Photography

[verbal laurel]

https://youtu.be/_-o-YYZE3D0?si=DpvcbSQO9n5F6TbV

This camera look sick

[jagged lake]

Is it good

[feral vector]

It's fine

Sony really excelled at mirrorless

Nikon/canon had the edge in DSLR game imo

[jagged lake]

Alright

But I do love my A mount

And SLT is basically mirrorless with a mirror

[feral vector]

Yeah SLT is weird

It's designed like a DSLR with some mirrorless technologies

[deft garden]

Sony still got that green tint to its raw files though.

[jagged lake]

That’s fixable, no?

Also I shoot a lot of Fuji film so green is normal to me

[deft garden]

With editing yes. But it’s like why canon shooters don’t want to coop with a Nikon user. Editing a different color profile sucks. Having to remove green from everything can be tedious. Unless you do a preset o guess just to remove the green and work from there.

[jagged lake]

I don’t mind green unless it’s crazy

usually just fixable with white balance correction

Also shoot a lot of nature soooo green is everywhere

Also idk if I posted this but I think I’m gonna print it 8x10

I just love it

One of my best shots

[jagged lake]

Also is LR just really good at denoise?

Or is canon good at low noise

There’s practically nothing and I cropped in and it’s at like iso 5000+

[verbal laurel]

Probably this

[verbal laurel]

But they AF system is ❤️

I never understood why dslr existed in first place, like, bad monitor quality? Or view finder ?

[jagged lake]

WOOOOI

I got the A77 ii

And Minolta lenses 24/2.8 50/1.7 35-70/4 macro- $10 each

Can’t wait to try em out!

Also got prints :D

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[verbal laurel]

Beano stores ++

[paper bear]

Airport toilet planespotting

[jagged lake]

who is he!

[verbal laurel]

https://tenor.com/qgp1IDYuy6X.gif

this one

but yellow

[jagged lake]

We don’t have yellow woodpeckers here!

[verbal laurel]

Uhm curious

[jagged lake]

They’re all red

[undone flame]

Not a bad sky out

[jagged lake]

I have been forgetting to dump photos

[elder ingot]

I like the Christmas tree one

[jagged lake]

Mhm same I love it

The HEXAGONS

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This is one of my favorite shots from Chicago. #Nikon #Infrared

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2025, 1:32 AM

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https://youtu.be/hdRI-GB0x24

[jagged lake]

these ones my favs tho

[jagged lake]

Yooooo it turned out so nice

[strong fractal]

What do ya think of the colors?

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[undone flame]

Taken on IPhone 16 Pro while filming on it

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[undone flame]

Thx

[jagged lake]

I kinda struggle to do street or closer range photography with digital for some reason….

Idk why

Maybe I need a prime lens to constrain me

With film it’s a lot slower and you’re actively burning money so I kinda have to think about it

Like this one

Had to get the the shore, lay down, aim the camera, zoom in/out, and compose using the panorama lines

But with digital I just find myself pointing and shooting at everything… kinda odd

[jagged lake]

meanwhile this is amazing

[deft garden]

Thank you. It was a fun day out and the blooming trees were very pretty.

[jagged lake]

Mhm

I can’t wait for actual springtime for that vibe

Mud season first though….

[undone flame]

I just used my phone

It was too dark for camera

[paper bear]

First day of my AMT course

[deft garden]

Air Aussie engine?

[paper bear]

Yer Qantas

[deft garden]

Nice. Couldn’t tell if it was Japan or a kangaroo at first.

[low fox]

Hey! AirAsia

From Malaysia

[paper bear]

Lol

[low fox]

So do you just drive out then camp by the road? 😂

[undone flame]

Yes

Lmao

[low fox]

That's some dedication

[undone flame]

The spot I go to is amazing

Can here them coming, cause it’s on top of a hill

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Bluesky · Feb 6, 2025, 7:06 AM

[verbal laurel]

Trucks

[verbal laurel]

👀

[undone flame]

Yes

[verbal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/zombocom-lio-truck-gif-27242991

[narrow pollen]

Lorries.

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portrait

[indigo temple]

cat photo with some random panasonic camera idk which one

very old camera

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cute

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#USA can be quite vibrant and beautiful. #baseball #infrared #fullspectrum #kolari #nikon #fineart #art #photography #chicago #highway

Bluesky · Feb 9, 2025, 4:31 AM

[vestal hatch]

For those of you plane enthusiasts out there: Got a bunch of dumps from some planespotting at SYD airport with my trusty 150-600mm, and a F-35 Lightning II / Lockheed Super Constellation back at the 2024 Shellharbour Airshow (East Coast NSW)

[verbal laurel]

[elder ingot]

PLANES

[deft garden]

Helicopter

[paper bear]

Whered you spot these from. When i was in Sydney i only stayed at the Nigel love bridge

[vestal hatch]

woah. where is this??! Are you still working out of san diego?

[vestal hatch]

Shep’s Mound- built just for planespotting

nigel love isn’t horrible, it’s pretty nice to get the closeups of the planes landing above your head lol

[paper bear]

Ahh that yeah. I would need to go by car then because the T8 line is hella expensive if I remember

[vestal hatch]

yeah… the stupid airportlink. Like $20 surcharge every time i pass thru airport

and that’s what sucks abt sheps is the fact that it’s not accessible by walking at least if you don’t want to walk for an hour

views are great tho

[deft garden]

Yeah. That’s the coast guard base right by the airport. They let us ride with them.

[vestal hatch]

Oh - that's nice. Haven't been on a Heli in a while... Long time no see btw, hope you're doing well

[ember plaza]

Got a small question about airport stuff
Saw these at KUL, they were install over the whole length of the bridge and the array is super dense, any idea what this is ?

[paper bear]

the small things under the bridge?

[vestal hatch]

These remind me of HK Airport's Sky Bridge... lol

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[deft garden]

No idea. Never worked an airpoirt with a tunnel or a bridge.

[undone flame]

Unfortunately not all of the pics turned up great, I’m still getting used to the camera so give it time! These are some of my favourites from today.

[jagged lake]

What lens do you use? Must be a pretty long one because the trucks are rather compressed and squishy

I like it tho

[undone flame]

Idk

[jagged lake]

oh

[verbal laurel]

Nice one!

[jagged lake]

embrace the high iso

(2500 so not crazy but I underexposed so this one was crazy grainy)

this is a shot from october I rediscovered and just edited now

[deft garden]

low ISO. 64.

[jagged lake]

1250

[jagged lake]

those are incredible

[deft garden]

Thank you.

Really like this one too

[jagged lake]

Ooh yes

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based

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[jagged lake]

Thank you :)

[jagged lake]

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Bluesky · Feb 13, 2025, 7:19 AM

[verbal laurel]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGAikPRtuMI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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iHMMMM

imagine

a 600 MM on it

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1200mm

[undone flame]

Something a bit different, fishing boat I believe. Was taken on my phone.

[undone flame]

😍

[jagged lake]

Camera attached to lens

[undone flame]

Taken on phone

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Bluesky · Feb 14, 2025, 5:58 AM

[vestal hatch]

i love but hate my camera at the same time because of its weight

poor man’s 400mm lol

the double adapter

[verbal laurel]

This is a gun free zone

[verbal laurel]

At this point is a competition, i seee

[jagged lake]

lol

What body is that

R6?

[jagged lake]

New lens for my A77ii

Weather sealed 16-50/2.8

also @feral vector I see why you enjoy DSLRs

And also my R50 really IS tiny

[feral vector]

yeah mirrorless crop does have it's benefits

[jagged lake]

Yeah but the G R I P on a dslr/t

but yeah I’ll keep the r50 forsure

[vestal hatch]

yep !

[vestal hatch]

gosh is that a sony dslr lol

[jagged lake]

Yesn’t

It’s a DSLT

semitransparent mirror that doesn’t move

It’s basically a mirrorless with a mirror

I love it

[vestal hatch]

that looks odd to say the least hahahah

how does autofocus work on that thing?? is it a separate af sensor or is af done on the sensor??

[jagged lake]

Separate AF sensor like a DSLR

But it can work while the shutter is working

Because 1/3 of the light goes to the AF sensor and 2/3 to the actual image sensor

And it’s got an EVF not OVF

[feral vector]

Yeah the SLTs are weird

But makes sense for Sony considering how early they went full in on mirrorless

[jagged lake]

This one’s also post-NEX

So it’s after the first Sony mirrorless

It’s actually after Sony killed NEX

[undone flame]

Amazing picture bro, what camera do you use?

[ember plaza]

Camera doesn’t matter

[undone flame]

Wdym?

[ember plaza]

It’s not because it is a certain camera that it looks appealing, the effect is a shallow depth of field which here is created with a lower f number lens and a lot of zoom using a telephoto lens

[undone flame]

Oh

[vestal hatch]

i mean

they kinda work in combination lol

can’t get shallow dof with like a 1/2.3” sensor and a telephoto at “f1.8”

[verbal laurel]

Z5, with a z 180-600mm

And thanks!!

[vestal hatch]

ooh how’s the nikon z5? i’ve heard very mixed reviews about nikon mirrorless

it’s FF right

[verbal laurel]

Nice camera, nice cost, more less auto focus, I would go for the z8

[verbal laurel]

It is

[verbal laurel]

Since I enjoy shooting birds, and z5 af don't help much sometimes

[deft garden]

The z5 was fun. AF def lacks much to be desired. It isn’t “bad” but it’s not modern or great. But the AF on the Z8,9 and 6iii (and zf) is fantastic.

[jagged lake]

I want a ZF/ZFc so bad

but they’re so expensive and totally incompatible with everything I have

If I end up switching from RF at all it’ll probably be Sony E/FE

seeing as I have a NEX and a fair bit of MD and A Mount

[ember plaza]

no you want a fuji

[jagged lake]

Why’s that

[ember plaza]

fuji are the kings of film emulation and they listen to their customers

they do features firmware updates which can't really be said about the rest, certainly not sony

[narrow pollen]

Does SONY even know what a camera firmware update is?

||Just asking as a SONY user that keeps seeing new software features in new cameras, but nothing trickling down to previously launched cameras.||

[verbal laurel]

Put the nikon on list

[jagged lake]

Oh I don’t do film emulation

I shoot actual film

I just love how the Zf/Zfc look

And

Z mount is amazing

(Apple wants me to shoot Fuji they just autocorrected Z to X)

[ember plaza]

Well yes me too but I heard film emulations were pretty damn good

[jagged lake]

Yeah fair

They’ve tricked me a few times

[gilded dust]

Forgot I made this edit ✈️

[jagged lake]

NEX5t is surprisingly capable

[gilded dust]

We need a cats thread lol

[verbal laurel]

Cat

[undone flame]

This happens when they aren’t eating enough calcium

Apparently

[paper bear]

Oh shit

Ive never seen that

[undone flame]

Yes

[deft garden]

Photographed a protest today but not sure how I feel posting politically charged photos here. 🫠

[jagged lake]

sounds like a cool thing to photograph tho

like the ones in the 60s/70s

like so

[ripped straight offa google]

[deft garden]

More politically charged signs but yeah.

It was pretty cool to see

[jagged lake]

Yeah

protest photog would be cool but maybe scary

because people are wild and protests can get violent and I don’t want to be in the middle of that

[vestal hatch]

the one thing sony needs to figure out first is what a touchscreen is.

they need to understand touchscreens are not only just for focusing, but are capable of doing much more

like the engineer needs to somehow be told that a touchscreen is meant to work all the time, not just some of the time LOL

[deft garden]

It’s why I brought my 70-200 so I could move away and already keep my distance. No cops were there and it stayed very tame.

[jagged lake]

Wait you get a touchscreen on your Sony?

[jagged lake]

70-200s are great

I need to get a good one

I have a minolta (Sony) a mount 70-210/4

It’s nice and sharp but DANG the CA is strong

Basically good for b&w only

[vestal hatch]

ive used my friend's a7r iv

it has a "touchscreen"

but the damn thing is only for focusing

like touch to focus

[jagged lake]

W h a t

[vestal hatch]

and doesnt work in teh menu?? and u cant change manual settings with it either, its SO DUMB

[jagged lake]

that camera isn’t even old

[vestal hatch]

like canon has been doing full touchscreen for ages

[paper bear]

Idek what sony A7 i got lol

[vestal hatch]

like literally touch the iso button and drag lol

[jagged lake]

The one on my R50 has EVERYTHING

[vestal hatch]

yeah

i have a r6, quite similar

its so useful for video

[jagged lake]

a77ii has no touch

[vestal hatch]

cuz ur hand is in an awkward position

and ur looking off the screen

so yea

[jagged lake]

Nex5t has mediocre touch but it does do menus

[jagged lake]

I don’t really do video so wouldn’t know that

I want an R7ii 👀

for the birds

[vestal hatch]

r7 mark 2 is out??

since when

[jagged lake]

It isn’t

But I want

At least in theory. If I don’t hop over to Sony (lens compatibility)

[vestal hatch]

what lens do you have right now?

for the r50

cuz tbh, idt the r7 ii would be much much better than ur r50 for wildlife

same aps-c crop anyways

basically same DPAF that canon is known for now

[jagged lake]

18-45
24-105 STM
100-400 5.6-8 ❤️

[vestal hatch]

oh you have the RF 100-400

hahaha

[jagged lake]

100-400 is absolutely incredible for the price and in general

[vestal hatch]

just the aperture

is the issue

[jagged lake]

Yup

[vestal hatch]

i was deciding between that or a used EF 70-200mm 2.8 ii , adapted

[jagged lake]

But LRc denoise is so good it’s not a huuuge issue

[vestal hatch]

went for the EF 70-200 instead for the fastness

but now kinda regreetting it

cuz i kinda still need the 400mm

so i went and bought a teleconverter, and that brings the weight up to like 2.5kgs with body

[ember plaza]

yess it is

[jagged lake]

I really don’t want to give up my 100-400 but I want to be able to use my A mount on mirrorless

[ember plaza]

honestly it kinda changed everything, now you can denoise and upscale any image to make it look proper

[jagged lake]

So maybe I get an LA-EA# for my nex

[vestal hatch]

yeah tbh lowlight isnt an issue for a lot of current mirrorless anymore

[vestal hatch]

the iso performances are getting absolutely insane

[jagged lake]

VERY high iso like 8000+

[vestal hatch]

oh yeah wow thats nice

[jagged lake]

Very high for photo anyways

It may have been 12800

[jagged lake]

Even with my SLT it’s pretty great

[ember plaza]

I'm shameful on how little I use my cameras now

[jagged lake]

I use them a lot

But it’s winter so less than I want :(

[ember plaza]

that reminds me i need to put film to develop

[jagged lake]

can’t wait for at least spring

Did get this!

Making me fall in love with 16mm length (24 equiv)

[vestal hatch]

same bruh

i bought a sony digicam and use that more instead of my canon mirrorless

cuz of how portable it is

[jagged lake]

Was doubting the lens length (16-50 / 24-75) but this shot…. Makes me love it

[vestal hatch]

oh yeah i have the 24-105stm too

the canon rf

it’s super nice

sharpest kit lens i’ve ever used tbh

[jagged lake]

I can’t wait to find a proper tiny lens for this guy

[vestal hatch]

what camera is this?? a6000?

[jagged lake]

NEX 5t

it’s absolutely minuscule

[vestal hatch]

oh NEX

that thing

[jagged lake]

easy jacket pocket

[vestal hatch]

mhm

[jagged lake]

Might get a dispo/lenscap lens

even though quality is bad

[ember plaza]

i also have this lens on my a6400

[jagged lake]

Just for the size

[ember plaza]

underwater camera

[jagged lake]

ooh

fishies

🎣

[ember plaza]

yez

[vestal hatch]

this is the true compact camera though

i love it

1” sensor, 24-70mm equiv f1.8-2.8 lens

[jagged lake]

RX100? Which?

I kinda wanna try one. 24-70 for that seems kinda short though.

was thinking maybe rent one for a concert

[vestal hatch]

mark Va

it’s the one with phase detect af

tried the mark iii, tbh it’s very similar

[jagged lake]

“No pRoFfeSionAl (detachable lens) cAmErAs”

[vestal hatch]

i think the rx100 mk3-5 all perform quite similarly with the exception of AF speed

the mark 6 and 7 are worse imo cuz the lenses zoom into like 120mm equiv but come at the expense of aperture

[ember plaza]

yes but your honor
x100vi

[vestal hatch]

too expensive LOL

can’t find in stock 😭

[ember plaza]

1800€ is a fucking scam though

[vestal hatch]

yeah

i think it’s overhyped

[ember plaza]

stock is better now

[vestal hatch]

just like the canon g7x line is hella overhyped and scalped

[ember plaza]

I'd want a gfx tbh

to have Xpan's 65x24 ratio (2x 35mm side by side)

https://cdn.hasselblad.com/hasselblad-com/3ac0d38510e9d87e4e1c72c01a65452f433b1c25_xpan_ex-image_2.jpg?auto=format&q=97

[vestal hatch]

ah yes hassleblad

[ember plaza]

it looks so fricking good

problem is that the xpan that just costed you a lung could basically break at any time without necessarily being able to repair it

so you could end up with a 3k€ paperweight

[narrow pollen]

The last few cameras do do more with the touchscreen. Starting with the E10 Mark II (jfc these names are ridiculous).

[vestal hatch]

nothing can be worse naming than "core ultra 7 265k" 🤣

the zv-e10's better have a good touchscreen, they're video cameras dammit

[narrow pollen]

The original one doesn't. That one has the old UI.

Mind you, it is an excellent photo camera, with only the viewfinder being missing.

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[elder ingot]

BIRB

Sorry I keep pinging you, just tell me to shut up

[icy river]

I know, #pets...

[strong fractal]

70-200 is excellent

[verbal laurel]

Cat

[jagged lake]

YALLLLLLL

I GOT FILM SCANNING GOING

5011 x 3341 instead of 1536x1037!

AND ITS FREE

[jagged lake]

Yippeee ! ! !

This lens is so incredibly sharp that I can focus on the individual silver crystals

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[narrow pollen]

Oh you are a foxy photographer!

[verbal laurel]

nice

cute fox

[verbal laurel]

Come photograph some birds

Forgot the SD and the battery

https://tenor.com/view/coragem-o-cão-covarde-tocando-violino-gif-7058306745475255185

[verbal laurel]

Nice place, photo

I would live there

[jagged lake]

I’m glad I’m close

It’s a wonderful place

[undone flame]

I’ve got to edit 500+ photos over the next week or two 😭

[verbal laurel]

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Now available: New firmware for the Z6III and Z8! These new features meet the demands of filmmakers, content creators and video pros:

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@deft garden

[deft garden]

Oh nice. The headline seems to make it all for the video side though. I don’t know how to do the video stuff. 😂😂😂

[verbal laurel]

Same

But is nice to have

Saddly z5 is pretty much abandoned by now

Sad

[deft garden]

Maybe z5ii soon.

[icy river]

[verbal laurel]

Sad ;-;

[elder ingot]

The iconic bird of the summer. Mourning Dove

[jagged lake]

quick edit

[paper bear]

Its a dove kebab stick

[elder ingot]

Shishkebob bird

[verbal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/shikanoko-nokonoko-koshitantan-鹿乃子乃子虎視眈眈-my-deer-friend-nokotan-fight-gif-15765346010345821198

I want go out and take photooos

Aaaa

[jagged lake]

it is extreme windy today

https://tenor.com/view/it-fucken-wimdy-its-fucking-gif-24928261

[vestal hatch]

beautiful. what lens?

[verbal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-heat-calor-caliente-elmo-gif-17235205

Today is warm

Like a oven

[verbal laurel]

Nahhhh amazing

70-200 right?

[deft garden]

180-600mm

[jagged lake]

Yesterday it was almost 70f here and now it’s snowing and 30

[elder ingot]

I see. You brightened the sky

[jagged lake]

ye

and bluer

[limber tartan]

I didnt think you could catch humming birds on camera like that because they move too fast?

[jagged lake]

high shutter speeds help a lot

[deft garden]

1250 shutter. f8 iso 500 and shooting 20 fps raw 45 mp

[limber tartan]

Ahhhh okay

Hummingbirds are just so majestic honestly

And quite fascinating

[verbal laurel]

Wow

[deft garden]

They are pretty fantastic.

[feral vector]

spending 2 weeks in new mexico starting tomorrow

only bringing film and phone

[undone flame]

Nice

[jagged lake]

SPEAKING OF NEW MEXICO and film

Lookie what I just discovered

the guitar straps are negatives!

[feral vector]

Ooo

We totally aren't hoarders

[jagged lake]

duuude gimmeeeee

FRESH LARGE FORMAT CHROME

GIVE

[deft garden]

You should bring a camera and some batteries to use that film. Maybe some clothes too.

[feral vector]

https://tenor.com/view/leaves-deadpan-gif-26484070

[feral vector]

There's 3 large format cameras, 4 medium format, and an unknown amount of 35mm bodies in my house

[elder ingot]

I should use this more often

[tawdry forum]

Could be car stuff but it's more for the photo than what's being photographed

[feral vector]

I just sent it all through the CT scanner again

Idk if I should fly with film anymore

Airport is too stressful to remember I have it

[verbal laurel]

🤤

That engine looks nice

[tawdry forum]

Indeed

[limber tartan]

Just post in both

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[elder ingot]

Not bad for something taken at 100x zoom on my phone

[jagged lake]

What shutter speed lol

[verbal laurel]

dont remeber

but 1/5000 - 1/8000

[verbal laurel]

yeap

[verbal laurel]

nah

this time

thanks depth of field for this

[verbal laurel]

this one im printing

[elder ingot]

depth of field*

[verbal laurel]

thanks

[undone flame]

Nice

[undone flame]

Molly, Labradoodle, 3Yrs Old.
(Taken on IPhone 16 PRO, Edited on PC on LightRoom and Photoshop.)

[ember plaza]

i think the text needs to be a little bigger

[undone flame]

Nice

[undone flame]

Really or?

They are phone pics so

[ember plaza]

let me just prove a point

took me like a minute

[undone flame]

right

How would you recommend doing it?

[ember plaza]

well unfortunately there isn't really a way anymore, you can do it like this but that just takes away from the photo
there unfortunately isn't really a way except sending a pretty low res that wouldn't make it useful for anyone
The best way to do it is content credentials but it's only arriving slowly https://contentcredentials.org/
it basically puts a hash in the image that's an ID card for the photo, what camera was used, sometimes location, and if the image even changes a tiny bit, the hash is lost.
https://youtu.be/qO0WvudbO04?si=Pfl57SSQCCuDvZK9 this is a nice video explaining content credentials

[undone flame]

Thank you

[ember plaza]

this is the Cr available in photoshop right now, cameras are starting to come out where it has Cr built into it, and brands will perhaps upgrade their cameras to support it (surely not sony !) but we have a pretty long way to go still

for example this ugly photo has content credentials on it, and i'll test if discord removes them

so this is with the original file

and this is if you download it from discord, at least it doesn't give false positives, but as soon as you pass it through any website that compresses it, it turns it down as tampered

[verbal laurel]

Thanks

[undone flame]

All good

[jagged lake]

TRIPOD

[elder ingot]

DOPIRT

[ember plaza]

Skill issue mines in carbon fiber

It’s holding a Vive lighthouse now though

[jagged lake]

Didn’t wanna spend hundreds

[ember plaza]

you're in thr wrong hobby buddy

[jagged lake]

Not really

It does fine for me

And used gear is way cheaper

I’ll actually test it soon but it seems fine

[strong fractal]

Agreed

[verbal laurel]

What is the black box

?

[ember plaza]

vive lighthouse, for my htc vive

[verbal laurel]

Nice

[jagged lake]

water bord

[jagged lake]

Pretty bord

Who is he?

Also apsc lens + teleconverter = full frame

[verbal laurel]

Very friendly

[verbal laurel]

No idea

Need to Google it

Here we call it little widow

If I'm not mistaken

[deft garden]

Happy Holi.

[undone flame]

nice

[verbal laurel]

@wise patrol

@low fox

[wise patrol]

omgggg duckiessss

[verbal laurel]

they where so cute

[narrow pollen]

Well ||duck|| me.

[jagged lake]

Ohhhh so cuteee

[low fox]

[low fox]

Happy belated birthday to you hehe

[jagged lake]

Photos 1917 style

[undone flame]

Sick

[jagged lake]

Got a new lens, went for a “quick walk in the park” and ended up staying 2h+

lol I’m still there

But LOOK

and SWAN

And red winged BLACKBIRD

and nearly dipping the camera to get that magnificent reflection shot

Filled a 64GB SD and did probably another 16GB

Minolta never disappoints

[elder ingot]

Should definitely send the pictures once you get them off your cards

[jagged lake]

For sureeee

And once they’re edited

[verbal laurel]

[jagged lake]

SO GOOD

[jagged lake]

PILEATED\

WOODPECKER

[elder ingot]

Absolutely amazing

[jagged lake]

[elder ingot]

I'm good with cats though

[jagged lake]

shes a gorgie tortie

whats her name again??

[elder ingot]

Max

Short for Maxine

[jagged lake]

d'awwwww :)

shesacutie

do ya have your cat yet?

[elder ingot]

Working on it. Waiting until I have enough money first :p

[jagged lake]

gotcha

[elder ingot]

Don't worry, it's coming 😉

[jagged lake]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

THIS ONE TURNED OUT SO GOOOD

(great blue heron)

R50 / 100-400 5.6-8 USM / 400mm, ISO 5000, f/8, 1/80sec

[elder ingot]

Making me jealous lol

[jagged lake]

8x10 version because I think I will frame it

I think I will refresh the frames I have once a season

spring/summer/fall/winter

prints are like $3 for an 8x10 and $0.40 for 4x6 soooo

[elder ingot]

If you want actually good quality prints

Don't go to Walmart

[jagged lake]

go out and use that canon, then edit in Darktable (free) or Lightroom ($10 a mo)

[jagged lake]

yeahhhh no

[elder ingot]

Yeah, the Fuji printer they use is terrible

[jagged lake]

my local actual photo lab is the same price or cheaper vs walmart or CVS

but way better

[jagged lake]

nah it's probably a good one just run horribly

[elder ingot]

There's like 1000+ prints through it every day almost

[elder ingot]

I'm still looking for a decent used camera

[jagged lake]

embed fail

[elder ingot]

I'll download it

[jagged lake]

nah hold on

aaah

ok do that

[elder ingot]

I don't have anything on my phone that can open it

To the PC I go

[jagged lake]

oh phone

screenshot

[elder ingot]

Opened on my PC

[jagged lake]

as you can see its very noisy and flat

[elder ingot]

Still looks really good

[jagged lake]

editing helps a T O N with digital

[jagged lake]

yeah the edit mainly helps the contrast / noise (grain) / lighting

[elder ingot]

Never answered this btw lol

[jagged lake]

I read it :p

idk what to reccomend

remember I have been doing actual photography less than a year

I just learn fast because I get hyperobsessed

and self teach from boredom

[elder ingot]

ADHD does that too

[jagged lake]

I got the add/tism double combo :D

[elder ingot]

Same lol

[jagged lake]

add no h here because im ⭐ speciaw ✨

I do wanna get a nicer lens too

for this camera

but also wondering if I should just switch brands too

and get good lenses there

sony is calling me but also not

aaaaaaaaaaaa

I dont really want to do both brands because money

but like

indecisive

[elder ingot]

The camera I have is good but

I want something better

[jagged lake]

find out what kinda photog you want

then find the lens you want

THEN the body

lens matters way more

oh and watch all the photo youtube (except the weird film people like grainydays)

[elder ingot]

I like nature, but I wanna do a bit of everything mainly

[jagged lake]

youre phone camera is decent, you should go out for the purpose of shooting photos, shoot them in RAW mode, then go home and edit them on the PC

see what kinda things you end up with

see what you like and love and dont

but you really can't go wrong with a 50mm lens or 35ish on an apsc camera

theyre cheap and it's a great focal length for general thigns

won't get birds though

[elder ingot]

I did this in RAW mode. Didn't edit it anyway, just changed ISO and shutter speed

[jagged lake]

what iso

and shutter

[elder ingot]

And here's the RAW file

[elder ingot]

Btw Beano, if you wanna see what you can do to this to edit, feel free. I'm curious

[jagged lake]

what, you think I wasn't already

why do you think I went silent

about as good as I can get it

it was underexposed

[elder ingot]

Honestly not bad

[jagged lake]

ty

everyone sees it different so nobody will edit the same

I mainly did a color correction and straightening / crop

[elder ingot]

Considering I'm using a phone, I'm not a bad photographer, but I feel with an actual camera I can do much better

[jagged lake]

ye

a sensor that isnt miniscule and a lens that isnt... bad.

[elder ingot]

According to this, it's a 23mm sensor

[undone flame]

tried that adobe credit thingo idk if it worked

[elder ingot]

Sensor resolution is 50MP though

[jagged lake]

I love seeing those truck shots

keep them coming

what camera?

[jagged lake]

yeah but when there's that many pixels in that TINY sensor it's gonna be very noisy

less light hits each individual pixel

[undone flame]

CoolPix B500 and Iphone 16 pro

[elder ingot]

I don't mind the noise sometimes

[jagged lake]

looks like grain lol

[elder ingot]

I play games with film grain on lol

[jagged lake]

right but thats supposed to look lioke a movie

[elder ingot]

True

[elder ingot]

I did Indiana Jones all with 21:9 aspect and film grain on, because it was supposed to look like a movie

[jagged lake]

your phone sensor is slightly less than the 1" one sony nikon

APS-C is already middling / ok not great at low light because it's small

but with a better wider aperture lens it wouldn't matter

you dont need full frame but definitely more than a phone

I want full frame tho for funsies lol

there we go

like I said slightly under the 1" size

wait hold on

maybe more

1" sensor is the largest in a phone

oh dang nvm

1/2.6

sooo

[elder ingot]

1/1.3" sensor

[jagged lake]

under the 2.3

[elder ingot]

According to Samsung

[jagged lake]

where at

there may be multiple and i confoos

[elder ingot]

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-introduces-the-200-megapixel-image-sensor-for-the-ultimate-high-resolution-experience-in-flagship-smartphones

[jagged lake]

ok so yeah between 1" and 1/2.5"

still mini

[elder ingot]

That's the S23 Ultra and S24 Ultra sensor

[jagged lake]

anyways look around KEH, MPH, Kamerastore, and UsedPhotoPro

UPP is who I use a lot because local but they ship and have online

[elder ingot]

They're in Indy?

[jagged lake]

yeah way downtown

not super local just drivable

anyway bedtime

[verbal laurel]

👏

[verbal laurel]

What a different chicken

[jagged lake]

grainydays lookin ahh

I must be in portland or something

grody lookin dingy photo

(Aurora 800 shot at 1600 pushed +1)

I like I though

[wise patrol]

giving me some horror movie vibes in the best way

[limber tartan]

Oh absolutelyyyyy

Kinda reminds me of like... Texas Chain Saw Massacre or something?

[deft garden]

Two more humming birds. Even got one of them while pooping. 😂😂😂

[limber tartan]

Thats insaneeeeee

[feral vector]

Huh

Oh the bird....not you

[undone flame]

Nice

[wise patrol]

yeah! Those vibes

[wise patrol]

omg these are incredible!!! The framing in the first one is stunning and the colors in the second one are just gorgeous!!

[jagged lake]

Fairly accurate I like it

[limber tartan]

Need to rewatch the OG again. Its celebrating 50 years this year 🫣

[verbal laurel]

😍

[jagged lake]

Repost because buried

[wise patrol]

gorgeous

[jagged lake]

Don’t feel like retyping - I’m looking into nice long lenses for the A77ii (crop sensor a mount)

I really really love the body

If any of yall have input especially if you’ve shot Sony that would help

I’m thinking about hopping over to Sony mirrorless from canon but probably won’t. A77ii has good enough image quality as is so I’ll probably keep the r50 because it’s better sensor smaller/less feature body

I think I’ll get a nice lens for A77ii and make that my main wildlife setup maybe

then have the R50 more compact

The lens is kind of slow and I’m noticing it now

[jagged lake]

For example I had to shoot this at 1/80 ISO 5000 to not lose too much detail to noise

And it was still not great for noise

If Sony had a center EVF crop sensor E mount I would buy that

[elder ingot]

Getting ready

Too early though

[jagged lake]

Oh right thx for remind

[elder ingot]

Trying my actual camera for once

[jagged lake]

195’16” wow

[elder ingot]

What would be good settings to get a good picture

[jagged lake]

Uhhh we will see

Ima get up and go look

[elder ingot]

Max recording length

I have a 32GB SD card in here

[jagged lake]

Ohhhh ok

that’s a small file lol

[elder ingot]

Only records 720p

Tripod I stole from my mom lol

I don't have an SD card reader nor a cable that works properly

But I can take it into work and see what it looks like

Because photo lab

And then my phone

That's a real moon picture

[jagged lake]

Here’s my settings

[elder ingot]

My camera isn't that fancy lol

That's mine

[jagged lake]

Yeah haha

Does it have manual mode though?

[elder ingot]

Yeah

It's on that

[jagged lake]

Good

OK your shutter speed is way too high

Take it down from 1/2000 to maybe 1/100

That’ll allow the ISO to be lower and less noise

[elder ingot]

I'm gonna buy an SD card reader tomorrow from work

[elder ingot]

Anything else I should change? Manual mode doesn't really let me do a whole lot

I also already need to swap out the batteries

If I had another tripod I could set my old phone up for a timelapse

[jagged lake]

I’d go a little narrower aperture

Probably aperture f/10 shutter 1/100

and then ISO to auto

[elder ingot]

Aperture only goes to 8

Nor is there an auto ISO

[jagged lake]

Weird

Ok

Wait it doesn’t go higher number than 8?

[elder ingot]

Nope

[jagged lake]

Does it go wider

[elder ingot]

3.5

[jagged lake]

Or is it f8 only

Weird that you can’t change it further

[elder ingot]

It's a cheap camera

[jagged lake]

Try Av mode (not auto)

[elder ingot]

What do you expect from it lmao

[jagged lake]

And aperture changing was invented like forever ago

It’s one of the three big things

[elder ingot]

No change there either

[jagged lake]

Ok

Well

F8 then

[elder ingot]

Reminder:

[jagged lake]

Beautiful

[elder ingot]

You're already pulling them off your camera

[jagged lake]

Straight to phone

Quick Lightroom edit

I got some good shots I’m off to bed now

[elder ingot]

I'll put what I get in tomorrow after I get the SD card reader

[elder ingot]

Never mind

My camera legit isn't that good

[jagged lake]

Show anyway

[elder ingot]

I got nothing

[jagged lake]

wdym nothing

[jagged lake]

thanks, discord....

[elder ingot]

Nothing good

This is like the only good one I got

[strong fractal]

https://bsky.app/profile/recklessthor4.bsky.social/post/3lkf4l7z7yc2j @elder ingot

RecklessThor4 (@recklessthor4.bsky.social)

Some shots of the eclipse last night! Guess which is infrared and which is full spectrum! #moon #night #infrared #art #irphotography #nikon

Bluesky · Mar 15, 2025, 2:51 AM

these are the only good shots I got

[verbal laurel]

Normal moon shot

[deft garden]

Cherry blossom festival.

[verbal laurel]

niceeee

[deft garden]

Is that very cropped, a very zoomed in phone photo, or a very bad compression job by discord?

[elder ingot]

Very zoomed in. 30x from my S24 Ultra

Honestly aside from the noise and stuff, it doesn't do too terrible of a job

[deft garden]

How it looks on my end. 😂

[deft garden]

Yeah so same.

[elder ingot]

If I had my camera it would've been better

[deft garden]

Just think, a little over a year ago you couldn’t see the difference between a camera and a phone. 😂 now it’s super easy isn’t it?

[elder ingot]

Yeah, lol

You seen the camera I have though?

[deft garden]

Don’t think so

[elder ingot]

It's not bad

[deft garden]

Hey if it works.

[elder ingot]

And it does

[elder ingot]

Not my video, but Pittsburgh will always be my home city for reasons like this

[jagged lake]

Beat this

[elder ingot]

Older than what I have

[jagged lake]

Very

It’s my grandpas old vacation camera

I also have a Nikon digicam with photos of people who I don’t know

And my mom doesn’t know

And my dad

They’re just

Random people in Florida

photos from 2003

[elder ingot]

I looked mine up

It's from 2012

[jagged lake]

That’s fine

I mean my oldest is from 1917 buuuut

I regularly use one from 2014 and sometimes one from 13

[jagged lake]

Also @feral vector opinions? Should I spend for the big white??? Is it worth doing a mount like it is EF?

70-400 4-5.6 G SSM ii or 70-300 4.5-5.6 G SSM ii

I do have a 70-210/4 and a 75-300 4.5-5.6

But neither are SSM they use screw focus and they both suffer from severe CA

Or do I just not?

I love the A77ii body and tbh I like it more than the R50, even though the sensor is way behind

Just more features and controls

And I want a faster lens than 100-400 5.6-8

With a TC I could be at 830 f8

Instead of 640 f8

Or I could do 600 f 5.6

Entire stop faster

Part of me does want to hop over to E Mount such as a7iii but I don’t trust the ergonomics to be nearly as good as the A77ii because FE cameras just kinda look like bricks… the A77ii has a magnificent grip to it

[feral vector]

I know nothing about A mount lenses

It also depends how much those giant telephotos are

If it's dirt cheap yeah

[jagged lake]

Oh ok

[jagged lake]

It’s $400 vs $800 💀

I just got the 75-300 4.5-5.6 for $48 but uhhh it’s kinda short and has a ton of CA

[jagged lake]

Found a good color film to shoot at ISO 1600

Aurora 800 pushed +1

It’s pretty nice I think

These were late in the evening

the pumpkin was when it was already pretty dark

[feral vector]

So Vision3

[jagged lake]

Apparently not???

They say on website it’s specifically c41 and it’s not a cinema film

But I desperately want to shoot vision3 and dev in ecn2

Could probably get ISO 2000 usable

[feral vector]

Well vision3 can have the remjet removed and be processed C41

Ohhh

It could also be repacked Kodak color 800

Which is typically found in disposable cameras

[jagged lake]

That’s what the general consensus is

Probably 800

Like lomo

But cheaper

[feral vector]

Color films in 2025: Harmon Phoenix, wolfen NC something, Kodak gold family, portra family, ektar, and whatever Fuji decides to randomly drop onto the Japanese market

Oh and vision3 of course

With gold family and vision having a ton of derivatives

[jagged lake]

Yeah

But nobody knows EXACTLY what aurora 800 is

Likely the disposable camera film though

[feral vector]

How cheap is it

Cause that can probably tell you what it is

[jagged lake]

Like 13

Not crazy cheap but cheaper

Definitely less than portra

[feral vector]

For 800iso not too bad

[jagged lake]

For 1600 ISO not bad :D

I saw a sample image or few it looks usable at 3200

[jagged lake]

AAAAAAGH THIS THING IS COOL

LIKE WOW

AAAA I WANNA GO SHOOT WITH IT SOOON

Easiest camera I’ve ever worked on

Everything just comes apart

The viewfinder comes completely off and the lens unscrews!

1917 patent date

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT

Years old

[verbal laurel]

This is older the 3 of is together

[jagged lake]

Yes

And it STILL WORKS

[wise patrol]

oh my goshhhhh so beautiful!!! The framing of the warbler in the second pic is just stunning!!!

I do love the framing of the shadows with some of the people too. So dramatic!

[deft garden]

Thank you.

[deft garden]

Just some time at the national museum of natural history.

[verbal laurel]

That emerald

So pretty

[elder ingot]

Smithsonian museum?

[deft garden]

One of them yes.

[feral vector]

@jagged lake shame
i just home developed my roll of 100tmax from white sands NP and it was completely blank

transparent*

looks like the developer went bad or something

[jagged lake]

Noooooooi

[feral vector]

reasons why we think its the developer

1. film is completely translucent
2. if there was an issue with the shutter or something, the film markers at the edge would still show up

3. it was CT scanned but i think that would show up as noise in the final product?

there is just nothing there unfortunately

soooooooo probably taking B&W to the lab in the future or saving it until I have a bunch and buying fresh chemical

my roommate said "I used it about 8 months ago it should be fine" @jagged lake

[jagged lake]

O h

You didn’t fix before dev did you?

[feral vector]

no the chemical is 3x it's shelf life

we didn't know it expired so quickly once open unfortunately

need to find a different chemical with a longer shelf life

or else I have to bank B&W

[jagged lake]

:(

I really wanna self dev though it sounds fun

And do ecs2 as well

[feral vector]

ECS2?

[feral vector]

we have a $400 film agitater lmao