{"id":113750,"date":"2025-11-10T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/?p=113750"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:33:05","slug":"point-and-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/point-and-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Everyone Should Have A Point-and-Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Way back in the terrible throes of lockdown, I began buying old point-and-shoot film cameras on eBay \u2014 an Olympus AF-10 here, a Nikon L35-AF there. Along the way, I had to test them to make sure they worked before I could eventually sell them again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even 5 years ago, film was much more affordable than it is today, so I\u2019d get a roll of Kodak Colorplus or Fuji C200 and shoot whatever I could (which wasn\u2019t very much at all).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the midst of such an awful time, I started to realize how important point-and-shoots had been to me. It felt like a way to escape, or a way to connect with the world around me, to do something other than drink overpriced IPAs and eat frozen pizzas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best thing about point-and-shoot cameras is that they remind you that photography doesn&#8217;t have to be serious; it can be fun, it can be a companion, and it can keep your brain in photography mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think everyone should have a point-and-shoot, easy to carry, always in a pocket or a bag, film or digital, and I\u2019m going to tell you why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I\u2019m going to start with the most important thing of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It\u2019s Proper Fun<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000082940016-679x1024.jpg\" alt=\"fun portrait shot with a point-and-shoot\" class=\"wp-image-113752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000082940016-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000082940016-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000082940016.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Max Kent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lockdown aside, imagine you&#8217;re on your lunch break, you&#8217;re going for the same walk you always take, it&#8217;s boring, you&#8217;re sick of it. Then imagine that whole situation, but you have your point-and-shoot and you&#8217;re looking for compositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It\u2019s a Totally Different Experience.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000098140016-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"Photo in a billards hall made with a point and shoot\" class=\"wp-image-113755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000098140016-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000098140016-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000098140016.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Max Kent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just that, I always used to take point-and-shoots on nights out. Times when you&#8217;d never take a big SLR\/DSLR, but it&#8217;s always the best stuff that happens. You wake up hungover the next morning (or when you get your film back) and get to look through a load of photos you don&#8217;t remember taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those were always some of my favorite shots, and that perfectly leads me to the next reason why you should have a point-and-shoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You\u2019ll Document Important Life Stuff<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Without realizing it, you&#8217;ll document some of the most important stuff just because you have your camera with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I said before, I&#8217;d shoot nights out, but at the end of the year, I used to make &#8216;friendship zines&#8217;. Basically, little books full of all of the best nights with my best friends. These are things that are nice at the time, but years later, you&#8217;ll look through and it&#8217;ll hit you like a train. This person&#8217;s changed so much, I can&#8217;t believe we did that, you know the drill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously, if you photograph your friends, put one of these zines together, you won&#8217;t regret it. If you can do it every year, do it; it&#8217;s so rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000096390020-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"unposed shot with a point and shoot\" class=\"wp-image-113754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000096390020-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000096390020-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000096390020.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Max Kent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just friends, I&#8217;d photograph random things at home or with my family, my hometown, and how it was changing over time. All of these little things have memories attached to them, and when I look back through them, I feel those times all over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They don\u2019t have to be the best photos; they don\u2019t necessarily have to be in focus; they just have to be taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Documenting your life like this is such a rewarding, personal side of photography that we so often lose because we need to make money or because we feel like we need to do well on social media. The point-and-shoot changes that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just about the sentimental side of things; there are some other serious upsides to always having a point-and-shoot like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Getting Those One-Off Shots<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>How many times have you seen something and thought, Oh man, I really wish I had my camera on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It happens to me far too often, even as someone who tries to have a camera on me as much as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000089410018-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"Horses captured with a point and shoot\" class=\"wp-image-113753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000089410018-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000089410018-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000089410018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Max Kent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a point-and-shoot is accessible as it comes, it&#8217;s automatic, it&#8217;s small and inconspicuous, and it&#8217;s ideal for decisive moment shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes you need that to be able to take a shot without even thinking about it; it just needs to be instant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s where a point-and-shoot shines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Staying In A Creative Mindset<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000081170027-679x1024.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of a shadow in a field captured with a point and shoot\" class=\"wp-image-113751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000081170027-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000081170027-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-everyone-should-have-a-point-and-shoot_000081170027.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Max Kent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This one is criminally underrated, but always having a camera on you (not just your phone) is something that really keeps you in a creative, curious mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all have a phone, but our primitive brain also gets hijacked the moment we pick it up, and we end up randomly checking Instagram without any reason for doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The camera is a license to see. When you\u2019ve got one with you, you see photographs, you think about angles, you take notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this helps to build your creativity as a whole, it helps to shape your photographic identity and skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve all had times where we haven\u2019t shot anything for weeks, we\u2019re too busy, life is getting in the way. It\u2019s hard!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The humble point-and-shoot removes barriers; it can be on hand all the time without being in the way, and that&#8217;s totally priceless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of being priceless<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Point-And-Shoot Camera Should You Get?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/l\/Photography\/Film-and-Darkroom-Equipment\/Film\">film<\/a> photographer, I loved discovering all the different point-and-shoots still on the<a href=\"http:\/\/adorama.com\/l\/Used\/Photography\/Cameras\"> second-hand market<\/a>. From the insanely priced Contaxs to the cheap Canons, there are so many to choose from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally, I&#8217;d say a Mju II, Yashica T4, or Contax T2 are great options for high-end film cameras, and the Mju I and Nikon L35 AF are really good for slightly lower budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the problem with film cameras is that you&#8217;ve got to buy film and pay for development, so that creates another barrier. So, what about digital cameras?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a ton of great options, but the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/icae360hssl.html\"> Canon PowerShot ELPH 360 HS A<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/icag7xm3b.html\">Canon G7x Mark II<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ircgr3xhdf.html\">Ricoh <\/a>GR II are all pretty much perfect for the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s YouTube video after YouTube video of all the different kinds of cameras you can get, but ultimately, what really matters is getting a little camera you enjoy using and keeping it with you at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You won&#8217;t regret it, it&#8217;ll make you a better photographer, and you&#8217;ll document things you didn&#8217;t realize were important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in the terrible throes of lockdown, I began buying old point-and-shoot film cameras on eBay \u2014 an Olympus AF-10 here, a Nikon L35-AF there. 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