Camera's
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- SkyPoo0
Buy whatever you can afford and then craft a style that is personal and unique to you that takes advantage of the limitations of your chosen equipment. The quest for ever more lenses, bodies, and add-ons is a foolhardy attempt to buy creativity... unless you are a pro photographer of course and need to be able to do lots of stuff.
I always bang on and on about my RD1 on here, but really every time I spend some time with that camera I love it more and more. I have one lens for it, a Leica 50mm. There's no zoom, no automatic anything, its a digital camera but I have to wind it on to cock the mechanical shutter, I have to set aperture and focus manually in the traditional way, so really I'm very limited. When I picked it up on holiday last week it was the first time I'd used it in many months. For a couple of days the shots were pish, then I got into step with my equipment and started working to exploit it and the shots just got better and better.
Very long post. Apologies, I just think the pleasure comes from not collecting loads of stuff that gives youtoo many options, but finding out how to work with the basics you will have with a single fuss free camera.