Not Another Shutterbug

Agent001 comes to the rescue as another friend falls for the photography bug.

Photo Fairs are quite common in Mumbai, and with one of my friends having recently been to one, I was inundated with his questions about cameras. Needless to say, he was really taken in by all the marketing mumbo-jumbo and was all geared up to get himself a DSLR. With a click of a button he’d be able to take photos akin to the ones that the National Geographic magazine would put on its cover… or so he thought.

He wasn’t the first to come up to me to ask about DSLRs, there have been countless others including many Digit readers who’d walked the path of DSLR photography. I zoned out the moment he uttered the word ‘DSLR’. There’d be one more @XYZPhotography Facebook page that I’d have to like. One more page filled with cringe worthy templatised photos reminiscent of every other Photography page … oh the horror!

If you’ve ever had someone come up to you with a buying query then you’ll know they want everything under the sun for 10 bucks and my friend was the same. While he had done a fair amount of research by himself about which parameters to focus on while buying a DSLR, there were areas where he’d misinterpreted a few things. And that was painfully evident.