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Is anyone willing to give a testimonial for or against https://www.lpfoto.se? How rigorous is their rating system compared to keh? Are they trustworthy?
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Pretty simple question for Google but I can't seem to find a straight answer. Is the Canon version of the Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 compatible with full-frame cameras? particularly a 5D mk II? I know that the XD Series only takes EF-mount lenses, but I have no idea if the Tamron is an EF or EF-S mount.
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Apr 4, 2011 17:37
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tuyop posted:Pretty simple question for Google but I can't seem to find a straight answer. It's an EF mount, but it's designed for crop sensors. So it will not work properly on a 5DII. Someone posted some pictures of the results over in the Canon thread a while back. Edit: I may have misread your post. The Tamron can be mounted on a 5DII, even thought it won't work properly. The Canon 17-55 cannot be mounted on a full frame camera. TheAngryDrunk fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Apr 4, 2011 |
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Apr 4, 2011 17:41
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tuyop posted:Pretty simple question for Google but I can't seem to find a straight answer. Both the Canon 17-55 2.8 and the Tamron 17-50 2.8 are made for crop cameras. You cannot physically mount the Canon 17-55 on a film or xD camera without doing some jury rigging. You can mount the Tamron on a film or xD but then you'll get massive vignetting and it's really not worth using on full frame.
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Apr 4, 2011 17:42
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I bought a shiny new Oly E-650 last summer and I've been trying to figure out a way to take it backpacking/canoeing without getting it wet or covered in filth. So far I've found it spends more time in my pack than out, cowering from the elements inside a spare t-shirt. So now I'm on the hunt for a case of some kind that I can use to protect my investment in the wild wild woods that doesn't take up a lot of excess space and will be able to keep it clean and relatively dry. It also needs to be a solution that allows for me to keep it handy when backpacking. I was thinking about a fitted case, but it sounds like they have to be entirely removed before shooting which sounds like a pain in the rear end. I was also looking at Skytop Trading, but after watching the informational video I'm concerned actually using one in practice would be... really dorky. Any advice/suggestions? And since it's a photo thread, here's a picture of a baby finding his penis: 
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Apr 5, 2011 01:35
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tuyop posted:I know that the XD Series only takes EF-mount lenses, but I have no idea if the Tamron is an EF or EF-S mount. Tamron's lens naming convention is "Di" for full-frame and "Di-II" for crop sensors (or heavy vignetting on full frame).
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Apr 5, 2011 01:50
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How much would it be to get a Tamron 15-50mm f/2.8 lens fixed if the filter ring and front lens element housing has come loose?
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Apr 5, 2011 02:12
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Didn't someone in one of the other threads (or a few pages back here) say that it's literally three screws to fix that, and quite a DIY job? I could be mistaken though. e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiOj-7MAO_w
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Apr 5, 2011 02:16
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Martytoof posted:Didn't someone in one of the other threads (or a few pages back here) say that it's literally three screws to fix that, and quite a DIY job? I could be mistaken though.  Thank-you!
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Apr 5, 2011 02:21
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Rurutia posted:How much would it be to get a Tamron 15-50mm f/2.8 lens fixed if the filter ring and front lens element housing has come loose? If you can do without it for a month, you can get it fixed with warranty repair.
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Apr 5, 2011 02:44
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Obama 2012 posted:And since it's a photo thread, here's a picture of a baby finding his penis: Note: Do NOT name this anything descriptive. Hell, even what you have may attract people. I had a potty picture up (completely innocent) and called it "potty" and it got 45 hits in a day.
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Apr 5, 2011 02:55
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Rurutia posted:
Be gentle and take your time, though. Maybe I just have sausagefingers, but I busted the poo poo out of the front ring on mine attempting that.
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Apr 5, 2011 03:17
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torgeaux posted:Note: Do NOT name this anything descriptive. Hell, even what you have may attract people. I had a potty picture up (completely innocent) and called it "potty" and it got 45 hits in a day. Well I'll be sleeping quite fitfully knowing about THAT....
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Apr 5, 2011 03:52
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torgeaux posted:Note: Do NOT name this anything descriptive. Hell, even what you have may attract people. I had a potty picture up (completely innocent) and called it "potty" and it got 45 hits in a day.  Well I may never post pictures of my infant on the internet now. If I ever have one.
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Apr 5, 2011 18:30
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tuyop posted:
I shoot lots of little kid birthday parties. I name the pictures accurately, but in no way suggesting they are pictures of kids. I have a couple of cute nude (bare butt) shots of the boy. Those are private, family only. World's a sick, sick place.
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Apr 6, 2011 00:02
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I was hoping someone might be able to give me a little direction here with regards to photo albums. My wife is trying to find a place where she can create a professional-quality wedding album. We have all of our wedding photos on a DVD from the wedding and the rights to do whatever we want with them. Our wedding photographers have turned out to be a complete disaster. They were nice people in person, but it's been 10 months since the wedding and we're still without an album. Phone calls are never answered and messages asking for a call back are never returned. If you try to email them, you might get a response in 3-4 weeks. What makes it even more annoying is these people post on facebook multiple times an hour (from their smartphone) but then claim they have no access to email/phone whatever when we do get email responses. Hey idiot, i can see you posted that last facebook post "from your smartphone" and it was literally 10 minutes after we emailed you. We finally got a link to an online proof of the album. It's awful. It looks absolutely nothing like the samples we were shown when we hired these people. My wife went so far as to mock up what she had expected to see using costco's photobook editor and some screenshots to email over and of course, no response for weeks. At any rate, I'm hoping some of you are wedding photographers and have some websites that we could use to construct a quality photo album. The samples we saw had full page color photos on the album covers, and the interiors had full page photos with smaller photos overlayed on top. Sort of like what you'd see in this link: http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/22547/wedding-photo-album-software/ Any suggestions on websites we could use? I realize the quality photo books are probably somewhat costly, but I'm at a point where it might be easier to just make our own and have a happy wife than deal with these people any longer. edit: the samples we saw had "thick" pages in the books, almost like a solid page that didn't bend and felt like a cardboard page. Stan S. Stanman fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Apr 6, 2011 |
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Apr 6, 2011 03:23
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https://www.blurb.com download their book software, go nuts. The quality is excellent. If you're on a mac, I've also heard really good things about the book function in iPhoto.
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Apr 6, 2011 03:32
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:https://www.blurb.com download their book software, go nuts. The quality is excellent. Thanks, I'll check it out. I've been googling around in the meantime and found a style of photobook on picaboo that is almost exactly what I think she has in mind for what she wants. The only problem is it doesnt look like you can do a photo front. Any experience, positive or negative, with picaboo?
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Apr 6, 2011 03:50
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We used a European company ( fotobuch.de )to print our wedding books and basically just called to ask for the optimal resolution of each page. Then we set out to work on it in Photoshop and dropped all the assembled JPGs into their photo web app. Quality is excellent.
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Apr 6, 2011 04:33
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Stan S. Stanman posted:Our wedding photographers have turned out to be a complete disaster. They were nice people in person, but it's been 10 months since the wedding and we're still without an album. Phone calls are never answered and messages asking for a call back are never returned. If you try to email them, you might get a response in 3-4 weeks. Are you taking legal action?
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Apr 6, 2011 04:54
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spog posted:Are you taking legal action? <---- Take it Judge Joe Brown, so he can ask the most important question. "WHERE IS YOUR 24-70!?!?!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjBSIvg3pjc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjBSIvg3pjc
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Apr 6, 2011 05:11
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:<---- Take it Judge Joe Brown, so he can ask the most important question. "WHERE IS YOUR 24-70!?!?!" Judge Joe Brown is pretty sweet but he doesn't have poo poo on Judge Mathis. This video is still awesome and it's mind-numbing how many of these "professional" photographers are out there. "What speed is your lens?" "I don't know." 
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Apr 6, 2011 05:19
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What the gently caress. 1300 dollars to shoot a wedding with an XTi and two kit lenses?
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Apr 6, 2011 13:29
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spog posted:Are you taking legal action? I've been considering it. I'm not sure how much more time I want to invest with these people. We already have the photos, so that's the important part at least. If we can build an album ourselves that makes my wife happy, I'm all for it.
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Apr 6, 2011 13:31
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Stan S. Stanman posted:I've been considering it. I'm not sure how much more time I want to invest with these people. We already have the photos, so that's the important part at least. We used MyPublisher and I was happy with the results. You download a program to put the album together, which I found much nicer than the web-based album makers. You can do full-bleed on pages and their page templates are decent. It isn't terribly expensive either since they have coupons and deals all the time. http://www.mypublisher.com/
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Apr 6, 2011 14:07
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Stan S. Stanman posted:I've been considering it. I'm not sure how much more time I want to invest with these people. We already have the photos, so that's the important part at least. You could throw up their link in the "post terrible photographs from other photographers" thread with your story so if anyone in the future googles them at least they'll have been warned about what they are in for.
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Apr 6, 2011 14:14
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Stan S. Stanman posted:I've been considering it. I'm not sure how much more time I want to invest with these people. We already have the photos, so that's the important part at least. I think you should. Best case, you get your money back and use if for something useful. At the very least, it will makes other couples aware of them and warn them off. Stop other people from going though the same misery that you did.
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Apr 6, 2011 14:19
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Who has the gall to even do that. loving hell.
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Apr 6, 2011 14:33
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A5H posted:Who has the gall to even do that. loving hell. It's part of the package in the wedding industry. Shady poo poo happens with all parts of planning a wedding, but photography is unique in that the cost of entry can be under $1000, all you need is a cheap DSLR, a website, and maybe an entry in the yellow pages. Two things I never want to deal with: weddings, and funerals. The people in either of those industries are goddamn vultures.
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Apr 6, 2011 14:47
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xzzy posted:It's part of the package in the wedding industry. Shady poo poo happens with all parts of planning a wedding, but photography is unique in that the cost of entry can be under $1000, all you need is a cheap DSLR, a website, and maybe an entry in the yellow pages. There's good money in funeral photography.
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Apr 6, 2011 16:12
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Sign me the gently caress up then, if they're dead, they probably don't care if it's a kit lens!
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Apr 6, 2011 16:19
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Oh, oh, do dead folk HDR! I bet that one hasn't been explored.
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Apr 6, 2011 16:22
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Paragon8 posted:There's good money in funeral photography. http://cogitz.com/2009/08/28/memento-mori-victorian-death-photos/
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Apr 6, 2011 16:27
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:<---- Take it Judge Joe Brown, so he can ask the most important question. "WHERE IS YOUR 24-70!?!?!" That made me happy today, that's fantastic.
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Apr 6, 2011 16:41
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Pompous Rhombus posted:http://cogitz.com/2009/08/28/memento-mori-victorian-death-photos/ Those are incredibly creepy, yikes.
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Apr 6, 2011 17:20
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:<---- Take it Judge Joe Brown, so he can ask the most important question. "WHERE IS YOUR 24-70!?!?!" Judge Joe Brown just became one of my favourite people.
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Apr 7, 2011 01:25
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So you guys know I'm new here, and to quality/serious photography outside of the product images I've done for my day job. I've got a long way to go before I feel qualified to charge for anything, and I don't even know if I want to do it professional per se, but family and friends, whom aren't anywhere near as knowledgeable and helpful/critical as you guys are loving everything I show them, and now I've been asked to shoot a wedding. I've never shot anything formal or professional, but the money would be really awesome...and I could justify buying some new glass, or even save up for a full-frame d700 or...well whatever the money would be nice, and there's a first time for everything, I just thought I'd wait for my sister in law's wedding and have them hire a pro, and ask if I could shoot alongside them if I stayed out of their way. But this kind of fell into my lap. I have no idea what the standard shots are for a wedding, how intrusive to be...nothing. I don't know poo poo, but they want to cut the wedding's budget down and I guess the photography is an area they feel they can cut. I guess I'm asking for advice, pointers, guides, anything that could help me out? Should I do it? I'm kind of uneasy seeing as I've no experience and don't feel qualified.
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Apr 7, 2011 18:20
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RizieN posted:I guess I'm asking for advice, pointers, guides, anything that could help me out? Should I do it? I'm kind of uneasy seeing as I've no experience and don't feel qualified. Run. Run like gently caress. If you are not 100% confident that you can do this well, do not take it on. If you screw up a product shot, you get to do it again. Even if a reshoot is impossible, the worst case is an unhappy customer and it all goes away in a few months. If you screw up your family's wedding, it will haunt you at every family occasion for the rest of your life.
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Apr 7, 2011 18:26
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Thats what I was thinking, guess I just needed to hear it.
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Definitely stay away from photographing family weddings, especially if it's your first outing. But on the other hand, if you're one of those people who are always "I'm not good enough!" when you might actually be good enough, it may be worth a shot to get involved in other weddings as an assistant. You won't be doing much shooting as an assistant, but it should be pretty educational and if you feel like you want to do it professionally, it'll help with that "could I do it?" question. Plus, you get a free dinner out of it!
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