Published Dec 29, 2021
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dpreview staff
In this week’s episode, Chris and Jordan head to The Camera Store to buy the cheapest digital stills and video cameras they can find, and challenge themselves to shoot an entire episode with what they end up with. One of them has a better time with this experiment than the other…
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