The Minimalist Photographer

Chapter 4The Camera

If you want to take photographs, you will need to choose a camera. Until fairly recently, entry-level options were extremely limited. At the beginning of the 1980s, for example, a typical first camera was a fixed-focus film camera with virtually no bells and whistles other than a small built-in flash, an ability to know the film speed without being told, and a cloudy or sunny light setting. Zoom lenses on compact cameras were just beginning to make an appearance, but they were expensive. Zooming in or out was generally done by walking closer or farther away from the subject. For roughly the same price as this basic but serviceable ...