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https://a.co/d/9gkNZUN Manfrotto 290 Xtra Aluminum 3-Section Tripod Kit with Ball Head (MK290XTA3-BHUS) & Quick Release Plate with Special Adapter (200PL) Will I regret buying this for basic portrait photography with a DSLR? I'm not looking for top of the line necessarily but I'd like to not have to upgrade in a year either
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drat you're right I somehow missed that. I think it is fully extended. I'm 5'11". I'm also open to any suggestions at all e: why do none of them actually say whether or not it includes the center column being cranked up this is incredibly annoying e2: ok yes that is with the center column all the way up big black turnout fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Mar 26, 2023 |
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Who makes decent ND filters?
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I think it's peak design
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https://www.peakdesign.com/products/slide This is what I have and it extends far enough to wear cross body e: 
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I have a D750 and it feels fine so far but I haven't worn it for more than an hour or so at a time yet
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I wore mine at least 10 hours over the last 48 hours and it was good
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Yeah the battery probably isn't even close to the most wasteful part of instant film. Also it makes really good sense from the standpoint that no batteries in the camera meant no battery leaking and destroying the camera in storage
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Oct 17, 2023 04:02
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Adapt old glass that has depth of field markings
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That's a terrible burden and I'll gladly take it off your hands for the cost of shipping
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Lily Catts posted:If you want to shoot in a rangefinder style then just get a Fujifilm X-Pro or X series camera. These are not rangefinders V for Vegas posted:It's not great condition. I've looked and it would probably go for around 3500. That's not nothing but it's not a fortune and I'd rather keep it. I don't want to spend thousands on lenses and happy to tool around with it and learn the ropes. Just asking about opinions on voigtlander lenses. Voigtlander is great. There's a lot of up and coming Chinese lens manufacturers for leica m mount, too
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I got into photography through rangefinders. It's really not that hard, especiallyMegabound posted:Focus is the easiest part. Best starter camera is manual focus aperture priority IMO. Makes you think about focus and depth of field while still holding your hand on exposure Yeah, if you have something that helps with exposure. e: if anything, manual focus was part of what drew me in to photography because it involved me in the picture in a way a cell phone didn't big black turnout fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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Cameras designed for manual focus are designed for manual focus. Y'all are focusing (no pun intended) on the idea of focusing on a modern AF body that isn't built for manual focusing. Things like split prisms or rangefinders give you focusing information and if you aren't stopped down to f/1.4 or whatever you can easily get close enough to focused. People, including amateurs, did it for literal decades. For subjects, for me, it was mostly friends and (adult) family that could stand still for ten seconds or just zone focusing for things like random birds at the park or whatever
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Like I'm sort of curious, have you ever seen a viewfinder on a manual focus camera? This more or less what my first SLR looked like through the lens: You line up the lines in the two halves of the circle and you're in focus e: okay you're having a very normal one
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litany of gulps posted:Would it ever have happened without taking good pictures becoming easy as a result of cell phones? I know this is pointless, but this is such a wild statement. Yes, the proliferation of photography would happen without cell phones because uhh it did e: also in this weird tortured metaphor the person inherited a turntable with sentimental value and is asking for speaker recommendations and you're telling them to throw away the turntable because Spotify exists big black turnout fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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theHUNGERian posted:Those markers cracked a Columbo case, so they must be good. I love looking at the cameras in Columbo. My favorite is the Hassy in the porn magazine episode with I'm pretty sure a power winder. The Dick van Dyke episode is good too where pull apart Polaroids are a major plot device
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Ihmemies posted:I am looking at a webpage where they sell a new Leica M6, with warranty. Only 5000€. Not too bad, I think. Please help. You could go through like 4 to 6 minolta cles for that price. I feel like digital is the only place leica bodies make sense
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Can anyone explain the Sony a7siii to me? Like people say things about how it has great low light performance etc but then it has half the megapixels of my ten year old dslr
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Okay, I think I've mostly made a decision but I want to run it by y'all. Currently, I have a d750 and a selection of f mount lenses that are shared with my f5. As much as I try to get out and do photography for artistic sake, realistically 99% of my pictures are of my kids, my kids' friends, and kids' activities like dance, karate, etc.... Lately I've been disappointed in 2-3 things: 1. Reliability: my f mount lenses are old and I'm having issues with things like failing focus motors. This is probably the least of my complaints and probably partially because I stick to lenses compatible with my F5 2-3. Autofocus and low light: autofocus speed and reliability isn't great, and in low light is almost unusable. This has been a problem, for instance, taking pictures in my kids' room at night under dim artificial light. And even ignoring autofocus, at 2.8, I'm hitting low shutter speeds and getting camera shake I'm looking at mirrorless, since I think it should fix these through some combination of newer better lenses, better autofocus systems, better low light performance(?), and stabilization. Feel free to push back on any of this though. Assuming I'm on the right track, I've been looking at options and think I've narrowed it down to the Sony a7iv or Canon EOS R6ii. I'm really only concerned with still photography, but I suppose video is nice to have and it seems like everybody is focusing on hybrids anyway. I've narrowed it down to these mostly on the strength of autofocus/tracking and I'm leaning slightly towards the Sony because of slightly better autofocus(?) and availability of third party lenses. Anyway, I want to know if this all sounds reasonable, if there's anything I'm missing, or any alternatives y'all would suggest looking into
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Yeah, I'm going to try to go into a store and handle a couple to see how they feel. Re: Nikon, that was definitely my immediate first choice, but I saw a good bit of chatter online about the focusing through the FTZ adapter being slower than native F focusing, which sounds miserable. Plus, only a couple of my lenses are AF-S so that's not much compatible glass. Not to mention, Nikon just doesn't seem to be in the conversation with autofocus, though maybe it's just hype
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God drat it now y'all have me thinking that maybe the z8 is reasonable off the back of the money I'll save sticking with Nikon...
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Bottom Liner posted:Get the ZF with the 40mm pancake and use the extra 1800 towards a killer lens of your choice! Unless you really need the extra megapixels or hate the ZF styling I can't see a reason to go for the 8. My reservation is that I can't find anything about the autofocus speed on the zf with the ztf unlike the z8 e: cuz I do like the styling of the zf
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think in order to focus at infinity, you need to be able to match the flange distance to the lens. Which is why a lot of mirrorless cameras are good for adapting, because they have very small flange distances. Looking at this page: https://briansmith.com/flange-focal-distance-guide/ I don't see any SLR with a flange distance short enough to adapt LTM (except the comedy option of the Pentax Auto 110)
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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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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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$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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What's the image size on 120?
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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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