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buy a 35mm film slr camera with lens included, one that feels nice and costs less than £150
buy 80 rolls of decent 35mm film (ilford/kodak, iso 400)
pay for decent dev + scan at a decent lab
shoot all 80 rolls, carry the camera a lot
congratulations, you will be slightly closer to being a good photographer
platypus
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Relatively new to this photography malarkey but not new to “here” - a sabbatical was needed to sort my head out about a few things and photography really helped out.
I’d always been interested in photography as a creative medium, but had never really taken any sort of significant financial plunge into it - n+1 bicycles always seemed to (in)conveniently eat into any budget I’d set aside for camera kit.
On my return from the Middle East, I took some time out and worked out where I was going in life and built the Porklyn and started to ride bicycles again. I found a job (which I’m still in) for a company that give us £100 a month on a prepaid card for coffees/lunches etc. Given my terminally jangled lifestyle, I managed to mislay this card. I knew it was at home and would pop up at some point so didn’t really give it much thought. When I found it a little under a year later, it had amassed £1000 so I took the opportunity to spend a proportion of it on some camera kit.
I bought a Canon 750D (which came with a couple of lenses) as well as a Sigma flash and zoom lens and another really short Canon lens.
I’ve been out and about and photographed all manner of buildings and places since those initial purchases back in 2017 and am genuinely enjoying learning about the various functions available - as well as the techniques needed to get the best out of an albeit basic/entry level but complex-to-me piece of kit.
Only now am I switching to “M” on the dial in an attempt to learn more about my abilities as well as those of the camera.
Now, I find a hankering for film and following a few conversations with some of the kids at work who don’t use an iPhone 11 Pro for taking photos, they ALL recommend finding a Canon AE1 to cut my teeth on.
What does the hive mind here think?