I started photography as a teenager on SLRs. I loved the way the camera felt in my hands. I loved nothing more than capturing moments, people and places. Photography was an expensive hobby for any teenager in the day when you needed to spend your allowance on film. It also proved to be very expensive learning from mistakes. Over the years, I had slowly given up on photography when life took over; university followed by work.
I got married and moved to a new country. Life started to slow down. I eventually moved from working in an office to consulting which resulted in finding time to pursue new things in life. We started to travel and I began my photography again.
I remember standing in the camera store in Singapore, looking at all my options. While all I wanted to do was to pick up the biggest full frame camera with all the bells and whistles, I took the reality check pill and realised that we travel light, mostly cabin baggage trips and what I needed was something light. I didn't want to get into the mirrorless game, I still loved the SLR too much. So, I picked up the Canon 100D. I still get laughed at by my photography friends. But the best part about my camera is that I've never had a situation where my camera was too heavy to take out for any occasions. While I will graduate to better lenses, I started with a kit lens. And the photos weren't half bad. If anything, the camera has pushed me harder to learn to develop my skills in both photography and editing - I use Lightroom. I love my Canon 100D and I reckon, I'd never give it up even if I get a new camera.
I'm a firm believer that any camera can take great photos. And as I travel places, I have my Canon 100D with me because, lets face it, small doesn't always mean inferior and its just so convenient.
I'm planning to upgrade the kit lens soon and will do another post after my next adventure.