@rtwx@fosstodon.org @Toromino to be honest this is about where my expertise runs out 😂 my father has more recs but that's specifically for astrophotography - and mainly avoiding a pitfall of DSLRs which have some automatic processing to get rid of hot pixels which, uh... well, eat stars when you try to photograph them. which is maddening when you've just spent half an hour taking an exposure, only to have your camera fuckin vore half of what ya wanna see.
@rtwx@fosstodon.org @Toromino i will say tho that personally the handiest bit of kit for me has been an image stabilizing lens. not just because i'm a rickety pile of chronic conditions in a trenchcoat masquerading as a human and often have shaky hands, but it means you get to drastically open up the level of light you can just point and shoot in without having to pull out a tripod/bipod/etc. which is exceedingly useful.
@rtwx@fosstodon.org @Toromino oh, and yes, definitely get and use those clear lens protector filters. uv blocking or not, up to you, but seriously, just stick one on the end of every single lens. they are the chapstick of the DSLR world, the only way to have enough is to just saturate your environment with them, and doing so is very worthwhile 😂 because it's a lot better to have the 5 buck thing get scratched than the 250 buck thing get scratched.