I think I get one great shot every day.

However, each time I look back at my “great” shots, they look that little bit less great.

Once The Great Filter Of Time has done it’s work, I reckon on 1-2 “Great” per year and a couple of dozen “I Really Like This One”.

Plus 10,000 I can’t quite bring myself to delete.

Probably.

So?

IDGAF.

All good tips!

All I’d add is: wave a feathery wand just over the camera to attract their attention.

Am museum professional paper conservator. Can confirm.

I have a picture of myself on the contact page of my website.

right, same here. IMHO that needs to be there, but no more than that.

Copenhagen–Mombassa is just over €600 and there’s all the wildlife you can possibly want. I did that in December and it was lovely. Too warm if anything.

As someone who has an ultra-wide lens on order, this is timely and useful advice.

For me, this is what turned my landscape photography from “Oh yes, I remember that place” to “Print and frame”.

Beautiful scenery and beautiful light is not enough.

This. If I can tell how tall you are, you’re not making enough effort.

Black Diamond Screentap Gloves

Available in light, medium, and thick weights.

Game changer. Can still use touchscreen and feel controls.

I use the thin ones and if it goes below -10°C then I put mitts over them. Remove mitts, allow mitts to dangle from strings attached to wristwarmers, take shot, replace mitts.

If it is ONLY the red dots that are blurry, my guess is that someone tried to clean the focussing screen with a swab and buggered it up. That’s a €250 repair. So if it’s usable, I’d leave well alone.

Source: I was that idiot, I made the same mistake with a Canon 200D.

If you will print at least one sheet per week, I’d definitely consider home, for quality control rather than price per se. Any less often and the damn thing dries up and becomes unusable. I’m assuming inkjet here.

I have become very lazy about lens caps since I started religiously using lens hoods which help against bumps and knocks a lot.

But I think a lot of it is just being less poor than I was: it would not be disastrous if I damaged a lens, like it would have been 10, 20, 30 years ago for me. Not a good attitude, I admit :-(

It gets easier, you become desensitised to it.

When I started I felt like I had a neon flashing sign pointing at me. I now realise that as long as you are not pointing a cameradirectly in someone’s face, few people notice you, and very few care.

That is very interesting. I checked all mine with a loupe a couple of years ago, in raking light, and they were all practically undamaged. Maybe I don’t use my lenses nearly enough!

Wow, that graph, the canon R is even worse. What are canon playing at with R? The lenses (what few there are) are dogshit and slow,… is the whole R project just a huge mistake? Canon seem to have really dropped the ball.

I wondered about that, but wouldn’t their legs be in odd positions or bent?

I was contracted for 4 years. Nobody gave a crap what I did outside the 9-5 M-F.

And the principle with using company gear was “you bend it, you mend it”, otherwise they DGAF.

You just work for tossers.

Do factory reset. Use only OEM battery. If problem persists, return to store.

People using “protection” filters

took me a long time to stop. I started in the '70s when using a UV filter for protection was a radical new idea.

Took me until 2010 to realise just HOW MUCH extra flare and desaturation they were responsible for. Took me until 2020 to realise I had literally never scratched one or replaced one, and that they had therefore achieved precisely fuck-all. Took them all off.

I now use exactly one, which is on a pinhole lens to keep the dust out. Oh and another I use on my cheapest DSLR kit lens when I am on a beach - not that I have ever replaced THAT either.