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This $50 Camera Changed My Photography Forever

This $50 Camera Changed My Photography Forever

Posted on August 16, 2020August 27, 2023 By Jarvis

The Olympus XA2 is everything that my more serious digital camera is not, and there are about a thousand things to love about its brilliant design.

I am, charitably, a moderately competent hobbyist photographer. I owe pretty much every ounce of that competence to the instant, guess-and-check shooting style that modern digital cameras make possible. When the shutter-bug first bit me in earnest, I spent hours taking literally thousands of absolute garbage pictures with a borrowed DSLR, fiddling with all the settings and inching my way to a handful of decent shots, gigabytes of trash in my wake. My technique has improved since then, but the path to my favorite shots remains a trigger-happy tumble. When you have a digital camera, why not?
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