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Beginner trying to buy a camera on FB Marketplace

I'm a beginner hoping to get more into photography. I found someone on fb marketplace selling some cameras at $20-30 each and I'm trying to figure out which of these cameras if any would be worth buying. I'm having trouble identifying which ones are ideal.

u/saize184 — 10 days ago

Friendship in Crisis During Vacation

I am looking for some advice,

I am currently on vacation with a close friend of 10+ years (we are both 26F) and it's our first time traveling together abroad while we have done smaller trips in the US together.

For context we both grew up relatively sheltered but I went to college, worked, and am doing graduate school all in different cities whereas she has remained in our hometown and lives with family and went to school and works in the area, so I'm used to and like being independent while she strongly prefers for us to always be together and can't / isn't comfortable being by herself (a source of some problems). I also have some travel experience abroad while she does not.

The other night we made plans to shop somewhere and I was navigating us but along the way she asked me if I wanted to stop at this nearby place and I said "not really" and before I knew it I looked around and she was going inside. I went in thinking it would be quick but before I knew it two hours passed as we went to two other places with her excuse being to buy things for her relatives. At this point my feet were killing me, I felt irritated, and I was no longer interested in our previous plans.

But I was also annoyed because days earlier she'd been pissed at me for wanting an hour to rest prior to time allotted in our schedule to research activities. So I asked her why she was shopping for things now when we had scheduled in buying souvenirs for next week. She promptly told me to "shut the fuck up" (very out of character) and when I just angrily said I'd go to a cafe if she wanted to continue shopping she said "no, I'll go home" and hurriedly left me to go back to our Airbnb like an hour away by subway. I just chilled in the area and went to a cafe and got desserts which was so nice and relaxing. As soon as I got back she immediately retreated to her room.

But yeah it's been two days and she has pretty much kept to her room and doesn't come out when I'm around to eat, use the bathroom, etc even if I'm there in the common space for hours. I've tried suggesting we go out to eat, telling her everything is ok, etc and while some of my messages get a response there's been no contact otherwise. Our rooms are right next to eachother and I've not seen her for a few days. It just sucks because I'm fine being out and doing things by myself but of course we chose to vacation and stay in an ethnically homogenous country / neighborhood and it's challenging as a black foreigner here.

I'm not sure what to do as we have some things like a trip to a neighboring city planned. This seems like a major overreaction? And I wasn't prepared to vacation alone. Apparently in her family when stuff happens they don't talk about it just "let it cool down" and move on. I mean she's an otherwise great friend, but this has just been alot for me.

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u/saize184 — 2 months ago