I Hate Zoom Lenses | Minolta 7000 | Beach POV

Welcome to 2024 you beautiful people. We head up to the Sunshine Coast, where I make the mistake of taking the Minolta 7000 with a 100 - 300 zoom lens. It sucks a bag, and I apologise.
Let's get social!
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[@philvidins457]

Great vid AND pictures :)

[@acecreates]

Cheers!!!

[@Alfred.Petersson]

I find a 70-210mm zoom nice for aviation (the only telephoto-ish lens that I until recently had). 210mm might be self explanatory, plane go high. But I also find myself going all the way down to 70mm with it at airshows. When a plane or especially formation of planes are coming really low, they're closer than you'd think, and 210mm would crop out some of the formation. With that said I recently got a pretty nice Konica Hexanon 135mm prime lens. That might be a good middle ground.

[@nicklopro]

In the bushes breathing heavily as i type this. But what song did you sing for the lens?😂 rawhide?

[@acecreates]

Haha!! I love that tune

[@nicklopro]

@@acecreates Yeehaw cowpoke!

[@D65248]

I love zoom lenses, i love Minolta 7000i

[@acecreates]

Nice

[@shutterslaps4938]

Lucifers lens 👺 great video man 👍

[@acecreates]

Cheers!!

[@acecreates]

What was your fav photo?

[@theoldcameraguy]

I like the shot of the happy dude at 4:28

[@acecreates]

Funny story about him.. I actually saw him a few weeks earlier and got a photo of him up the coast, and then I saw him again!

[@TheClique]

Nice job...

[@acecreates]

Cheers. I was in a rush to get this video out and the editing was pretty jaunty.. thanks for popping by!

[@TheClique]

@@acecreates I always do, just harder to leave comments watching on the TV 🙂

[@acecreates]

Aww cheers man!

[@Drivers_Eye]

are these the best photos u have?? ... tbh?? keep trying dude!

[@acecreates]

How would you suggest I improve, out of genuine curiosity

[@orion7741]

@@acecreates some good ways to improve is repetition, self inspection, expanding your inspiration base, and also upgrading equipment. We all have a certain thing (or things) that we are naturally drawn to and captures our attention, I would encourage you focus on what yours is and then just do that. find what you truly love to take images of and just focus on those images. Then do it, alot. thats where repetition comes in. the more pictures you take, the more skilled your "eye" will become in framing and composing images that have life and story to them. with your images, look over them without any personal bias. allow yourself to criticize and find faults with your images, take away any personal emotions that you may have with them. Also, buy other peoples photography books. could be famous people or just other photographers that are putting out "zines". use other peoples creativity to inspire you to see things differently and to approach your own images in a different aspect that you would not have done previously. While the equipment is not going to magically make you a super talent, upgrading from what you are using in this video would be a step in the right direction and would help with some better image quality. that minolta is pretty much just MEH... that lens is trash. the lens especially is what you want to throw your money at in regards to camera gear. if you can, pick up a Nikon F3. or even a F4s. then get a great lens and you will be set. Most importantly of all is that you make sure that your images tell a story. nearly all the images you showed in this video just felt like they were haphazdly taken snapshots from somebodys vacation. there was no life or essence to them. focus on taking images that convey to the viewer a story of what was happening in that instance that you triggered the shutter. hope this is helpful to you.

[@user-co6ww2cm9k]

they're fine dude it's a video about lenses

[@acecreates]

Awesome advice

[@acecreates]

Cheers!!