>>3366740>You are perfectly fine starting out with a modern smartphone like Sumireko, actually.In fact, you become a sellout the moment you denigrate yourself enough to need a standalone camera in the first place. The highest calling of any photographer is to document people getting bludgeoned in the face. You can do this with an iPhone or anything.
If a riot doesn't start for your express benefit every time you pull a camera out your ass pocket, then you're a hack fraud anyway.
>>3367454>You can get an old Minolta film camera, a decent 50mm lens, and a few rolls of film for like <$100.Fuck that. For $100, you can buy a container of gasoline, several rolls of toilet paper, and still have enough left over for a picket fence.
>Learn about exposureIf you really want to learn about exposure, get a pin, a cardboard box, and some tracing paper, and make your own pigeonhole camera. All this crap about lenses and geometry is just a masturbatory fetish.
Some of these goddamn punks have taken literally thousands upon thousands of photos of stuff not blowing up. If this is you, and your whole artistic process involves nothing, and you need to take a critical look at yourself beyond your hack fraud leading lines.
