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i like walking, just walking for an hour or two. make it a point to walk in different paths. be receptive, don't feel bad about not taking any photos. go through the motions. always keep a camera on you, and if you question yourself, take the photo anyway. the art is in the edit.
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finally got the Jupiter-12 back together correctly. Classic case of you so certain your problem is in one area when it's actually somewhere else completely. Silky smooth now and ready to shoot. Had a bit of help from a friend who was telling me interesting things based on the internals. A lot of it was made in Germany and other parts of it were made for military use. A grab bag of what was lying around the factory.
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Nigel Tufnel posted:I have lost all my photography motivation over the last few weeks. Go through your favourite photobooks, or spend some quality time on another hobby.
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May 20, 2021 02:53
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Nigel Tufnel posted:I have lost all my photography motivation over the last few weeks. This might seem out of place, but what's going on in your life right now?
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May 20, 2021 03:41
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https://www.camera-traders.com/pages/the-skeleton-zone
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May 20, 2021 08:58
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gently caress yes. 
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May 20, 2021 23:18
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Jun 3, 2021 22:11
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Went to a camera fair today which is always dangerous and ended up with 2 new cameras. Introducing my new party setup Pen EE half frame. I'm testing it out right now to see how it's metering. I also got this guy.  A Plaubel Roll-op, 645 with coupled rangefinder. Needs some work but should be an excellent pocket medium format guy. The shutter serial dates it to 1937 so I will forgive it it's current state.
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Jun 6, 2021 08:57
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Apparently I've inherited a digital camera. It's a Panasonic Lumix, DMC-FZ28 if that means anything to anyone. Its former owner used it to take photos of planes at air shows. Anyone know anything about this thing that I should be aware of?
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Dabir posted:Apparently I've inherited a digital camera. It's a Panasonic Lumix, DMC-FZ28 if that means anything to anyone. Its former owner used it to take photos of planes at air shows. Anyone know anything about this thing that I should be aware of? Looks like a bridge camera from 2008 or so. 10 megapixels, going to look fine in good, bright light. Don't expect too much, probably not better than a good camera phone these days.
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Jun 6, 2021 17:49
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Well I actually got a chance to try it today and it's getting pretty decent results to my inexperienced eye, especially with birds and squirrels and stuff that I can't get close to. My phone camera is pretty good, but for some reason it doesn't have a telephoto lens, so being able to zoom in is a godsend. For a direct comparison: I took this with the camera:  And I took this with my phone (Google Photos copy so not full size cause my USB port is broken atm but you get the idea):  But I took this with the camera:  And the best I could do with my phone was this:  I'll still need to take some time to figure out the settings if I want to get the best possible results, I'm sure I could have made that picture of the house look closer to what my phone got if I fiddled with the exposure or something. That's just what I got from pointing and shooting on intelligent auto mode.
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Jun 8, 2021 22:08
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I started out on a Sony A230, a 10 Megapixel camera from around the same period and it was absolutely fine for getting into photography, and it looks like you'll have a great time with it!
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Jun 9, 2021 00:25
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I'm thinking about framing some prints, to give as gifts... and also maybe keep a couple to hang on the wall. Any basic tips? For context, 5 minutes ago I didn't know "matting" was a thing. My first instinct was to go simple: go to the store, buy some properly sized (no borders, then) black/white frames, place the photo inside and be done with it, but it seems like there might be a lot more to it than that!
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Jul 7, 2021 04:50
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I would definitely spring for museum glass (or that’s what’s it’s called here). The non reflective glass. I just got normal glass on some framed work and every time I see the room lights reflected on the photo I realise my terrible mistake.
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Jul 7, 2021 05:32
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I've been shooting a lot of half frame recently and been really enamoured with the look 
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Jul 7, 2021 11:45
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seravid posted:I'm thinking about framing some prints, to give as gifts... and also maybe keep a couple to hang on the wall. Any basic tips? For context, 5 minutes ago I didn't know "matting" was a thing. My first instinct was to go simple: go to the store, buy some properly sized (no borders, then) black/white frames, place the photo inside and be done with it, but it seems like there might be a lot more to it than that! Go to some of the online print companies (mpix, for one) and look at their options. You may not buy thru them, but you'll see what the framing options look like, as well as the print styles that need no frame.
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Nigel Tufnel posted:I would definitely spring for museum glass (or that’s what’s it’s called here). The non reflective glass. I just got normal glass on some framed work and every time I see the room lights reflected on the photo I realise my terrible mistake. Good point, didn't think of that. I'm guessing the cheapo Ikea frames I was looking at are very reflective... and might not even be glass. torgeaux posted:Go to some of the online print companies (mpix, for one) and look at their options. You may not buy thru them, but you'll see what the framing options look like, as well as the print styles that need no frame. I'm going to ask my usual printer to frame one photo on my next order but yeah, it doesn't cost me anything to check what other companies offer. As for prints that don't need a frame, I recently tried metal prints and liked the result. I'll definitely be ordering them again.
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Jul 7, 2021 22:40
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I covered our living room wall with metal prints, and despite the glare I love the look. Borderless floating mounts just really work for me. I only have a couple paper prints behind glass and they look good, but the saturation is definitely less. I think they'd be better dry mounted with no glass, it feels like they deserve to have the paper texture visible. For metal mounts, make sure you pick a company and stick with it, as I've tried out three and everyone has a different mount depth.
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Jul 7, 2021 22:55
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seravid posted:I'm guessing the cheapo Ikea frames I was looking at are very reflective... and might not even be glass. I have a number of prints in cheap ikea frames with perspex, no objections. It's prone to scratches but that's fine if you look after it, and less risk to the print itself if it breaks.
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Jul 9, 2021 06:46
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Even if you do scratch it you can easy polish plexiglass with a soft rag and mild abrasive.
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Jul 10, 2021 08:57
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Good to know! No reason to be a snob about this, I guess I should just buy a couple of every kind and see what works and what doesn't.
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Jul 11, 2021 03:54
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Random question, who here knows cursive writing? I learned as a kid but it’s at the point where the dinosaurs in my state legislature are fighting to mandate that it stays in the curriculum.
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Jul 13, 2021 17:31
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I know it but I haven't used it since 1995 when I graduated high school. It was effectively irrelevant then and now that everyone does everything on a computer it's a complete waste of a student's time.
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When I took the GRE a decade ago they had a statement you needed to write in cursive and then sign, but I don't think they were enforcing it very strictly. Is that still a thing?
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Jul 13, 2021 18:40
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here's me
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Fools Infinite posted:When I took the GRE a decade ago they had a statement you needed to write in cursive and then sign, but I don't think they were enforcing it very strictly. Is that still a thing? That rings a bell. I had to write something out today and couldn’t decide if I should go with my childlike printing or slightly less childish cursive.
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Jul 13, 2021 18:51
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I learned it, but as an adult, because I had a fountain pen phase. Please stop bullying me.
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Twenties Superstar posted:here's me Big loving same. The only thing I use cursive for nowadays is my signature. It’s absolutely unnecessary unless you’re into doing nice handwriting, etc. Olds need to let this poo poo go. Now typing, that should be taught beginning at a young age. It’s the most useful skill I learned in high school.
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Jul 18, 2021 17:35
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Hey Dorkroom, we're having a collab with CCs thunderdome where people are going to take our photos and use them for inspiration for some short stories, you should head over to the Thunderdome Collabaration Thread and post some evocative photos.
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Aug 2, 2021 09:17
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New camera day, biggest next to my smallest Horseman wasn't getting any use so I sold it for the Fuji.
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goodbye horseman, hello workhorse
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I've finally finished repairing that Plaubel and have run a test roll through. I'm so happy with it.  
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Went on a business trip to a city I'd never visited before and brought along my camera with only a 50mm, in case I had some free time. I did and it was nice to not carry all my kit. I had a great time, but zooming with your feet has limitations and I lost some shots for sure. Who knows when I'll be back? With that same light and weather? What do you bring along when visiting new places? A standard zoom? Just a prime (or two) ? Everything?
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Depends what I'm doing there. If it's just a city visit then I'd take my mid range zoom jack of all lens. But if I'm gonna be going to a zoo or its the countryside then I often take the bulk of my zooms but I'll not bring my primes. I love my primes but I'd rather lose sharpness than lose shots.
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I hosed around with hard drives and somehow my lightroom catalog basically lost itself and found itself and I've lost all the edits and keywords to all my photos since May. A good lesson to learn now rather than later I suppose.
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The catalog is a single file somewhere on your hard drive, if you can locate the version with your edits since May you will be able to open that catalog and it'll be as if nothing happened. If the raw files moved it might throw up a bunch of question marks on all your images but there's a "locate files" tool that is pretty good at tidying things up. This is also why you never hit 'skip' on the weekly catalog backup prompt. It saves a checkpoint of your catalogs basically forever. On windows the default location is going to be Pictures/Lightroom/Catalog Name/Catalog Name.lrcat. The 'Backups' folder is where all the backups are, in zip files. You can extract them and open them directly in Lightroom.
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seravid posted:Went on a business trip to a city I'd never visited before and brought along my camera with only a 50mm, in case I had some free time. I did and it was nice to not carry all my kit. I had a great time, but zooming with your feet has limitations and I lost some shots for sure. Who knows when I'll be back? With that same light and weather? I just bring 1 prime, the normal one I shoot with. I never lose any shots from not bringing other lenses because those are not shots I would have taken in the first place.
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seravid posted:Went on a business trip to a city I'd never visited before and brought along my camera with only a 50mm, in case I had some free time. I did and it was nice to not carry all my kit. I had a great time, but zooming with your feet has limitations and I lost some shots for sure. Who knows when I'll be back? With that same light and weather? Depends on how cold it is. If it's jacket weather maybe a half frame, a 35mm with a 28 and a 50 and a 645 folder. If it's going to be warm then whatever camera I'm vibing with on the day hung around my neck.
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My personal bag on the plane is a camera bag, and my kit stays with me pretty much always. 16-55, 70-300, 90. If I had to pair it down, I'd carry just the 16-55.
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Got up the motivation to go out and take photos for the first time in months. Get to location. Turn camera on. Look in viewfinder. INSERT MEMORY CARD 
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