I'm confused. Whatever it is on her phone doesn't look like an empty city at night? What camera did you take this with? It's a nice shot.
This woman was shot in a place with very small park and old brick buildings. She might point her phone to a chain of lights & something else. (If I remember it right.) The old brick building behind her is known as an old library house. It's near this river... ©Alan Aspie That picture was shot a bit earlier in a different place. Gear? I had Canon 6D mk2 + 20/1.8 & 50/1.8 with me. Wide angle was mainly for scenery & Nifty Fifty mainly for portraits. (I like messing with primes more that fooling with zooms.) On the way to that city I shot this.. ©Alan Aspie It's a roundabout as you can clearly see. Shot with 20mm.
I prefer a prime lens, too. What I hate about the kit lens on these lower end mirrorless cameras is the way they have to be unlocked before use. I think they look pig ugly, too, when telescoped.
Well... If you don't like some lens, get rid of it. Change it to something you like. I have never had a mirrorless. So I can't comment that. I know that my next body will be mirrorless. (Probably Canon R5 or R6 but not soon.) Do you want to show your pictures?
I know. I want a 10mm prime for my Nikon V1, but they're about £100 and that's used. Not really taken any yet. I bought an old Chinon CG-5 off eBay. It arrived today but no film yet. I also bought an Olympus E-PL1 a couple of weeks ago, but not taken any with that yet either. I also have a Pentax Q10 but I don't like it. No, I don't like its colour. It was a birthday present and they got it me in red.
To me things are more simple with gear. Find the body/system which suits your hands & eyes & workflow & thinking. Get lenses which you like (even though you can't afford lenses you love) and supportive stuff which makes your workflow enjoyable. Buy only things you like to work with. If you can't, then do not buy anything. FF suits me. Among those Canon way of thinking suits me best. So I stick to it. If I wanted to shoot film, it would be middle format, not kino. 645, 6x6, 6x7, 6x9... Maybe old Kiev's which cost nothing and are so robust you can almost use them as a hammer. Maybe some handy 645. Maybe... But... It's not my thing now. Large format cameras are fun, but you need time money to shoot with those. I like possibilities which sift & tilt bring. I have very limited experience among them, but there was something funny I loved. One thing I might like to do some day is a very large format pinhole camera which shoots straight to a paper. Urban landscape & 40X60 cm format and pinhole f.... But... That's more playing with thoughts than realism now. So... There are options. But I think it's better to go forward in one field, among one system & gear than have a little bit of everything. After one system is so familiar you can use it without looking nobs & bolts and after you can combine your thematic, artistic and technical thinking to one fast & fluid workflow... Then it's time to seek what other systems & formats can give you. You should be able to handle one area before going to another. ©Alan Aspie
If money was no object I'm sure I'd be going down the analogue, self-developing route. Winding the shot on, not having to worry about batteries that only last half a day, even the not knowing what quality of shot you have until development... all of that feels so much more natural to me and connects me to the camera. And yeah, if I was sensible I'd have gone for a film camera in the first instance and used all the money I've spent on the digitals to buy lenses and other gear for the film camera. But I'm impulsive and certainly not sensible.
I took this photo snowshoeing a couple of years ago and still love it. Makes me cold just looking at it! It's Mills Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park for those wondering.
