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Hey there McMadCow, I see you post on Slashdot too! *EDIT* And from the Death of the DSLR Article: "Of course, this changes post-processing a bit more… you’ll just spend more time in Lightroom finding the best 1 image out of 200 instead of the best 1 out of 20. But, to me, this is a good problem to have! Maybe it’s just me, but I love hanging out in Lightroom, drinking good tea or coffee, and flipping through the day’s shots to find my favorites. Good times!" What a completely excellent and well thought out reason for buying a camera. squidflakes fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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squidflakes posted:Hey there McMadCow, I see you post on Slashdot too! ? I do?
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McMadCow posted:? If not you, then someone who identified themselves as a professional photographer from the Bay Area with the handle MadCow42 does. Well drat, isn't this awkward.
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I'm looking for a good light meter program for ANDROID. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Jan 5, 2012 23:29
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squidflakes posted:If not you, then someone who identified themselves as a professional photographer from the Bay Area with the handle MadCow42 does. Crazy! Got a link? I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever brought up Slashdot, I don't even know how to navigate it.
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Jan 5, 2012 23:45
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McMadCow posted:Crazy! Got a link? I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever brought up Slashdot, I don't even know how to navigate it. D'oh. Looks like I got confused on the "identifying self as being from the bay area" part. http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2606036&cid=38602192
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squidflakes posted:And from the Death of the DSLR Article:  Following this to its logical conclusion, does he think the best camera is a high-speed video camera, so he can have tens of thousands of extremely similar images to sort through and find the perfect one?
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ExecuDork posted:Following this to its logical conclusion, does he think the best camera is a high-speed video camera, so he can have tens of thousands of extremely similar images to sort through and find the perfect one? Canon is actually marketing a printer that does exactly this, printing stills from videos! I bet he'll be first in line to get one.
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If you're going through and choosing stills from video, isn't that just like photography in the first place? What a useless middle step for people who apparently can't think fast enough to photograph in real-time.
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There was a magazine cover a year or so ago on a big name magazine (Rolling Stone or something) that was a still from a video. It's obviously not the kind of thing that will replace still cameras, but it's not fantasy talk. I could see the use for it in sports especially.
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I'm not saying pulling a good still from video is a bad idea - I'm sure there are some iconic images that were captured that way. I'm saying this guy is nuts for preferring to sort through 200 pictures in Lightroom to get one good one over some manageable keep rate based on actually thinking about the picture one is taking while the camera is in-hand.
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the posted:I'm looking for a good light meter program for ANDROID. Does anyone have any ideas? There's a few. I use one called "Light meter" (funnily enough) that cost $2 or something on my desire hd, my friend uses another newer free one on here SGSII that is just as good. The limiting factor is the phone hardware. My desire hd light sensor has a lower limit of EV-2 and an upper of EV-12, and since the sensor doesn't give an over- or under- signal, it means I'm limited to EV 3-11, which is not hugely useful, so check the hardware before spending any money. edit: the top two results on app brain when you type in "light meter". If none are available for you, then maybe your phone hardware doesn't allow it Captain Postal fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jan 6, 2012 |
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GWBBQ posted:PPA is lobbying for healthcare reform because lack of coverage is a big problem http://www.ppa.com/articles/131/Photographers-Speak-Out-in-Congress-on-Health-Insurance-Reform.php Freelancers has no group offering in my area. I also live in PA, right on the Md/Pa border. Health insurance is just the most depressing thing to me right now. Well that, and the inability of congress to do anything worthwhile.
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So there is a drone helicopter now with a 1.8Gigapickle sensor? http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/27/us-armys-a160-hummingbird-drone-copter-to-don-1-8-gigapixel-cam/?ncid=txtlnkusenga00000002 http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/13/darpa-develops-a-1-8-gigapixel-digicam-and-no-you-cant-check/ engaget posted:Yeah, I know you thought your Hello Kitty digicam was some hot stuff, but believe it or not the kids at Darpa have even got that one beat. Called ARGUS-IS (both named after the mythological eye guy and an acronym for Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance - Imaging System) this guy straps a 1.8 gigapixel camera to the bottom of an A-160T Hummingbird robot helicopter. The device is able to hover at high altitude (over 15,000 feet) for up to 20 hours -- keeping tabs of an area of over a hundred square miles. The frame rate is 15 fps and the "ground sample distance" is 15 centimeters -- each pixel represents about six inches. The sheer amount of data taken in by a camera like this is too large to be completely relayed to the ground, but users are able to define upwards of sixty-five independent video windows within the image and zoom in or out. Additionally, windows can be set to automatically track items such as moving vehicles, individuals, the books you get out of the library, and the items you pick up at 7-11 after a night out with the gang.
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ease posted:So there is a drone helicopter now with a 1.8Gigapickle sensor? Here's a sample image from it, pretty impressive: http://sitelife.aviationweek.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/10/9/9a16a33e-462e-4149-a9a8-5f2e11c2c6b6.Full.jpg
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Have there been any pictures of the interface of the new XQD card format? I assume it's dropped the exposed pin design of CF, but I can't seem to find anything that confirms so.
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Anti_Social posted:Freelancers has no group offering in my area. I also live in PA, right on the Md/Pa border.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Have there been any pictures of the interface of the new XQD card format? I assume it's dropped the exposed pin design of CF, but I can't seem to find anything that confirms so. I think it looks more like SD card
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GWBBQ posted:Everything about health insurance makes me angry.
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So i've got $15 left on a visa gift card and want to spend it on some sort of photography book. willing to throw in like $10 of my own money if need be. Any recommendations?
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the posted:I'm looking for a good light meter program for ANDROID. Does anyone have any ideas? I use the BeeCam light meter. Free from the market. I have a nexus s. It work well. I tested some shots using my digital camera And it seems to meter well enough.
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whereismyshoe posted:So i've got $15 left on a visa gift card and want to spend it on some sort of photography book. willing to throw in like $10 of my own money if need be. Any recommendations? e-version of Understanding Exposure is $15 (amazon.com)
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Santa is strapped posted:I use the BeeCam light meter. Free from the market. I have a nexus s. do you need to be rooted to use it?
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what's a good website that allows uploading of panoramas so you can zoom close in? I'm thinking of something flash-based...
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Some people are such arseholes. A drift photographer friend of mine posted this: "I have to add that Fredric is one of the genuinely nicest and most down to earth guys at his level in pro drifting. I got a personal Facebook message from him after the event thanking me for the shots I’d taken and wishing me all the best. I think several up and coming drivers could take a leaf from his book in how to keep grounded and levelled!" A fairly nice thanks no a nice person. The reply from a third party: "I don't know who you're on about, but tbf photographers should be thanking drivers for giving them a shot at a career with good opportunities" I cannot believe people think like this and think good photography is worthless and they 'deserve' it.
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The worst part isn't when random outsiders think photographers should work for free or otherwise devalue their work... the worst is when photographers buy into it themselves. 
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BobTheCow posted:The worst part isn't when random outsiders think photographers should work for free or otherwise devalue their work... the worst is when photographers buy into it themselves. There's all types out there.. the people who overvalue photography are just as infuriating. Wife has a friend who is stunned that I put my snapshots on the internet "for free" and without watermarks. My stuff is better in some ways to standard P&S fare, but it's so far from "professional" that I roll my eyes when this lady starts gabbing about how I could be making a ton of money with my pictures.
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There hasn't been much "fun stuff" on the last few pages around here. Plenty of interesting and useful things to talk about, definately, but not very fun or optimistic. Seeing as it's a new year and apparently this is somehow related to a sense of optimism, tell us about a picture you were really happy you took - your first published photo, the first picture out of a new camera you felt you did right, or some other "I like my picture". In December I had a picture I took published on the cover of a scientific journal; the second issue of January for Applied & Environmental Microbiology has now been published online. It relates to a paper that I am not a co-author on, but I'm still pretty happy about it. My advisor (I'm a PhD student) said he'll get me a cover of the journal, which I plan to frame and hang in my office to impress visitors. I'm not refering to it as "my picture" because I transfered copyright to The American Society for Microbiology, which I think means they own it now. I hope this doesn't come off as bragging. Has anybody else had a picture of theirs on the cover of a journal or other publication, recently?
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One of my photos is the cover picture for the Lion-Tailed Macaque studbook. Does that count?
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xzzy posted:There's all types out there.. the people who overvalue photography are just as infuriating. 
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I went to the Lumière Museum. They pioneered film making and color photography.  early panorama camera by wholesome_, on Flickr For Miso and the TFR people here  photogun by wholesome_, on Flickr Suicide Watch fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Jan 9, 2012 |
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That reminds me, for you optics geeks out there, the Galileo Museum in Florence has a ton of old telescopes and scientific instruments and stuff, as well as old firearms. They also have Galileo's middle finger on display. Seriously. http://www.museogalileo.it/en/index.html
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oh my, look what came in the shop today Canon 1Dx by capacity4action, on Flickr
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Oh god oh god oh god, does it make you happy??? What are the ISOs like??
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Goddamn that is an enormous camera.
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Goddamn that is an enormous LCD.
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Goddamn that is a small flange distance.
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Duckjob posted:oh my, look what came in the shop today I love this camera so much I want to take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.
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More 1DX porn! I didn't get to play with it since we only had about 15 minutes of fondle time, so I just snapped some photos instead.  IMG_0390 by capacity4action, on Flickr  IMG_0374 by capacity4action, on Flickr  IMG_0363 by capacity4action, on Flickr  IMG_0361 by capacity4action, on Flickr  IMG_0384 by capacity4action, on Flickr Mathturbator posted:Oh god oh god oh god, does it make you happy??? What are the ISOs like?? Imagine the 1DmkIV (edit: and the D3s) ISO performance. This one shits all over it.  IMG_0392 by capacity4action, on Flickr  IMG_0393 by capacity4action, on Flickr edit: a video my coworker shot that vaguely shows it at ISO 25600 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9WlPF3DIGE Duckjob fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jan 9, 2012 |
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