Anon04/19/26, 09:07No.4505475
I only picked up photography a few months ago. My goal was to be able to do a little bit of everything (besides videos) for cheap so I could learn both what I liked to shoot and what different lenses were good for. I bought a Canon EOS R100 with both kit lenses (18-45mm & 75-300mm) a 50mm prime ("nifty 50") and a small backpack (lowepro tahoe bp130) for about $1k all together and started bringing the whole kit whenever I went anywhere interesting.
So far I've been very happy with my setup. You can probably skip with 75-300m pringle can lens, it's not image stabilized so it's not great for sports or birds and the zoom is kind of overkill when combined with the crop factor of APS-C. It's neat to have because it can very easily do things that a phone can't (like take decent moon pictures) but going through my albums I found that most of the actual good shots were taken with the cheapo wide angle zoom (usually outdoors/daytime and wide DoF) or the nifty fifty (for indoors/night/bokeh). Up to you if the $200 is worth it to play around with taking spy photos of things/people from insane distances.
Other than that I think the R100 is very easy to use, I basically shoot in manual the whole time and have few issues, occasionally I'll miss focus or have to take test shots to dial in settings, but usually the preview is enough to quickly tweak shutter/aperture and get what I want at the highest ISO possible.
