

  • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    As someone who got into amateur photography about a year ago, I decided to buy a DSLR rather than a mirrorless camera in the hopes that the older technology would become cheaper than the hot new stuff.

    No idea if it's come true.

    I got the Nikon D3500 and pretty quickly started shopping around for lenses. I'd recommend getting a camera and kit lens and then experimenting and seeing what you like and what you'd like to do better. I pretty quickly fell in love with a tiny depth of field with lots of bokeh, so I bought a fuckhuge old lens with an aperture of 2.4. Eventually I got rid of that because it wasn't compatible with my camera's autofocus, and now I exclusively use two lenses: a 18-200mm lens for almost everything and then a 200-500mm lens for stuff in the distance (mostly wildlife).

    Tony and Chelsea Northrup are my favorite photography YouTubers. They get into a lot of technical information (though in my experience, not overly technical), while others like Nigel Danson focus more on their own photography.

    Here's an explanation of the technical details of how cameras work.