{"id":1440,"date":"2022-06-01T12:16:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/?page_id=1440"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:22:11","slug":"serious-photography-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/serious-photography-on-the-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious photography on the cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"863\" src=\"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GX7-web-1024x863.jpg\" alt=\"Panasonic GX7 front\" class=\"wp-image-1496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GX7-web-1024x863.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GX7-web-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GX7-web-768x647.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GX7-web.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photography has never been a cheap hobby.  And now a contracting market has forced manufacturers to increase prices and move upmarket in search of profit. For many people state of the art new equipment is out of reach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This occasional series looking at low cost gear offers an antidote. The used market, budget and older \u201cobsolete\u201d models can offer astonishing quality and value for money. Low priced equipment doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean poor quality photographs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Good quality at a low price<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2812 review type-review status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry review_category-cheap review_category-lenses\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/review\/samyang-85mm-f-1-4-converted-to-gfx-f-1-0-equivalent\/\" target=\"_self\" >Using the Samyang 85mm f\/1.4 on Fuji GFX \u2013 an affordable f\/1.0 equivalent<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"text-decoration:none\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The manual focus Samyang 85mm offers an easy adaptation to Fuji GFX medium format and full coverage even wide open <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2556 review type-review status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry review_category-cheap\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/review\/adapting-old-film-lenses-to-micro-4-3-cameras-using-shift-adaptors\/\" target=\"_self\" >Adapting old film lenses to micro 4\/3 cameras using shift adaptors<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"text-decoration:none\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Shift or shift and tilt adaptors are an economical alternative to tilt shift lenses and the only option for micro 4\/3 cameras. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1535 review type-review status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry review_category-cheap\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/review\/medium-format-on-the-cheap-with-the-rhinocam-vertex-rotary-stitch-adaptor\/\" target=\"_self\" >Medium format on the cheap with the Rhinocam Vertex rotary stitch adaptor<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"text-decoration:none\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Welcome to the world of large medium format digital without a medium format camera. This adaptor from Fotodiox stitches 4 shots together using a convenient rotary action to create square crops from 645 medium format <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1494 review type-review status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry review_category-cheap\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/review\/serious-photography-on-the-cheap-panasonic-lumix-gx7-from-119\/\" target=\"_self\" >Serious photography on the cheap &#8211; Panasonic Lumix GX7 (from \u00a3119)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"text-decoration:none\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Compact and capable little camera with a tilting viewfinder. m4\/3 mount and a low used price <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other gear reviews<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full range of gear reviews on this site, see the: <a href=\"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/review\/\">Full reviews index<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography has never been a cheap hobby. And now a contracting market has forced manufacturers to increase prices and move upmarket in search of profit. For many people state of the art new equipment is out of reach. This occasional series looking at low cost gear offers an antidote. The used market, budget and older [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5851,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1440","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6339,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1440\/revisions\/6339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}