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Get a digital camera!
There’s something about the quality of digital camera photos that make a picture of anything you take look more pleasing (to me anyway). The nostalgia, the saturation, I love them. I have a couple cameras that still work from when I was a kid, but I also bought one on eBay that was similar to one that used to be a favorite of mine. I just throw it in my purse and take it everywhere, and it’s so much more fun than trying to get the “perfect shot,” especially now that I’ve deleted Meta and gone with Pixelfed it seems that people love posting anything from the little things they see or their drinks. It’s making photo sharing fun again! Although, if you do download Pixelfed (which isn’t the point of this post but) I highly recommend using it in your browser on your phone for now, they’ve already made things run smoother from when I first downloaded but they’re definitely still working on the app.
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@saylor
Jan 20, 2025
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@la9atate
i always say that a digital camera and flash ON is way better than a phone -- yes new phones have great quality, and the tool doesn't matter that much because a lot of artistic and fantastic projects were filmed with one, however nothing can replace a digital camera !! and honestly if it wasn't expensive i would've even just used a film camera on a daily basis and PRINT the picture, because a physical memory printed in a photo is just so BEAUTIFUL and can be cherished waay better than the 20K+ photos on my phone that i barely look back to.
Jan 21, 2025
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@saylor
la9atate agreed!! And I am also huge in printed pictures, I periodically print ones off my phone throughout the year and off my sd cards from my digital cameras. It takes up a lot of space though, I’ve repurposed several small boxes for storing them at this point lol.
Jan 21, 2025
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@arljjas
That's a good looking martini! What gin?
Jan 20, 2025
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@saylor
arljjas Hendrick’s in this one, always a safe bet when I don’t know a bar’s entire gin list lol. I also love that you didn’t even ask if it was gin or vodka, because I will absolutely die on the hill that a martini should always be gin for it to really be a martini.
Jan 20, 2025
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@arljjas
saylor same! I am a purist on it as my latest post demonstrates. I like olives and a twist personally
Jan 20, 2025
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@saylor
arljjas well now I have to go look lol.
Jan 20, 2025
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@mattshawsome
agreed on the digital camera. I got one of the Camp Snap cameras a year ago, I like it, though speed and image quality pretty rough. Fond memories of a Powershot I used to have. Genuinely don't know what I'm going to upgrade to, needs to be something pocketable. Considering an action camera.
Jan 20, 2025
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@saylor
mattshawsome I’ve seen people post some really nice quality shots from action cameras, definitely could be worth considering.
Jan 20, 2025
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@alleywayflowers
i just recently revived my old canon powershot that i got for my 11th birthday (i'm 21 now YIKES) and i've been having so much fun with it 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️
Jan 20, 2025
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@saylor
alleywayflowers The canon power shots are one of my favorites! I have two different ones actually lol, but those are like old reliable to me. Also, don’t say yikes about your age because I’m 5 years older and you’ll make me feel old😪😂
Jan 20, 2025

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@sophiealmond
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This is going to sound dumb and obvious but just do it
My dad is the same way so my childhood is like extensively and obsessively documented in photos, tens of thousands of them. I started taking his cameras and using them to take pictures of everything and anything that caught my eye or that I thought was interesting whether that was places, plants, animals, people, or random objects. I don’t really have a camera that I use now (i do have a shitty point and shoot languishing in a case somewhere) and i should probably get back on that as a hobby but I always make sure to get iPhone models with a zoom lens when it’s time to upgrade and I continue that habit of just snapping photos of everything that piques my interest and they’re automatically backed up to my Google Photos library!
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