No. 294527 [PM]
So idk who needs to hear this, but couple of days/weeks (idr) ago turkposter suggested me if I want to get into photography I should buy a cheap compact digital machine. Not to shit on too hard on the guy, but this is astonishingly bad advice, you will 100% percent end up being stranded on a deadend machine with no room to move up to - it is quite literally the equivalent of suggesting someone who wants to get into gaming to buy a cheap entry level laptop. it will fall apart, you cant upgrade it etc we all know how that goes. So after some research I have the real answer if you want to get your foot in the door in photography
The answer is MFT or Micro Four Thirds (also written as M43) which is a sensor size and a lens mount type. This standard is agreed upon with several camera manufacturers including olympus and panasonic which instantly promises larger market for lens than other mainstream lensmounts from larger manufacturers like sony and canon who mostly go their own way selfishly with their own mounts. But this is not where this ends, since MFT is a smaller sensor compared to full frame sensors (designed to emulated 35mm film), lens made for larger sensors can be adapted with an optical adapter called speed booster (which also makes the image a bit brighter and wider which is generally considered to be good. Vica versa can't be done, a smaller lens put on a larger sensor will just look like when you look into binoculars and you see the round sides (called vignetting). So even if you decide later to buy a much more expensive full frame camera (although the reasons for this are quickly disappearing as tech marches forward) you can already start collecting lenses that you can use on your next camera. More, small sensor lens like Contax/Yashica (CY) can be mounted with cheap dumb adapters which means even wider market access.
As for DSLR MILC, just forget DSLR, they have moving parts that can fail.
So the best camera to get your foot in the door is a MILC MFT machine used (if you don't want to pay new prices) something like a panasonic GF6. These already use standard SD cards, so given you move forward to a newer machine, your storage can be reused as well. And no, removable lens is non-negotiable. It's the equivalent of not being able to change the gpu in a pc (which never ends well), you will never be able to play in the big leagues.
No. 294528 [PM]
This makes me miss when massdrop was a real thing.
Fortune
you know, Linux needs a platform game starring Tux
kinda Super Marioish, but with Tux and things like little cyber
bugs and borgs and that sort of thing ...
And you have to jump past billgatus and hit the key to drop him
into the lava and then you see some guy that looks like a RMS
or someone say "Thank you for rescuing me Tux, but Linus
Torvalds is in another castle!"
No. 294530 [PM]
Subscribed to a quality hobby thread
Fortune
"Pascal is Pascal is Pascal is dog meat."
-- M. Devine and P. Larson, Computer Science 340
No. 294536 [PM]
everyone has a smartphone just saying
No. 294537 [PM]
hung arian shampooo the kind of nigga who sais when i grow up i want to become a switchboard operator
No. 294542 [PM]
>>294541because its extinct technologie like photo cameras
No. 294545 [PM]
>>294542That's like saying computers are extinct because phones exist
No. 294547 [PM]
>>294545there will be no computers in 5 years