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Let me ask you. What's your dopiest camera related pet peeve? Because I have one and it is dopey. My Fujifilm 55-200 telephoto. Great lens. Sharp as a tack. Fun to use. But when you extend it… doesn't that look like one of those cheap bridge cameras from back in the day? It just sticks…

Can't get your hands on an X100VI? Join the club. Here's the workaround nobody talks about. Grab the Fujifilm X-E2. On MPB it's about a third or a quarter of the price. Add the little 27mm pancake. And what you have is the poor man's X100VI. The X-E2 is from 2013, by the way. An…

So somebody told me to sell my cameras. In the comments. Of this channel. And it made me think. Did the artists of the Renaissance flame each other? Did they rival each other, make fun of each other's work? Did Michelangelo and Raphael go at it? Yeah. They did. You're exactly right. So I guess…

Something really cool to share with you guys. I did a little camera thrifting today and came home with an old Contax 3A, and in the box of stuff were a couple of very interesting things. There's the haul. The Contax 3A, a lens, weirdly a Nikon instruction manual and a Nikon camera in the…

I have watched two YouTube channels I subscribe to call it quits this week. Their mental health was so damaged by the comments on their content that they walked away. You already know this. People suck. They're mean, they're jealous, they're petty, self-serving, unhappy, unethical, and in a lot of cases just downright stupid. Your…

Hey there. If you're a British street photographer, I could use some advice. I'm going to be in Liverpool for about 36 hours for a wedding coming up. I get into town on a Friday and that morning and early afternoon I have a window to do some street photography, and I could use advice…

This is Street Photography in Weird Places. Today. Ripley's Old McDonald's Farm mini golf. You have your Chicago. You have your New York City. The major cities, the famous streets, the serious photographers with their serious locations. Me? I prefer some redneck putt putt. There is street photography everywhere. A mini golf course in the…

Looks like I made it out alive. I gave my Instagram over to ChatGPT and said roast that. And it came back okay. I got some compliments. I got some critiques on what I could do better. But what does a large language model know about photography anyway? That's why I have this YouTube channel.…

I do not believe one bad apple spoils the bunch. But this is not good news for wedding photographers and videographers. A 30 year old wedding photographer has been arrested for clandestinely filming a bride while she was getting ready. Which makes her naked, and makes it a crime. He's going to jail because his…