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Welcome to the Dorkroom chat thread. Talk about whatever, post poo poo you've been doing, just say hi! I've been working on restoring this Voightlander Perkeo I 6x6 folder. Found it in a little antique shop, the lens was in good nick so it came home with me. Going to have to make a new bellows for it which will be a new one for me. I'll be documenting that in the repair thread when I get to it. Luckily I have a very attentive support technician.  I also got a new lamp for my workspace and it's so good, truly a dream to work under. Gives off a real nice diffuse light and leaves no shadows for bits to hide in.  Anyway, what's been goin on with you?
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Yo that catte good as gently caress here is my floofy idiot fighting some string 
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Feb 15, 2021 16:45
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Feels auspicious for my first post in The Dorkroom to be so early in the new chat thread. Hi! I just bought a Canon 5D Mk III as my first real camera. I have no idea what I'm doing! People keep asking me what I like to shoot, and I have no idea because I haven't taken any shots yet. My favorite photographer is Stacy Kranitz, though, so she is sort of an inspiration for me.
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Feb 15, 2021 17:15
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My current photography project is to look out the windows of my house and seeing amazing conditions but not being able to go outside because I have a stupid 9-5 job and sunset is at 5:30. So I get mad a lot at all the stuff I miss.
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Feb 15, 2021 18:40
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whats your preferred approach for putting up and collapsing a tripod personally i like to unfasten everything then pull each leg one by one. back the other way just push them all in at once and lock up
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Feb 15, 2021 21:14
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Twenties Superstar posted:whats your preferred approach for putting up and collapsing a tripod personally i like to unfasten everything then pull each leg one by one. back the other way just push them all in at once and lock up I go one leg at time. Unfasten all the QR, pull/push, move to the next. Doesn't unfastening everything from the start cause the other two legs to telescope down on their own while you're working on the first one? That could be hazardous.
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Feb 15, 2021 21:30
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Sub Rosa posted:Feels auspicious for my first post in The Dorkroom to be so early in the new chat thread. Welcome! As someone who's been doing very casual photography on and off for like a decade at this point and only recently started trying to experiment with different things and actively working on improving my skills, I'd say having a source of inspiration is a great starting point. For a long time I didn't, really, and I just kinda flailed around without reflecting much on my photos. Looking back, most of them were really bad and boring, and I didn't really improve for a very long time. When I started looking more at other people's photos and trying to figure out what I liked and how they accomplished those shots, that's when I started improving. Turns out that what I like most about photography is to catch birds doing silly things, and I'm probably not cut out to be a landscape photographer. It was good to finally figure that out, though!
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Feb 15, 2021 22:59
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Twenties Superstar posted:whats your preferred approach for putting up and collapsing a tripod personally i like to unfasten everything then pull each leg one by one. back the other way just push them all in at once and lock up I unfasten the bottom extensions first and set those up, then I set my height and unfasten the top extensions one by one getting everything level while I do. Then I put my camera on it and realize I need to be either higher or lower before convincing myself it's going to be a bad photo and packing it back up. Sub Rosa posted:Feels auspicious for my first post in The Dorkroom to be so early in the new chat thread. That's awesome and you've got the right idea. Finding and drawing from inspiration is a great way to find new areas to explore. I've stopped saying "I'm a modern landscape photographer" or the like because I'm just into what I'm shooting on the day, which could be anything, but most likely cats.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:03
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I fully extend the first segment of the front leg, line up the mounting plate with my chin, then extend the second segment until the foot hits the ground and lock it. That way I'm setting up the tripod roughly where I visualized the composition (which is complete poo poo). Then I extend the other two legs because a one legged tripod is pretty useless.
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Feb 16, 2021 01:13
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Feb 16, 2021 08:35
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Love 2 scan and found out things I hosed up:  Apparently I can hold a camera still and get the correct settings for the scene, just not on the first half of the pair.
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Feb 16, 2021 10:14
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all right ryan mcginley
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Feb 16, 2021 17:07
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seravid posted:I go one leg at time. Unfasten all the QR, pull/push, move to the next. risk and reward
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Feb 16, 2021 18:32
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Posting on first page
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Feb 16, 2021 20:54
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i keep the bottom segments permanently extended a few inches so i just untwist the top segments in a circle, slam the tripod open, and tighten them in the same way, always extending to my desired height
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Feb 16, 2021 21:42
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I was looking at long lens options for medium format and I kept circling back around to the Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestegor 500mm f/5.6 because I already have a 300mm lens for P6 mount and I wanted to try some super-tele experiments. It's not super rare, but there aren't a lot in good condition these days and they go for more money than I was prepared to spend on a lens I'd maybe use two or three times a year. Then I saw an eBay listing from a German dealer without a Buy it Now price so I dropped a hilariously low bid on it and, to my surprise I got it at about a fifth of the prices that I was seeing on other auctions. It arrived last week and it's a beast. The barrel (which is huge) is all metal. The elements are both huge and heavy - the front element is a 118mm diameter chunk of glass. The thing weighs about 4kg before you attach it to a camera. This is not a lens for birding unless the bird is unusually still and patient. This is not a lens for action shooting unles you are very, very strong. This is a lens for putting on a tripod and seeing things a long way away. I have no filters that will go on that thing and I don't know of any manufacturers that make 118mm filters as standard. Even my 100mm square drop-in filters are too small for this beast. Here it is on my 6x6 Arax 88 with a 2x teleconverter between the camera and the lens for 1000mm goodness.   To put the size in perspective, here it is with some other lenses. L-R Orestegor 500mm, my previous hugest lens, a Tair-33 300mm, and the standard 80mm lens that usually sits on my Arax.  And here it is with a Canon 70-200mm lens and the case for the thing in the background.  Best of all, that knurled ring around the lens mount is a collar that lets you switch out the standard Pentacon 6 lens mount for a different one. I have a separate cone adapter for Exakta mount, so I can fit that thing to my 35mm Exakta VX1000 and try some tripod-assisted wildlife photography with it.
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Feb 16, 2021 22:24
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Watch out there's a new Girl Watcher in town
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Feb 16, 2021 23:09
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Helen Highwater posted:I was looking at long lens options for medium format and I kept circling back around to the Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestegor 500mm f/5.6 because I already have a 300mm lens for P6 mount and I wanted to try some super-tele experiments. It's not super rare, but there aren't a lot in good condition these days and they go for more money than I was prepared to spend on a lens I'd maybe use two or three times a year. the most telling thing for me was the sheer scale comparing it to the clay pot. holy poo poo
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Feb 16, 2021 23:15
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Feb 16, 2021 23:37
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Feb 17, 2021 00:30
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Feels like a screen shot from a new Sim City game.
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Feb 17, 2021 01:26
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Feb 17, 2021 01:29
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Twenties Superstar posted:whats your preferred approach for putting up and collapsing a tripod personally i like to unfasten everything then pull each leg one by one. back the other way just push them all in at once and lock up My preferred approach is to leave it at home because I’m probably not going to take it out anyways.
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Feb 17, 2021 02:59
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Helen Highwater posted:Here it is on my 6x6 Arax 88 with a 2x teleconverter between the camera and the lens for 1000mm goodness. this is extremely my poo poo, i love it lmao this too
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Feb 17, 2021 20:43
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hard to believe but scientists theorise that lens may be larger than an original xbox
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Feb 17, 2021 21:14
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My perkeo is nude now, next up is shutter service or bellows replacement, not sure which yet.
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Feb 18, 2021 02:25
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What will you do with the repaired product?
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Feb 18, 2021 03:23
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Hey so I took my first photos  I found some reddit course thing I'm going to try to work through that said to start with picking your favorite photo and a photo of a window, so of what I shot today I picked my favorite, and also here is the window pick.  
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Feb 18, 2021 03:29
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seravid posted:What will you do with the repaired product? Use the hell out of it. It's joining my tiny crew with my next project. 2 cameras I can fit in a jacket pocket. Megabound fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Feb 18, 2021 10:24
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Sub Rosa posted:Hey so I took my first photos These are nice! For beginners I always recommend this YouTube playlist its as much composition and techinque as it is operational basics, but whatever vibes with you and gets you out shooting! These would be more than welcome in the landscape thread.
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Feb 18, 2021 10:27
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Megabound posted:These are nice! For beginners I always recommend this YouTube playlist its as much composition and techinque as it is operational basics, but whatever vibes with you and gets you out shooting! Thanks, I posted them there as well, and I will check out that playlist. I have a lot of videos queued. Also I bought a couple books for 2 bucks each yesterday. One is Photography by Bruce Warren which looks pretty good, like an old textbook, but it's pre-digital. And the second book is digital specific. No shortage of resources.
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Feb 18, 2021 19:02
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I found an abandoned adult shop and peep show in the center of our clubbing district and the door was open so I guess they wanted me in there. Was a good day for photos. It'll be a little bit before I get everything processed and finalized.     What sketchy places have you guys been in?
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Feb 21, 2021 23:47
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 Does it count if it comes with a view?
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Feb 22, 2021 00:33
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i spend some time in abandoned places, personally                                      
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Feb 22, 2021 04:49
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those all rip
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Feb 22, 2021 04:49
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I find this one particularly concerning! I need to go through these slower at home.
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Feb 22, 2021 05:25
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Tag yourselves in abandoned dump, I'm the astro turf stairs
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Feb 23, 2021 08:51
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jeez ansel, just dumping an embarassment of riches on us
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Feb 23, 2021 11:00
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Megabound posted:Tag yourselves in abandoned dump, I'm the astro turf stairs that place is great, it had this downstairs parlor 3 steps down from the kitchen with thick luscious green shag carpet and a fake brick fireplace with a view of distant mountains and (now) windmills. it's on some private hunting reserve for assholes so it's not going to get torn down any time soon. that room absolutely reeked of piss.
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Those photos are all amazing. Looking at all the film gear above I am both jealous and glad that I rock just one small, cheap body and one lens all the time. A Fuji XT1 and a 23mm f2 are all I carry 99% of the time.
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