Gravel ride with my “vintage digital” point-n-shoot

So, I love photography and taking photos. I’m not a big fan of taking cell phone photos… It’s fine for a selfie in a group shot on the run, but when I want craft an image, I want more from my camera. Plus, I’m currently using an iPhone 16e so it’s just the bare bones, wide angle lens. But even if I did have a camera with Moore Zimmerman all that, there’s only so much you can squeeze out of those tiny lenses.

However, I don’t wanna carry a mirrorless DSLR with me. I have a Ricoh GR3, which is the perfect size, but it’s a fixed wide angle lens so it doesn’t really give me that much different from my cell phone— albeit much better quality. But even so, the GR three is $1200+, and I just don’t wanna carry that with me out there. I want something with optical Zoom, cheap, that lets me edit raw images.

So I went the “vintage digital route”. I found an Olympus XZ 10 for cheap on eBay and picked it up. It’s from 2013, older sensor technology, soft lenses. Grainy shots. I love it. These old digital cameras are popular right now, but it wasn’t my intent to jump on the bandwagon. But, it is fun. Enjoy having a zoom camera, and I’m not too worried about busting it.

Here are a few shots from my morning route today.