>>4448394roast me /p/ I wanted to get a camera for some time lapse photography for a senior thesis and I lurked here before I sprung out to get my camera without even asking anyone and now I think I made a mistake
here's what I picked up
Nikon D3300 (just the body, refurb, came with battery, charger, strap)
Bought a normal f-mount lens 18-55mm from the camera store
bought cheap tripod, bag
picked the D3300 because I realized I needed an intervalometer and it has a port. Got a chinese one
got the sd card, adapter
picked up the dummy battery ac adapter
realized with my shit eyesight I probably needed a corrective diopter so I ordered one, didn't stop me from setting up.
I put up the camera pointing at a well lit table where the petri dishes w/ mold cultures are gonna be and through a book and youtube tutorials worked out how to manually adjust the camera's aperture and exposure and stuff and worked out the timer mode and intervalometer settings, feeling good about this. but eventually I talk to the guy at the camera store while picking up an ordered part and I'm findout out that long timelapses with lots of clicks can apparently really wear out the hardware? by this point I had invested quite a bit because I had the idea this was going to be my forever camera or something for the next ten years
I mean it's just mold I could probably set it to a photo every 30 minutes or so. but I might be doing these timelapses a lot even following my thesis
am I fucked. did I spend a bunch of money on an obsolete camera that I might wind up breaking
