"Fred is a writer, house husband, and dog dad. When not managing treat distribution and meeting tummy scratch quotas, he enjoys playing video games, reading, and furthering the Trans Agenda."


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@fred

just want an excuse to leave the house, taking pictures outside seems like a good call. it's also my birthday next month so this deal im seeing on FB marketplace might be a little early but ^.^

I really wanted to be a photography kid in high school, had a little Canon PowerShot that I dinked around with friends who were actually into photography. feels like getting back to a passion, maybe! hopefully! maybe a waste of money, idk! tbf i've been thinking about this for like, 6 months so. idk. hopefully fairs better than the $100 i spent on a ukulele (which I haven't touched in months, r.i.p.)


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@fred

Only oversight was I've never in my life owned an SD card reader so I should be getting one on Monday, but fun so far!

As someone that takes years to purchase things, this feels very impulsive but also my health is garbage and I said I've been thinking about it for 6 months so this is not impulsive. My new personal mantra every time I use it.


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My first "real" camera was one of the predecessors of this, the D40. My biggest tip is that if you decide you want to experiment with different lenses, you can get old manual focus Nikkor lenses pretty cheaply often, particularly the earliest "pre-AI" lenses which would damage many more high-end Nikon bodies.

Some of my personal favorites are the 55mm f/3.5 Micro, the 105mm f/2.5, the 35mm f/2, and for infrared the 2.8cm f/3.5 H. But there are lots. I also got a lot of mileage out of old telephoto lenses (300 f/4.5, 400 f/5.6) for birds, but manually focusing birds can be a bit of a chore.

However, if you can down this route, in addition to losing AF, you also lose auto-exposure, so you have to do manual everything. It's a good exercise though.