From my perspective that’s really sad. My wife avoided being in photos as a teenager and as a result there’s basically nothing to look back on from that time. By comparison I bought my first digicam at 14 and carried it everywhere. There’s loads of photos of what I got up to. These days there’s photos of me with my daughter, with my friends, etc… The notion of avoiding that kind of thing seems so strange to me.
I avoid them because I don’t like posting pics to the internet and nobody is able to respect that wish because nobody but me cares about privacy, it usually gets uploaded to the internet since they know I don’t have a facebook and I will likely never catch them except the few times they’ve slipped up and showed me themselves.
Wish I could trust that, but experience has shown I cannot. If someone also didn’t have a facebook (or anything except maybe Mastodon and Lemmy), maybe then I could, but I’m the only weirdo I know irl, so.
I have thought about getting a camera and becoming the photographer myself, and then I can control what gets uploaded by virtue of controlling what pics they receive to begin with, but I have absolutely no idea where to start with that lol. It’d have to be a camera better than a phone camera or people would just use that, but not too bulky as to facilitate carry, and something that’d be good for nature since that’s the only thing I enjoy photographing and so why not actually get some enjoyment too, get me out of the house more often too. Also it would have to be not a million dollars, it doesn’t need to be the best, just good enough.
I guess… if anyone has any camera recs let me know.
When I switched to digital photography, someone recommended I start with the canon rebel, and I’m still using that same camera 12 years later. Honestly it’s a good camera that’s not too expensive and light weight, and there’s probably lots of refurbished ones for super cheap online. I can’t speak as much to Nikon since I stuck with canon, but really any basic dslr from either of those companies would be good, just avoid full frame sensors if you want it to be light weight and reasonably priced lol. If anything, invest more in getting decent lenses – just ensure the lens is compatible with the camera you choose. For nature photography, a good telephoto lens for anything far away and a macro lens for small close ups, and the standard zoom lens that comes with just about every dslr kit to get everything in between.
Someone else may have better recommendations because I haven’t kept up with all the new fancy features that have come out since, but imo the ability to use a variety of lenses for different purposes is what sets a dslr camera apart from what phone cameras are capable of doing these days.
Thanks I’ll check it out! Cannon scares me because of their printers lol, I don’t need some special software to use it right, just microSD or regular SD and any PC? I’m always gunshy about buying tech these days, everything needs an app or is internet connected lol.
I wouldn’t bet on my photo having been taken 90+ times in my life, but then I’ve never been the “go out at night” type
Do you avoid being in photos?
Yes, but it’s also not a situation that comes up often
From my perspective that’s really sad. My wife avoided being in photos as a teenager and as a result there’s basically nothing to look back on from that time. By comparison I bought my first digicam at 14 and carried it everywhere. There’s loads of photos of what I got up to. These days there’s photos of me with my daughter, with my friends, etc… The notion of avoiding that kind of thing seems so strange to me.
I avoid them because I don’t like posting pics to the internet and nobody is able to respect that wish because nobody but me cares about privacy, it usually gets uploaded to the internet since they know I don’t have a facebook and I will likely never catch them except the few times they’ve slipped up and showed me themselves.
Meanwhile I upload very few photos of people to the internet but take lots of them to remember the happy times we’ve had together.
Wish I could trust that, but experience has shown I cannot. If someone also didn’t have a facebook (or anything except maybe Mastodon and Lemmy), maybe then I could, but I’m the only weirdo I know irl, so.
I have thought about getting a camera and becoming the photographer myself, and then I can control what gets uploaded by virtue of controlling what pics they receive to begin with, but I have absolutely no idea where to start with that lol. It’d have to be a camera better than a phone camera or people would just use that, but not too bulky as to facilitate carry, and something that’d be good for nature since that’s the only thing I enjoy photographing and so why not actually get some enjoyment too, get me out of the house more often too. Also it would have to be not a million dollars, it doesn’t need to be the best, just good enough.
I guess… if anyone has any camera recs let me know.
When I switched to digital photography, someone recommended I start with the canon rebel, and I’m still using that same camera 12 years later. Honestly it’s a good camera that’s not too expensive and light weight, and there’s probably lots of refurbished ones for super cheap online. I can’t speak as much to Nikon since I stuck with canon, but really any basic dslr from either of those companies would be good, just avoid full frame sensors if you want it to be light weight and reasonably priced lol. If anything, invest more in getting decent lenses – just ensure the lens is compatible with the camera you choose. For nature photography, a good telephoto lens for anything far away and a macro lens for small close ups, and the standard zoom lens that comes with just about every dslr kit to get everything in between.
Someone else may have better recommendations because I haven’t kept up with all the new fancy features that have come out since, but imo the ability to use a variety of lenses for different purposes is what sets a dslr camera apart from what phone cameras are capable of doing these days.
Thanks I’ll check it out! Cannon scares me because of their printers lol, I don’t need some special software to use it right, just microSD or regular SD and any PC? I’m always gunshy about buying tech these days, everything needs an app or is internet connected lol.