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Photography and Cameras

This is going to be one of those scatter-shot ones.

  • I shoot Canon because I started with Canon. That's how they get ya.

  • Sony has some of the best hardware attached to the worst interfaces.

  • Fuji and other color science focused brands tend to take better photos on "lesser" hardware.

  • Leica is our god, but no one knows why

  • RED for video stuff, but no one can afford it

  • Does Nikon even exist anymore?

  • The best camera is the one you have with you

  • Gear doesn't matter, and you can be good with literally anything

  • For my money: I'd buy a cheap, small, light body and expensive, good lenses instead of the opposite.

  • Prime lenses will have better quality with less glass but don't zoom in and out

  • Moving your body is better than zooming anyway

  • The Sigma ART series is half the price and outperforms the pricey Canon equivalents

  • Peak Design makes the best strap(s)

  • You should get a strap that doesn't kill your neck. It's a cheap win for anyone carrying kilos of glass

  • Hard cases look cool and make you feel like an operator, but are mostly inconvenient. Get a backpack

  • Filters (like, physical lens screw on ones) are both over and under rated

  • Filters (like, the Snapseed digital editing kind) can do more magic than any money on hardware buys

  • Since all this crap is going on instagram anyway, megapixels are useless and a scam

  • In fact, less megapixels might lead to better low-light quality because of sensor size constraints

  • On the whole, DSLRs are over built and basically indestructible. abuse them

  • F-stop / real bokeh is really the only reason you'd still use a DSLR over a phone camera. seriously.

  • Learning the relationship between ISO / F-stop / shutter speed was essential with film, less so now

  • Turn all beeps, boops and focus confirms off. Silent shutter if you have one.

  • All you need is one auto-focus point in the middle. Half-click to focus then rotate to frame the shot

  • No matter what they tell you, digital viewfinders are still Pretty Laggy

  • Photography is perhaps the most approachable art today; ignore pretentious old-timers

  • My personal rule is "if this shot already exists on instagram, I don't need to also take it" But also:

  • Just do whatever you want. Like, seriously? Who even cares. Press a button, take a photo, share it

  • The truth is, you probably won't be unique. There's just too many photos out there statistically to make your thing truly world-breaking, and that's totally fine too. Shoot the hipster crap you love

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