$$$ if you have it. What if you don't?
Alan C
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From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 8:09 PM
To: PDML List
Subject: Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer
1- Good Solid Tripod (plan on spending about $600-750 for a good one. Don't
buy a cheap one because you'll just buy a better one after that, a better
one after that, and then the same $650-700 tripod in the end …)
2- Remote Release
3- Whatever lens suits the kind of landscape photography you want to do.
Same kind of logic applies to "which one" here as applies to the tripod.
4- Lightroom (standalone or CC stuff, up to you which to spend your money
on)
5- If you need a new computer, pick your poison between macOS and Windoze.
Buy something with a minimum of 8G RAM, 500G startup drive, and a fast 2T
external drive (USB3 or Thunderbolt, depending on what ya like) for storing
your photography data on. Also buy a separate drive to run whatever backup
system you prefer to use (macOS: run Time Machine) and make sure the backup
drive is the size of the startup drive and the external data drive combined,
or larger. However, if you're computer system is recent enough and has
enough RAM and cpu to support it, just buy the external drive for storing
your new photography data and run it with Lightroom until you feel you need
more performance.
G
On Mar 23, 2017, at 8:22 AM, John Sessoms <johnsess...@yahoo.com> wrote:
At my weekly photography brunch yesterday, we had a new "member" who had
a question. He's recently retired & his son had bought him a Nikon D5500
(I'm guessing with kit lens). He said he's interested in landscape
photography.
He asked what kind of computer should he buy. He's already signed up for
an adult continuing education class in Lightroom from the local
community college (if it doesn't get canceled because not enough people
sign up).
Before the discussion devolved into Windoze vs Apple, desktop or laptop,
and whether he should buy the Tamron 70-200 or the Sigma 100 - 400, my
advice was he should get "the fastest processor, the most memory & the
biggest hard-drive you can afford" (which I think holds up either way in
the Windoze vs Apple debate).
I should have suggested a good tripod, but missed my chance.
But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
question to the group wisdom.
Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?
... after I suggest a good, solid tripod.
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