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Somewhat Heroic posted:Coming back to revisit this. On local classifieds I had shotgunned a bunch of different camera backpacks on my "favorites" list and one was a Summit Creatives 30L Tenzig. The dude dropped the price down to $200 so I took that for an answer and immediately went and bought it. I have a lot of work to do on the internal core but there is plenty of space for my body with lens attached (currently 24-70) and the eventual 70-200 I hope to own along with my Mini 3 Pro/controller and misc stuff. The top is nice and roomy enough to hold snacks/water and has a roll top for added space. The front pouch barely holds my Macbook and doesn't have a lot of protection, but the laptop will only go in there for travel and when I take it to work with me. Would actually love a longer write-up on it once you've gotten to know it a bit better. Always looking for more bags.
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Can anyone recommend a place to purchase a converted P&S digital camera to infrared? I don't have strong opinions on the brand. I feel like there has to be some random guy running a business selling them and his little shop just lists his most recent conversions.
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huhu posted:Can anyone recommend a place to purchase a converted P&S digital camera to infrared? I don't have strong opinions on the brand. I feel like there has to be some random guy running a business selling them and his little shop just lists his most recent conversions. Kolari has some already converted used cameras: https://kolarivision.com/product-tag/used-infrared-and-full-spectrum-cameras There’s also the Kolari Pocket, which might be right up your alley: https://kolarivision.com/product/kolari-pocket-full-spectrum-converted-point-shoot-camera-with-infrared-filter-options/
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The other option, which I've used, is lifepixel: https://www.lifepixel.com/product-category/converted-cameras Not so sure about p&s though, you might have to dig around a little e: I hadn't seen that Kolari Pocket before, that's a really neat little package big black turnout fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but the other "newbie" threads all seemed to be dead and archived. I'm looking at getting a camera, either DSLR or mirrorless, mostly for doing some street and nature photography, but once I have some more experience I want to try doing some macro and astrophotography as well. I'd like to get it for under 1000 if possible, and was leaning mirrorless since apparently DSLR is kind of a dead end now and lenses and accessories will be harder to find, which is a shame because I really like the whole viewfinder thing. Anyone have any tips for a good camera to look for, or the right thread to ask in?
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DSLR lenses are very easy to find and bargains as people offload them to upgrade to mirrorless. It's dead in that new lenses won't be made yes, but you have decades of lenses to choose from and lots of websites that specialise in 2nd hand gear. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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If you want a camera to really learn photography with but that is still capable of pro quality something from the Canon 5D/6D line can be found for like 500 with a good prime lens (50 1.8 or 1.4, 85 1/8, 35 2).
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DanTheFryingPan posted:Would actually love a longer write-up on it once you've gotten to know it a bit better. Always looking for more bags. I will do it! I just need to get a bit more use time and real life time with it before I give too much detail. So far...considering I paid $200 I am very pleased. Cat Wings posted:I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but the other "newbie" threads all seemed to be dead and archived. I'm looking at getting a camera, either DSLR or mirrorless, mostly for doing some street and nature photography, but once I have some more experience I want to try doing some macro and astrophotography as well. I am not a professional. I am not even an amateur. I wandered into the land of "real" cameras when I started having kids and wanted to record with something better than a phone. I was initially told that I should check out used gear. I promptly ignored that advice and bought new; but a crop sensor DSLR. I made friends with some that were much better photographers and saw the kind of stuff they could produce and realized that my crop sensor and glass was holding me back a bit. So I re-evaluated and bought a full frame Canon 5D mkii and a 24-70 F4L lens - both used for about $1000 all in. The body had a low shutter count and was in great shape. The lens was immaculate. That is the direction I should have chosen from the beginning. Go buy a used professional body camera. This is more referencing a "full frame" camera. I chose the Canon camp, and nearly 10 years later after my T5i rebel purchase I am glad I did. I like the interface. If all of that seems scary to commit to do a couple of things: Find a place you can rent a camera and lens from. ~$100 for a weekend of experimenting could be worth the effort before dropping a thousand bucks on who knows what. seriously - just buy used pro gear. It is usually kept in better shape; it holds value better and produces extremely good results. I have my old body listed on my local classifieds for $400. That is a LOT of camera for that few dollars. If I was to be picking a camera brand today it would be between Canon and Sony, with Canon likely being my choice again. I have recently (~3 months ago) upgraded my camera body to a mirrorless. It is fantastic. I am able to do better stuff with it so far but what I learned from my 5D mkii has forced me to be "better" and try harder than I probably would have with something like a brand new mirrorless starting today. I am still using my EF 24-70 lens, with adapter. I will expand my lens range but will be using RF going forward.
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Cat Wings posted:I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but the other "newbie" threads all seemed to be dead and archived. I'm looking at getting a camera, either DSLR or mirrorless, mostly for doing some street and nature photography, but once I have some more experience I want to try doing some macro and astrophotography as well. You may want to think in more detail about what you're after in the nature photography realm. If it's wildlife and especially birds, it's almost worth starting with the lens you want and then working backwards to the best body you can afford. Bird photographers are usually carrying around 400-600mm lenses. For bodies, these aren't full frame, but you might think about something like a used canon 90D or 7Dmk2 since the smaller aps-c sensor allows for some additional reach for the rear end in a top hat birds who are never as close as you want them to be. These may have better autofocus than the 5Dmk2 as well.. If nature more means landscape or macro, then there's less reason to choose a crop sensor camera and whatever 5D or 6D full frame model you might look at will be fantastic. Eventually you may want mirrorless (many of which do have viewfinders) but I'm not sure what to recommend for under $1k.
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My original Peak Design messenger bag died recently after ~8 years of using it mostly as a laptop bag but sometimes for camera gear. The strap attachment fabric wore out and tore on all 4 points, so I sent it in for them to repair but they just credited me for a new V2 bag. Don't really like the changes (one size that's smaller than my bag was, front pocket and laptop sleeves are built into the main compartment, etc), but it is nice to see they stand by their warranty like that. It'll still work for a laptop and single camera/2 lens bag I'm sure, but the old one could fit 2 bodies, 3 lenses, and a flash. I also got 2 Think Tank lens changer 50 pouches to use on a leather belt as holsters for my cameras to take weight off my shoulders during longer shoots and those things are brilliant. Super overbuilt, padded, and big enough to not only hold a 24-70 or 70-200 2.8, but the rain cover fits over the body while attached. Combined with the Press Pass 10 bag, I can fit my full kit in a belt system and put them all in a small backpack for transit.
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Does anyone make a single modern camera shoulder bag? Meaning with modern manufacturing methods, design and materials. Lowepro accidentally makes two instances of modern lightweight backpacks - Truckee 150 and 250. Paid 65€ for the 250 back in the day: https://www.lowepro.com/us-en/truckee-bp-250-lx-lp37238-pww/ - I don't know of any other manufacturer producing such rare items. It is 700g and fits my pansonic s1 with grip with 4 Sigma ART lenses. And then it's only half full - still has a top compartment for clothes and stuff and side pockets for umbrella/water bottle etc. And laptop container. My current messenger back is an old SA-Int gas mask bag, with a cheap insert. It is made from extra heavy duty cotton - 650 grams total. The messenger back can hold maybe 1/3 of the stuff that my backpack can, but it weighs the same. Are there some 200-300g messenger/shoulder camera backpacks which fit 3-4 lenses? My current shoulder bag fits 3 lenses, or 2 lenses and a flash + stuff, like this, with dimensions around 25x30x12cm.  I'd like it to be a bit wider so I could fit in an extra lens, or a water bottle, and lighter weight with modern materials instead of thick rear end cotton. Has capitalism produced a single model like that? My 90 liter expedition backpack is 1,6kg so I don't tolerate unneccssarily heavy items if it's not well justified. Ihmemies fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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The Lowepro tracker looks the part https://www.lowepro.com/au-en/trekker-lite-slx-120-grey-lp37468-pww/ I have one of their backpacks and I quite like it
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I’ve never been disappointed in lowepro stuff they seem to make really well built bags. I have a Nova 1 bag with a delectable 90’s teal colorway that is great and in awesome shape for its age. 
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Help gear thread, talk me down from selling my minolta cle and buying a leica m4-p. The cle is such a cool little camera but I've amassed a collection of lenses for my digital m that I don't have frame lines for on the cle
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Buy accessory finders instead
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My daughter turns ten next month and wants a camera. I’m already steeped in F-mount gear. I’m thinking about getting her D40 or D60 for 50 bucks. My only hesitation is it’s trickier to take places. It’s not like she’s going out with friends at age 10, but even a trip to the zoo the camera is a little more cumbersome. However, it would be an opportunity to learn aperture and exposure more forward than a point and shoot, which are coincidentally $9,000 used these days. All that said, any suggestions on something that’s more mobile that’s under 150 bucks? Just looking for options. I assume whatever I could buy her could break, even though she’s careful, so the cheaper the better.
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$150 is awfully low but I went with micro 4/3 for my kid. Something they can actually carry compared to hulking around a dslr and f glass
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I looked at some old Olympus Pen models and I was tempted, but I don’t want to invest in another mount. I also have a Fuji mirrorless, but used Fuji bodies are disproportionately expensive and I only have two lenses as it is.
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D3300 is a little more modern, still very cheap and is only 460g
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My kids have Nikon P&S cameras because as kids they just want to take pictures of the things they like. I mean if your kid is honestly interested in the exposure triangle then more power to them because they probably have some good pictures coming their way, but in my experience most kids under teenage years aren’t interested in that stuff yet.
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Does anyone make a good rechargeable 2CR5? I see lots of listings for regular 2CR5's on amazon and a couple listed as rechargeable but when you dig in they actually arent rechargeable.
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I bitched about shoulder bag weight earlier. Noticed today on Amazon that Lowepro makes a shoulder bag version of their Truckee lineup: https://www.lowepro.com/global/truckee-sh-160-lx-lp37252-pww/ 265 grams for a 24 x 11 x 17 cm shoulder bag. Nice! It's not that large, but could perhaps replace my current bag as a 400g lighter version of the same thing.
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I'm doing some work that requires sending over unedited JPEGs so I bought one of those expodisc tools (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071V33G29?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details) to see if it would make in camera white balance that much better and I'm kinda blown away by how effective it is. This is a JPEG with the camera's auto white balance  This is a JPEG with custom WB after setting it to the disc  Just hold it against your lens and shoot a frame, then select that frame for your custom white balance setting. For RAWs you can get the exact same result in lightroom using the dropper tool on your expo disc frame and copying the white balance over, so for general shooting you don't have to do the in camera process.
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Wow. That’s pretty cool. I’m going to have to try that.
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Anyone know the image circle size on Pentax 6x7 lenses? I am unable to coax google to give me the details and I think I might do a Stupid Lens Adapting Project and am trying to hunt down numbers. If it's different for each lens, I'm mostly curious about the 45mm. Maybe the 55mm too.
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quote:For 645 lenses, A, FA, and D FA lenses cover the film 645 format, whereas DA lenses are designed to only cover the reduced 44x33mm format. quote:The diameter of the illuminated field of P67 lenses is at least 90 mm. Concerning 645 digital cameras, the diagonal of the sensor is 55 mm and all the "vintage" A and FA 645 lenses cover more than this (Square root of (56 squared + 41 squared)) = 70 mm approximately. I don't know if either of those help though. From here: https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/10-pentax-slr-lens-discussion/332887-645-image-circles.html
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xzzy posted:Anyone know the image circle size on Pentax 6x7 lenses? I am unable to coax google to give me the details and I think I might do a Stupid Lens Adapting Project and am trying to hunt down numbers. https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/archive/index.php/t-64857.html towards the bottom. Somewhere around 5" for most lenses.
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I guess this is more gear than film because its entirely about a film camera and only a little about the film itself. I picked up a Polaroid 900 Electric Eye. An early 1960's rangefinder camera that shoots (or shot, rather) peel-apart roll film.  Well, it did, until that film was discontinued. Then for a while you could shoot packfilm as well, until that was discontinued. So now most of them lay collecting dust in thrift shops and basements. A thrift shop is where I found this one. It was initially owned by the shop owners grandfather, and seems to be very well taken care of. Its in great shape, as are all of its accessories and its case  Initially it caught my interest because of its sheer size, when fully extended, bellows out, flapping in the wind, its massive!  The lightbox I'm taking pictures in doesnt really do it justice. Here it is next to my EOS 1, a camera that itself is known for being a beefy boy, especially with the battery grip on like mine.  This is to say nothing of the included flash unit    It has what Polaroid called "Electric Eye", which was a metering system that varied both aperture and shutter speed based on the available light and the ISO currently set. Apparently this was a big deal upon the cameras release because most automatic systems of the time could vary the shutter speed, or the aperture, but not both. Naturally it runs on a weird mercury battery, but thankfully there are modern non-mercury based replacements for it. I'm sure I'll have some battery crud to clean out  The "Manual" mode really just lets you set exposure compensation. Shutter and aperture are still handled by the Electric Eye. With the back open you can see the sort of two stage film loading process where the pull apart film went, and where it was spooled up initially. This camera did come with film in it, but it essentially turned to dust when I tried to advance a frame. The film was completely dry and delaminated, unfortunately  With the film plate open revelaing the bellows, it again shows how absolutely enormous it is  Mercifully the bellows still move and appear to have no light leaks  The viewfinder is coupled to the lens, and does some sort of weird double image thing where you have to line up the double images to focus it. Its a little bit like a split prism focusing screen, but it doesnt seem as precise or quick to use. This was apparently considered a quite good viewfinder back in the day   So what am I doing with this old camera that shoots only dead film formats? Apparently you can convert these somewhat easily to shoot 120 film. The old takeup and spool areas in the camera are easily made to work as spool holders for 120 film with some 3D printed parts. The only real serious modification required is installing a winding knob in order to advance the film. Normally I would be hesitant about drilling a hole for a knob in a camera, but the chances of this ever shooting its original film are next to zero, so its not so bad.  The mod is helpfully laid out in this youtube by the person who created the 3D files https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sixckNPs1Po So, long story short, I hope to get this ancient thrifted camera working again with a modern film stock so that I can shoot this enormous, awkward relic somewhere hilarious. Oh, and also, the bag it came in? Holy poo poo  Beautiful. I dont normally gush over camera bags, but this is gorgeous in person. Even if this whole polaroid project falls apart, I'm keeping that bag   
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Clearly yall are better at google than me. 5 inches is pretty frickin' big. Even 90mm from Bottom's post would be sufficient, if a bit tighter. Time to go burn some tax refund.
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What's the image size on 120?
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I think it becomes quite wide, almost panoramic? 120 is shorter, height-wise than the pull apart film that the camera was intended for, and I think the image circle of the lens and the film plane are wider than your average 120 camera This guy has one already converted and he has some demo shots that he took with it. Unfortunately his looks to have crap bellows because he shoots it in a dark bag https://www.instagram.com/p/C5O8Q-8pKbY/
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I have 3 packs of Fuji FP100c, but not a camera to use them with. I have a RZ67 with polaroid back but it crops the film so much I don't want to waste them there. I wish I could find a cheap polaroid camera from Finland.
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Beve Stuscemi posted:I think it becomes quite wide, almost panoramic? 120 is shorter, height-wise than the pull apart film that the camera was intended for, and I think the image circle of the lens and the film plane are wider than your average 120 camera According to the store page he references, looks like about 6x14. That's pretty sick
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big black turnout posted:According to the store page he references, looks like about 6x14. That's pretty sick https://filmphotographystore.com/products/adapter-122-to-120-film-adapter Yeah, looks like it. That rules, I really hope I can make this work
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