How important is it to study photography through the library? What books do you recommend for beginners? What are the best photo books?
>>4475940This kinda happened to me and a couple of friends, it just means you reached a technical level of a pro but also the mind of a drone faggot pro cunt who delivers perfectly good product but nothing that he really likes or cares about, the kind of guy who can answer the hows but not the single why.If you shoot on auto or something you like (aperture or shutter priority) and just go for photos you like but don't know why you will probably find again your inner, real tastes. The trick is to not overthink, just see shit you like and quickly take a pic, if you start wondering how to perfect the settings then you will bust your mind, just check the composition and there's that.
>>4475940You are confused about the D2x, which takes a skillled and intellegent photographer to get consistantly successful pictures from it.
>>4466027fascinating to see that /p/ can't detect a patently obvious b8 image/post
>>4475940>if I make shit up without evidence people will believe mesure, post your good old photos LMAO
>>4476928Par for the course really. Most people here are tourists who don't engage with the majority of 4chan and don't know the culture. They didn't even understand Sneed for a long, long time. It's an insular community that doesn't recognize infamous 4chan material that has been posted for over a decade now. You'd think someone interested in photography would at least use /tv/, /ic/ or /lit/ but they're not. You press them and the only boards they tend to crosspost on are the likes of /a/ or even /b/. Which explains why they care so much what a camera looks like, they're trying to cosplay basically. Unsurprisingly being weebs a lot of them are trannies, the pipeline is real.
Do you submit to magazines or prizes? I know the meme is that you can only hope to leave just one or two worthwhile photos after you die. But what’s wrong with trying to build a career?
If I had the money, I'd participate in the Mobile Photography Awards, alas the entry fees turn it into gambling
What's the best film grainy emulation halation dreamy vintage type x mount lens? Just bought an XH2S and want to shoot kino. Preferably under $600 and I only really shoot like somewhere between 16-24mm or something. Thanks a lot
>>4477506Lenses do cause grain and other effects. You are just objectively wrong.>need a high bitrate to color gradeDo you need high bitrate to color grade. Have you ever traded color grading shitty footage? It's impossible. It looks bad no matter what you do.>I only shoot video so bought a fooljiXH2S is superior to Panasonic/Sony/BMPCC and any of other cameras in the price range.>>4477497Nikon mount is better than Canon mount
>>4477822>XH2S is superior to Panasonic/Sony/BMPCC and any of other cameras in the price range.Mmh, I don't particularly agree, sure, it's way better than any Sony, but Panasonic has way better menus and the BMPCC shoots objectively better footage if you got like $2000 extra to rig it up.No fault towards the X-H2S video though, it would be genuinely one of the best pro bodies you could buy if they actually fixed the autofocus. Shame.
>>4477822>Lenses do cause grain and other effects.quadrupling down on the b8 huh
>>4477878Have you heard of vignetting, soft focus, noise, chromatic aberration?
>>4477883That's not grain. Have you heard of tabular and T?
Where can I learn about optics and optical science? I want to know more about cameras to the point I could know everything about a camera’s settings without looking at metadata. I want to know if I can work out a camera’s settings or lens just by looking at a photograph and analysing it. For instance, can you work out the shutter speed or aperture through deduction if you already know the ISO or focal length or distance to subject or depth of field? My question is about the exposure triangle and knowing whether one element in a camera’s setting can give you clues to the other elements. Surely there have been forensics used on this level, in some sort of criminal case. Or do they usually only look for manufacturing clues for the camera’s build and make?
>>4477601them maybe start here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmFQrYnDzhM
>>4477608*then
>>4477601>For instance, can you work out the shutter speed or aperture through deduction if you already know the ISO or focal length or distance to subject or depth of field? My question is about the exposure triangle and knowing whether one element in a camera’s setting can give you clues to the other elements.Yes. There are tons of exposure calculators. Google EV DOF calculator to mess around with them. Knowing the time and place can help you figure out the general light level (EV) which gives you an idea of typical exposures. Perspective helps find focal length e.g. a landscape with compressed features is more telephoto unless it was a crop. Noise levels helps find ISO unless they used a denoiser. Motion blur helps find shutter speed. Depth of field will tell you aperture assuming you know subject distance and it's not a crop or stitch. Dynamic range can help you find out sensor size and color science can help you identify the manufacturer. Without EXIF, just the resolution gives big clues. Chromatic aberration, vignetting, field curvature, bokeh are useful for figuring out the lens e.g. apochromatic, apodization, the swirly bokeh Helios etc. For optics in general, there are some good tutorials out there. There's a good beginner series by the guy behind the Google Pixel phones on Youtube. 1001 lens nights by Nikon is fun read about the development of their lenses historically and the Zeiss Lenspire site has PDFs from engineers that are great resources for design. If you know a photo was an ultrawide for instance you probably guess it is more recent since those weren't common in the past for example. At some point you'll want to learn about MTF and the articles on Lensrental are good for that. Roger Clark also had a good website on optics. Canon had a lens brochure that was informative. Brandon Dube (sp?) is an optical engineer who comments on Lensrentals and some other photo sites so if you find his profile on Disqus you could probably engage with him.
>>4477608>Eggers>Visual legacyI like his work but we are in a pretty poor shape in terms of cinema if his visual style is considered legacy
>>4477601When I was in college, the head of our photo dept who was only in his late 30s could look at a printed photo and reliably critique your camera settings, lighting scheme, and printer in a single glance. It was pretty amazing until I realized just how many images he'd been looking at for how many years. Did it in the Marines before he was a professor and QC'd hundreds of thousands of images for them as well.Occasionally a student would have some print shop run prints (still on a nice commercial printer, but not a fine art giclee printer) to make a deadline and he'd just take one look at it, tilt his head, see the colors at the borders, and you knew you were fucked, getting a 0 on that one. No one ever got anything past that guy. And he got that skill level in just over a decade. So, it's possibru OP
Got this Osmo for a decent price, is it good for vlogging?
>>4477692You bought it, literally just try it. No one knows your quality requirements or conditions but I would say yes. Gimbal stabilized footage is much better to watch than the clowns who try to use their dSLR type cameras, even ones with S-tier stabilization like Panasonic and Olympus, for vlogging. But if you are shooting in available light in dark conditions it is not going to look good.
You couldn't have gotten a worse camera.
>>4477692Whats the point in asking how good something is after you've already bought it?The person best placed your question is you.
Should industry switch back to film for better skin tones?
I noticed this too the other day while looking at some german vhs tape boxes...
>>4476045>implying VHS is film
>>4476055No, but photos used on cover box of VHS tapes were shot on film.
>>4474453I can imagine that "the industry" would rather switch to HDR or render the same film in multiple color gradings. Like you get a little option if you want the film to look "lifelike", "vibrant" or "retro"
yeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjMZMxNr-0
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>>4477476>/pol/ schizo injects its pet conspiracy theories into every single discussion, forevermany such casesthey are truly NPCsnow say something about jews and trump
>>4477474It does say 'cosmetic condition', but yeah they should sell this as 'spares and repairs'.
Menacer, Nightshark or Insurgent?
>>4477474Would be more honest to list it as "for parts"
Looking for a cheap 23mm lens for my sony cameraThere's two TTartisan ones, a manual and an AF one (f/1.4 and 1.8 respectively). Is the AF version really that much better?
Some photos I took recently in Indiana Canon R5ii - 35mm 1.8 RF
>>4476230>are you using your work/wildlife camera for street? no. you must consoom. remember only fuji leica and m43 are approved no snoy! i am /p/ man *unzips dick* now where is huskykek
>>4476263is that supposed to be funny or sarcastic? you talk like a retarded boomer
>>4476230Crazy that he spent so much on a versatile camera and then used it for a situation you didn't approve of. I reckon these are the oinly 6 photos OP has or ever will take on that camera.
>>4475986>It's fall, the building's have all turned more orange
>>4475897yea this is a big improvement :P
You find yourself trapped in a foreign country for 6 months.Due to some unfortunate disaster - you can only spend this time with either a 15mm lens or a 200mm lens. Which way are you going?Also ITT: Post Extra wide and extra long shots.
i assume 15mm has stupid lens distortion so id do the 200 and just shoot shit from far away28mm or 35mm would be ideal
>>447351015 no question. Even if it's a fisheye, but rectilinear would be my preference.
>>4477136You can get rectilinear 15mm lenses
>>4477221Yeah zeiss makes a really good one, but it's fairly big.
>>4477224Yeah also good, but if im going for a zoom i'd go for the tokina 16-28, its sharper and cheaper, lower distortion, better edges and chromabs
I actually really like the aesthetic of high ISO photos.
>>4473757There will always be angry rambling as long as fujicucks are this >>4474051 stupid
>>4472743Obsessed
>>4474082>>4474060obsessed
Go back eating the fujiworms crawling out of your ass
>>4471649Same. I'm a casual shooter and I pick my cameras based on how nice high iso looks like, entirely in subjective terms. Not a big fan when it's all color noise, but I really like it when noise is moderately uniform, then I lose some colors, then dynamic range, and get a bit of a texture. It doesn't have to make any sense in technical terms, but it pleases me a lot in results.
How the fuck did they know how to make an image as beautiful as this without having a preview or viewfinder? The old masters of photography were imagining their kino...
>>4474905Knowing how to expose properly is the easiest part of photography
>>4474905>How the fuck did they know how to make an image as beautiful as this without having a preview or viewfinder?Take multiple images, changing ISO, aperture, exposure time, position, angle, etc.You will have so many duplicates of the image with slight variations, but there will at least be one that looks good.
>>4474925You okay?
>>4475029What's the hardest? Composition?
>>4474923Spot on. I did this plus the sun f/11 rule back on the Nikon D40 days, when old AI lenses got no metering on camera so you're forced to do the math in your head. Eventually I got to a point where I was nailing exposure 50% of the time, or getting in the ballpark for most of the other half. I learned more about photography in those days than in all the rest combined, limitations are always fun
Share Your Still Life Photo Projects... Also share your feedbacks......
>>4476481I would also recommend a c-stand with extension for your light. I have 3 and some super clamp clones that are extremely useful for setting up good light for my still lifes. The neewer ones are not too expensive and are quite strong.If you have a set of them you can also use them for holding up backdrops, strobes, etc. They're really nice to have if you've got the space.
>>4476481For example this shot >>4475663 I used one to hold my light pointed at a bounce card held up by another, and then the third one held a piece of cloth directly to the side of my subject. On the opposite side I used a tripod that held another bounce card to lighten up the shadows.
>>4476490>>4476484I reckon I'll get 1/4 from that review, thanks anon>>4476499Is neewer stuff actually reasonable? I think I was looking at polarising filters from them some time back. Not that I suppose it matters much for holding up bounce cards. Might have to look at something a bit smaller though (no space).
>>4476753Their c stands do not feel cheap by any means, and with some sandbags have held up quite heavy strobes + light modifiers with no fuss.No experience with any of their other stuff.
Three still lifes I posted in fgt>>4477264>>4477192>>4476856
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>>4476457For this YHWH brings a curse upon theeYou will progressively lose interest in women until they need to be wearing a fursuit for you to get hard and believe me you’re not the first goyim Ive done this toSchemitah bar mitzvah, kabbala falafel, soon your life will become more awful! *waves magic wand aka the same pen used to keep track of the interest the in laws owe me*
>>4476472Fucking hell, man! How could you be so cruel?Also: is that an Olympus Pen?And how much interest do they exactly owe you? Hoping your pen works digitaly.
>>4476457Nope. I dont have a wife but I wouldn't post her if I did. I wouldn't post anyone i even pretended to care about.
>>4476457A 4channer would not take offence in this.
Own and have used them all - Sony, Canon, Leica, Fuji. Nothing compares to this little guy. Has reignited my passion to shoot and is now always in my back pocket. Any other shooters feel the same?
>>4476807>butut it was a studio!cope more
>>4476538Between the RIcoh GR IV and the x100vi I'm picking the fuji. Not many people are talking about it but the Ricoh GR iv has build in diffusion filter in it's lens. Smears high lights to all hell and doesn't have a modicum of weather sealing. The fuji at least has a built in flash and better build quality too. Getting a cheap GR iii is probably the best option but it's kind of a wash unless cost matters to you.
There's a megathread on the other site about GRIV's known issues. Damn.
I'm using the GR III, it's been the best photography-related purchase I've made.Recently I'm shooting in Av/Tv with manual ISO (400 daytime, 800 night time) and Snap Focus enabled. This is the best way to operate a camera that I've tried, after a full manual lens of course.I like snapshot photography (japanese genre) and I have a few documentary projects going on thanks to this little beast always being in my sling wherever I go.Outside of always being with me, which is all that a camera should be already, I find IBIS to be spectacular. If I'm shooting still images (urban landscapes mostly) I tend to go 0.3" and it takes just a couple of shots to get a clean shot. Sometimes I go 0.6" and give it ~10 shots.
>>4481106Also at the time of buying it I decided to go with the HDF version, and quite frankly I never use the HDF filter, because the effect is too strong. The only occasion where I would consider it is if it's a directly lit object without the light source in the frame, so as to produce a soft glow. And it's also ok on overcast days as in this pic.Other times I tend to use the "Soften" module on darktable to do a much better job (mostly because it's controlled, even if I have to use masks on some lamps sometimes).
Holy hell those fuckers get greedy. This GX8 has its forward dial missing yet MPB says "it's ok, just buy it goy".Private used market (classifieds, ebay) doesnt look much better. they want hundreds of Euros for essentially trash. all the Lumix GX9 around here are like 800 euros. WTF dudes. many times classifieds are even more expensive than MPB (where you get 12months of warranty lol)and dont get me started on fuji prices lol. i'm not even looking anymore at those anymore.fucking camera market I swear. you write the seller and ask them for a proper price and they block you because "only sincere offers" then you look and their shitty 10yo cam is still listed as unsold months later because who's going to spend 1k on a shitty 10yo m43 cam with a kit lens lol?i hate boomers its unreal
>>4476239MPB is a centralized store, not a marketplace anon...
Yesterday I saw a Meyer Görlitz 100mm f/2.8 Trioplan in an online auction bunched with old binoculars and a Yashicaflex, the auction house probably didn't realize the worth since it wasn't indexed, or perhaps it was broken or moldy. Bidded 50 €, couldn't bother to stay until the end, and some fucker bought it with 51 euros. Man, I don't even really like the bokeh rendering but I sure feel frustrated that some old Scrooge bought it without realizing what it was...
>>4476266That is the way though. Snipe in the very last minute in the hopes that the other guy forgot about the auction. I love buying from auction houses that sell a variety of stuff because they overlook things all the time.. just listing stuff as a particular camera "with lenses" so only eagle-eyed people like me are able to decipher what I am looking at with my only competition being cowards who are afraid to take a risk.T.vintage lens enjoyer and acquirer
>>4469311It's not 'boomers' if that were the case the used DSLR market would be overpriced as well.
People want old equipment for many reasons. Adapting old lenses to mirrorless, older compact cameras and micro four thirds because of the size and not being in production anymore and sometimes pure hype because of social media.>wooow look at the heckin' cool photos this guy took with "product".It is imagery magick of sorts where people think their photos will look cool if they get "product".Those who just want a proper (large) camera and can skip the latest and greatest are in a buyers market mostly.
