How to choose the right photo gear.
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- In this video, I share my rule of thumb for making sure I always choose the right grear.
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Great advice as always Joshua the benefits of hindsight
You could have stitched a panorama from shots taken with the 50mm. Right?
Great advice Josh 👍😊
This year I try a different approach towards gear: I looked for an overall lens that served my needs the best (in my case Tamron 20-40 2.8) inspite of the brand. For the last years I invested in the brands I liked like Olympus (🥰) and Canon, choosing the lenses they have. Camera/brand first, then lenses.
Now it's lens first, camera/brand second.
So now I have I an ugly Sony camera which doesn't "inspire" me (seems to be the main criteria for a camera nowadays according to Fuji users 😜) but is simply the tool I need to use that lens which allows me to reduce my gear drastically. Feels very freeing.
Not quite GAS free yet, I also have a piece of paper in my calendar so I can read it every single day: "no lens buy in 2025."
So far it has helped me through the year. Wish me luck with the remaining 337 days 😂!
Thanks for your video Joshua, it is an important topic🎉🎉🎉.
Over the last 6 months i have acquired 4 vintage lenses. All for the simple purpose of forcing myself to learn how to shoot using manual focus. 😊
Very nice video! I walk every day for one to two hours with our dog, taking my camera and one lens with me. For the last four years that lens is the Sigma 60-600, because every time I choose to limit myself to a smaller focal range like 18-135 or even 15-45, I regret it instantly because i always spot some bird or beast i would love to take a photo of. And strolling through nature with the dog you can not really get close enough to wild animals to get a good shot with short lenses where i live.
Seeing you having the S5, the backpack and a tripod with you for filming as well as the R7 with the nifty fifty, i would at least take the 24 2.8 (the pancake, is it?) and / or the 10-18 also with me. You could easily put the two not used lenses in the pocket of your jacket and just have them with you, and their weight is barely noticeable (my lens weighs 2800g plus the camera body (6.2 pounds) and I carry it in my hands for pretty much the entire walk. Sometimes i have a M50 with the 15-45 in my jacket pocket for some landscape photos, because i hate changing lenses in the field, especially removing the long lens from the camera, it's like the beasts and birds just wait for me to take that lens off to show up around me!)
The wind reminds me of the winds in Wyoming! I purchased some f/2.8 lens. I believe f/4.0 would have worked plus much lighter and smaller for my type of photo making. Always second guessing myself.
I've been using the same system for the past 10 years both to keep it simple and also to avoid having to relearn all the features and tricks when switching to another brand. I only exchanged the original Sony A7 for the A7 III because the first one was already pretty worn out, but I still have it and use it from time to time. As for lenses, I'm using a simple 28-60mm which has a wide range of focal lengths, and is perfect for both landscapes and street photography. It's a very underrated lens but it really surprised me with its image quality and ease of use. Maybe I'll make a video about this lens. I also love the 50mm f1/8, but it really isn't for all situations, as well as my 1980 Olympus 200mm prime. In conclusion, for a beginner, if you go out to take pictures with the simplest and most versatile equipment, everything becomes easier and more enjoyable. It doesn't matter the brand or the number of megapixels, just go out and shoot.
From your intro footage, weather sealing would also be a useful consideration for a new camera😂.
Thanks for this video.
If you did a mistake choosing your gear in this video, I would say that you forget to bring your wellies ^^
Great advise Josh. I've had Canon gear for years, 5D3 (Which seems huge in my fairly small hands) with several l series lenses which are from a time I thought were necessary. Tend to use my M50 a lot for the convenience of small and light gear but thinking about a used R5 as they are 'almost' affordable now and is fairly smaller than the 5D. What do you think please?
Great to see you making videos again. Des, in stormy Devon.
Good point about the gear. It's something I am guilty of over the years and if I could turn the clocks back I reckon I would have saved myself £1ks.. many thousands . Couple of points I found confusing abut the video.... in the discussion towards the end you mention using the Canon R7 and the 50m f1.8 as the wrong choice yet in the shot of the boathouse on the video the camera is a Panny S5 (one of the cameras I use) and the focal length 34m? Also at the beginning of the video you twice mention Black Mountains... I hope people don't go looking for the reservoir and that boathouse in the Blacks, they won't find it. One other thing... they don't call that place the green desert for no reason - it is bleak, barren and beautiful for one reason - its almost inhabitable because of the boggy conditions that tensd to be there all throughout the year - not just in winter.
I'm sticking with my 250D and 5D MKII
since you carry a big backpack what is the point of not packing a few lenses ? Especially since the lenses you mention are all tiny and light.
Simple thing I do is cross each lens I started at a 50mm all the way upto 600mm in four lenses simple way of doing it. I also have a 10-20mm super wide for my landscape shots... easy to carry less lenses which are always with me well apart from the 150-600 which stays in the car.
I live about 25 - 30 minutes drive from there. It's lovely but wild up there!
Hi Josh, why didn't you take the 24 and the 50, they are so small you could literally put one in your pocket, enjoyed the video.
I have to disagree with you on the gear. It's mostly the "experienced" photographers who are obsessed with gear and "bokeh".
not sure about the advice but damn you are a handsome spunk!
Sod the camera and lens choice, sort that poor Peace Lilly out behind you 😮