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Fats posted:Is the weather-sealing on the Pentax cameras worth a poo poo? I was going to get a D7100 off Keh to finally upgrade from my film X-700, but the Pentax K-3 (and the upcoming K-3 ii) looks kinda interesting, since it rains here all the time. Any other reasons to go with one brand over the other? All my current lenses are old and beaten up and I doubt they'd be worth using on a newer camera, so it's not like I'm attached to one particular brand. Also consider an Olympus em5 + the 12;50 kit lens. Crazy good weather sealing for not that much. I spent an hour in pouring rain with my Olympus today, its great.
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Canon or nikon are probably good enough for most things. All I know is that I have no fear about doing stuff like this:  btw, snow drifts make terrible tripods for timelapses or very long exposures, it just melts too fast to be stable  
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May 13, 2015 23:47
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HPL posted:Use the Bessa with Leica glass. Rumour has it that Leica and Voigtlander use exactly the same sensors. gently caress leica glass, get the voigtlander 15mm and go hog wild
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surrender posted:Hi all, I'm looking to a buy a DSLR or mirrorless camera in the $500-600 range. I'm currently living/working in Africa and I would use it regularly at work for taking photos of farmland, and I would also like to use it for travel photography. Size isn't an issue - I currently have a Sony HX9V compact superzoom that takes pretty good photos and I plan on keeping it. A decent zoom would also be nice, in case I end up going on a safari tour again. My current camera has 16x optical zoom, whatever that means, and it helped out a lot for shooting wildlife at a distance during a previous safari. A used OM-D EM5 would be at the upper end of the budget, but it's weather sealed, can take a beating, and the crop factor works in your favor with wild life (although it'll be hard to compete with the raw zoom of the HX9V on that budget).
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Jun 30, 2015 17:42
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:MATLAB I literally just dry heaved reading this. ROOT or python only, please. But seriously photoshop is still pretty hot when it comes to stitching. Or get a camera with sensor shift and do it in body. or do both. Brb.
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One thing to note is that the 14-42 isn't weather sealed, you want to look for the 12-50 kit lens. https://www.keh.com/361006/olympus-om-d-e-m5-black-digital-camera-body-16-1-m-p + https://www.keh.com/361024/olympus-12-50mm-f-3-5-6-3-m-zuiko-ed-ez-msc-black-autofocus-lens-for-micro-four-thirds-system-52 for example.
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Jul 4, 2015 03:57
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Page late, but don't care, gently caress filters, hail satan.
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Thorpe posted:
gently caress yeah
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Aug 22, 2015 20:12
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feigning interest posted:I always scroll past it thinking it's the Pentax thread; a mod should put "Fuji" in the title so people will actually open it If you can't read the entire thread title odds are you're not going to read the OP of that thread, so think of it as a simple way to keep idiots like you from getting banned/probated for doing stupid poo poo.
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Highblood posted:I'd like to get into insect photography (or macro in general, but mainly insects), I have about 500$ to blow and I own a 60D. I've done a bit of macro using a reverse ring, I love it and now I'm willing to step up my game. So assuming I have absolutely jack poo poo besides the body for macro photography and that I don't mind buying used/refurbished, how well can I do with 500$? I'm interested in getting a tripod and lighting also if necessary (if I can even go that far with 500$) or any other accessory I might need that I'm not aware of. I'd spend money on some lighting poo poo (big flash box, ringlight, something where you can illuminate poo poo well) before getting a big macro lens. Tripod helps but isn't as necessary imo if you've got a nice flash (and depending on what you're shooting stuff might be moving too much anyways). When I do it I walk around with the camera in one hand, and a cheap yongnuo 560 hotshoe flash with a 6x8 softlight thing on it to even things out, and either a cable or a wireless trigger to let me trigger it from wherever. That sorta gear and a tamron 90mm (you don't really need autofocus or stuff when you're shooting macro imo... just move the camera. Unless you want to do cheaper focus stacking of course!) can probably be done for under $500 easily, and will be better than a canon 100 with no lighting.
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DJExile posted:HEY KIDS LET'S TALK MONOPODS the cheaper option is to mail that lens to me, tia.
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Erostratus posted:So my grandmother is an artist that takes photos and prints them for reference. She's really good, but will print thousands of them out if she has enough ink and the printer is running, which is the problem as she's been through like 5 printers. I mean, if you're burning through Brothers you might want to consider spending more than $200 on a printer. e. also a laser printer probably isn't the best choice for photos.
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