dont use the digital camera...most digital, unless your willing to spend $1500 plus, are shit

ive got a canon EOS 650, Olympus OM-10, Olympus OM-2 and a pentax k-1000...but most of my photagraphy is done with pinhole cameras...and my two Olympus are broken, however.

your camera ae-1 is quite nice, but not the easiest to find lenses for

the minolta blows, sorry to say

35-70mm is a good all-around lense, and you usually wont need more then that....its nice, to have a fisheye lense, for cool effects (make the tower look like its really "towering" over you) and maybe a 70-110mm lense...the higher you go in magnification, the more steady youll have to be, and the more light youll need...so with a 110mm lense, your going to have about an 8 degree field of range...so definantly get a tripod

monopods and bipods are useless, IMO...but a tripod is essential

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