Immensity
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Hey there!
I feel a short intro is in place, so here it is:
I've been interested in photography for a long time now.
My mom and dad still own a Nikon F70 and I can safely say, I've taken more pictures with it than they have, and it's camera that taught me the basics of photography.
I even followed a course on photography at my university, which increased my interest even more.
As I have an expensive hobby (motorcycles and racing them at the track), I never really got to investing in a good camera though, but that's no longer the case.
I recently crashed my bike at the track, which lead to 9 broken ribs, 2 collapsed lungs, fractured radius (at the wrist), dislocated shoulder and a torn shoulder labrum.
Since it'll take some time to fully recover and get back to my old strenght-levels so I'm fit enough to race, I've decided to skip the coming season.
This not only gives me time to fix my bike, it also means I have some money available to invest in something else!
It totally sucks to have been in such a bad crash, but I'm really happy I finally get to invest in a camera and explore photography more.
Before this changes into my auto-biography, let's get down to business!
First of all, what are you willing to spend?
I've decided on a total budget of about €2500,- ($3200,-).
I can't really justify spending a lot more than that at this point.
What do you want for that money?
This should include the body and preferably 2 lenses and whatever memory card that goes into the camera I end up choosing.
I already have a somewhat decent camera bag and a decent tripod as well.
If I'm forgetting some essentials, please let me know.
What are you planning on doing with the camera?
Mainly, I want to cover trackdays and other racing events.
So I want to be able to take good pictures of the bikes or cars on the track, but I'd also like to create some nice images while they are in the pits/standing still.
One of my other interests is action sports, so I'd love to experiment with that as well.
Aside from all that fast-paced stuff, I pretty much want to explore street photography, portraits, concerts, perhaps some macro shots, and what the hell, even weddings!
Those last few things aren't my primary concern though, but I do want to explore them at some point.
What about video?
I have some experience in editing with After Effects and Premiere Pro and I'd like to experiment with self-shot footage.
So yes, I will be shooting video with it, and I'd like it to look good. (as good as my skills will allow)
This is definitely an important feature to me.
Which camera bodies have you considered so far?
I'd say the main contenders for me are the Nikon D7000 and the Canon 7D.
They are within budget to leave me with enough money to invest in the first lenses.
I'm very much open to other suggestions though!
The second-hand market here in the Netherlands isn't that big though, as far as I can see, so please take that into consideration.
What about the lenses?
I'd like to start off with preferably 2 lenses.
One for the motor- and possibly actionsports.
Another one for 'everything else'.
This leads to 2 options:
- Buy the camera body and choose 2 seperate lenses.
- Get the camera with a kit-lens and choose a single seperate lens.
There's so many lenses to choose from, I'm going to leave this up to your imagination.
As an example, one of the combinations I came up with, was the 7D with the 18-55mm kit lens and the 70-200mm f/2.8 L lens. Any good?
In short, what do you need advice on?
- A camera body I can use as a solid base to start exploring photography, but one that is also capable of decent video. D7000, 7D or ??
- A lens suitable for motorsports and possibly actionsports as well.
- A lens that'll allow me to experiment with other types of photography, so I can decide to invest into more lenses specific for a certain type of photography. Perhaps one of the available kit-lenses or should I consider a different option here and skip the whole 'one-for-all'-type lens?
Hopefully I can get some good advice, and if there are any questions left for me to answer, please let me know!
I've already put in quite some time investigating the options, but for some reason can't decide yet on what to buy, mainly due to being somewhat overwhelmed with all the options.
Thanks in advance!
P.S. Please excuse any spelling or grammatical errors, English isn't my first language.
I feel a short intro is in place, so here it is:
I've been interested in photography for a long time now.
My mom and dad still own a Nikon F70 and I can safely say, I've taken more pictures with it than they have, and it's camera that taught me the basics of photography.
I even followed a course on photography at my university, which increased my interest even more.
As I have an expensive hobby (motorcycles and racing them at the track), I never really got to investing in a good camera though, but that's no longer the case.
I recently crashed my bike at the track, which lead to 9 broken ribs, 2 collapsed lungs, fractured radius (at the wrist), dislocated shoulder and a torn shoulder labrum.
Since it'll take some time to fully recover and get back to my old strenght-levels so I'm fit enough to race, I've decided to skip the coming season.
This not only gives me time to fix my bike, it also means I have some money available to invest in something else!
It totally sucks to have been in such a bad crash, but I'm really happy I finally get to invest in a camera and explore photography more.
Before this changes into my auto-biography, let's get down to business!
First of all, what are you willing to spend?
I've decided on a total budget of about €2500,- ($3200,-).
I can't really justify spending a lot more than that at this point.
What do you want for that money?
This should include the body and preferably 2 lenses and whatever memory card that goes into the camera I end up choosing.
I already have a somewhat decent camera bag and a decent tripod as well.
If I'm forgetting some essentials, please let me know.
What are you planning on doing with the camera?
Mainly, I want to cover trackdays and other racing events.
So I want to be able to take good pictures of the bikes or cars on the track, but I'd also like to create some nice images while they are in the pits/standing still.
One of my other interests is action sports, so I'd love to experiment with that as well.
Aside from all that fast-paced stuff, I pretty much want to explore street photography, portraits, concerts, perhaps some macro shots, and what the hell, even weddings!
Those last few things aren't my primary concern though, but I do want to explore them at some point.
What about video?
I have some experience in editing with After Effects and Premiere Pro and I'd like to experiment with self-shot footage.
So yes, I will be shooting video with it, and I'd like it to look good. (as good as my skills will allow)
This is definitely an important feature to me.
Which camera bodies have you considered so far?
I'd say the main contenders for me are the Nikon D7000 and the Canon 7D.
They are within budget to leave me with enough money to invest in the first lenses.
I'm very much open to other suggestions though!
The second-hand market here in the Netherlands isn't that big though, as far as I can see, so please take that into consideration.
What about the lenses?
I'd like to start off with preferably 2 lenses.
One for the motor- and possibly actionsports.
Another one for 'everything else'.
This leads to 2 options:
- Buy the camera body and choose 2 seperate lenses.
- Get the camera with a kit-lens and choose a single seperate lens.
There's so many lenses to choose from, I'm going to leave this up to your imagination.
As an example, one of the combinations I came up with, was the 7D with the 18-55mm kit lens and the 70-200mm f/2.8 L lens. Any good?
In short, what do you need advice on?
- A camera body I can use as a solid base to start exploring photography, but one that is also capable of decent video. D7000, 7D or ??
- A lens suitable for motorsports and possibly actionsports as well.
- A lens that'll allow me to experiment with other types of photography, so I can decide to invest into more lenses specific for a certain type of photography. Perhaps one of the available kit-lenses or should I consider a different option here and skip the whole 'one-for-all'-type lens?
Hopefully I can get some good advice, and if there are any questions left for me to answer, please let me know!
I've already put in quite some time investigating the options, but for some reason can't decide yet on what to buy, mainly due to being somewhat overwhelmed with all the options.
Thanks in advance!
P.S. Please excuse any spelling or grammatical errors, English isn't my first language.
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