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(Painfully) Funny Look At The Realities Of Being A New DSLR Owner

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expectation1Remember getting your first DSLR and all the grand illusions that came with it? Before you even bought the camera you were probably thinking about the illustrious career as a professional photographer your purchase of prosumer camera somehow magically entitled you to. Those were good old days, when naivety was still sorta blissful. Heck, they’re still good once you realize how much fun it is to look back on those experiences and laugh at our newbie selves.

Expectation vs Reality: Buying Your First DSLR

In Kai’s latest installment over on DRTV, he brings us back to those days, one hilarious reality after another….

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About Tiffany Mueller

Tiffany Mueller is a photographer based in Hawi, Hawaii. You can follow her Twitter here and her personal life here.

  • Git gud lenses

    • kassim

      The same principle applies here:You were craving for creamy bokeh, but then realized the super expensive lens you just bought is too tight for street photography.

  • enorme :)

  • ahah :)

    • Steve August

      I’m selling some awesome gear on CameraPeddler.Com if anyone is interested. I’m selling great Sony gear in order to upgrade my sports photo equp meet bag.

  • all depends if already knows the Photography basics. if so it’s easy to. in fact I bought one thing at a time and always bought prime lens and good lens too. i never spend money in bad lens.

    • Julien Massie

      Yea, the body is less important than the lens, I can take pretty amazing shot on my 60D

  • Rick

    The disparity is even greater for GoPro owners. I bought one several years ago and I’m still not an X-games athlete or a world class skier. Maybe if I were to buy the newest model…

    • Julien Massie

      Wow, yes thats true, I used to teach alpine sking. Im a professional cameraman thats what I do for my living. But I realized that even if I drop a 5-10 feet cliff on my ski …. the footage kinda sucked ….. Even if you know how to set-up everything the Go pro 1 was a on and off button point and shoot.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMBBtDnivRg&list=UUpQsDy7FXFzpyO1qVlk-8TA

      Also the ride was really intense and I had powder to the knee, but on video it just look like a easy regular ride … FML

      Samething when I went outdoor cliff climbing … since im not in the top world élite of the sport it kinda looked a bit boring …

      I was expecting red-bull stuff result but you really need to be ON TOP OF THE GAME, to get any interesting footage of something on a go pro. Note that was the go pro 1, the image quality have been pushed to the max at the editing …

  • Austin Pena

    • How I still feel when I look at pros.

    • Did you watch the video? it’s pretty funny

    • Yeah I saw it last night. He is every DSLR owning tourist ever.

  • Idalia Davila..that’s me

  • So true…

  • kassim

    I remember. I was kinda disappointed to see my compact camera’s pictures were just better in every way – sharper, more vibrant, contrasty. Then I learned post processing. Things becoming better and better afterwards.

  • ajfudge

    Haha. I’m guilty of this. I f***ed up many times because of my expectations. And I was too overwhelmed by the many settings in my dSLR and didn’t practice enough to achieve some improvement.

  • Eric Deesey

    For managing my online portfolio I use https://folionix.com

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