echinopsis posted:

please forgive me I’ll be giving it back after a week 😰

tef posted:

https://us.ricoh-imaging.com/ricoh-announces-pentax-k-3-mark-iii-monochrome-digital-slr-camera/

PARSIPPANY, NJ, April 12, 2023 — Ricoh Imaging Americas Corporation today announced the PENTAX K-3 Mark III Monochrome camera, exclusively designed to capture black-and-white images. The only monochrome-specific digital SLR camera currently on the market, it captures high-resolution images rich in gradation, enabling users to express a distinct view of the color-rich world in high-quality black-and-white images.



“The concept of a monochrome-specific digital SLR camera attracted a great deal of attention and interest from photographers who participated in an online fan event held in November 2021,” said Ken Curry, president, Ricoh Imaging Americas. “PENTAX has since conducted extensive research on the development of a commercial product based on this concept and we’re excited to announce it today.”



The new model’s design is based on the PENTAX K-3 Mark III — the flagship model of PENTAX’s APS-C-format series that integrates remarkable imaging performance and a host of advanced features in a compact, durable body — while totally redesigning and optimizing the imaging characteristics by adding a new, monochrome-specific image sensor with approximately 25.73 effective megapixels. A typical color image sensor composes a black-and-white image by converting the color data to monochrome. This new custom sensor does not have to convert the any data because it can reflect the brightness obtained by each pixel in the image, thus producing extra-fine sharpness in images that only the monochrome-specific sensor can deliver.



The PENTAX K-3 Mark III Monochrome features three Custom Image modes exclusively designed for black-and-white photography to provide distinctive finishing touches. In addition to Standard mode, it offers Hard mode to produce high-contrast images and Soft mode to create high-key, low-contrast images. Each mode allows minute adjustment of parameters such as tone, key, contrast and sharpness so that users can personalize their images with the desired finishing touch.



The exterior design of the camera has also been customized to reflect its monochrome capabilities. Design features include white backlight illumination on the LCD data panel, “Monochrome” lettering printed on the upper-left shoulder of the back panel, a menu screen featuring a black-and-white visual scheme as default, and icons printed on buttons and switches across the camera’s exterior finished in three shades of gray.



The PENTAX K-3 Mark III Monochrome camera body will be available late April for the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $2,199.95.

bellows lugosi posted:

i use a cinebloom 10% on my gfx, it helps out in daylight but is really rough when it gets dark and i'm using a tripod - it becomes oppressively diffusing

i took some self-portraits on state traffic cameras this weekend. i drove to them and stood in front for the capture interval to make sure i was in the frame

Megabound posted:

Putting my bellows to use for some portraiture

Megabound posted:

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”.

qirex posted:

oops! all bokeh

polyester concept posted:

*laughs in fuji pack film*

echinopsis posted:

i took 700 photos the other day I can’t afford to drop hundreds or thousands of dollars on a photoshoot

bobmarleysghost posted:

MrQueasy posted:

what’s this fucker looking at all the time? can he see space Jesus up there?

Beeftweeter posted:

lol fd mavica

echinopsis posted:

majestic photo taken at sunrise

Elder Postsman posted:

going through my grandpa's old camera gear and he's got some interesting stuff



left to right: an old kodak bantam rf and a ton of lens/filter adapters and filters for it. takes kodak 828 film which i'd never heard of before.

a viewmaster personal stereo camera. shoots 69 (nice) stereo pairs on a 36 roll of 35mm. he's also got a huge stack of viewmaster.. discs? of photos he took back in the day. really neat imo.

a waltax junior. japanese camera from the 50s, uses 120 film.

olympus om-1, plus a MASSIVE telephoto lens for it.

i dunno if i'll ever use any of it, but i'm taking it.

echinopsis posted:

this is the EF 50mm f/1.4 which at least in reviews when compared to the 50mm sigma f/1.4 was called soft but not necessarily in a bad way, it has an effect a bit like a black mist or something.

I don't dislike it



this is the same lens but at f/3.5

quite a bit of a difference

echinopsis posted:

now I am eyeing up this ef 85 f/1.2 mk I


the front element is so big 😍😍

look at dis

echinopsis posted:

what about wedding night consummation photographer I suspect there’s less competition

echinopsis posted:

tbh I don’t think I’ve got the guts

I’d enjoy being an assistant / second gun tho

Megabound posted:

I'm doing found photo stuff again, this time I bought a projector and it came with 3 cases of slides:
https://cohost.org/Found-Photos?page=0

Megabound posted:

Megabound posted:

Over the past few weeks I've been taking the steps to get into dry plate photography and jumped straight into coating my own plates. I shot my first "successful" one today. Out of 4 plates I shot 1 exposure test (cause I need to figure out how sensitive my emulsion is) 1 photo and smashed 2 when they fell out of the holder in the camera.





I did a contact print cause I was in the darkroom anyway to develop the plates so I did a little bit of printing too.