When Skyler Adams realized she was more obsessed with buying new expensive gear than actually taking photographs, she decided to do an experiment. She bought a Canon Sure Shot camera for $1 and an expired roll of Fujifilm Superia 400 film. “I wanted to challenge my gear acquisition syndrome, so I decided to shoot with a $1 camera for a month,” she wrote.
„I was pleasantly surprised at the quality I could get from the 38mm lens stopped down,“ Skyler said on PetaPixel. „The manual ISO setting also let me play with exposure compensation. Most of the battle is finding good light.“ Film processing and scanning was $8 more, so Skyler spent $10 for the whole experiment.
There is a common misconception that you need expensive gear to take great pictures. However, Skyler successfully proved that even the cheapest equipment can provide amazing images if you have the required skills.
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You know what would be a challenge? Buying that camera anywhere for $1.
$35 seems to be the going rate for a tested working unit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004R7U4JE/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used
My local St. Vincent-dePaul has a laundry basket filled with point-and-shoot film cameras, most are $0.99
Yes indeed that was my thought! Maybe a Craigslist purchase.
Or your local thrift shop. Lazy shopper ..Craigslist WTF
am I the only one who.thinks the photos are mediocre?
At best...
exactly! as soon as you say you're a photographer suddenly boring photos are works or art... those wouldn't get any likes on my Facebook page ;)
The compositions are excellent, but poor lens quality affects the quality immensely. Don't go for any extreme. Take a quality but affordable camera body then spend all the rest money on the best lens money can buy, and you will not be disappointed.
composition are indeed good, but the subjects are pretty basic. The lens give an old school aspect to the picture but a picture from a bus terminal is a picture from a bus terminal...
I also dont like them. And for the record, the composition on all except the one with the park isn't good. And that one has burns in the background. You simply need a camera where you can work the settings, to achieve quality. That's a photographer, a person with knowledge how to make his camera serve his view. All of this here is just lazy and pretentious.
Possibly the only one.
I think the photos say more about the photographer than they do about the camera
I agree and think that's the point.
You know what would be a challenge? Buying that camera anywhere for $1.
$35 seems to be the going rate for a tested working unit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004R7U4JE/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used
My local St. Vincent-dePaul has a laundry basket filled with point-and-shoot film cameras, most are $0.99
Yes indeed that was my thought! Maybe a Craigslist purchase.
Or your local thrift shop. Lazy shopper ..Craigslist WTF
am I the only one who.thinks the photos are mediocre?
At best...
exactly! as soon as you say you're a photographer suddenly boring photos are works or art... those wouldn't get any likes on my Facebook page ;)
The compositions are excellent, but poor lens quality affects the quality immensely. Don't go for any extreme. Take a quality but affordable camera body then spend all the rest money on the best lens money can buy, and you will not be disappointed.
composition are indeed good, but the subjects are pretty basic. The lens give an old school aspect to the picture but a picture from a bus terminal is a picture from a bus terminal...
I also dont like them. And for the record, the composition on all except the one with the park isn't good. And that one has burns in the background. You simply need a camera where you can work the settings, to achieve quality. That's a photographer, a person with knowledge how to make his camera serve his view. All of this here is just lazy and pretentious.
Possibly the only one.
I think the photos say more about the photographer than they do about the camera
I agree and think that's the point.