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Even if you can’t face going out to do street stuff, there’s a stack of other things you could do. Portraits or still life indoors, macros of bugs or flowers in the garden, landscapes, architecture, cityscapes. A mate of mine has minor social phobia and mostly just takes pictures of trees, but he produces some amazing stuff.
Just do it!
Seems even windier this morning. But it's chucking it down too, so I don't really feel like going to the beach again.
I'm quite competent now, but if I look back through 8 years of flickr it's amazing to see how much I've got better.
These were the first photos I took that made me feel like I enjoyed it, and I might be able to get half-decent at it. They're just snaps really, and there's plenty "wrong" with both.
This was 4 years ago. I was ecstatic when I got this shot, but can see about 10 ways I'd do it differently now.
Right up to these, which were both taken in the last year. In both cases I knew exactly how I wanted the final shot to look before I hit the shutter, so only needed to wait for the right moment, and the post-processing took maybe 30 seconds for each one.
Iceland makes it easy because sunsets are always gorgeous (assuming not during a blizzard!) and in winter they last, like 2 hours every day...
Alternative is to look for an old pentax and nikon film camera but these (in good nick) are not as affordable as you'd think, and I like the digital darkroom process more than the darkroom itself ..
I already have an fd camera I'm afraid - a Canon EF (which confuses people...). However you have just reminded me I have it so perhaps I can dig it out and get an adaptall-fd mount adapter...
They are good cameras, I used to have a squeaky ae-1p and it was ace
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_camera ;
With that said, I value my digital process a lot... Anyone with A7 input welcome! They are available for less than £500 now - I could trade a lens and grip for one...
As regards 35mm film cameras I still have a few Nikon's from the 80s but have not used them for probably ten years or more. I enjoyed doing all my own B&W developing and printing HOWEVER, @zepp76, I agree with others here that just getting out with your digital camera is much better at this stage than getting bogged down with equipment and technicalities. Street photography of people isn't an easy starting place but perhaps initially concentrate on making everyday details in streets look interesting and also recruit some friends to practice on. Then you will see the effects of different shutter speeds and apertures and different lens focal lengths.
A7iii is an altogether different beast - more of a replacement of my D7200, but I'd not have the money to replace the lenses I use...
And it's a 2k body so even used it's double the a7ii in price
Have you used adapted lenses? I do need a mega quick af, but I have that down to moonlight on the Nikon... The Sony is more for fun day-to-day creativity. I'd love an a7iii but it's out of reach, and the new nikon z6 is the same...
Have you tried the earlier models? Any thoughts appreciated!
i have had my hands on both the A7 and A7II. Both were great, genuinely.
Cool. I think I might do a trade for an a7. I'm not going to use autofocus lenses on it but it'll get me taking more pictures... And if I really love it, maybe it's the start of something new.
Thanks!
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Definitely don't want an a7rii - I have a pretty powerful computer but 42mp raws will be a pain the arse to process. If I was looking at a7rii money is probably save a bit more and get a7iii.
I have borrowed an a7rii before and it was pretty good, and eye af was neat, but the sheer number of pixels was wasted on me - I only print up to about 1 metre max (and rarely) and you can get very good 1m prints with 10mp and good editing.
If I had the sheer horsepower in my computer I'd probably consider it more
A couple of Fuji XT-2’s and a few lenses.
Hopefully that never becomes necessary though as I much prefer making money from photographers now!