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PokeJoe posted:raws are too big for my internal storage uwu 🥺 i on the other hand think it's a great photo of a cat basking in a sunbeam there's focus where it's important, the lighting is great, it's a beautiful catte the thing about jpeg artifacts is that some people like them, like the way old people harp on about film grain
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echinopsis posted:I make it look cool because i have a long camera strap and it hangs low on my body kind of like how korn had their guitars slung low. same vibe post a pic of your cool setup
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PokeJoe posted:you can do that with a phone it's fun being the dork, people come up and ask "wow that's a dorky rear end camera, how the gently caress does it work?!" and you get to infodump
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i took this dorky thing to the pub 
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lol i would definitely ask about that dork camera at a bar after a few brewheims
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yes sure i could get a more compact, or lightweight camera, maybe something a little more easier to focus than a split rangefinder/viewer, but at least it's a coupled rangefinder, and i can shoot instax with it
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but yes, as a very big camera owner, using a phone is real photography, and often real fun photography isn't about perfect replication, that's just paperclip optimization
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so is the prohibition era camera a pickup artist peacock thing or are you just happy to see me
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tef posted:best camera is one you enjoy using, because you take more photos that way thats very true, and i've said before that it really doesn't matter what equipment you use ...but... for example i just took this with my ipad. it's ok:  my big boy cameras and lenses are all literally a thousand miles away at the moment, but i can also tell that given a longer lens and a better sensor i could take a good portrait in these conditions, from the same position (and yeah i'm just sitting in bed lol). i'd also definitely not go as heavy on the noise reduction or bump the iso up that far, but i don't really have control over those here (at least not with the stock app) i mean, it's fine for what it is. my point is that it could be better just by using different equipment and yeah being limited by technical constraints can actually lend itself to creativity in squeezing out better results, but i'd rather not have to worry about that and just focus on the picture itself
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is it a modern flashbulb or is it some extremely hard to source thing full of tungsten?
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Beeftweeter posted:thats very true, and i've said before that it really doesn't matter what equipment you use not everyone enjoys shooting 28mm lenses that's ok. sure enough, you can work around "being far away from a poorly lit subject" by buying a longer, faster lens, but you can also work around the same issues by being closer and having better light quote:and yeah being limited by technical constraints can actually lend itself to creativity in squeezing out better results, but i'd rather not have to worry about that and just focus on the picture itself i see. people who casually use a phone without worrying about the technical limitations are bad, unlike people who fuss over which camera and lens to use, who are good, because they are focusing on the picture itself, rather than being limited by technical constraints
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"phones are bad cameras, actually" is the most boring dad opinion ever it likely has an oasis best of, on cd
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i never said they were bad, just mediocretef posted:not everyone enjoys shooting 28mm lenses that's ok. sure enough, you can work around "being far away from a poorly lit subject" by buying a longer, faster lens, but you can also work around the same issues by being closer and having better light and i usually shoot pretty wide anyway, there's a billion examples in this thread. it's not the focal length i really have a problem with, or the lenses (they are on average pretty good), it's the sensors + post-processing. you can get fine results using RAW from most contemporary phones but most people won't bother; that's admittedly not universal though. it's basically the inverse with my pentax Q7 — most phone sensors have probably surpassed it by now but the interchangeable lenses + raw output still let it punch above its minuscule weight
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pretty sure beeftweeter means that the existing knowledge of and access to a preferred set of specialist tools allow you make the image you want instead of having to find the best image you can with a generalist tool. but i also think you know that and are doing obtuse posting i got an iphone 13 pro max because “hey it has great cameras” and i mean sure compared to an iphone 6s i guess, or no phone at all, and it is hands down the device i use the most, but using it doesn’t give me anything i actually want out of the practice of photography, and in fact the phone’s bullshit is directly responsible for my renewed energy for slr-touching over the last year. if nothing else, it is incredibly unlikely i will ever buy a dedicated camera that sneaks in always-on algorithmic improvements of my images that end up deciding i took a picture of a tree, and so therefore all the components of the bird i saw in that tree must be reshaped to look like leaves. mimesis, eat your heart out! [edit to add: this device is legitimately amazing, i will happily acknowledge that. just not what i want to use in a tool] you absolutely do not need to buy as much poo poo as some of us have, though, to move into the world of dedicated cameras. gently caress it, get a ricoh gr and call it good. or a mft or nikon mirrorless plus kit lens and you’ll be off to the races. it’s gonna depend on what you actually want out of the hobby. and if all you want is jpegs off a phone, i would hope nobody here would tell you you’re wrong for it. nurrwick fucked around with this message at 03:57 on May 19, 2023 |
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tef you're comin on awful strong and it looks like you're just looking for a fight. what beef said doesn't really read how you're interpreting it
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nurrwick posted:pretty sure beeftweeter means that the existing knowledge of and access to a preferred set of specialist tools allow you make the image you want instead of having to find the best image you can with a generalist tool. yep it's this camera phone pics can be fine. if they're acceptable to you, that's great, use what you like. i think very few people itt will tell you that a good one doesn't have artistic merit or something, but on a technical level (and this being yospos) they're almost always a disappointment
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im gay
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tef posted:by being closer hmm idk
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PokeJoe posted:im gay we know
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echinopsis posted:we know thanks for the support
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Achmed Jones posted:tef you're comin on awful strong and it looks like you're just looking for a fight. what beef said doesn't really read how you're interpreting it nurrwick posted:pretty sure beeftweeter means that the existing knowledge of and access to a preferred set of specialist tools allow you make the image you want instead of having to find the best image you can with a generalist tool. it's my natural reaction to someone posting a nice picture of a cat, saying how much they're enjoying things, and some dickweed rolling in to talk about jpeg artifacts and long lenses sure enough, i shoot with an A7Riv and a 50/1.2 G Master lens, but i don't need to validate that choice by making GBS threads on other people's hobby
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it's nice to be able to make up for mediocre or low light with a fast prime, but, well, i still use my phone but i'd rather have better lighting than a better camera tef fucked around with this message at 11:58 on May 19, 2023 |
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tef posted:it's my natural reaction to someone posting a nice picture of a cat, saying how much they're enjoying things, and some dickweed rolling in to talk about jpeg artifacts and long lenses 
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 here's a zodion fly i saw yesterday. this was maybe the second frame out of 15 or so that I tried, and considering the wind, this frame represents a big heap of luck. i did NOT have the attention span to actually wait for a good shot yesterday afternoon, so it's just as well. still pushing hard on the pursuit of close-up work, i am starting to realize i need to build a kit checklist to take out specifically for when i'm in the mood to macro. and in the spirit of engaging in pos, from my most yciapos camera  hercules is an incredibly photogenic heap of fuzz no matter the capture device. echinopsis posted:i’m still trying to work out the best way to deal with the people I work with too, the last way I did it was also thinking about the whole 'you get some certain and small number of frames out of our shoot' thing, it seems like it probably comes from 120/220 film and shops that do their own in-house printing. i don't do either of those things (at least, i don't have something that shoots 6x4.5cm yet), so it didn't even occur to me to do something other than "here are the 30 keeper frames out of our portraiture sessions and all of the x00 shots of you and your friends and family having a great time together" as a deliverable. i imagine i would feel very differently about all that if i actually did the work as my living, or if i were sending out prints.
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PokeJoe posted:my and my gf explicitly make fun of "camera guys" when we go to national parks. they're always weird alone guys with way too much gear and they're always men Yeah that's me. It's kinda impossible to not look like a dork with any kind of gear, I stopped caring what people think ages ago, cos well anyone actively making fun of someone just enjoying their hobby is bound to be a dull person, so who cares what they think. tef posted:"phones are bad cameras, actually" is the most boring dad opinion ever it likely has an oasis best of, on cd I use my phone for pictures of my dog, and it takes pretty good ones. But big dumb cameras and fiddling with settings though is half the fun for me. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 18:42 on May 20, 2023 |
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Mega Comrade posted:Yeah that's me. It's kinda impossible to not look like a dork with any kind of gear, I stopped caring what people think ages ago, cos well anyone actively making fun of someone just enjoying their hobby is bound to be a dull person, so who cares what they think. if the camera guys aren't making fun of me for falling into holes while I stand around they aren't enjoying nature correctly
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I feel awkward enough rolling around with my little X100, I think I'm desperate to be "guy with a camera" and not "a camera guy" iykwim
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PokeJoe posted:if the camera guys aren't making fun of me for falling into holes while I stand around they aren't enjoying nature correctly It's falling into holes you're hobby? Sounds weird, and painful. qirex posted:I feel awkward enough rolling around with my little X100, I think I'm desperate to be "guy with a camera" and not "a camera guy" iykwim Unless you're an attractive person who looks like they are just taking pictures for their Instagram folllowers there is no escaping, if you're using anything but a phone in 2023 you're a camera dork. Embrace it! Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 19:14 on May 20, 2023 |
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i'm looking extremely cool out shooting wildlife with my camera clipped to my rucksack strap, extra mini sling bag for spare batteries, lens cloth and other accessories, and the special chest papoose for my long lens, binoculars sticking out the front pocket
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sometime i take camera to kids rugby game but don’t take it out of bag because I am self conscious someone might think “oh this dude again”.
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Mega Comrade posted:It's falling into holes you're hobby? Yeah
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like running into cars and getting sueing for damages
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echinopsis posted:sometime i take camera to kids rugby game but don’t take it out of bag because I am self conscious someone might think “oh this dude again”. That's a different kind of camera guy...
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