I decided I didn't have a long enough reach for the rare times I need it, and went ahead a bought a Used Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS for about $1,600. Did I screw up?

Picrel handheld shot of a Starling on top of a dead tree, 600mm, wide open. I tweaked the colors a bit and made it one stop brighter with camera raw in elements, but left the sharpening and noise at 0 for softness inspection for the pixel peeping.

Are there any good essays on photography?

This is my portfolio for a final in my photo class, some of these have already been posted here but some are retouched/edited.
Thanks /p/.

Shoot black and white film and develop it yourself at home they said. You will save money.
OK boomer.
I just did the math today, I need $320 of equipment to do the developing, that classic old film camera that all the articles talk about being $20 are now all $300.
And yes the roll of film is $10 but I just spent $620 getting a camera and setup.

4 rolls of film per month at $10 each is $480 per year. O yeah also my developing chemicals only last one year so need replacing each year. So thats another $100 per year in the future to.

So in summary
year 1 costs $1100
year 2 costs $580 ($1680 total so far)
year 3 costs $580 each. ($2260 total so far).
and this just keeps on going and adding up.
All just to shoot 1 roll of 36 black and white photos per week.

Beware anons, their are no savings here whatsoever

recommend a good compact camera
with a good price plzz
I'm a beginner photographer

Barren wasteland in the middle of nowhere edition.

previous thread: >>4417569

Anyone here got Super 8 experience? I'm in the UK, there's a historic brutalist complex in my city I love (think Ghost In The Shell 1995 / Akira) that's being closed up for demolition at the end of this week, and I want to get it on celluloid before it goes. I'm a poorfag so I've never been able to save up for a camera the past couple of years and then a Bauer C2A came up on Gumtree last night literally the next housing block over for only £15 cause the guy was getting rid of cupboard-loads of junk. There's an exposed roll in the camera already and he said "Oh you can just tape over it" so it think the low price may be cause he doesn't know it's worth ~£150 rather than that it's gonna turn out broken necessarily. Need to get some film stock ASAP but I need to know:

-My choice is between Ektachrome colour reversal, or Vision3 50D negative
-I want to use what I film in video art for the local art festivals, so I'd like to be able to project it, I'm not interested in digital scans except for posterity
-I also want to be able to make copies, which I'm aware will increase the cost

I've seen around that Ektachrome is poorer for making copies from, but is used for projection, whereas Vision3 50D isn't used for projection as it's a negative, it gets scanned digitally for use for whatever gimmicky reason? Is it true Vision3 50D and other common Super 8 negative film stock can only be used in the form of a digital scan nowadays or is it still feasible (with some extra £££) to get it developed into multiple copies for use as projections? The pieces I'm planning would involve 3 duplicate celluloid loops of the same material projected side by side, intentionally set out of sync. I'm a total noob and would like to spend more time researching but this place getting demolished & me being broke up til this month has me on a tight schedule now.

what are the techniques required to recreate the style of some of these older headshot style of photographs? i know the pose setup is obvious, and using lower ISO b/w film, but is there any lighting setup that would be obvious from seeing these?

How to achieve the "Leica look" without a Leica??

Can you learn to shoot with your non-preferred eyeball?