Hello everyone.
This looks like a friendly place to hang out! Have read some really useful info here and have been inspired from everyones work.
Over the last couple of years I've discovered that I enjoy taking and sharing photos.
I started with a MFT Panny G1, when that broke I bought a G2, then got given a G3 but didn't like the grip. I played around with bird photography and digiscoping for a bit but got fed up with lugging kit.
I started cycling to work and realised that I never wanted to take my camera with me because it was too awkward to carry. I thought about just using my smartphone but just couldn't get excited about it so I bought a Sony hx50 compact and Evf.
I really don't like having a separate evf. Twice I've nearly lost and I can't relax and use the camera because I'm paranoid about the evf dropping off (it's slid out half way occasionally). I also find it inconvenient to get the evf from the secure pocket in my man bag and out it on.
Have been blown away by the Ricoh GR images and am now contemplating selling what I've got now and getting one.
I'm massage therapist and haptics are really important to me. I really want something responsive that also gives me the opportunity to develop my photography skills.
I'm looking at taking pics for my work blog, for family get together, travel photography and for landscapes when I go cycling. I love the unobtrusiveness of some of the new 'serious' compacts coming out that have amazing image quality.
I feel like this is a really exciting time for camera technology and that it is progressing so quickly, sometimes it's hard to keep up.
Would love to do nature photography more seriously but spending thousands on glass just isn't an option for me at the moment.
I'm working in London, England several days a week and I'm hoping that photography will help me appreciate being in the city more.
I've only discovered a couple of downsides I can see so far in all this. The time I've spent reading reviews, blogs and forums online. Seriously I've spent more time reading about photography in the last year than I did spend doing my uni dissertation. The second issue is the kit acquisition desire syndrome. So I've made a contract with myself that I can only have one camera at a time from now on! It's gonna be tough!
James
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This looks like a friendly place to hang out! Have read some really useful info here and have been inspired from everyones work.
Over the last couple of years I've discovered that I enjoy taking and sharing photos.
I started with a MFT Panny G1, when that broke I bought a G2, then got given a G3 but didn't like the grip. I played around with bird photography and digiscoping for a bit but got fed up with lugging kit.
I started cycling to work and realised that I never wanted to take my camera with me because it was too awkward to carry. I thought about just using my smartphone but just couldn't get excited about it so I bought a Sony hx50 compact and Evf.
I really don't like having a separate evf. Twice I've nearly lost and I can't relax and use the camera because I'm paranoid about the evf dropping off (it's slid out half way occasionally). I also find it inconvenient to get the evf from the secure pocket in my man bag and out it on.
Have been blown away by the Ricoh GR images and am now contemplating selling what I've got now and getting one.
I'm massage therapist and haptics are really important to me. I really want something responsive that also gives me the opportunity to develop my photography skills.
I'm looking at taking pics for my work blog, for family get together, travel photography and for landscapes when I go cycling. I love the unobtrusiveness of some of the new 'serious' compacts coming out that have amazing image quality.
I feel like this is a really exciting time for camera technology and that it is progressing so quickly, sometimes it's hard to keep up.
Would love to do nature photography more seriously but spending thousands on glass just isn't an option for me at the moment.
I'm working in London, England several days a week and I'm hoping that photography will help me appreciate being in the city more.
I've only discovered a couple of downsides I can see so far in all this. The time I've spent reading reviews, blogs and forums online. Seriously I've spent more time reading about photography in the last year than I did spend doing my uni dissertation. The second issue is the kit acquisition desire syndrome. So I've made a contract with myself that I can only have one camera at a time from now on! It's gonna be tough!
James
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