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Anonymous
hey /p/. i'll be honest, i don't know anythign about photography. i'm tired of taking crap photos on my camera phone though and i really like to look at photographs in magazines. there are some cheap film SLRs on eBay at the moment, would it be wise to start off with an SLR or should i buy something less complicated?
what cheap SLRs do you recommend?
thank you.
>> Anonymous
Take a photography class and read. Class will give you access to a darkroom and possibly equipment, while the reading will actually teach you the shit the teacher/professor more than likely failed to.
>> Anonymous
thanks i guess.
>> Herbie !!s1ksehRmCZk
Go to the public library and pick up some books on photography. Digest them thoroughly. Go from there.
>> Anonymous
Don't buy a film slr. Too fucking expensive to run man.

You'll learn so much more knowing it doesn't matter that you can fire of a hundred crap shots and it's not going to cost you to see them.
>> Anonymous
>>254681

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typical /p/aggot

Film slrs are way cheaper that dlsr for the most part. The money you save in the short tern goes towards film and print costs. The results will be better with my guess that you would be purchasing an entry level camera.

Knowing you've paid for each shot you're taking makes you take a second to really think about each shot you shoot. You'll double check your composition and exposure, and have a better image for it You wont need 100 crap shots, because after a while you'll get it right th first time. Shooting film is a much much better way to learn than digital. Film users are also more so than not, better photographers than digital users. Minus professionals and lomofags.
>> Anonymous
>>254686
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>>254686
this
>> Anonymous
I would suggest a cheap DSL-R - I started shooting on film when I was 16, and it cost me the better part of my social life getting it all processed. I shoot primarily on film now, but wish I had had a digital camera in the early stages (when you are pointing and clicking at everything that catches your eye).

Classes / short courses are also a great way to get the theory down (which can be intimidating), but websites like flickr also have some great groups for those just starting out.
>> Anonymous
>>254686
That's the fucking point, Sherlock. Pay the fucking cost the once, and from then on you can make your prints on the cheap or not at all since websites exist, some which have their own printing services.

It's nothing beyond fucking retarded to buy cheap first, then pay out the ass for film developing every single time thereafter.