Published Dec 29, 2021 |
In this week’s episode, Chris and Jordan head to The Camera Store to buy the cheapest digital stills and video cameras they can find, and challenge themselves to shoot an entire episode with what they end up with. One of them has a better time with this experiment than the other…
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work. 
