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\u2011tune 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, and an extra battery for your camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unsurprisingly, I approached the problem of choosing the right body with very few inputs: I knew the budget, and I knew the brand (Canon). The only reason I decided to stick with the brand was my experience with some point\u2011and\u2011shoot cameras from the days when phone cameras could only do 640\u00d7480 pictures. (For the record, I felt old as I typed that.) No surprises about the budget either – I could have either bought a new but basic device (an R50 or R100), or gone to eBay or Henry\u2019s for a pre\u2011owned, higher\u2011end camera. Since I was a complete amateur at the time (and haven\u2019t become much better since), I decided to forego the pre\u2011owned route – for now – and get something with a warranty, but without other people\u2019s oily fingerprints on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So here comes my first camera in years: a Canon R50 with an 18-45 kit lens. A lightweight, mirrorless, cropped\u2011sensor (APS\u2011C) body without built\u2011in stabilization. Oh, and the best part – I can charge it via USB\u2011C in my car!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will do my best to explain these basic terms in the next posts, starting with the sensor format<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2011tune 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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[12,13,11,4],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-photography","tag-body","tag-canon","tag-equipment","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}