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Thanks for joining me for info. Today I'll talk about cameras and their relationships with photography. For cameras such as SLR and mirrorless, the manual controls are what makes them in a way superior to cameras such as point and shoot cameras, at least most of them. I think that larger sensors are better in the fact that, once edited to the extreme in Photoshop, the results are usually better. However, for point and shoot cameras, they are better in some way for macro, because at a quick aperture, such as f/1.4, the point and shoot camera will produce a larger depth of field. And the smaller sensors in phones are probably even better. Cameras with larger sensors can gather more light, not because of larger pixels, but because of the fact that the imaging circle, or circle of light that gets through the lens, more of it reaches the sensor. I think that a full frame camera or even larger sensor cameras serve especially well for backlit landscapes, light painting, as well as photographing reflections where you also want the rest of the image, apart from the reflection, to be illuminated properly as well. My personal favorite cameras include a variety of cameras in general,from Sony cameras, to the high end Canons and Nikons. Specific cameras that I like in particular include the Sony A series, RX100 series, Olympus cams in general, Nikon D8## (D800E, D850, etc.), Nikon Coolpix A, Fuji cameras in general, as well as Panasonic Lumix compacts and the GX85, as well as the GX# series (GX7, GX8, etc.). I mainly base these choices off of image quality, which is just about my highest priority: which camera can obtain the highest level of image quality when the photo is magnified to one hundred percent? I suppose that the second highest priority on my list would be features. And that's where the Panasonic Lumix cameras come in: focus stacking, touch screen (which even many very expensive cameras don't feature), as well as other neat features; if only they came with a design that's a little nicer for the higher end cameras, at least 20 megapixels, and were more affordable, I'd invest in one. I think that if I were to get another camera, it'd either be a micro 4/3, or full frame (FF); I'm leaning more towards FF, but I'm not going to buy one soon, unless maybe the Sony A7 Mk 4 comes out, then I'll buy probably the Sony A7; I just can't afford more expensive cameras, because I'd like to invest some more on lenses instead. I want to have a lens, or lenses, that at least can take diffraction out of the equation at relatively low apertures, such as f/16 to still produce a great photo. Other than that, what I learned today is pretty perplexing to me: cameras of the same make and model can have varying levels of noise in the shadows!; I won't get into that however. The lens that I'd want to have is one that can do at least 1:1 reproduction ratio, and can focus on infinity, and maybe also have a quick aperture; I don't know about the aperture though because if it's quick, then that means that the lens might not perform as well at a low aperture, such as f/16. I'd like a 65mm, to maybe 70mm, f/.095 so that I could recreate the Brenizer method more easily; the longer the focal length, the smaller the depth of field (DOF). But, at the same time, I'd like to be able to have wide angle, which is not really a reasonable goal, however. With an FF camera, I could find a lens of f/1.4 (give or take a few tenths of an aperture) more useful, because as opposed to a camera with a smaller sensor, an FF camera will probably be able to gather the extra amount of light from the quick aperture. However, despite this, cameras with smaller sensors, are in practice better at quick apertures many times, because of the smaller sensors ability to create an extended DOF; that's the main reason why I don't count compact cameras out, especially for macro photography, when comparing them to larger sensor cameras. However, as might have been already stated, larger sensors can result in less diffraction at small apertures. Due to the fact that the features of modern cameras are so alike these days, it seems virtually impossible to decide what kind of camera to get, especially if you're decision making process is critical. Every few months or so, new cameras come out of the market, and it's impossible to keep up with innovation; once you buy the newest camera, there will soon be one with more or better features to come out; due to this trend, you could be waiting literally your whole life to get a perfect camera.