1. You should look at sample images online, prefably with semi-consistent subjects. Some people don’t like Sony’s JPEGs, for example.
2. This is something you have to find out for yourself; eg I cannot stand using Canon cameras in general, Sonys have their annoyances. Love Nikon, Fujifilm and Panasonics. If there’s a store or a rental service I suggest you use those to spend some time with the camera.
3. Despite what some might say, all cameras can do decent in low-light. The ones with bigger sensors just do better than decent. You’re off to a good start with your choice of lens too, picking a versatile bright zoom.
4. Cameras can last a long-time if they’re not abused (too much). There are still plastic fantastics from the film era that are still working (which have more moving parts and thus more places that can fail).

Man, we do that in Singapore, and I still think we could do with less cars. Meanwhile the moans everytime the COE goes up…

Sure, definitely use what works for you. I do like it as a phone messenger that happens to have a functional desktop client (Telegram and surprisingly, Whatsapp do have better desktop clients).

I don’t see the problem with that, it’s a phone messenger first.

What’s wrong with Signal?

Because of the power consumed, don’t expect any decent photo printer to last long on battery. They’ll be AC-powered most of the time.

As others have said, those are average lenses and you shouldn’t base your purchasing decisions around them.

If you want really small, you have two ways to go:

1. A compact camera with a larger sensor (1" to APS-C)
2. A m4/3 camera. If you were happy with the 1000D any of the 16 or 20mp m4/3 cameras will outperform that, despite the smaller sensor (less than 1 stop difference). I don’t know the prices of the cameras where you are, but look for something with either sensor and IBIS, and see what you can find.

It’s been a while, but I recall Capture One’s image management is either non-existent or very lacking. That’s what I really want in a LR alternative, something that can do management with raw processing at the same time. If I didn’t need the former I’d just buy Affinity Photo and call it a day.

Wow, this is something I’ve been wondering for a very long time. I’ve researched a few but I’ve never really tried to take the plunge.

• ACDSee, from Pro version and above; fast to work with, but not really faster once you need to actually work on the raw file. Felt the imaging rendition wasn’t as good as LR.
• DxO Photolab. Never tried it, but the current version with the new Denoise algorithm looks very nice.
• Corel AfterShot Pro; this one is based on the very old Bibble, but Corel’s not always the best steward of it at times. It is super fast though. Tried it out when I was really sick of LR’s slowness.
• Darktable, the open source alternative

If you do try any of these, let me (and us) know what you think!

There are, but because you’re adding another optical system on top of another optical system, it’s never going to be quite as good. Top it off, these adapted monoculars (which is what they are) tend to be on the cheaper end, so there’s going to be a lot more optical defects that’ll really show up in a photo.

Ah, right, those can be iffy, but at least the A7IV I recall has bigger buttons that you can work with most gloves.

That’s one thing I like about Nikons, they’re generally very glove friendly.

Before I went anywhere cold I’d practice a bit first with gloves to see if I could operate the camera as much as possible. I always do a practice run with new gear, be it cameras or gloves.

Eh, what camera are you using? Ideally you should be able to work through gloves.

Great shot btw.