Train station from 1912. It's still in use, though barely.
Cape Town has many handsome buildings. Windhoek, only a few. Germans weren't here long.
This is the last photo for several days. My Canon lens, bought used in Cape Town, is malfunctioning. I've bought a new one here, but can't pick it up until the wire transfer comes through.
My second camera, an excellent Fujifilm given to me by Mieko Kawakami in Tokyo, is dead.
Cape Town has at least three good camera shops, Cameraland, Cameraworld and, especially, Orms, but even at Orms, I couldn't get my dying Fujifilm fixed. Since it had to be sent to Johannesburg, I decided against it.
Windhoek has only one barely adequate camera shop. It is really a backwater in the middle of a vast desert, in a country with hardly any people.
On the road, all practical problems become extra complicated, but at least there's no language barrier for me here.
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For a good, affordable, discreet, camera I use the original Sony RX-100. The RX-100 costs about $300, is very small but has a large sensor, it has a 3x zoom, and it takes excellent pictures set on automatic although there is a manual setting and lots of other settings on the camera that I never use. Don't spend more on a later versions of this camera, their lens and sensors aren't much better but they cost a lot more.
Hi Martin,
An ideal street photography camera is the Sony Alpha a6600. With a 18-135mm lens, it costs $1,800 on Amazon.
My gift Fujifilm X100F cost more than a grand. Though it was great, it came with a fixed lens, so that's a challenge. I got used to it, though, so used it almost exclusively in Serbia and North Macedonia, and during my five months in South Korea, it was my primary camera.
Linh
Hi Linh,
For $300 you won't find a better small camera that takes such high quality pictures as a Sony RX-100. Believe me, for years I've looked around for better value and all the other cameras are either too huge (I like taking discreet/candid shots) and/or are far too expensive. I've dropped or lost three of these cameras during my travels/camping/hiking over the last eight years, it isn't as heartbreaking when your lost/broken/stolen camera costs $300 instead of $1,800.
Check out the shots in the link below to see what this camera is capable of doing. Keep in mind that these shots were taken on a $300 camera set on automatic, although these images have also been cropped and tweaked with free, basic, photo software (that came with my computer) before being posting to this site.
I truly wish that the affordable RX-100 existed during my decades (late 70's, 80's, 90's, and early 2000's) of travelling hard and on a shoestring budget throughout the Second and Third World. Because such digital technology didn't exist, I missed out on capturing many, many, thousands of excellent images of a time and place, now long gone, within those 100+ countries I had visited during those years of travel. Of those times and places I only have lots of mostly vague memories and almost zero photographs.
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