Youre going to love that camera. I would say that any camera released after 2018 is still a very capable camera even today.

If you havent learned it yet, the expsoure triangle is the most important thing to learn imo. After that is composition and lighting.

I would personally only clean the sensor when it needs it. The less you touch the actual sensor the better.

Good luck!

Yeah when I realized I needed to clean it, I had to watch some videos to learn how.

I didnt want to make any mistakes. To be honest it was very simple, you only put enough pressure to slightly bend the stick and slowly move the cleaning end in one direction.

I have a pair of these.

When I used a flashlight to check the sensor after cleaning and saw pristine glass was a really great feeling.

Thanks!

For “protection” (does it help, maybe?), the idea of aesthetics and for the fact that I always have little offcuts of leather laying around. It took about a minute to make.

Thats pretty cool, I dont own any film cameras but mostly due to the cost of film and prints. I have seen some examples of people adding leather to older cameras. It always looks great.

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Thank you very much!

Thanks :) This is actually vegtan leather that I used to replace the original rubber grip.

After about 4 years the textured rubber began to stretch. Then the rubber surrounding the back “Q” fell off, so I decided to replace all of it with real leather. I just used the old grip to trace the form and cut it out of vegtan. I applied a thin layer of E6000 and let that dry for a few mintues until it became tacky. There are areas where the leather is too short by a few millimeters but it doesn’t bother me enough to remake.