Harshit Katiyar

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I bought my first camera and it felt awesome!

I have been a here and there kinda photographer for a really long time. My first instagram post dates back to 2016. Before that I used to post a little bit on facebook. Now, I do not click out of the world amazing photos, not even ones to call myself a photographer. But I have enjoyed the process of taking a photo, making something look good. Editing might be involved but the goal have always been to make something look good.

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Canon R50V

Over the years, I have gotten better at it, just by hit and trial, following many photographers, sometimes watching some basic tutorial, again very here and there. But since it has been so long, I think I have improved a lot. Compare my recent posts on instagram to the first one, I linked earlier. I bought a pixel 3 years ago and it had worked amazing for me.

Been earning for an year now, I could gather courage for getting a new camera finally. I researched for quite some days. Got too confused and frustrated. But the good thing was, I learnt the basic terminology of hardware, what to look for and ask for, at the shop. So one fine day, frustrated with all the confusion, I went out just to "look" at the camera on a camera shop. I sat outside the mall for a while, thought, talked to chatGPT (yeah we are there), took this photo

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then went in, and the lady at the store convinced me to buy this Canon R50V, not at all what I had in my mind. It was on expensive side, still comtemplating on that. But anyways, now I have a fricking camera.

The only problems are :

  • I got to know that 'V' in R50V stands for video, yeah I was dumb.
  • But it's fine, it has got nothing less.
  • Except a viewfinder, flash, and dial has video modes instead of photo.
  • But it's fine, now I can also shoot gooood videos on it.
  • Except that I am too shy to take it outside.

But well, I can still use it at my home, the Diwali would be a really good time to test it out. Rooting for that. Stay tuned!!

Thanks for reading!

Cheers!

~ Harshit KatiyarSat Oct 04 2025