20/07/2026
New camera day. This one’s a big one! It’s hard not to feel like every one of these is a bit of a level up, but this one feels extra special. It’s the first camera I’ve ever bought outright without any financing (or dare I admit, help from parents in the early days). It’s also the first one where I’ve chosen the model as a kind of direct career choice rather than just looking for the flashiest specs.
I actually started looking at new cameras about a year and a half ago and was initially focusing on purely cinema cameras, as I felt like video was what I needed to improve most on. However, most of these don’t take stills and if there’s anything recent months have tought me it’s that a) I still really love taking photos and b) hybrid is what the world wants now and I’m actually really lucky to be able to do that reasonably well.
So rather than trying to be something I’m not and getting a cinema camera I really didn’t need, I’m leaning into how I actually shoot and nabbing what I believe after a HUGE chunk of research is one of the best hybrid cameras out there right now. Really excited to start shooting with it and seeing what it can do.
Anyway, self involved rant over, now look how darned pretty it is!
