6 Tips For Picking Out Your Next Camera

How to avoid costly and time wasting mistakes.

My favorite street photography / POV combo, but probably not my first recommendation for a daily camera setup.

I first published this article “way back” in February 2020. I have recently reviewed it and decided it needed some major re-works and updates. This is the updated version.

I’ve picked out my top 6 tips I wish I knew before buying my first camera (and many other cameras).

My adventurous steps in upgrading and trading around different bodies/brands below:

1. My first camera was a Nikon point-and-shoot.
2. Then I upgraded a crop sensor Canon DSLR,
3. Afterwards returning to Nikon with a full frame DSLR
4. Then trying out mirrorless with a crop sensor Sony
5. Then diving more into Sony with their full frame camera
6. And back to Canon…and then I added another Canon,
7. I’ve recently (as of 2021) picked up a Ricoh GRiii point-and-shoot for street photography.

The list in the last 3 years has now expanded to trying out a different Ricoh, a Fuji, three Leicas, and a vintage Epson from 2004. More on all of that in a future post.

I jumped around alot, as the list below will soon prove. I don’t regret my jumps, but maybe you would. So hopefully this post today could save you some time…and money!

So, safe to say, I’ve dabbled in almost all of the major brands (excluding Olympus and Pentax), experienced a bit of wishy-washy switches and swaps between bodies and brands.

I didn’t necessarily know what I wanted, or needed, and I was constantly told by Youtubers what to buy or that they just upgraded to the newest “this” or “that” and that I needed to too. Sometimes I fell for it, sometimes I didn’t.

I really wished I had asked myself the next 6 questions though!

1. Can you grow with this?
2. Do you have friends who use the same brand?
3. What do your favorite artists consistently…