I’ve got a very expensive hyperfixation which is photography, they tell you about the cost of cameras and lenses and such… but not about the cost for SD cards and external storage…
Honestly I have a 1tb micro SD that I use a converter to an SD for. It’s not exceptionally fast, but I’m not shooting sports.
As for external storage Amazon Prime has UNLIMITED Photo uploads, so just take everything off the SD raw and bulk dump it into the cloud.
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Anonymous14h
high level photography is quite expensive, which is why i’ll be sticking to shitty old olympus camera that works 87% of the times i use it, and i wouldn’t have any other way.
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_14h
it’s truly fascinating to me how different the same hobby can be for different people
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_14h
No way I use an Olympus too, though I’m sure I have a newer model, I tried to go for something that is for amateurish level
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AnonymousOP14h
aw that’s so cooool, olympus cameras are so nice, it really sucks they kinda died. but no, mine is so old i use the proprietary cards for the camera
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_14h
the olympus Xd card, not sure if the newer models use it
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_14h
That’s crazy, I haven’t even heard of proprietary cards. I have the OMD EM10 MarkIV, and I actually just got a 75-300 lens for it
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AnonymousOP14h
that’s so cool, i’ll go grab my camera to show you, don’t remember the model off the top of my head, but it’s a point and shoot so i just have the built in lens for it
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_14h
I have mine memorized because I had a LOT of googling to do for my college photography class last year, it was taught based around a DSLR so I had to translate info to my camera myself
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AnonymousOP14h
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_14h
Oh that things sick, that’s definitely quite older than I was expecting, how does your picture quality turn out?
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AnonymousOP14h
This one’s mine with both the pancake and the 75-300 lens
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AnonymousOP14h
i mean, lemme show you, mind you, these are edited a bit, but still.
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_14h
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AnonymousOP14h
i love the look of olympus cameras
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_14h
Oh these are so neat, crazy quality for a point and shoot made in the early 2000’s, let me show you a couple of mine
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AnonymousOP14h
This is one I took a few days ago, it’s been edited, I’ll also provide my RAW cause I actually can’t tell which is better
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AnonymousOP14h
olympus can’t stop winning, i’m not biased at all
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AnonymousOP13h
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AnonymousOP13h
that looks so good, bird photography is so awesome, i personally like the edit better, feels a bit moodier
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
Me too, originally I wanted a Fujifilm but just couldn’t justify that price when I could get a very very similar Olympus for so much cheaper
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AnonymousOP13h
i just think they have much sleeker camera bodies and generally really really high quality lenses, sure, good fucking luck getting support for anything, but i love their cameras
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
Ugh me too lol, it really takes seeing them side by side to really see it, i always feel like there’s more to be done to it until i see the side by side. I have more birds if you’d wanna see
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AnonymousOP13h
mmmm birds
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AnonymousOP13h
this is always why i keep a copy of the original up while im editing it
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
I’m actually so surprised I got that level of detail, the 75-300 lens I used is kinda known for getting really hard to work with when it’s at almost full zoom without a tripod and my ass was using it like a point and shoot at full zoom
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
This one’s just a little underexposed but tbh it adds to the mood
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AnonymousOP13h
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AnonymousOP13h
really good collage material to be honest, the water in the background looks phenomenal
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AnonymousOP13h
I def posted the RAW of this in the photography chat on here
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AnonymousOP13h
On purpose edited this to give it a film look, I think I did pretty well
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AnonymousOP13h
i genuinely love the look of film grain, a lot of my photos look more like this unedited, just a bit blurrier lol-
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
makes it feel more like the art it is, and less like just looking at a picture of something
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
My dream camera right now is a Hasselblad, but that’s an extremely far in the future purchase, for now I’m very satisfied with Olympus, they have pretty much everything a Fujifilm does I think
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
I have some better water photos, these were all taken on a beach trip and you bet your ass I have hundreds of water photos
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AnonymousOP13h
luckily i just do it for a hobby, so i really just need something that takes photos lol, but i really enjoy collecting old cameras
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AnonymousOP13h
as you should
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AnonymousOP13h
I actually have to keep all my water and sunrise photos RAW because my editing software seriously fucks up either the color or the highlights
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
I use Darktable so I’m able to take a snapshot and see a very clear side by side when I’m done, I was rushing just a little to make an insta post though so I didn’t for a lot of them
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AnonymousOP13h
oooh pretty
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AnonymousOP13h
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AnonymousOP13h
darktable is pretty good, i never really liked photoshop all that much but i loved lightroom, so darktable was a pretty easy transition for me
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AnonymousOP13h
This is the only water edited one that turned out pretty good, I think I still prefer the raw though
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AnonymousOP13h
i also prefer the raw file, it still looks great though
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
Omg someone else who uses Darktable, I use it because it’s free and downloadable. I was taught on Lightroom though so it was also a pretty easy transition for me
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AnonymousOP13h
it’s pretty much just lightroom but a little different
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Anonymous#213h
my camera so old my card doesn’t even use 1 gb
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
I actually did a lot of the film look with some architecture I shot too
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
You just can’t beat the colors an Olympus gives you in the raw, if you get it right lol
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AnonymousOP13h
i have a couple simple architectural shots i did for highschool, you can tell because the poor things were drowned in sepia filter 😭
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
Biggest op is the masking tool though, I really need practice with that
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AnonymousOP13h
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AnonymousOP13h
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AnonymousOP13h
lol fairrr, i usually just don’t use it
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Anonymous#213h
I have yet to pay for a single subscription but that may change my mind about Amazon prime lol, but I think I’ll just dump it all in a 500 GB external storage for now and wipe my computer, I have classwork and such on there too
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
Omg nooo, but I’m sure they look fine lol
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
Me neither, but I did car photography at a car show and wanted to post them without having a bunch of peoples faces in the background so I used it a bit for blue
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Anonymousslvshpuppy_13h
I’m also an old camera collector, I have a more modern film camera I found at a thrift store and I also have a much older one that my dad gave to me, I’ve also called dibs on all his old cameras