spf3million posted:

You first

Tigertron posted:

I have to admit this looks rather ridiculous.

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Of the 400 photos taken on the day the newlyweds were happy with only 22.

AIIAZNSK8ER posted:

that whole "wrapped in blanket of money" thing is for serious. It probably doesn't look anywhere close to a dslr with all those gizmos attached.

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Lenses were the Canon 50mm f1.2L, 35mm f1.4L and the 70-200mm f4L IS. I attached my Zacuto Z-finder straight to the camera, then added a prototype of the new Genus d-slr bars supporting their wide angle mattebox to prevent any excess lens flare. I shot mostly handheld using a small Redrockmicro shoulder rig at times as well as on my fantastic Miller DS-20 tripod. Audio was from a Zoom H4n feeding the camera audio directly using a custom cable from Pinknoise systems (living with AGC to speed time in the edit).

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17-Year-Old Thinks She's Getting Into Photography

June 8, 2009 | Issue 45•24

EUGENE, OR—After wasting an afternoon taking pictures of a broken tricycle, moss on trees, and the shadow of a wrought-iron fence, Churchill Alternative High School senior Jessica Ivers falsely informed family and friends Saturday that she was getting into photography. "I love the way real film looks," said Ivers, who has owned the old single-lens reflex 35 millimeter camera for exactly one week, and named as her favorite photographers "probably Diane Arbus" and the French guy who took the picture of the boy with the wine bottle. "I'm really fascinated by textures, and I think I'll be able to get some good shots of my grandma's hands this weekend." Sources close to Ivers expect the camera to join her clarinet and yoga mat under her bed once she pays $14.85 to develop the roll of clumsy, overexposed images.

Pompous Rhombus posted:

lmbo a Sigma 12-24 is more flexible, less cumbersome, faster, wider, cheaper by several orders of magnitude, has autofocus, and is still rectilinear.

Ken

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Recommendations

While not professional grade, Sigma makes a 12-24mm zoom that's worth a look. It covers FX. I've tried this 12-24mm now and then, and if you get a good sample, it works very well and does about the same thing as the Nikon 13mm.

NoneMoreNegative posted:

This is a good feeling, agreedo

FB does tend to murder photo quality with some brutal jpegging, I guess with so many million pics they need to save on storage.

Paragon8 posted:

I have some spare google wave invites if any one would like them ... I feel more like giving to a dorkroom goon than one of the beggers in GBS.

Pompous Rhombus posted:

Obligatory link to "Pay the Writer"

TsarAleksi posted:

Yes, yes you are, unless you grant someone an unlimited license, in which case they are paying more in order to not have to pay each time (this is what you are doing with you camera, in a sense, especially when you pay more for a unit designed to be used by working professionals. But that's a stupid comparison because service/creative work and manufacturing of objects are totally different and unrelated markets). But the way that the creative market works is that you get paid with consideration to how much money the client is going to make from your work. If it's worth a lot to them, then they should pay you an amount that reflects this importance.

SoundMonkey posted:

This is stupid, as are you for thinking it's a good comparison.

brad industry posted:

Every time you license a work for use you are creating value in that instance for your client, and as the creator of that work you are entitled to a piece of that under your terms.


When I work in some production aspect (whether photo assistant or digital tech or whatever) I'm being paid for my time and labor, not my creative input. I don't have any stake in the final image or it's creation so it would be silly for me to be paid royalties for it. Boom operators are the same way.

spog posted:

Given that Flickr was introduced in 2004,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr#History

Assuming he was posting at full rate as soon as it was launched (pro account, 2Gb per month limit), that's about 100 photos per day.

Roughly 1 photo every 10 mins for every hour that he has been awake for the last 6 years.

EDIT: 'Joined Aug 2006' which means his finger is basically glued to the shutter release.

UserNotFound posted:

I would probably bludgeon this kid with my camera. He took 342 pictures at iHop on New Years, which followed New Years Eve in which he took 89 pictures of "putting away the dishes with nico in the am".

443 pictures for "going to the grocery with mommy" on 12-29, and 89 more just bringing the groceries in from the car.

I...I just can't fathom how anyone can tolerate him.

spog posted:

I must be getting old, cause I agree with about 70% of that article.

Though almost nothing he says about photography.

FasterThanLight posted:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/about.htm#lefty

His proof that the lefty elephant penis F100 is real is the fact that he wears his watch upside down, apparently.

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“You Cannot Be Serious”

According to a disclaimer on his website, Ken has mentioned that while writing articles, he often makes mistakes deliberately. A lot of his statements are practical jokes, and anyone reading his site must have a sense of humour to spot these ‘mistakes’. “I do these deliberate gaffes because they are fun!” says Ken.

The website has a photograph of Ken holding what seems to be a “left-handed” Nikon F100 camera. He decided to tell people that it is a custom-made left-handed camera that Nikon were kind enough to gift him. “In reality, of course, it is a regular camera whose picture I flipped around, because it looked better on the webpage’s layout!” With the constant scrutiny that surrounds his articles, his readers send him over a thousand emails even if he gets one product specification wrong. “But when I play these elaborate practical jokes, everybody believes me!” he laughs.

Interrupting Moss posted:

I'm absolutely convinced he's the photography world's equivalent of Fox News: saying whatever it takes to get the most viewers excited one way or the other so they'll keep coming back.

In other words: a troll to behold.

spog posted:

I think he deliberately has opinions that he knows will wind people up.

In other words, he's not an idiot, he is a clever troll. Let's face it, he gets quoted a lot more than people with sensible/mainstream opinions.

psylent posted:

DaNzA posted:

edit: On a completely non-related note, Golden-hour calculator
http://www.golden-hour.com/

DRP Solved! posted:

Is this a drunk/baked-post? That was one hell of a pointless ramble. The poster was handed a D3 for the first time and told to shoot an event that apparently had some emotional significance to someone. The Nikon layout is strikingly different from the Canon layout and not everyone masters the use of every camera system as a hobby.

With that said, the first DSLR I ever owned was a D60 and I absolutely hated the wheel on the back of the camera. The thing callused my thumb worse than an N64 controller.

ZoCrowes posted:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/showcase-147/

Jeff Jacobson is a photojournalist and cancer survivor who used his final rolls of Kodachrome to document his illness and what he views as the end of his life.

fronkpies posted:

There all far to happy in that launch, annoying.

Content aware fill still what there plugging most.

torgeaux posted:

Alright, how did GBS leak in here?

Mannequin posted:

There is also something going on at the Leica gallery.

ease posted:

I just made a poormans version of a steady cam for my t2i. Used a ball joint from a tractor as the gimble, a pipe as the handle, and some box steel as the cantilever and welded it together. Trying to get it balanced now, but it seems to be doing the job. Kinda also works as a shoulder stock too, which is neat. I'd post pictures, but you'd all laugh at me.