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Thom12255 posted:In the US I use Lensrental.com which I've never had a problem with for cameras/lenses. Yeah so essentially I'd have to give them the value of the lens and then if something happened to it they'd take that money and then i'd have to negotiate with my own insurance who might value the lens differently and might give me the lens which I don't want to buy at that price want rather than the cash value of the lens back. edit: I just rang these guys and it is much simpler, insurance is included, slightly pricer but all up front costs. http://www.lensesforhire.co.uk/product/canon-ef-600mm-f4-l-is-ii-usm jarlywarly fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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I used Brent when he had a rental service, and never had to do anything like that either.
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Jan 14, 2020 15:38
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I would not trust a company that I had no prior relationship with to hold that much of my cash.
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Jan 14, 2020 15:43
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jarlywarly posted:Yeah so essentially I'd have to give them the value of the lens and then if something happened to it they'd take that money and then i'd have to negotiate with my own insurance who might value the lens differently and might give me the lens which I don't want to buy at that price want rather than the cash value of the lens back. Are you trying to say “security deposit”, or am I misunderstanding everything?
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XBenedict posted:Are you trying to say “security deposit”, or am I misunderstanding everything? my understanding is security deposit would be held in trust not just paid as if I was buying the lens with the promise of getting it back when the lens was returned which is was the Wex guy was saying, maybe I misunderstood.
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Jan 14, 2020 16:12
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Fools Infinite posted:I think amazon drive has a drop box style interface available if that fits your workflow. That's kind of what I was thinking of too. As long as it's somewhat integral it could be okay for my use as a hobbyist. I'll have to monkey around with it.
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Jan 14, 2020 17:02
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Any of you guys use Autopoles/Varipoles? I'm thinking about picking some up (probably the Impact Varipole) along with a crossbar to temporarily mount seamless paper backdrops and maybe eventually some canvas ones. Please talk me into / out of this idea.
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Side rant; I'm part of a local Facebook photography group and it's pretty  how the most trite, HDR+clarity to 11, cheesy stuff gets a lot of attention and the rare, truly neat photographs sort of just go back to the void, unnoticed. Not even talking about my own stuff, here.I have to look for a better group 
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Jan 28, 2020 01:12
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just post your stuff here and get your rear end kicked like everyone else
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Jan 28, 2020 03:25
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Atlatl posted:just post your stuff here and get your rear end kicked like everyone else
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The RECAPITATOR posted:Side rant; I'm part of a local Facebook photography group and it's pretty This is every Facebook photography group.
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Jan 28, 2020 04:34
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I've made token efforts at looking for local photography groups and it's pretty goddamn bleak. I'm sure some of them are fine people and I have seen some decent work but they're all boomers or stay at home moms. Like, hanging out with photographers is cool and necessary but I need peeps I can relate to.
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Jan 28, 2020 05:03
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The RECAPITATOR posted:Side rant; I'm part of a local Facebook photography group I’ve found the source of the problem here.
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XBenedict posted:I’ve found the source of the problem here. lol. Agreed.
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I decided to join a local group when I moved a few months back (to a rural'ish area). Lasted about a week. Which was disapointing as I was hoping that it'd allow me to meet people in the area to collaborate with.
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I'm pretty cynical, some photographers want people to imagine that their photos congeal from their personal pure talent and involve no technical side at all and as such are not very keen to talk shop lest it give people a view behind the curtain. Ultimately despite Instagram, Facebook etc you have to take photos for yourself (unless you get paid for them obvs) because outside of a few nerds who take similar images other people (especially other photographers) are generally not that interested in your photographs.
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No one is interested in MY photographs, that's true.  However I do devour other photographer's work and always want more of it. But it's less about feeding the social media engine and is more about studying the images I like and trying to incorporate the techniques I find into my own shots because learning picture taking in a vacuum is a giant waste of time. I assume I'm not the only one with that opinion!
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xzzy posted:No one is interested in MY photographs, that's true. You're not indeed but some people just don't want to share.
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Jan 28, 2020 17:19
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buy more photo books
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Jan 28, 2020 18:17
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i just bought some steve fitch books, very excited to look at them  
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Jan 28, 2020 18:22
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I bought Adam Gibbs' book because that's the kind of photos that make me all tingly.
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Jan 28, 2020 18:40
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xzzy posted:I like and trying to incorporate the techniques I find into my own shots because learning picture taking in a vacuum is a giant waste of time. Curious, how do you and others here do this? For me, I typically only do it when I'm branching out into a new area of photography. I find a bunch of photos I like, and try to replicate them.
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i look at photo books like the pillar      imo looking at things only when you're trying out a new "area" of photography is selling yourself short, photography is vast and there's so much to explore in places you think you've covered
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I couldn't give much of a explanation because the whole process is 100% subjective based on my own library of photos. I see someone else's picture I really enjoy, pull up an example of something similar I've done, and identify bits from both I do and don't like. Then next time I'm out with the camera I try to eliminate the stuff I don't like and incorporate more of the stuff I do like. It's also fun to take other people's photos I don't like (not necessarily bad photos, just ones that don't resonate) and think about what it would take to make it an image I would enjoy more. Lighting, a different crop, adding or removing elements, etc.
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i'm feeling like talking about photo books so here's some pictures from a book i can't afford, lee friedlander's "america by car"    
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Jan 28, 2020 20:45
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This one is pretty neat.
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The "my first DSLR" thread is archived, so I'm gonna ask here. Please let me know if there is a better place. My wife has an old Nikon D80 with a kit lens. I picked it up this week and started playing around. I'm having fun! I guess this camera is about 13 years old now. If I'm serious about moving forward as a hobbyist, am I wasting my time learning fundamentals on this D80? Have there been enough advances in DSLRs that I should think about buying something newer?
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Ehud posted:My wife has an old Nikon D80 with a kit lens. I picked it up this week and started playing around. I'm having fun! I guess this camera is about 13 years old now. If I'm serious about moving forward as a hobbyist, am I wasting my time learning fundamentals on this D80? no
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Ehud posted:The "my first DSLR" thread is archived, so I'm gonna ask here. Please let me know if there is a better place. Do not replace that camera yet. If it is still functional, it will tell you everything you need to know about if you want to go further. Consider a used 50mm f1.8 to let you have some more capability at low cost.
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torgeaux posted:Do not replace that camera yet. If it is still functional, it will tell you everything you need to know about if you want to go further. Consider a used 50mm f1.8 to let you have some more capability at low cost. my man! Whether or not I should upgrade from the kit lens was gonna be my next question. I’ll look into some lenses that fit the criteria you mentioned.
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Ehud posted:my man! There are lots of good lenses out there, but a used 50 1.8 is cheap, versatile, and basically future proof.
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Ehud posted:The "my first DSLR" thread is archived, so I'm gonna ask here. Please let me know if there is a better place. To build on what others said: just go shoot. It was a step above the entry level when new, and should still be able to take good-looking photos even now. Just don’t expect it to be great at night or in the dark. Go get a 50 mm f/1.8 lens or a 35 mm f/1.8 lens and have fun. Take a few thousand shots and you’ll know where you need to improve the gear.
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harperdc posted:To build on what others said: just go shoot. It was a step above the entry level when new, and should still be able to take good-looking photos even now. Just don’t expect it to be great at night or in the dark. poo poo, forgot that in Nikon world the 35 1.8 was similarly priced, right?
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The DX (for crop sensors) Nikon 35mm 1.8 is a good lens for the money, and is probably a more useful focal length than 50mm on a crop body. It is also the only non-specialty DX prime Nikon makes. A Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 isn't a ton of money used either.
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Fools Infinite posted:The DX (for crop sensors) Nikon 35mm 1.8 is a good lens for the money, and is probably a more useful focal length than 50mm on a crop body. It is also the only non-specialty DX prime Nikon makes. Yeah, I was Canon boy before the Fuji shift, and it ain't the same in canonland. I'd not get the sigma yet, it replicates the kit and if he's looking to give his interest before putting real money in, use the kit for a while.
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So a used version of this may be my best all-around newbie lens upgrade? https://www.amazon.com/Nikon-AF-S-NIKKOR-Focus-Cameras/dp/B001S2PPT0
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Ehud posted:So a used version of this may be my best all-around newbie lens upgrade? It’s a good one to start with. If you have a 17-50 zoom lens on the camera now, it should have markings that indicate when you’re zoomed to both 35 and 50. Use it and think about which you’d like the most. In photo hobby money, $200 is nothing, but that’s once you’re far down the rabbit hole.
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I just took three photos and only two of them saved to the memory card. I then got a bit tinfoil hat and took 5 more photos. Went to try to review them and it took a very long time to load them. Suspecting my memory card might be dying?
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Thanks for everyone's help. It just so happens a local guy had a Nikon 35mm 1.8 for sale. Just got it home and am currently shooting pictures of fruit under my kitchen lights lol Tomorrow will be a fun day 
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huhu posted:I just took three photos and only two of them saved to the memory card. I then got a bit tinfoil hat and took 5 more photos. Went to try to review them and it took a very long time to load them. Suspecting my memory card might be dying? Likely. I've been happy with the Sandisk Extreme Plus cards I have. 64GB for $25 for the SD version with really good read/write speeds.
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