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HAIL eSATA-n posted:pictures!!!! dang really missing home right now. i can see what you’re saying with the focus feeling off, it’s hard to say what’s causing it, especially because i’m phoneposting right now. almost looks like decentering in the mountain shot, but that could be “i’ve read any review of a pentax lens ever” bias. speaking of pentax lenses and focus errors, i got my da☆ 55/1.4 back from repair while i was out of town. it was randomly back and front focusing, by amounts beyond what the camera’s compensation could handle. i took it out today to see how i felt about it. echi, i got you some bokeh:    and cat  this lens blooms like hell wide open with non-human subjects, and it has atrocious longitudinal aberration at 1.4 and 1.6, and it’s still not doing getting accurate focus on anything but the three selectable f2.8 flux points, but when it’s on, it’s on - hit images are why i decided to get it fixed. i don’t know, though. i need to go find a person to run it on and see how it does, since it was supposed to serve a dual-purpose role - flowers in the rain and this idiot idea i have to do grad photos for people to make some extra cash in the spring.
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:it is if you’re small 
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did some new years rural exploration this morning. i am a sucker for sun flares      roads were glare ice  found somebody's goon cave      was playing around free-lensing for poor man's tilt shift   shadow selfie  
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polyester concept posted:did some new years rural exploration this morning. mate that’s some excellent poo poo the shift tilt is effective and love me some flare. my fave lens tends to just bloom out thought I had an example but I dont
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sick i went hiking today before subjecting myself once again to unknown months of wage slavery. took lots of pictures, might share some later if i’m feeling cute
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:does the focus look alright on these? is it me? is it a long lens/atmospheric haze thing? i'm using my ipad so i can't be absolutely certain, but it looks more or less fine to me (tbh i've posted worse focus before) were you using AF or MF? if AF then maybe nurrwick is right and the weighting is off
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polyester concept posted:did some new years rural exploration this morning. these are all real great. not only is that an area i don't get to see much of, you did really well with the palette imo not that the b&w pics are bad or anything either, but i like your use of color here
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i love infrared. kinda considering removing the filter from the powershot SX10 but 1. idk how 2. i don't wanna ruin it, apparently kids will pay a ton for one in excellent condition these days
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Beeftweeter posted:i'm using my ipad so i can't be absolutely certain, but it looks more or less fine to me (tbh i've posted worse focus before) more like beefposter i was using AF - idk, maybe i just focused on some haze or something miles away. the focus light was tweaking for a lot of those shots so something was off. if it continues to happen i’ll whine at fuji speaking of whining at fuji, both of the little control wheels on my xt30 are messing up now! the thing where you turn it left but it reads right half the time. agh i wonder if they’ll do a goodwill repair as this seems to be a common complaint on reddit
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:more like beefposter i took another look at your shots, downloaded onto a proper computer and all, and it does look like you have at least some front focusing. the tree ridge is pretty clearly in focus against the mountain showing what looks like bokeh defocus, as opposed to atmospheric effects causing blur. it's really hard to tell with the islands in the water but i think it's the same story, the closer ridge is just a bit more in focus, but I also think you have clearer air in that shot than the mountain. the woodpecker, I honestly can't tell for sure but if there's blur on the bird, it seems like it's motion. like I'm looking at both the lichen in front of the bird's close foot, and it appears to be in focus, then the ridge of holes just behind the bird's tail also looks like it's in focus. normally, as Old Man SLR over here, I'd start with trying to blow crap off the mirrors or the lens on the AF sensor module, but I don't know if there's anything you can do to help with a camera that uses CDAF or on-sensor PDAF points. might be addressable with a sensor cleaning... you could also try selecting different focus points between two shots and doing some focus-recompose to see if certain points are misbehaving, but I'm pretty sure mirrorless cameras don't have the same potential for discrepancy between the focus point locations in viewfinder and on sensor that SLRs do. if you're seeing consistent missed focus and the body doesn't give you the ability to put in a +/- correction for each lens, you might be up against sending to a service center. alternatively, as a sanity check, if you have a local shop you like that stocks fuji cameras, you could try taking the lens in and seeing if they'd let you do a couple of focus tests with the lens on a demo body. that said, though, you could definitely print the mountain at pretty big size and hang it somewhere and it'd be fine. also i hate it when rotary encoders start doing that backwards motion thing, i'm sorry to hear your camera is doing it to you this whole post is great, but to my eyes, these two images really bring a lot with color and dynamic range
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Beeftweeter posted:i love infrared. kinda considering removing the filter from the powershot SX10 but 1. idk how 2. i don't wanna ruin it, apparently kids will pay a ton for one in excellent condition these days You should IMO, IR is good fun. Get the conversion done by a company like Lifepixel. I had a mate who worked for them way back and was doing IR conversions. He got me interested enough to do it on film.
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echinopsis posted:mate that’s some excellent poo poo HAIL eSATA-n posted:sick Beeftweeter posted:these are all real great. not only is that an area i don't get to see much of, you did really well with the palette imo nurrwick posted:this whole post is great, but to my eyes, these two images really bring a lot with color and dynamic range i basically only ever shoot on daylight white balance so that the light of the scene dictates the mood
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nurrwick posted:i took another look at your shots, downloaded onto a proper computer and all, and it does look like you have at least some front focusing. the tree ridge is pretty clearly in focus against the mountain showing what looks like bokeh defocus, as opposed to atmospheric effects causing blur. it's really hard to tell with the islands in the water but i think it's the same story, the closer ridge is just a bit more in focus, but I also think you have clearer air in that shot than the mountain. the woodpecker, I honestly can't tell for sure but if there's blur on the bird, it seems like it's motion. like I'm looking at both the lichen in front of the bird's close foot, and it appears to be in focus, then the ridge of holes just behind the bird's tail also looks like it's in focus. i took a few more at both 70mm and 300mm and the focus is on. seems to have been a challenging environment for the AF and it was just wonky for those few photos vOv from yesterday's hike you get the first one in color for free    
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hm now i have to go through the rest of my day knowing i'm not going to see any of this in person (especially that first shot... good lord) [edit to add something productive] yeah atmospherics could also very easily have explained the camera not focusing accurate to your expectation, and it might just be something you need to address at the time of the shot... and it doesn't feel great saying "yeah don't trust your gear" but i guess if you know there's a situation that can let you down, it's best to be prepared to deal with it. i have to do that with all my old k/m lenses and metering anywhere other than wide open, and even wide open doesn't work right sometimes. i do hope that the focus error is one caused by the environment and not actually your hardware, though! nurrwick fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:more like beefposter well, if you're really uncertain, just do a couple AF vs. MF tests. if you're able to get the focus you want — it's not the lens, it's the AF system, so maybe try adjusting it? idk how much fuji lets you fine-tune AF points, but panasonic & sony let you to a ridiculous degree. my e-m10 and q7 not so much, but they don't have as advanced a system anyway and you don't need to go back to the same location, obviously. i'm sure you can figure out a more local suitable target to test with Megabound posted:You should IMO, IR is good fun. Get the conversion done by a company like Lifepixel. I had a mate who worked for them way back and was doing IR conversions. He got me interested enough to do it on film. it's great fun, but other than using film, right now i'm limited to just applying an infrared LUT (in either pre or post, both work, but the results can be iffy) also not a bad suggestion about paying to have the conversion done, but i'm in extreme money-saving mode atm and honestly can't justify it. i'll look into seeing how difficult it would be to do myself, but i'm not really confident about my skill level wrt being able to pull it off
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nurrwick posted:
1997:       1999:     also this isn't from that advantix compact, but it is from december 2005, so old enough to vote:  (shot on my old pentax zx-L, probably via a tamron 70-210/4.x-5.x lens, on some kind of 3200 film) so, i got better, at least. i'm missing everything from 1998 in prints, so I wonder what happened to that box.
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Nosying through the sales, there's a 'Must go' shelf in the John Lewis (mid-to-high-end department store here), Online returns items, but (they said) checked and verified as working - a CANON RF 50mm F1.2 L USM for £650, these are going for £2400 new and second hand ebay sales seem to be around £1400 so yes I'll have that. Only problem is it's not backwardly compatible with my 5D3, so I need to either find someone shooting an R body to test it for me, or look into upgrading my old 5D3 to something slightly more modern 
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that’s a very nice and sharp lens as far as I know
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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. 
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it’s been -40 the past few days so I broke out my 4x5 camera and took some indoor portraits of the kids this weekend. happy to find out that my ~2 year old bottle of fixer is still good. contemplating going out and taking some outdoor shots today because everything is covered in frost and there’s some incredibly dense fog, but not sure I want to risk it also: PokeJoe posted:Cool polyester concept fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Jan 14, 2024 |
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polyester concept posted:contemplating going out and taking some outdoor shots today I went out. Didn't end up with much worth sharing unfortunately, but I did see some coyotes and birds feasting on a frozen animal carcass. They heard me and got spooked so I couldn't get any cool shots. Spoilered for frozen dead animal:  I was actually pretty far away, this was at 300mm zoom
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quote is not edit, but here's a post anyway trying to fix the missing image from above post!! e; lol i did it twice. computer
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someone correct me if I am wrong, and I think I’ve asked this but idk didn’t get a clear answer or just didn’t understand regarding colour balance : (and assuming I am talking about raw) if I shoot with auto, I could take a bunch of photos in one session and the temp values the camera records might change quite a bit depending on what way I’m facing etc right? or I could choose a set temp and just shoot everything with the camera recording that value even if it’s “wrong” the question is about editing, because with the auto method, doesn’t that make it harder to keep photos in a set consistent because their values will be all over the place? vs set temp : if you know you need to change the temp by x to fix it, well at least that’s true for all the photos taken at the same time. it seems to me like best method, if taking multiple pics, is the set temp.. or am I missing something?
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when you make a preset in lightroom or copy and paste edit settings, when it comes to temp you copy an absolute not relative value so if the temps are all over the place, creating a preset with one photo and using it on the rest, if you used auto then surely it’ll kick a lot of the photos the wrong way? I could get it if the copy and paste edit recorded relative temp values because then you could warm all photos up a touch? anyway idk. colour balance is a challenge
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yeah if you leave it on auto there might be slight variations from photo to photo depending on what the camera is pointed at. this is why people bring a middle grey card for calibration. and then you can just use the eyedropper tool in LR to sample it as neutral
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if you're shooting raw then it's not applying any transform to the data until you get to lightroom, it's just tagging the image with what it reckoned at the time. if you want everything consistent + correct shoot a blank piece of paper (or, say, a macbeth chart) in the light you're in as part of the set.
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echinopsis posted:mega shallow depth of field flowers is fuckin cliche as it's common because it looks nice. who cares that it's not avant garde experimental photography, most photos aren't (also, how very kiwi of you)   guess i should clean the dust off that fuckin lol macro apertures idk why this lens goes down to f/2.5 it's not like you can use that for its intended purpose (it's still useful for general medium tele stuff but i still don't usually go below f/8 even for non-macro)
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some of the first portrait shots I did were on a 100 macro @ f/2.8 and it worked pretty well for them, but yeah close up there’s so little in focus also what’s kiwi of me?
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echinopsis posted:some of the first portrait shots I did were on a 100 macro @ f/2.8 and it worked pretty well for them, but yeah close up there’s so little in focus i figured kiwis knew that the construction "<adjective> as" doesnt really exist in other dialects of english other than maybe australian sometimes ed: okay ive found one image i shot almost wide open, at f/2.8  but bokeywise it doesn't really look any different from f/4.0 
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