Camera Gear You SHOULDN'T Buy as a Beginner

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Thank you for watching! These photography videos are usually directed at beginner photographers. Take the photography tips and tricks with a grain of salt and try to understand the tips from a beginner photographer's point of view.

[GregoryPecaut]

I'd say 90% of a great pucture, is the photographer.

[charlesjames]

I agree with you. Most won’t know the difference with the quality of gear overall. The difference is in the paid work. You need good gear to make sure you get the shot correctly and quickly. When people are paying they want the critical look. Reliability and keeper rate is usually more important for the pros. Good editing can make a very good photo great.

[benitomarquez]

The tripod thing is super under mentioned, I have a $20 tripod and I put my camera on it and the plate snapped off and my camera fell onto some rocks, luckily it's all good and works the same but still it's not something you wanna risk

[alansach]

Kind of depends. Unless you are shooting fast action...sports or wildlife action...you don't need the most expensive cards out there. I would stick with well known name brands, but nothing wrong with buying their cheaper cards when starting out. Image quality will not suffer. Again, unless shooting a lot of action, few beginning photographers are going to blast through two or three thousand images in a day, so 16 to 32 GB cards are probably well big enough for starting out. Spend your money on glass.
Heck, when I was starting out I would have four or five rolls of 36 exposure film in my bag and think I was doing well! I think when you have a finite number of shots it makes you think more about each exposure, rather than just blasting away and sorting them out in post! Nothing wrong with slowing down and thinking!

[Rescel]

Bro for photography just buy a old DSLR they are still good and the lenses are way cheaper. On top we still use the same apsc chip today. When you photograph raw just use a cheap dslr body the difference between new and old is mostly the software

For video work it’s a different story.

[Ondraythe]

“Don’t buy a $15 or $20 tripod”
:Me with my $6 Kmart tripod 😅 😂

[Stop_Elitists_Wars]

#1 buy quality glass
#2 bright Aperture, under F4
#3 zooms are versatile
#4 buy used Pro camera
#5 tripod
#6 protective bag or bag insert
#7 atleast x2 batteries
#8 fast, high gigabit cards x2
#9 edit on phone or pc
#10 use phone for photography if good camera & only casual.

[nicolabevacqua]

You gave an horrible sd card exemple with the sandisk ultra, it's 170mb/s in READING speed not writing speed so it can't even shoot 4k

[dheerensturgess]

i'm imagining somebody contacting somebody on ebay abt a $20 tripod and going "$20? No, I'll pay $70"

[omarumanzor]

ASPC DSLR and last generation lenses are perfect for new beginners, I'd steer clear of EVF and make them learn on OVFs

[Sam-whig]

I own fuji xt-5 and a6700 and a a7m4 camera and I do wedding and car meets. Id say 40% is editing, 10% is skills and the 50% is the lens for photography.

[adamgrinnell]

For sd cards, NEVER go super cheap, it will corrupt and you'll lose everything

[ExstasyCo]

Well small sd card is useful, when it comes to camera updates, or as a spare

[flowwwxd]

if you're a beginner photographer with old camera, do a research on your camera, some cameras cant handle 64gb memory card regardless of speed, just like my camera

[nchn]

If you do macro shooting as a hobby, a mid level camera body helps on tracking small moving objects. Static objects are fine with lower end camera body but moving targets will need good af tracking

[adamstuartclark]

Whereas a fast write speed is good, a small capacity memory card can present good training opportunities. A 2gb card, for example, will force you to make smarter decisions. A good training game rule also includes no deletions. Near infinite capacity can make shooters creatively and technically lazy.

[vma]

Small but fast sd cards are great for weddings/events if you dont have a camera with dual card slots

[nefrace]

I have an old Olympus E500 in my collection with 512M CF card. It can take 35 shots in raw. It's quite interesting limitation

[anarchisttutor]

I recently had to photograph a very wiggly toddler. Holy smokes. The face/eye recognition on the Canon R6 really helped out. This is one instance where the camera body is so helpful. But this is a situation I don't recommend to beginning photographers....

[Robert_E]

It's the V rating that matters when writing to an SD card, not the mb/s which are transfer speeds, not write speeds