I have decided to pick up photography and photography processing again so I’ve bought a new camera. It’s a mirrorless Canon, and I have work to do to get fully au fait with the device. This is the first photograph I took with the new camera, which I replaced almost immediately as it had a small sensor issue from the first photograph.

I used to carry a DSLR every where with me, and because I did a lot of sports photography, my camera bag got very heavy in the end. I was carrying 20kg around. It’s just occurred to me that that extra weight carried around probably explained some of the unexplained weight loss I had around that time. Which is, frighteningly enough, coming up to 20 years ago.

Anyway, I’m not so interested in carrying 20kg around everywhere, especially as I no longer have a car and would have to carry it all around. I’m working with a kit lens for the time being and while I might pick up a slowish 200 or 300mm lens, and maybe a 50mm 1,8 as well. The camera is a Canon R8. It feels right in my hand.