Sorry to hear about you're income although I get it. My wife teaches and her income is pretty much stagnant, I'm on SS and pensions and SS increase was 2.5% this year, lol. Not what I've seen in the grocery store.
Had this camera for almost a year now and I see it as a video Beast. N-raw, subject detection, manual focus override, 2nd ISO of 4000, Balances well on a gimbal, hand holds nicely with it's vibration control, no heat timeout as highlights. I'm shooting Blackmagic b-raw, Canon c-raw, and Sony...
I use Davinci Resolve. You can download the free version and get most of the features that the paid version provides. In Davinci Resolve there is a raw section on the color tab that will give you world class color grading (developing) capabilities which are actually better than Photoshop...
Now you're getting closer! Force your audience to look at the channel itself by cropping off the sky. Once the sky is cropped as above or even further down, you could lighten the highlights in the water to draw more attention to it. If you could catch it at a different time of day with some...
I don't remember. That was 60 years ago. Looking at pictures on Google the C3 looks the closest. I learned a lot with that camera. 15 years later I bought a Pantex SLR. My first Nikon came a lot later and I've stayed with Nikon ever since as I collected glass.
An Argus rangefinder my grandfather willed to me. I had a Brownie before that but it was the manual controls on the Argus that fascinated me. I was probably around 10 at the time.
Maybe. There are a few different areas you can choose from to maximize your chances. Depends on light available, contrast of image, and what the ai recognizes as a face or eye. Sometimes with my Z8 I just use manual focus to see the depth of field I'm getting and know if my subject is within...
I only shoot raw both stills and video with the Z8. It's not difficult to "develop" them in either Photoshop or Davinci Resolve with a little practice.
The images look fine to me but look like cell phone images. If I had taken them with my D850 and Prime 50mm lens I would be very disappointed. Having said all that, I wasn't there so I have no idea what the scenes looked like to the naked eye.