What's a good entry level digital camera you could suggest? I want to graduate from using my phone to now wanting to learn basic principals of photography and a little bit of astrophotography on the side is my main goal. I'm thinking of getting pic related but if there is something better you could suggest I'm open to hearing.

What makes a good photo, What can you do when you have just bland flat light, and no flash.
Do you sometimes just have to call it a day?
I know photographers takes thousands of shots just to keep a handful.

I need more.

How did they get their pictures correctly light
when using f/64?

I want lenses with spherical aberrations. How do I identify lenses likely to produce them?

>be me
>be shooting film on my Pentax MZ-S
>love it
>want to get a camera that feels more modern with better quality glass
>buy a nikon f100 and a 24-120 f/4
>get the roll back
>it basically looks like digital
>mfw I realized that the part I liked was pentax's shitty F series lenses
Well I guess that saves me from buying a bunch of new lenses and I can sell this stuff now.

>constant f/2 standard zoom lens

Sony won.

I love photography, but I've gotten bored with modern digital cameras. They're nice in the fact that I can shoot plenty of pics, but I just want something different. I want to do film, but 35mm just seems too expensive. Buying the film, developing, scanning, etc. There's a local place near me that does all that for 25 dollar PER roll.

I have 400 dollar store credit to this camera store. I was looking at the Pentax 17. Sure, it's half-frame, but the pics look nice and sharp. But what really caught my attention was the polaroid I-2. All the manual controls and upgraded lens seem appealing. I like instant cameras, so I'm really leaning to this one.

Anyone here able to vouch for the polaroid, or should I get the Pentax?

Pentax is objectively correct about lens-body design.

Put the autofocus motor and image stabilization inside the body instead of in the lens. It opens up the creation of some truly compact lens design once you incorporate floating apertures. Pic rel is a 35-105 f/4-5.6 FULL FRAME lens.
>72x71mm (2.8 x 2.8in)
>345g
It's smaller than most mirrorless 18-50 aps-c kit lenses. The autofocus speed/accuracy you sacrifice by doing so is well into the range of diminishing returns for 98% of photographers

It's amazing how correct one company can be about camera design and really highlights the legendary fumble in marketing Pentax has made.

Hi /p/. Ubran birder here. Recently went to Bangkok/Tokyo and took some bird/landscape photos. Fedex lost my wide angle lens so I had to do it all from a 100-400mm on my R10. These are mainly sooc jpegs with the Fine picture style and +1 saturation. Sometimes edited to taste with exposure/haze. Hopefully some of these are good. I'm just a hobbyist trying to keep the existential dread at bay.

Enjoy.