I’m going travelling in a week or two and decided to dig out my old Canon 350D dslr, from the early days of consumer digital cameras before the rise of the smartphone.
It’s definitely older than I remember, although maybe so am I! 8 mega pixel, with a 512Mb compact flash card.
On the other hand, I have a perfectly serviceable OnePlus 7T, obviously newer, not cutting edge any more but fine.
What do people think? Go retro or stick to the modern?
Canon glass will give better raw photos, but then you’ll have to do the postprocessing manually. Maybe there’s some AI auto photo processing thing out there, IDK. Also you’d have to carry that thing around. OnePlus should do at least a passable attempt at postprocessing, so it’s definitely less work. But the tiny lens and sensor mean your image quality ceiling is much lower. Is the 7T the one with the cool pop up selfie cam?
I have a soft bricked 9T with a pop up selfie cam. I really miss that feature.
No, the 7T is just a standard glass rectangle, nothing funky.
What kind of post processing would you apply? Back when I got it I just downloaded the photos to my computer and that was that!
You can either shoot in jpeg or in RAW.
RAW files are like a digital negative that require you process them on your computer for them to look the best.
RAW files contain more information and give you more flexibility in editing, but if you just want the image, shooting in jpeg is the simplest most straight forward approach.