200g body, 1/1.7 inch sensor, 12 Megapixels. This is my main camera. Bought it around the beginning of February 2023 for about 100 dollars. I drove about 50~ miles out of the chicagoland area to go pick it up at a gym in indiana. Guy spread out his kit of camera body, batteries, cables, and 8 different lens adapters. We talked about it for a while and I got a sense that this was a body that he really spent time experimenting with. He was fond of it and sad to see it go, asked me to really use it. I assume he graduated to something else now.
I never really found myself getting into photography with my lay of hobbies already. Before this I bought myself using a cheap camcorder to record all the things my friends and I would do, however I thought doing anything more would be entering the hobby. My bud errormine got an old canon in the closet of his moms house, I would then see his infatuation with the hobby and further convince me to get a "proper" digital camera.
I considered that I needed something portable, powerful enough, and with interchangeable lenses. The pentax Q series did all this for cheap. I really appreciate the lens adapters I got, my current collection of lenses all get use. If you do anything outdoors, bring a cheap camera, it's nice. You don't have to get anything fancy. Maybe ill get a full frame sony in the future for low light performance but not until I can pick one up for sub 3 hundo
My 1st SLR. Got for a trip to Colorado and climbed Mt. Lincoln and Mt. of the Holy Cross. Packed with a SMC 28mm and 70-210mm. No pictures since I bought so much film it would cost me a paycheck to get it developed at my local shop, one day. So sick I felt like Frank West with heavy metal. I've shot wars you know…
During the time of writing this, I'm currently moving and I've gone over some spring cleaning of things that lie around in my room. I'm a sentimental guy, no hoarder but I keep small things, I write down dreams, I tape things to walls. I've thrown a lot of stuff away but I've still kept some. I think it's an interesting conversation to talk about the process of archiving somebody's life. When I was younger I got this camcorder off ebay for about 20$. On a whim, it ended up having recorded most of the time I spent with my best friends and ex girlfriend. Dumb jokes and sentimental conversations. The top of my shoes and what music we were blasting in a orange crown vic. Me and my ex girlfriend escaping a house party that got booked, my first camping trip. It ended up recording my life and now fond memories from 2016 to present. It's a nice piece of kit. It eats batteries but so what, it's given much more. I took it last on my first time ice climbing in Pictured Rocks for the Michigan ice fest with my best buds. What a great camera.
Technically my first camera. It was my sister's and she ended up giving it to me when I was a teenager. I didn't have much money at the time so neither did I have film. Working at 16 gave me some film and growing up gave me some times where taking physical pictures was cool. This ended up being supplementary to the DVF camcorder and held for special times. I ended up giving it to my little cousin when she came by once for her birthday. My Tia says she's used it. Nice.