I'm a broke college grad trying to make a quick buck, I've never done photography before. What camera would I need to buy and how would I start getting clients?
>>4528062>What camera would I need to buyNGMI. You're gonna have a great gear thread though.
>>4528062dress up in a skin tight spandex suit and take pictures of yourself at strange angles and then sell it to an old guy who distributes it to the public at large.
>>4528062>I've never done photography beforeThen you don't belong here.Send your resume to KFC or McDonald's.Half-assed people like won't be able yo make money out of photography anyway.
>>4528062Real talk, the best way to make money with a camera in 2026 is to start a youtube channel. You can get monetized almost immediately if your content is interesting. Taking photos is not lucrative anymore now that everyone has a camera.
>>4528647surely the wedding industry is still overcharging newlyweds for everything including photos
Kodak Charmera kings rise up
Haven' tooken much since.
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Last superzoom compact camera models came out before COVID. Is there really no market anymore for these? Smartphones still cannot match that 720mm eq. tele end
>>4529674It is dogdoodoo, but a glowie might find it useful.
>>4529624this with bird ass hole af, hoooly
>>4529624tz99 and fz82 came out in 2025.
>>4530698>tz99literally the same camera as 2019 TZ95 but with the EVF removed and USB-C charging>fz82fair enough, should've specified I had cameras that fit in any pocket and weigh around 300 g in mind
Phone companies are trying to squeeze every last bit of potential out of their cameras while keeping them flat, thin, very light and performing a ton of other functions.Just imagine if camera manufacturers actually tried to match the current flagship camera-focused smartphones in terms of software. They could put an array of multiple sensors for different focal lengths and make the sensors bigger in the process. They could even make the cameras wider or slightly heavier in the process and it wouldn't matter as long as they still fit in every male pocket
>Be vintage gearfag>Own literally 10 of the same goddamn camera for no reason>Wonder why prices are going up while you keep hoarding>Maybe finally sell one or two many years later after much humming and hawing for 10x what you paid for it, minimum, no lowballers I know what I got!What causes this behaviour? How can we stop these autistic, selfish faggots from driving prices through the roof in literally every vintage market they touch? Why do they not want to share what they love with others? Do they realise that greed is a sin? Do they care? Do they even use their cameras to take photos?
>>4529142>Australia?100%
>>4529934you'd have to buy a truly absurd number of cameras to have an affect on the market
i have no interest in moreone good girl is worth a thousand bitches
>>4530120You're not the only hoarder on the planet.
>>4528479I don't even bother with high end stuff, I just buy old dinged up box cameras from thrift stores. I clean them up, polish the lenses, and do some fun snapshitting.It's honestly the most fun I've had with photography and my most expensive camera was only 10 euros. Cheaper than a roll of certain film.
Previous - >>4528802>Lord of Rings editionMelty prone dogphiles need not apply
>>4530306What do you mean? An m3 is like 1.5k on fleabay
>>4530349I mean new, not used.
>>4530269kys>>4530377It's a fashion accessory for rich people. What else do you need to know?
>>4530412"I can spend $7,000 on a camera" isn't really "I'M RICH"-tier these days, it's clueless normies buying these things not actual richfags. Just overpriced for no (practical) reason. I guess they get away with it because nobody else is actually making non-toy 35mm cameras in current year.
>>4530306Precision mechanics and high precision optics with high precision mechanics cost lots of money. Also high quality brand names also cost a lot of money plus prestigious luxury brands cost a lot of money.
The depth of field is related to two factors: 1) the size of the circle of confusion and 2) the pixel pitch on the sensor. the bigger the CoC the smaller the DoF. the smaller the PP the smaller the DoF.So, is it safe to say, that a FF sensor with 16um PP has the same DoF as a MFT sensor with 4um PP?
>>4530010Anon, this whole thread is a bait designed to turn into a gear thread. You are not following the narrative that leads to a gear discussion so OP is just bumping is thread with irrelevant chatter until someone does. Just report and move on.
>>4530010>t. nophoto Opinion ignored.
>>4529995>Get a technical camera. Used properly it can help you get everything in focus at lower f stop.This is true, now if OP wants it digital that's a hurdle he'll have to overcome.A good teaching tool would be a vintage lens with focus scale. In pic related, you have aperture lines showing where for each aperture focus starts. So if infinity focus is placed to the left of the right side line for your chosen aperture, the left side line of that aperture indicates where the stuff acceptably in focus starts. This is not exact and depends on how the lens was designed, but it's a good ballpark to start with.In this example, if shooting f/16 the stuff acceptably in focus is about 5m away, all the way to infinity and beyond (left side f/16 line falls between 4 and 6m). If infinity is placed at the right f/16 line, more stuff will be in focus but critical focus won't be at infinity anymore.
>>4529954shift-tilt lens?
>>4530008Yes, that is what life is like on the streets brother
>>4529969>>4529968>>4529966Get closer to whatever you're trying to capture. Fill the frame. Those photos have no clear subject and no composition.
Please rate. 0: uninteresting snapshit1: deeply flawed2: decent, interesting, cool3: striking image
>>4524204Thanks for the feedback and suggestions. I will see if it works out for me.>>4524209Thanks for the message but I don't agree with your criticism.>Are you making art for yourself or for others?Both. I like making it, and I like to share it.>If it's for yourself, why are you even asking what other people think? Caring about what other people think of your work doesn't mean you didn't do it for yourself.>There's a lot of research doubt Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4524291this post has revealed you are just too stupid to be helped.
>>4517956I like this one, it gives me big batman animated series vibes
>>4517952>Am I a talented photographer?Sure, why not. Those are all pretty nice but I think you should try to have some more variety in your photographs. Different kinds of subjects. Maybe some people or animals.
>>4529915Thanks, I think it's everyone's favorite, was not expecting it>>4529929Thanks, I was actually trying to have something more intentional like a series but I will hopefully soon post a thread that's very different, with black and white soft focus landscapes.
Hi /p/, visitor from /lit/ here. I know nothing about cameras but for years I've really liked looking at pictures. Shoutout Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Vivian Maier, Roger Ballen, Emmet Gowin, Stacy Kranitz, Bruce Gilden, Dawoud Bey, Tseng Kwong Chi, Saul Leiter, Frederick Sommer, Mario Giacomelli, Lucas Samaras, Nan Golding, the Japanese guy who took all those raven pictures, many others. They might be memes, I don't know, I just really like their pictures.I have about 500 bucks to spend and I want to buy a camera. I'm thinking about a used picrel (Canon EOS R1000) with whatever used lens it normally comes with, think it's called a RF-S 18-45mm? I don't really know much about gear, just want to start taking pictures. I'm vaguely aware that once you buy a camera you're "locked into its system" of lenses, etc. I've heard the name Canon before so I figure that buying more lenses at some point in a few years won't be a problem. I want to take digital pictures because I don't want to pay for film right now, learn to develop, all of that. Am I being retarded about this, or is this a good purchase? Thanks in advance. In a form of payment, have a book recommendation -- currently reading "Love's Work" by Gillian Rose, short memoir by a philosopher who wrote it while dying of ovarian cancer. Strongly recommend.
>>4529709>inferior That's the M5, lmao.EF mount is here to stay even if they discontinue all Canon DSLRs in the future, if only because it became an industry standard like Arri PL (which started in 1980, to show you the longevity of these mounts).
>>4529716EF-M was too good. Thankfully it already has every lens you'd ever need for travel/EDC, all of them are smaller than their EF counterparts and just as sharp, and it can use an official EF adapter for edge cases where EF-M doesn't have a native lens.
>>4529537>drops over a stop of ISO noise using shorter exposures>equivalence fags btfo5DII users have wizard level skillsbuy a 5DII if you want to become a skilled photographer
>>4529626Both DA 50 and DA 35 plastic fantastics are fully FF capable as well as the DA 40 Limited and DA* 55 with a very small vignetting in the corner, basically full coverage.
>>4529851Also the DA 35 and DA 50 are cheap as fuck, you can get them for $80 or less a piece. I got my DA 35 for about $65, no outside wear and clear optics.
New motto - gear only matters if your photo doesn't suck.
>>4529843Lumix colors are all over the place. Her skin bounces between grayish blue to yellowish green and sometimes normal. Plus, you'll never see a decent stills autofocus test in a lumix review...Shoulda bought the new Sony R8II>>4529773the og in dog stands for mog
>>4529870>Lumix colors are all over the place. Her skin bounces between grayish blue to yellowish green and sometimes normal. Plus, you'll never see a decent stills autofocus test in a lumix review...The worst thing about Lumix is that they also removed Optical Low Pass Filters from their cameras, which seems odd when people claim OLPF are more suited to videography than photography and claim that Lumix is the video brand, but it makes sense once you understand that OLPFs were removed to save cost for manufacturers not for any image quality benefit.Luckily Kolari makes OLPF, permanent and drop-in options for L-mount and others.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9hvb4vKJnY
>>4529675>trying to deny that pixel pitch is one of the main determiners of reach.Pixel pitch is ONE FACTOR the equation of so-called "reach" (technically, ANGULAR RESOLUTION). In fact, it is only one SUB-FACTOR of one of the two REAL factors: IMAGE SCALE, the other one being CLEAR APERTURE.Reducing pixel pitch is ONE WAY to increase image scale. But it is ALWAYS BETTER to MAXIMIZE the pixel size for any given IMAGE SCALE, which means you should always increase the focal length FIRST. A larger sensor will ALWAYS yield more resolution than a smaller sensor at ANY GIVEN IMAGE SCALE, and will ALWAYS yield cleaner images with less noise at ANY GIVEN RESOLUTION. Your Saturn snapshit does NOT prove the superiority of smaller sensors, and in fact the full-frame sensor in THAT PARTICULAR comparison would have performed BETTER at the same image scale.STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION.
>>4529889>and in fact the full-frame sensor in THAT PARTICULAR comparison would have performed BETTER at the same image scaleWhy are you fixing image scale as if the average user has bespoke sensors and optics? The maximum image scale is obtained maximizing focal length and minimizing pixel pitch. My whole argument is that once you've already maxed out on the focal length you have available or are willing to deal with (be it a matter of size, weight, practicality) then a crop sensor is how you max out your reach. If you're a Qatari sheikh then feel free to spend over 2 million USD on a medium format super telephoto lens plus the tripods, vehicles and crew to move it around.
Hey, absolute photography noob here (I barely know anything about cameras)I'm looking to buy my first camera for the sole purpose of taking photos of my model kits (in other words, almost exclusively close-up photos). What's the best camera/lens combo I can find for less than 300€?Again, I don't know shit about cameras so I have no idea what to look for.
Is there a place for this time of cameras outside Electronic News Gathering?i thinks they're pretty neat, but even in the same Canon line, the biggest upgrade was adding USB C
every 9/11 i am reminded of what we, as a nation, have lost (20x optical zoom)
>>4528835Documentaries, interviews, events, concerts, backstage. They are super useful, but zoomers prefer full frame hybrid cameras with 5x zoom lenses, 30min battery life, and f1.8 toneh where one eye is in focus and the othee isn't
>>4528835They're a lot of fun when you're young and still believe your life matters.
This guy uses a nice camcorder, or his yoko doeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-rvw_tSQNE
I have the XA50 and it's great for longer shoots.The battery price is kinda high, but at least you got a full hour on 4K
Will update as images are processed, will be Speedweek and a bunch of other stuff I did over the months.
>>4528900He still has an air brake endorsement on his license. They come to Speedweek sometimes, this guy was there in 2018.
>>4528905Very interesting, not the one I knew though.This is the one I meant, it'd be a crazy strike of luck if it happened to be there honestly:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_OqYjk66V8>>4528903Wew, it's cramped in Zztopland.Also I was just thinking, how cool would it be to bring a slit camera there?
>>4528912Wow, they even brought a lot lizard
>>4528949Kek that's the wife of one of them I think
>>4528952>he married the lizardoh no...
>be Shigemi Sugimoto>former principal engineer of Olympus' camera business>have your entire fucking division bought out by Japan Industrial Partners>literally the King Von of the Japanese consumer technology industry>killed Sony Vaio>killed Toshiba>killed Rohm Semiconductor>killed Olympus' Telecommunications sector before they killed off their camera business>raped Japan's thermography business>spent the latter part of 30 years patent-trolling and carving out corporations>buy back OM System with own money like a boss>never make the company publically traded>never sell out to Israel like Nikon (TowerJazz)>one OM employee leaked that this motherfucker was gonna make a medium format Olympus camera before the company implodedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4528850>having a meltdown on the behalf of a proven spammerPathetic>nooo you need to honestly engage with the reposting retard you cant just point out all their reposts and dismiss them! schizo!Are you new to 4chan? Normal posters dont reuse the original filename and paraphrase the original post. Maybe AI does. Its probably the same autistic retard that spammed about sony pancakes last year.
>>4528850It's really, painfully obvious to anyone who's posted here more than 2 weeks that it's the same guy. He's recently moved his spamming out of the /gear/ thread because jannies no longer allow him to make a new /gear/ thread every 350 posts.And yeah, he's very likely the same one who made every /gear/. I wonder if they blocked his IP range from starting threads?
>>4528853>>4528857Autistic samefag
>>4528860>trying to save face like a jeetReminder>>4528828>>4528826Caught repostin’ LOL
>>4528865Nice edit, making it jpg is the cherry on top.
Rank the Trump Portraits
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>>4518159no it is rather nice if you look dpreview z50 samples many get nice pics of puppy boys and mochalatte
>>44321141 - Don't smile. Seem serious.2 - They've realized I'm an idiot.3 - I'm gonna destroy America bitches.4 - Hurry up. It's sleepy time.
>>4432114On a scale of pedophile to traitor I'd rate them pedophile and traitor but also murderer.
>>4528338Heckin' upvoted!
Can you take amazing shots and get good at photography with just a point and shoot? I'm getting sick of carrying around my bulky setup everywhere, even though it's M43
>>4528752nah i just don't care to waste effort on capitalising shit. nice projection that i'm american in ur faggot ass timezone tho, retard hehe. ur so butthurt by my truth nukes that u are making wrongly inferred adhoms to cope. oooofff
>>4528755Don't kill yourself tonight
>>4528763is that your comeback? you're unable to present a single rebuttal except "you can't write" (lol, maybe you can't read anything outside your kiked company memos?) and now seething here wishing that i was as unstable as you. this hobby is probably all you have and you are completely ineffectual in using it. sad
>>4528767>antisemitismYep, low IQ.
>>4528749You sound angry and you're projecting even harder now. Looks like I hit a nerve, huh? XD lmao. Sorry lil bro, but your proudest instagram post is just AI tier image slop compared to the chemical prints I make with my superior format. Both the content and the quality of the image.You talk a big game, but you havent posted any pictures. Please show us all your exceptional phone pictures. You wont. :]>>4528752>>4528769This kek. There's a lot more than just the antisemitism that is low IQ about his posts.
