Where to start?

Komri wrote:

Hello,

I've been reading lots of posts here and everyone seems super helpful, so hoping I can get some good advice. I recently went to Iceland and borowed a fuji x100v and Olympus e-m10 ii with a couple of zoom lenses. I enjoyed getting into photography for the first time and would like to now buy some kit of my own. We very pleased with the pictures.

I preferred the interface on the Fuji, so have decided that's the band for me. I want to do mainly landscapes, but also family and travel photography. I'm likely to start out with the 16-80 kit lens and then a faster prime. Eventually I may get another couple of lenses, the 10-24 and a telephoto if we do a safari holiday look semsible options, but will see how i get on. I'm not going to be doing serious videoing, just of the kids.

I'd like advice on which camera, I expect to keep the camera body for many years, not upgrade for a long time. I've been looking at the x-s10, x-t4 and x-t5. The x-t5 is appealing because its the latest tech so likely to last longer and a little lighter than the x-t4.

X-t4 would save some money, but is the heaviest, and xt5 not that much more, I'll look for black Friday deals here in the UK.

The s10 is appealing as it's a lot cheaper, but I wonder if its too small for bigger lenses, and not weather sealed. Smaller battery would mean I'd need multiples I expect. It doesn't seem to be that popular due to its PSAM controls, I suspect I'd learn more from the dedicated dials.

What do you recommend? Is it worth jumping straight into the deep end with the x-t5?

Many thanks

Hi!

I'm glad to hear you enjoy photographing, and that you are willing to get involved.

I'd recommend you to get not too much worried about cameras to turn "obsolete". Camera you buy now will eventually broke beyond repairing. But that may take ten years or fifteen, or longer.

If you buy now a camera that suits you well (ergonomically, by size, produces pleasing images etc.) it is likely that the same cemera is good fo you after five, or ten years. Yes, some technological evolution happens. Follow that evolution and think, if you really need new features. Or do the new features make you easier to get good photo. If not, upgrading is not necessary. Your camera does not turn bad, rotten or useless even when newer cameras came.

Oldest digical camera that I still ocatinally use and enjoy to use is Konica-Minolta A200. It was released 2004 I guess, and while battery life has degraded and It's features are rather limited (there actually is no high ISO), in certain situations and conditions it still produces very nice files and photos...

So, my point is that whatever of those cameras you now pick, and if you like it now, there is no need to worry. Relax. Use your camera, enjoy your camera, photographing and photos you create.

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