Advice on digital camera.

[Rolleibrian71]

Thank you for accepting me onto this forum.
I really want to get back into photography again but have been lacking in inspiration due to a number of issues.
I'm looking for some advice please to hopefully get me back into something that I used to dearly love. I've only ever shot film and love the aesthetics of the square format but would like to give digital a try. I wonder if anyone could recommend a high quality small digital compact that shoots square images please?

 

[Jeff15]

Hello and welcome, take a look at Panasonic and Sony cameras...

 

[Rolleibrian71]

Hello and welcome, take a look at Panasonic and Sony cameras...

Thanks Jeff, I'll do that.

 

[dstreetphoto]

Fujifilm have a great selection of old and new bodies and you wont want for APS-C lenses. I admit they don't shoot square images, however you can always crop.

 

[Rolleibrian71]

Fujifilm have a great selection of old and new bodies and you wont want for APS-C lenses. I admit they don't shoot square images, however you can always crop.

Thankyou, I'll give them a look as well. I did have my eye on a Fuji XA 1.

 

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day Brian

Congratulations upon entering the digital world here ... I did it 20-some yrs back when I finally gave film away and 'went digital'

I am not aware of any current digital bodies that internally crop to a square format ... they follow the 35mm / 6 x 9cm film format thus producing "good ol' 4" x 6" prints" for those who print their stuff

You will soon find heaps of offerings for dSLR cameras and heaps of lenses that go with them.
I will offer an alternate suggestion as you ask for "a high quality small digital compact"

Jeff above suggests two possible brands ... I will go further and suggest / ask you "do you need interchangeable lenses or will a strong + built-in zoom do the job"?

If the latter, I suggest you look into any of i) the Panny FZ-300 with its constant aperture 24x zoom Leica lens; then ii) the (big bigger+ heavier) Panny FZ-2000 with its 20x zoom Leica lens, and/or iii) the Sony RX-100 (latest model) as all three are excellent cameras and worthy of serious consideration

Hope this helps
Phil

 

[cgw]

Ricoh GR II and III

 

[jeffashman]

Howdy and welcome! My Sony RX10M4 allows me to set the aspect ratio to 1:1, which is a square cropped image, if that helps. It's a nice bridge camera that doesn't require one to carry around a satchel full of lenses.