Is the $999 and under market dead?
Buy a used A7 III and call it a day.
>>4298688Bidenflation killed off cheap hobbies
>>4298688Buy a used om system/olympus, $999 and under full kit of lenses included
>>4298688You can get a d600 and five or six af-d lenses for $999
>>4298778eh, everyone has a phone. "Photography" as in gearfagging is of course an expensive hobby, because it is (in the modern era) by definition just photography but with nice ie expensive equipment.
Just buy used
>>4298867>eh, everyone has a phone.yup, coupled with the fact that the main way people share photos now is instagram/snapchat/whatever, phones are good enough for most normies.
>>4298884>normie photos can no longer be used as evidence due to forced AI tampering>9999/10000 journalists with real cameras are under state employ directly or indirectly>C2PA is only coming to hilariously expensive pro mirrorless cameras like the snoy a1 further making sure the illusion of photographic truth is as far out of normies reach as possibleFrom "if you have the negative, a competent forensics tech can verify that it is a real photograph and could not have been faked without a massive studio budget" to "sorry, your photos aren't real unless your camera was at least $6000, so that never happened, nice AI generated fake, please refer to the state sponsored experts for The Truth"Jews don't call the white-mutt masses "cattle" for nothing. You should never be proud of going along with what is good enough for normies (westoid mutts). One of the other reasons the dumb fucks have been pushed into doing everything on phones is because phones came without the expectation of freedom and control that was innate to windows PCs. The entire experience, even their "ownership" or their photos, is controlled by corporations (owned by jews) and they are more tracked now than they ever have been before. Revolution is impossible, assuming they would be able to take their eyes off their phone long enough to aim a rifle, and assuming the photographic evidence of the deep state's evil would ever be accepted as real (it would most likely be taken on a phone and therefore be indistinguishable from AI). The goyim lost. It's over.
>>4298778>photography>cheapmaybe at the start of fully digital cameras with an effective mp of 2 in Y2K it wasnowadays you can buy a cheapo snapshitter camera with focusing issues but most people wont care because muh creature comforts like 4k video
>>4298867give one of those people a camera that will require minimal post processing and they'll never look back.your average normie phone like the iphone has shit clarity
>>4298888>your average normie phone like the iphone has shit claritynormies literally don't care. the increase in quality doesn't outweigh the convenience of just using your phone for them. Same as how people are happy to just use netflix when a physical bluray has superior image and sound quality. they don't care, it's "good enough".
>>4298886>"sorry, your photos aren't real unless your camera was at least $6000, so that never happened, nice AI generated fake, please refer to the state sponsored experts for The Truth"This is a good thing.Smartphone photos are not photos, unless RAW, but even if RAW, may be subject to diddling by the app. The app must actually output RAW raws, no denoising or AI(ML) shit for it to count as a photo. Have you even seen Samshit and their CGI moons? Shit's ridiculous. Same with their fake bokeh and other bullshit.They tried to convict Kyle Rittenhouse over 7 dark blurry pixels while saying he was pointing a gun at someone when those pixels were upscaled and edited 41 different times even AFTER it left the camera. All of this shit is ridiculous.No RAW, no evidence.Cooked RAW? Useless.Don't be surprised when phones and dashcams start using OCR to replace license plates and having errors all over the place as a result. Samshits moon replacements are just the beginning.
>>4298890It's good enough, but then you show them a photo of them taken with a proper camera and they're amazed how nice it is. They think that taking nice headshot or top 1/2 portraits is some sort of tech magic and that they'll be able to take them with their phone wide angles too "once the tech gets there", they just need to wait for that 200 mega pickle phone with Leica logo.
>>4298688e-m1ii with some good primes is less than $1k easily
>>4299023Trolling outside of /b/ is technically a bannable offense
>>4298963>phones and dashcams start using OCR to replace license plateslmao yep already happening with scanners https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/xerox-machines-change-documents-scanning/story?id=19895331
>>4298775might as well just quit photography then
>>4299038>The glitch doesn't affect documents scanned using the machine's default settings. However, if the user changes the WorkCentre's compression settings, this type of error can occur.kekSo not only are they OCRing the text to re-print, but compressing it too, and blaming it on that.If it ain't a 48-bit uncompressed RGB or 16-bit greyscale TIFF from a photo scanner it shouldn't count as evidence either. These office machines are all satan and infested with DRM so trusting them was a mistake in the first place.
>>4298688>Is the $999 and under market dead?No.You can buy a canon DSLR with 18-55mm and 75-300mm lens kit for $600 total, giving you meme reach (28.8 to 480mm 35mm equiv) and 24MP APS-CNew.Retail.Today.Also there are micro four thirds bodies around the same price or less.
>>4298688Buy used retard
>>4298963No, c2pa never coming to prosumer or consumer gear is not a good thing.
>>4303218No one wants to admit that a Wally World Rabbble is more camera than most people will ever really hit the limit of.
>>4303297>"hit the limit of"wut? are these motorcycles or something?>take a picture>if you print it larger than 8x10 and expect it to look decent close up you've "hit the limit"wew lad. cameras are so banal. not like high performance advanced tools.
>>4303310> if you print it larger than 8x10 and expect it to look decent close up you've "hit the limit"10MP is plenty for an 8x10 and no camera you buy today is likely to be under 12MP. 12MP on a D700 is enough for any purpose.Also, how often are you printing bigger than 8x10 and standing within several feet of it, anyway.
>>4303314>another blind person with tiny walls
>>4298688I got an OM System TG-7 a few days after it came out for $600, and you can find them brand new as low as $400 now
>>4303231damn I didn't realize a7r III dropped so muchA7R IV also started showing up under $2kmaybe I'll finally upgrade my A7II next year
