Knives and Cameras ....

The bad luck camera: Voightlander Vitessa

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I've had two, both inop.
First one wouldn't fire. I thought I could fix it, but alas not.
This one arrived with part of the prism rattling around in the body.
The Skopar is nice, but the Ultron f2 is supposed to be better.
The search continues...
 
Always like smaller cameras and larger knives :)

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Unfortunately, I no longer have any of my older cameras. Just the modern stuff, and decreasing as down-sizing continues.

For the coming week, my X100F (again) as my usual daily walk-around camera unless I need something else. Alox Cadet on helper duty, Boker Barlow Expedition as pocket slicer. These little Boker Expeditions have really hit "that" spot for me, I find myself reaching for one most weeks now.
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I'm really loving this thread. As a newbie into the world of cameras, does anyone have any recommendations on a good starter or entry level option that can help get a foot in the door of the entire hobby? I'm sure like with everything there are many factors that go into this but anything would help as I literally know nothing lol Awesome pics from everyone as well! (Obviously)
 
RyanSean97 said:
I'm really loving this thread. As a newbie into the world of cameras, does anyone have any recommendations on a good starter or entry level option that can help get a foot in the door of the entire hobby? I'm sure like with everything there are many factors that go into this but anything would help as I literally know nothing lol Awesome pics from everyone as well! (Obviously)
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digital or film?
 
RyanSean97 said:
I'm really loving this thread. As a newbie into the world of cameras, does anyone have any recommendations on a good starter or entry level option that can help get a foot in the door of the entire hobby? I'm sure like with everything there are many factors that go into this but anything would help as I literally know nothing lol Awesome pics from everyone as well! (Obviously)
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Just like with knives, depends on your budget and what you want to do with it. Assuming digital, if you like people photos and landscapes, the several versions of the Fuji X100 in this thread are a great choice, IMO.
 
Most likely digital for now, I'm assuming it's a bit more user friendly and easier to get the hang of as far as playing around and editing with. Then again, I know nothing so I'm not totally sure if that is accurate lol. Budget wouldn't be too big of an issue if I could get one that is approved of by you guys. I'm not sure if it exists but is there any sort of good "all around" option for general photo taking? I don't have a specific type of use in mind, just wanting to have fun and play around with it at first until I can get used to everything. I've heard from a few people that Nikon is high on the list. I see quite a few others here too though that I have heard of so I'm excited to get to looking.
 
My take:
it's not the camera. It's your eyeball. Get on a photo app (I'm on Flickr, link at the beginning of thread) and look at as many pics as you can. Decide what kind of photography appeals to you and work on that. That will help determine your gear.
For example a portrait photographer has different stuff compared to a landscape photographer. If just taking pics of knives, etc. your lenses are different again.
I've been out of digital for a while, but I think what's important is not the camera, but the glass. Make sure whatever brand you get has good lenses.
The cheaper DSLRs from Canon or Nikon are great starter cameras with decent packaged glass. Either way you want a camera that can go full manual so you can learn the exposure triangle: aperture, shutter and ISO. Learn this and you will be good to go. Well after you get composition.
It's not the camera, it's what YOU see through the viewfinder and how you manipulate the camera to create your vision.
Oh and lastly, get some good software. I use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop occasionally.
If you don't shoot film, at least you can make your digital look like film!

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couple of more things:
get a camera that shoots RAW. With RAW the corrections you can make are more extreme than a JPEG. JPEGs are already compressed and RAW is like a digital negative.
Don't use Lightroom/PS to make a bad picture good, use LR/PS to make a good picture great.
In other words, learn to get it right in camera.

Good to go to like a BestBuy and test them all out, see what works for you. I shoot Nikon, but could have easily gone Canon or Fuji. I was just more familiar with Nikon's menu system.
 
jideta said:
My take:
it's not the camera. It's your eyeball. Get on a photo app (I'm on Flickr, link at the beginning of thread) and look at as many pics as you can. Decide what kind of photography appeals to you and work on that. That will help determine your gear.
For example a portrait photographer has different stuff compared to a landscape photographer. If just taking pics of knives, etc. your lenses are different again.
I've been out of digital for a while, but I think what's important is not the camera, but the glass. Make sure whatever brand you get has good lenses.
The cheaper DSLRs from Canon or Nikon are great starter cameras with decent packaged glass. Either way you want a camera that can go full manual so you can learn the exposure triangle: aperture, shutter and ISO. Learn this and you will be good to go. Well after you get composition.
It's not the camera, it's what YOU see through the viewfinder and how you manipulate the camera to create your vision.
Oh and lastly, get some good software. I use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop occasionally.
If you don't shoot film, at least you can make your digital look like film!

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Awesome stuff!! Thanks so much for the tips. I'm definitely gonna be spending a lot of time looking and reading before making any kind of decision. The whole artform of photography has always appealed to me and just recently I found myself wanting to get in and create these amazing shots and scenes I see in so many great photographs. Super excited for this mini journey
 
Famous photo dude Andre Cartier Bresson said and I paraphrase: your first 10,000 are your worst.
What he's saying is that it takes a while to develop your eye and understand the camera.
I agree as it took me about a year and 15,000 shots of all kinds of stuff to really understand what I was doing. Most folks who get a photography itch don't stay with it long enough to fully develop the skills and hit the next level. Photography is a highly technical game until you learn it and it becomes second nature. Hitting that next level is really where the fun begins! Like any creative hobby, you need to learn the technical side to make the greatest use of your creativity.
Have fun and don't get discouraged. It will come!

Last one:

Wisner 4x5 field camera
for goofing around this summer...

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I really believe that, and it makes complete sense honestly. Something as amazing as a frozen moment in time should require some sort of skill and understanding to make the most of it. It's really something and I hope to get to that point one day. I really really enjoy your pictures as well, they're very well executed!
 
Eddie Adams said it best and I paraphrase again: photography is something that in 1/500 of a second you can change history. He was talking about his Pulitzer Prize photo of the Vietcong execution in 1969?

thanks for the nice words but I consider most of my pics here snapshots.
As opposed to carefully set up photographs done for dramatic effect:

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don't forget to have fun!
 
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