Photography

[verbal laurel]

i love one small from sweed

is a little blue ball of feathers

nice one

[verbal laurel]

aa

need to learn how stack moon shots

my problem ?

my tripod not enought stable for that

so the moon endup a little diferent position every shot

[elder ingot]

First step: buy a new tripod

[fleet fractal]

why?

oh didn't read

[verbal laurel]

.....

i know i should

but

dont want to expend more

so im think about how to fix it in the most cheap and dum way

haha

[abstract skiff]

yes here in washington we have a lot of smoke do to the fires so when its low in the horizon it shows up red to orange

[verbal laurel]

A bat

[feral vector]

Random Sony USB 3 readers
Thunderbolt docks

[paper bear]

Soviet-era tank night vision scope

Gotta find the lense for it

[verbal laurel]

How did u get those?

[paper bear]

My dad bought it used somewhere long time ago. Primarily for the lense it came with, he said it was good for taking pics of flowers 💀

[verbal laurel]

XD

[narrow pollen]

Flowers at night, an unusual subject of photography

[paper bear]

Heres the Cyclop-1 in action. Looks better irl

Lense is atleast 2kg

[verbal laurel]

Aunch

[jagged lake]

YESSS I won the x570

[verbal laurel]

Nicr

[fleet fractal]

U won a motherboard?

[jagged lake]

Camera

Minolta x-570

[fleet fractal]

Oh

[narrow pollen]

From 83'?

[jagged lake]

Uh yeah

Why?

Hehehe

[feral vector]

twice as old as beano

(as if my newest camera isn't from 1978)

[tawdry forum]

im from 2025

[feral vector]

im calling the fbi

[tawdry forum]

how dare thy.

[jagged lake]

Plus 3y

[urban rune]

https://a.co/d/5WEVlFP

That’s good deal

[feral vector]

https://www.peakdesign.com/products/everyday-sling?variant=31374261780557

Seems similar to this one I think

While I adore peak design $150+ is too much for a sling

[urban rune]

Yep

That’s why I just went for cheapest good review one

[jagged lake]

I got a cheap one that fits everything

No idea about durability but it was $21

[verbal laurel]

I got a cheap bag

Honestly

No complains

It protected my z5 + 50 mm really well

Ok, both small kit

[feral vector]

I'm a little tempted by it

I don't have a convenient way to carry a single camera with easy access

[verbal laurel]

https://www.mercadolivre.com.br/bolsa-case-cmera-canon-t6-t5i-t3i-60d-70d-5d-markii-6d-7d-cor-black/p/MLB24688580

Mine is this style

[urban rune]

It’s actually good for the thing inside is foldable with Velcro

[royal folio]

Santorini, Greece

[tawdry forum]

No lemons were hurt in the making of this photo

[verbal laurel]

Nice trail

[charred anchor]

In Australia rn

[jagged lake]

YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEE

[fleet fractal]

The free one right?

[jagged lake]

The $85 one

Sibling of the free one

[fleet fractal]

Oh

[jagged lake]

The film that was in the camera was discontinued in 1996

I got like 4-5 shots because the seller had opened the camera and exposed the rest… also the iso was set to 100 instead of 400

Sooo nothing useful there

This is a NICE leather camera bag though. I love it.

[fleet fractal]

Looks nice

[jagged lake]

Pretty sure i bought a dead guys camera

It shall continue to be used!

[narrow pollen]

The camera lives on!

[jagged lake]

Ok so there’s a big car show coming in September

Gold 100 and MAX 400 will be shot then

Can’t wait

Help I’m becoming always-shoots-never-develops

[fleet fractal]

How to develop

[narrow pollen]

Development usually comes with practice.

[jagged lake]

Yeah I haven’t self devd yet

Just lab

I’ll do the BW ones myself tho

I wanna buy chems

[limber tartan]

expensive hobby

[fleet fractal]

pc building is also a expensive hobby

[jagged lake]

Yes and yes

[jagged lake]

Tbh the two on the left/right plus all the lenses together were like…. $500? Max

Probably $300 or so

Cheap

Film is the pricy part

[fleet fractal]

so don't do both at the same time

[jagged lake]

Shush

[fleet fractal]

No/J

[verbal laurel]

Yippeee

[verbal laurel]

dont forget to open from time to time the lenses caps

and let some sun/ligh pass on it

to avoid create little creatures

[jagged lake]

Mhm

I use all the lenses don’t worry :)

Aperture ring stuck open on 35-70mm macro :/

Guess that’s partly what happens with a camera sitting 30 years

Oh well. I have a 35-70 already and I was just after the camera

Also it’s a VERY sharp lens for how old it is

[limber tartan]

Its why beano is poor /J

[jagged lake]

why /j

it’s simply true

[icy river]

I bet I have less money than you.

Actually, I can't bet because I don't have enough money.

[jagged lake]

probably because I have a job and am saving and not in college

[icy river]

College Tuition is free for me.

[fleet fractal]

Lucky

[jagged lake]

Yeah but not like bills and stuff

[icy river]

?

Bills and stuff? Oh... Yeah, I don't have bills.

[jagged lake]

Food

And stuff

Idk

[icy river]

Food depends. The cafeteria is not free, but the food items other places in the school are free.

[limber tartan]

true lol

[little quartz]

Just got back from my very first trip to Japan. Was there for 21 days.

The first week I went to both Disney parks and went on a bunch of rides. Then my 2nd week I explored a few spots in Tokyo. For the 3rd and final week I returned to Disney.

My favourite ride was in DisneySea called Raging Spirits.

I went on it 60 times in one day. Many of the Cast Members recognized me, and had huge smiles each time they saw me. It was really nice. I wasn't looking for attention. I just simply really liked the ride and they were great people to be around.

The next morning, I tried to write a thank you letter for them in English and Japanese, and put it in a nice folder I found at one of the shops.

The Supervisor met me at the exit, thanked me for the letter, and asked me to return just before the ride closed.

It was my last full day, and I went on the ride over 40 times. I had no idea that I would've gone on it 100 times in two days. The Cast Members were very surprised and amazed also that I was able to ride it so many times via the Single Rider line.

At the end of the day, they wanted me to ride on the very last train for the day. I was very overwhelmed by the attention. I didn't expect anything in return for the letter. I just wanted to thank them for their hard work. It was certainly the highlight of my entire trip!

I returned the next morning for a few hours before I had to fly back home to try to get photos of Cast Members that I had missed. Sadly, I wasn't able to get a photo of all of them since they work different days/shifts and I had to catch a bus at 2PM.

I felt so awkward, since I wasn't looking for attention. But I am glad they really appreciated my letter.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkpk9IH5QLxmM1tsrGttTVf6n2PEeePi1&si=Sh3uAaikTNWZo4Of

[elder ingot]

Hmm. Japanese Disneyland

Forgot that was a thing

[verbal laurel]

What a nice story

[verbal laurel]

;-

[low fox]

Just wanted you to know that I read and looked through everything - cool!

Also didn't expect your wii character to be so spot on of a representation of you

So that was pretty funny

[verbal laurel]

not the best solution, but it works

[verbal laurel]

Wish my avatars was close to me, but my beard don't help

[feral vector]

This makes me nervous

[verbal laurel]

Why

?

[charred anchor]

I took this with my iPhone since I can’t really afford a good camera rn

I can, I just have other priorities

In Greece rn

[jagged lake]

iPhones can take great pictures

You just have to do it right or get lucky

These were all shot on iPhone 12

[elder ingot]

PC photo but it's photography. Taken on the S24 Ultra

[fleet fractal]

#pets message

selfie cat

[jagged lake]

Portrait boy

[charred anchor]

Any advice? I have a 14 pro max albeit the camera is crap

[jagged lake]

I like using the portrait mode and editing it afterwards

just using photos app

it does decent

I havent ever gotten a really cool looking landscape with an iPhone

it seems to do better in lower light, too

[fleet fractal]

Briggs is so perfect

[jagged lake]

100%!

[charred anchor]

I use it

And I edit afterwards

I find in sunsets it works best

Take this photo (my flagship one) for example

This was taken on an 11 in 2023 with portrait mode at 9:10pm in Paris. I mostly reduced noise, changed brightness, and used softer shadows/black tones

[jagged lake]

I can see why people like to hate on kit lenses...

heavy vignetting even on apsc...

is this lens meant for like M4/3 or something? lol

[fleet fractal]

looks good

i see nothing wrong

[jagged lake]

corners black

I dont want that

way too dark and noisy

and blurry

[fleet fractal]

thats one tiny corner

[jagged lake]

all the corners

[fleet fractal]

it looks good from afar

[jagged lake]

Yeah it looks alright, but theres a large difference in the 'feel' of the photo because of it, and I dont like it

I need a better lens lol

this is definitely a video-focused one

bc everyone wants to vlog...

[little quartz]

Thank you!

I don't typically like being in photos, but I tried.

Yeah, my Mii avatar is surprisingly very accurate. 😂

[verbal laurel]

pretty, sexy

amazing

[verbal laurel]

the 50 1.8 mm

from nikon Z line

is a kit lens

but is amazing kit lens

kek i guess the S on it make sense

XD

[verbal laurel]

BIRBS

BIRBS EVERYWHERE

[verbal laurel]

somone found food

[jagged lake]

Incredibly accurate. Sadly mii channel doesn’t do my face well

—

I guess I’m looking for a new RF zoom or prime to replace my 18-45

Maybe to go alongside it but maybe not

I’d love to have a 32mm

Anyone here know much about the RF 24-50 or 24-105?

Wondering if that’s what I get

kinda doubt yall would know since it’s mostly EF/E/Z in here but I’m asking

Even maybe 18-150 if I can stretch the budget or spend less on pc

[feral vector]

no

[feral vector]

are you shooting wide open aperture?

also this is why I bought a premium lens lol

Sigma

[jagged lake]

I think so but that’s only 4.5

[feral vector]

afaik it doesn't matter what the actual maximum aperture is, simply shooting wide open will have the most vignetting

[jagged lake]

I’m sad the camera makers decided aperture is a “”pro”” feature… i wasn’t around in 1984 but all my minolta lenses are like f3.5 or better (300mm is f5.6)

[feral vector]

your camera might have lens correct profiles built in; not sure if they would help with vignetting though

bigger aperture means bigger glass which means bigger lens

just makes it more expensive

[jagged lake]

yeah fair

[feral vector]

modern lenses are full of motors

[jagged lake]

I probably have “pro” lenses from back then that are cheap now because they’re so old

[feral vector]

which makes them big even without a super wide aperture

[jagged lake]

28 2.8, 50 1.7, 35-70 f3.5

I also don’t get why the glass is so tiny

On new lenses

[feral vector]

lighter weight too

my sigma lens is uhhh

nearly 2 lbs

[feral vector]

also the kit lens is aimed at vlogging these days on those bodies

[jagged lake]

Lens weight doesn’t matter so much to me… I mean my camera bag has only nearly suffocated me a couple times…

[jagged lake]

For sure, I can tell.

Not as good for photos

[feral vector]

you can get a manual focus if you wanna save a buck

[jagged lake]

I also really really like the aperture ring on the old lenses and don’t love it on the new

But I understand that it has to be that way for electronic control

[feral vector]

some lenses do have aperture rings on them but it isn't super common

[jagged lake]

Mhm

[jagged lake]

AHEM

P.S.A.

that will be all

[feral vector]

mirrors will save me

[jagged lake]

pokes during bulb exposure

now the sensor AND your shutter are messed up!

[feral vector]

Ez
I'll never use bulb

[jagged lake]

Ok I’m just that quick then

I’ll do it normally

[feral vector]

I've been culling a lot of digital photos today

[jagged lake]

:(

data hoarding

[ember plaza]

you mean like this ?

[tawdry forum]

as a person who doesn't know much about cameras this seems pretty bad

[ember plaza]

nah man its fine

[charred anchor]

In Crete rn :)

[narrow pollen]

Crete heavens!

[jagged lake]

AAAAAAAH

[verbal laurel]

Nooooo

[fleet fractal]

cursed 💀

[fleet fractal]

birds

[jagged lake]

Two cans

Not birds

[verbal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/champoy-el-risitas-kek-issou-etu-gif-17837830

[feral vector]

been a busy day and i still have at least 5 thousand photos to sort through in lightroom alone

[rain goblet]

@low fox

[tawdry forum]

damn id love to have a house like that

[verbal laurel]

nice place

[ember plaza]

I asked it if it was OK afterwards and it said it was fine

[fleet fractal]

it can talk?

i need to talk to my camera sensor

so what camera is that?

[ember plaza]

It’s a digital back, basically just a sensor and a computer

[jagged lake]

waiting for 3rd party rf

https://tenor.com/view/caveira-skeleton-ive-been-waiting-gif-13523984

[fleet fractal]

What rf?

[jagged lake]

RF mount lenses not made by canon

[feral vector]

There is one lol

[low fox]

Wuuuuw

[narrow pollen]

RF lenses like the ones TTArtisans makes?

I mean sure, they're Chinese, but I've been pleasantly surprised at their quality (for Sony E).

[feral vector]

If they make RF lenses they're likely all manual

Which is fine if you want manual, but sucks if you want auto focus/aperture

[narrow pollen]

That is true. They only recently started with autofocus lenses and havee not made those for RF.

[feral vector]

RF mount is still pretty locked down

sigma and tamron only (semi) recently announced RF crop lenses in the works, and I believe sigma just released the first 3rd party RF-S lens

[tall ember]

Been playing with the Blackmagic camera app for Android, its really nice

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[jagged lake]

One.

[feral vector]

https://petapixel.com/2024/07/30/a-glimpse-of-canon-heaven-at-the-2024-paris-olympics/

🤑

[verbal laurel]

more than my bank

[jagged lake]

wanted to try something weird or at least not like Fuji 400

[fleet fractal]

computer decided not to load

[verbal laurel]

Wtg

Wtf *

[feral vector]

I wanna try some kentmere

[jagged lake]

I’ll let you know how it goes.

I ended up with it bc cheap.

$6.99 for 36exp but also 10% off on top of that

$6.29

[jagged lake]

Found out that I have an LED thing that’s PERFECT size for 35mm

[verbal laurel]

Tell me more

[jagged lake]

Flexy LED light bar

It’s exactly the right size

[verbal laurel]

Oh

I thought it was a led for digital filming

[verbal laurel]

What is even the point of film, if u have to take a photo of a photo ?

[jagged lake]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Funsies!

And the tech is really cool

And you get different looking pictures

[verbal laurel]

Uhmm

Uhmmmm

Ok

[verbal laurel]

What is the name of that plate to grip the camera in the bag, so arms free while walk

?

[ember plaza]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/311552165145739275/1263576042317156423/IMG_5580.jpg?ex=66af2ba4&is=66adda24&hm=aa33dbc3230eb6e372b8c6a2d183f9084d6fea107e1b825c7c24ade44a949b0c& film spread

[jagged lake]

Plus 5 at the lab rn

[ember plaza]

you mean the peak design one ? it's way too expensive for what it is

[jagged lake]

Ya know I’m starting to realize why I’ve been broke since April….

[ember plaza]

why dont you just let your lab scan it, you only get like 4MP-8MP max ?

[ember plaza]

idk, i scan myself because I can get to the limit of the film (and i still need a macro lens for it), but you'd just get better results with your lab don't you think ? especially if you don't have negative lab pro

[jagged lake]

Lab images are like 2mpish and very pixelated

Also $8/roll

[ember plaza]

or even cheaper, you could get a dedicated 2000-3600dpi scanner for like 200$

[jagged lake]

I have been in the past I’m just now self scanning

[jagged lake]

I use dark table not Lightroom

[jagged lake]

not quite to that level yet

[ember plaza]

you can find them for even cheaper

[jagged lake]

I can fill almost the whole sensor with my normal lens

Probably about 18-20mp

Out of 24

[ember plaza]

what i mean is a proper converter, not just invert in your software. Personally I don't use anything else than LrC

huh, what lens ?

[jagged lake]

It has a decent converter

[jagged lake]

18-45 kit lol

[ember plaza]

wth

do you cloth gloves ?

[jagged lake]

uh

heh

I touch edge

[ember plaza]

I would highly recommend them, to just not damage your precious work

[jagged lake]

Yeah

I should

[ember plaza]

yk like those

at least you can touch the middle part with them, because a single fingerprint and its game over to clean that

[jagged lake]

I’ll probably end up going back to lab for scanning but I wanna try this

[ember plaza]

ohh yeah right apsc has 1.6x crop

[jagged lake]

Yea

Didn’t think to tell you that lol

if I do digital 2x crop in camera I can fill the frame but ofc then I lose quality

[ember plaza]

also @jagged lake I just tried extension tubes and they're pretty bad, they have a ton of chromatic aberration, its crazy

[jagged lake]

That’s odd

I’ve heard from a lot of other places they don’t affect much since they don’t have glsss

[ember plaza]

this is from a test on youtube

but i have the files at home I can show you, it's bad

I'm thinking it just has to do with the algorithm that deleted chromatic aberration that is calibrated for each lens is not the same, so it doesn't correct it enough

personally, i'll rent a macro lens to get those sweet 250MP files

[jagged lake]

Hm

Weird

[verbal laurel]

Probably, no idea of similar?

[feral vector]

Film fun
Film has a look
Film can be printed!
Prints hard to share online

[feral vector]

Capture camera clip

[feral vector]

I got some of these and the ones I got were terrible

The fingers have a bunch of extra material at the end. No more dexterity

So back to nitrile for the time being

[ember plaza]

after shooting 10 rolls:
-different looks that you can choose but never really know exactly what will come out
-exciting/intimidating/entising because you cannot have a preview, and then have to wait for your images to be developped
-you only have 12/36 images so you better be sure of your photo, it limits you in some way so that you don't overshoot, it's another psychology
-its kind of a hipster thing lol

[ember plaza]

for me, it made me go slower, and it makes you shoot things you wouldn't shoot otherwise and the inverse, sometimes you just think an image isn't worth it since you have limited photos, i personally kinda found the fun of discovering photography again.

there is so much gear available online, the cameras and lenses are cheap, but film isn't, it's anywhere from 30-80 cent per photo without the processing included

[verbal laurel]

Lol

[verbal laurel]

Saddly price of film

Here in Br we have so many Hasanblad film cameras

[ember plaza]

Really ? What price approx

[ember plaza]

No idea for Brazil, but it’s honestly not that bad per photo, yeah compared to digital it’s super expensive, but 35mm film is 10-15$ a roll

Also the Pentax 17, is a new film camera and it takes half frames, which means you get 72 photos per roll

But it’s only a 25mm lens, no autofocus and it’s 500€…

[verbal laurel]

Here the problem is also film

Some store sells it

But I have no idea I'd they develop

[ember plaza]

They probably do

[verbal laurel]

Uhm

Will check out

[jagged lake]

not objectively good at all but this looks really cool

[feral vector]

Sprockets

[jagged lake]

yes

[ember plaza]

hair

You should really consider a dedicated software to convert, it’s so much better

[verbal laurel]

let me check

1 dol = 5,73 reals

1204.18848168 aprx

but most of the shops of old cameras dont have web site so hard to compare much

unless u go to São Paulo city and check in person

[jagged lake]

Like what

[ember plaza]

those are the really, really old Blads, the 1000F was made in the 1950s, they also have focal plane shutter which breaks often. the valuable ones are the 500 C/M or 501C/M

[ember plaza]

apparently darktable has a "negadoctor" addon, give it a shot

[verbal laurel]

uhm

goood to know

[jagged lake]

Thats what im doin :)

lil difficult but very fun

[ember plaza]

idk how you do without lightroom honestly

I hate adobe with a passion but damn they did something right with photoshop and lightroom

[jagged lake]

idk

beginner

broke bc film

[ember plaza]

10 bucks a month

for both photoshop and lightroom

[jagged lake]

not like I dont get results

*those were digital

[verbal laurel]

canon have a edit software for they line

should give a try

[jagged lake]

heres some self scans I did with darktable

[verbal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/yoyagif-chile-gif-twitter-reaction-gif-21218231

[verbal laurel]

nice car

[jagged lake]

it is

*lab scans

florida was fun

lots and lots of good photo subjects

soooo many

[verbal laurel]

hehe

[verbal laurel]

this one

nice meme

birds

Turn arouundddd

[elder ingot]

Every now and then, I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming 'round

[verbal laurel]

i miss xmas

[verbal laurel]

TURN AROOOOOUND NOWWWW

[narrow pollen]

Such a pretty car. Love the classics.

[ember plaza]

its not really that great honestly

[jagged lake]

maybe I just like it when things look (or ARE) old

heheheh

[narrow pollen]

Is that what they mean by freeze-framing?

[jagged lake]

lol idk

but that’s a fridge

[limber tartan]

why they in the fridge?

[feral vector]

They're unmatched tbh

[ember plaza]

recommended storing temp is 13C approx

if you want to preserve film after expiration, its the way to do it

[limber tartan]

ahhh i see :3

[jagged lake]

Ye

2 of these are expired 15-30 years

Probably unusable

But

Might as well hope

Saving them for a car show in sept

there’s also a really low ISO film that says it needs stored below 50f

[ember plaza]

What’s that in normal units

[ember plaza]

@jagged lake guess which has the extension tubes

[jagged lake]

50

[jagged lake]

Woah.

right

[verbal laurel]

hey @deft garden do u use some kind of camuflage

on your 180-600 ?

[deft garden]

No

[jagged lake]

I find it interesting how starting off shooting film has made me “better” at shooting manual

Makes it easier, it seems

Because ISO is fixed usually at 100-800 until the roll is done

I never thought about auto iso making it go to crazy values

And the Minoltas are aperture priority

So changing aperture changes shutter speed

So I feel like I get a better feel for how things are affected

[verbal laurel]

nice

[jagged lake]

hmm

it would be about $300 (or more) for me to get a proper mirrorless scanning setup

meanwhile lab is only 9.62/roll total for large scans

That means 31-33 just to break even

sooo

I guess I will keep going to lab for scans

Unless I somehow get a ton of money (hahahah)

Still gonna try to do home dev BW tho

I can just leave them uncut and have the lab scan

[verbal laurel]

why u dont buy a cheap ink cartuche printer

that is also a scanner ?

i bet you can get those more cheaper

[jagged lake]

Have one

Haven’t tried scanning with it yet

Good point

Might be bad quality tho

Worth a shot

[feral vector]

But you can scan infinitely at home

[jagged lake]

But I don’t think I can quite afford the mirrorless setup rn

especially on top of the cost of dev kit

[feral vector]

Start with scanning

I still mostly dev at a lab

Although

My lab is cheap

https://www.citizensphoto.com/processing
@jagged lake so cheap

[jagged lake]

Howwwwww

7.99/c41 8.99/bw here

Plus tax

Plus scan

[feral vector]

C41 $5 first roll, $4.50 additional, no tax

so i tend to save up several rolls for scanning at once

[jagged lake]

AAAAA

GIMME

[narrow pollen]

TIL 24mm on a APS-C camera is just not quite wide enough for travel photography. The cathedral facades just narrowly don't fit in the view.

[jagged lake]

I’d go for an 18

Since 28 was the standard wide for film

And 28/1.6=17.5

So an 18 is roughly equal to a 28

For Nikon or Sony 28/1.5=18.667

So maybe 19 but more than likely just 18

I just now figured out that my phone will do maths while I’m typing

All I have to do is type equation

1+2=3

[jagged lake]

Try adding the =

[elder ingot]

Android L

[jagged lake]

cool

😎

[feral vector]

Yeah, that's more street photography focal length when on aps-c. For buildings 24mm is great on FF, but you would need around 16mm for aps-c

[narrow pollen]

Yeah, it is not horrible, but I should have gove with 16mm

[elder ingot]

They're still great pictures though

[jagged lake]

Honestly I like it

I’d even go with a longer length

[narrow pollen]

Right until I can back away no farther.

[jagged lake]

The one with the flowers is perfect but I’d go with a 50 for the statue

[jagged lake]

Yeah that’s a job for a wider lens

[narrow pollen]

The rainbow and tower would go missing with a 50mm on the statue, no?

[elder ingot]

This isn't the Cologne cathedral is it?

[narrow pollen]

No, this is Trondheim, Norway. The Cologne one is much darker and with sharper bits. Been there last year.

[jagged lake]

Multiple images

I didn’t notice the rainbow for a sec

But uh yeah

I’d go 70 or 80mm (full frame equivalent, not actual length) for the statue and tower, 24-35 for the scene

[elder ingot]

That's somewhere I wanna go. I love the Gothic style of it

[narrow pollen]

I do have a 56mm with me, but it was not in my walking bag yet. Just arrived in town in the afternoon and wanted a quick walk around town and a bite to eat after dropping stuff off at the hotel.

[jagged lake]

I’m the guy that packs the bag FULL and it’s so heavyyyy sometimes

[narrow pollen]

I have time to try it all out. I do like how the one with the flowers turned out.

I always travel with carry-on and that includes a beefy laptop (16", 3080Ti) with a charger, three headphones (two are earbuds), a camera with three lenses (decided to leave the kit lens behind as a last moment thought), a hard drive+SSD, an extra shoulderbag I can carry around town, extra shoes for hiking and clothes for three weeks with weather ranging from 24 windless in the shade to 17 and pouring rain. I suspect I was over the intended carry-on luggage weight as well.

[jagged lake]

Wowie ok

Fair enough if you’re going overseas though

I haven’t

Just went to Florida and brought 5 lenses and 15ish rolls of film

Ended up picking more up, I think 21 rolls in total was what I got

[narrow pollen]

I live in Estonia. Almost everything is 'overseas'.

[jagged lake]

Oh wow didn’t know that

[feral vector]

"zoom with your legs" only goes so far

[fleet fractal]

Cat but perfect

[verbal laurel]

hehe

[narrow pollen]

Well, it is a technicality. Estonia is on the mainland, but it has two land borders. One to Russia, which I'm not going to travel through, and Latvia in the South. Going to Central Europe through Latvia would take over a day of driving as it requires going around Kaliningrad (Russian exclave), which means for practical purposes, we almost always fly to our target country unless the target is within the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). And flying to most places goes over the Baltic sea in order to, again, avoid Russian airspace and because it is actually a shorter route to Central Europe. Hence, 'overseas' is not quite accurate, but also not wrong either. It is like calling Alaska 'overseas' for most of the U.S. to avoid driving through Canada.

[jagged lake]

I managed to mostly repair a lens YIPPEEE

Stuck blades are no longer stuck but they’re at the wrong place lol

[elder ingot]

That's the sentence of all time

[jagged lake]

Haha

[limber tartan]

Lmaooo

[narrow pollen]

That is the wrong kind of blade running.

[verbal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/shikanoko-nokonoko-koshitantan-shikonoko-shika-noko-dance-gif-9552389465683762324

[jagged lake]

Hey guys!

I fixed the aperture blades being in the wrong spot

…but now it’s stuck wide open…….. again.

Lols

Oily blades

I need a lens spanner

[verbal laurel]

auch

[narrow pollen]

18mm is more of the right size for this.

I really like this one though.

[verbal laurel]

Cute

[ember plaza]

Normal scanners are around 300-600 DPI, which means you’d get a scan of your photo that’s only 300 pixels in width. Compare that to film scanners which are 3000 dpi+ and to get the max res you’d need 7000+ DPI, which you can get with mirrorless scanning

Highest res possible is called drum scanning which is 12k DPI, but that’s super expensive

[ember plaza]

YATAAAAA 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥!!!

[verbal laurel]

Fair

But

Expensive $

[verbal laurel]

YATAAA

[ember plaza]

Nahhh, used film scanners are getting dirt cheap, nobody wants them anymore

[verbal laurel]

Uhmmmm

@jagged lake time to shine then

[ember plaza]

Kodak has a 200€ film scanner that does everything and spits out 12/24mp files

Or you can get really old Nikon Coolscan

Epson has flatbed scanners with film holders if you can find them for cheap

But most likely lab scanning will be the cheapest

[jagged lake]

Lab scanning is temporary cheapest

But adds up

just gonna do that for now, do proper scans when I get more moneys

[jagged lake]

Florida Bird

[wise patrol]

Oh that's a lovely photo

[jagged lake]

Thank you :D

[limber tartan]

Birdddddd

[verbal laurel]

Birb

[narrow pollen]

Tried to take a picture of a cheeky seagull who was waiting on a tiny roof above the outside eating area of a bakery for someone to leave so that he could swoop in for leftovers. So close, and yet so far.

[verbal laurel]

Poetic

[jagged lake]

gonna edit this later I just got it back

fuji disposable cam, sunset, ft myers beach FL

[verbal laurel]

Nice view

[jagged lake]

yeah it was

[jagged lake]

aaaaaAAAAAAAAH

I ignored the “get a second battery” advice

was fine for a month

Now I’ve finally managed to take enough to kill it

[elder ingot]

Gg

[verbal laurel]

Oh no

[jagged lake]

dude get outta my yard

[fleet fractal]

no

[jagged lake]

want a snore then?

[fleet fractal]

must have briggs

sure

[jagged lake]

BRIGGS and BUGS stay INSIDE

[fleet fractal]

ill bring shadow

cat meet and greet

[jagged lake]

Awww yeahhh

[jagged lake]

Is it weird that I find it harder to use digital as a walk around cam

I don’t find myself doing nearly as many landscapes or street stuff

Mostly use my 100-400

I feel like part of the reason is the lens

18-45 4.5-6.3 is an odd one

[feral vector]

The kit lens is enough to get you started

[jagged lake]

it is

but im wondering what to upgrade to

this is defo a vlog lens

and more so you can figure out what lens you actually want

[jagged lake]

Thanks, slow Ethernet drivers in the NAS

Honestly would be faster to just physically move an nvme

[limber tartan]

then just do that?

[jagged lake]

I might but it’s a lil risky

Fairly risky

And very annoying bc my gpu blocking it

[limber tartan]

but like is the risk greater than the reward?

or is reward greater than the risk?

[jagged lake]

Idk

I’m not gonna mess with it

[jagged lake]

what the

Somehow my SD card just got 500MB/s

rated for 250

Wooooo!

[limber tartan]

Magic

[verbal laurel]

nah

is ok

just leave over night

like the cowboys in the old west did

[feral vector]

https://m.dpreview.com/news/4062330467/kodak-photo-businesses-sold-to-private-equity

@jagged lake I wonder if this will cause retail pricing to go up

Tldr, Kodak Eastman manufactures film and is doing well

Kodak Alaris markets and sells retail film (they buy the film from Kodak Eastman)

Alaris is now owned by private equity

My opinion of most private equity acquisitions is not good, so we will see

[jagged lake]

Ain’t that fun

Yayyyyyy……

[ember plaza]

It doesn’t smell good tbh

[ember plaza]

@feral vector https://www.reddit.com/r/AnalogCommunity/comments/1eowbq1/comment/lhgc22j/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[feral vector]

As far as I know, KA sets the wholesale pricing for packaged Kodak films

this does not include Kodak motion picture bulk film, and Kodak consumer film manufactured for other brands, such as cinestill, Fujifilm, lomography, and others

For gold, ektar, and portra, I am wondering if we will see more price increases with the new private equity owner

[ember plaza]

Yeah that’s my fear too

Gotta buy 100 rolls to be sure

[feral vector]

Did I share my local pricing for Fuji color here

[ember plaza]

No

[feral vector]

Damn I deleted the photo

[feral vector]

~$17 for C200
~$19 C400
Both 3pack 36exp

[ember plaza]

Also did you see they discontinued Fuji Superia X-Tra 400 and replaced it with color 400

[feral vector]

Gold and ultramax would be pushing $30

[ember plaza]

Which is allegedly Ultramax 400

[feral vector]

Long live ultramax

[ember plaza]

God damn that’s amazing

[feral vector]

I've heard mixed reports fuji supplies their own base for the CX00 skus

[ember plaza]

Here, 38€ for an ultramax 3 pack

[feral vector]

So it might be a slight difference to ultramax

But in the end, it's gold

Everything is gold 😅

[jagged lake]

Oh cool, so Kodak’s just trying to kill itself again lol

FINISH HIM

[jagged lake]

bruh. 24.99/25.99 with 7% tax on top

[jagged lake]

Is colorplus/kodacolor gold? I really like it

Sorry so many pings lol

[deft garden]

From the Moxxies pop up during comic con. Too bad the movie is terrible but loved the pop up and the games.

[elder ingot]

I think this might be the only video game movie I don't see

I love the games

The casting is ... interesting

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[deft garden]

I heard the movie was so bad, it made other failed video game to movie adaptations look good.

[feral vector]

Effectively

[feral vector]

Well Kodak Alaris hasn't been doing well for a while
They're the one that licenses the Kodak brand out to all that cheap Chinese crap

[feral vector]

No tax lol

[quasi flame]

when did that release?

[deft garden]

The Movie? Yesterday.

[quasi flame]

yeah i have to wait until the 22nd

[deft garden]

It has 7% on rotten tomatos. 😂 Nobody says its a good movie, or adaptation, or representation of the games at all.

[elder ingot]

The casting is just weird

[jagged lake]

I knowwwww

[jagged lake]

that’s what I’m takin about

granted this is local transfer from one nvme copying to another

But still

3.12GB/s random is niiice

[jagged lake]

just set up a 16 minute North Star exposure

I wanna get the spinny photo

[jagged lake]

YIPPEEEEEEEEEE

WOOOHOOO I GOT IT

[ember plaza]

You need the whole night for that much, also this is done in multiple shots

[deft garden]

Your north star spinny stars look like my manual focus quick exposure stars. 😂

[jagged lake]

Yeah I know

But I got a nice amount of spin

So I’m happy

I wasn’t gonna wait all night

[ember plaza]

I think next time you should do it in 30s increments to limit the noise

If you have an intervalometer remote or in camera

[jagged lake]

Yeah it has a mode for that

that’s just a pic of the lcd tho so imma get the og and edit

[jagged lake]

How so?

[jagged lake]

I fed the adobemonster.

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[jagged lake]

SO MANY TUTORIAL POPUPS

its alright

[ember plaza]

Good good

[jagged lake]

woahhhhhhh

this is insane

I can NEVER see even a TENTH of this

[narrow pollen]

Pretty.

How often do you have to take your camera out of the bag for security check at airports? I just experienced my first time at a Norwegian airport, never had to before.

[narrow pollen]

Also huh, I was not expecting this.

[ember plaza]

Polarizer on your window, and probably on the lens of your camera ?

[narrow pollen]

It's a plane window, so possibly. And yes, on my camera as well, I basically don't take it off so I didn't even consider side-effects.

[ember plaza]

Usually it just dims the light, but if it’s a circular polarizer (like on your phone with polarized glasses for example) it gives funky colors

Im 90% sure its due to diffraction but I’ll look it up

[narrow pollen]

Oh god, physics.

[ember plaza]

Actually it’s because of the refractive index that’s different in the different layers of the window, basically slows down light which shifts the colors

[jagged lake]

If it’s one of the electronic dimming windows it could be something like an LCD

[jagged lake]

Oh I’ve never flown

Tbh I’ve never been to the local (big) airport

just a couple small ones for air shows or whatev

[narrow pollen]

I doubt it is a fancy window. Just a domestic flight between two Norwegian towns.

[jagged lake]

But does it have mechanical/moving shade or just a button or nothing

[narrow pollen]

Mechanical shade

[jagged lake]

ah nvm then :p

ingore me

[narrow pollen]

It was a nice idea.

[feral vector]

scanned 8 rolls last night

then had to cut them up today

so far like 3-4 hours in

haven't even converted the negatives or added to LrCC yet

[ember plaza]

Negative lab pro has 24 trial exposures if youd like

[feral vector]

we have negative lab pro

i was simply sleeping since i finished scanning at 11pm

[ember plaza]

oh sorry i thought lrcc was a conversion plugin

[ember plaza]

i got it half price :>

[feral vector]

LrC = Lightroom classic
LrCC = lightroom creative cloud

[feral vector]

we have two licenses for some reason

[jagged lake]

nobody told me how cpu intensive LRc is

imliterally just scrolling

in other news

rabbit

[feral vector]

oh yeah, LRc is a resource hog

[jagged lake]

I LOVE how sharp the RF 100-400 is

SO GOOD

the only thing limiting it there is the MP count lol

thats 400mm from like 15-20ft

f8

1/2000

iso 3200

man what a good cam and lens

btw 640 equiv

[jagged lake]

OOOH I DIDNT KNOW I HAD THIS

LOVE IT

(mourning dove) 400mm/iso3200/f13/1/640

aaaaa these are exporting at 500x333

is this 2007?!

there we go

jeopardy themelol

@verbal laurel you like birds right?

she was preening then stopped to look at me

this is making me want a 7950x3d

....I wonder how fast a 12600KF is for this.

I have one sitting around

currently running debian but hardly used

[jagged lake]

YES

[jagged lake]

bird absolutely GLOWIN

102MB

[wise patrol]

OH this is stunning

[jagged lake]

Thank you!

[jagged lake]

RF100-400 making me want R7

but also seems to have a lot of drawbacks

R7ii when

(I dont need it)

[feral vector]

I think most people like it

Biggest complaints I have seen about R7 is people wishing it was bigger

[jagged lake]

Like a bigger sensor or what?

Or physical size

I’ve heard that the older sensor is a little slower and has worse AF

[feral vector]

bigger body

and yeah, revving the camera as a whole would be nice

[jagged lake]

Id like more MP so I can actually see the lens sharpness

but then it might look soft

at least as is its tack sharp

cant believe this lens is 1/3-1/4 the price of nikon/sony alternatives

[ember plaza]

spoiler: you dont

[verbal laurel]

yeap

[verbal laurel]

nice birb

[verbal laurel]

Birb judgment

[verbal laurel]

Rec birb

[verbal laurel]

Curious birb

[verbal laurel]

Wow

[jagged lake]

Well I still want APSC for the crop

just higher density

[jagged lake]

Makes me REALLY want to get the Vest Pocket Kodak working

I totally could just carry a bellows camera all day

[verbal laurel]

Bearr

[jagged lake]

casually doxxed myself it’s fixed now

No real camera on me :(

[fleet fractal]

I suggest u don’t

[jagged lake]

yeah youre an expert :p

so is taco

[fleet fractal]

Yeah

[ember plaza]

@jagged lake @feral vector

New scanning setup I borrowed

Casual 6800ppi setup

[jagged lake]

Gimmmeeee

[wise patrol]

OHhh I especially love that first one

[narrow pollen]

This qualifies as 'wildlife photography', right?

[feral vector]

@jagged lake so which Adobe apps did you get

And what's your review of darktable?

[jagged lake]

LrC and Photoshop

20GB $10 photo plan

[jagged lake]

I really like it, nice and intuitive, also free. If I end up not being able to pay the Adobemonster I’ll definitely go back.

[feral vector]

So why did you pay the Adobe monster then

[jagged lake]

Wanted to see what the hype is

It’s $10

I’m not paying Apple Music anymore

And I can get a refund before the 26th

Sooo why not

[feral vector]

Ah

Well you have Photoshop now which is a whole other program to explore

[jagged lake]

Yes I do

It’s confuse lol

But I’ll learn

Also LrC denoise SO much better than darktable

And the masking is nice

[jagged lake]

I love BW+color mix

[limber tartan]

The camera on my S23+ does some really nice photos ngl

[jagged lake]

me, pixel peeping

“hmmm this image is soft”

…wonder how I can make it better

Oh wait- it’s feathers

it IS sharp

THEY are soft

[verbal laurel]

Só pretty

[ember plaza]

Bruh I thought the image was flat, but it’s just the preview wth

Is it in HDR by any chance ?

3d printed film holder btw

[jagged lake]

Yeah the preview is terrible lol

[jagged lake]

Yea but also compression

[ember plaza]

HDR images are amazing but it’s gonna be a while before being mainstream

Especially since you can’t print HDR stuff unfortunately…

[jagged lake]

Yeah

But it’s easy enough to make them sdr

And both of my main monitors are fantastic for hdr

[jagged lake]

…I wanna try medium format

dangerous words, I know….

[ember plaza]

You’ve only been taking pictures for what, 6 months ?

Idk man that doesn’t seem reasonable, and to be completely honest, the resolution advantage isn’t really there

Also optics are king, I think for any medium format setup you’d be spending 1-1.5k minimum

[jagged lake]

4 lol

on a real camera

[jagged lake]

No no, for funsies not res. I’m not professional at all.

[jagged lake]

I’m thinking Kodak a1 jr

my grandpa has it

It’s 100+ years old

Just needs film

well, likely needs tested for leaks

[ember plaza]

Yeah and also don’t forget it’s x3 the price per photo

[verbal laurel]

How does scanning process work ?

Just take a picture of a picture ?

[jagged lake]

Yeah fair

I’d need to self dev too

127 film

[feral vector]

All of ours are printed, pretty high quality too

[jagged lake]

I need to get a decent 3d printer

[feral vector]

I want a prusa

[ember plaza]

Yeah, negative supply of valoi, but those are expensive AF for no real reason…

[ember plaza]

Well usually labs can do it, but high quality scans are expensive.
Basically you just take a photo of the film with a light behind, but you need a macro lens to get the highest quality

And you also need it to be parallel, no reflection, the film needs to be flat,…

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1117185551779508305/1273191136097337435/IMG_5975.jpg?ex=66bfb165&is=66be5fe5&hm=d5f00de9815dbde7e55002735195b754083a7ec6baac688927ca9189c47e04a8&

This is my setup

[feral vector]

I saw that

[ember plaza]

Autocorrect bruh

[verbal laurel]

Oh

Nice

[verbal laurel]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-rydfxpt7w/?igsh=ZWN0NTJvZTBmenM3

jebsvibe

TUTORIAL anti miss fokus dengan Sony FX3

Ini baru field monitor

#SonyKandoTripSEA #SonyKandoTripSI #sony #lifehack

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[jagged lake]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nikon/s/ttw5mXgtwO

Z8 San Diego zoo black background

Hmmmmmmm

Ck?

[narrow pollen]

I'm not fast enough to get good clear pictures of interesting birds, but I like these fellows as well.

[jagged lake]

yay local store 20% off of fuji200

I know, boring film

But that’s cheap!

Ima get a roll or 6

[verbal laurel]

Birbs

[verbal laurel]

That is important

[limber tartan]

6. Or 10. Or 12

[jagged lake]

FILL BOX SALE.

YESSSS

[fleet fractal]

How much money will beano spend on this

Answer too much

[limber tartan]

All of his savings account

[fleet fractal]

[jagged lake]

$75

[limber tartan]

Needs moarrrr

[jagged lake]

The grab box was $20

8x8x8

I filled it FULLLL

400mm lens, 200mm lens, 135mm lens, 1-2 others I forget

2 Olympus batteries

Uhhh

2 straps

Buncha filters