Category: Amateur Photography

  • In a Mirror. Darkly?

    So, do you need, or more importantly, want a Digital Single-Lens Reflex (DSLR) or a mirrorless camera? Let’s start with a bit of history. The original Single-Lens Reflex cameras (without the “Digital,” of course) are almost a century old, although their peak popularity was between the 1960s and 1990s. They worked in a relatively simple…

  • Does Size Matter?

    Let’s talk sizes, and whether your sensor size matters (and how it is going to affect your camera’s size and weight). What is a full frame, and why is a certain size called “full,” given that there are much larger formats out there? It all comes down to history and what eventually became the de…

  • A One Body Problem

    While one can definitely learn the art of composition with their phone, a true hobbyist would need some equipment to take care of – clean it, fine‑tune it, love it. In photography, you usually start with a body and a kit lens, plus a few essential pieces of gear like a case, a charging cable,…

  • Dear Diary…

    Why Did I Start This Blog? I have reached a certain stage in my life (technically well before my mid-life crisis) when the need for a hobby became too obvious to ignore. Since I still have a mortgage to pay, getting myself a Porsche was not an option…so I got myself a relatively basic mirrorless…