Gigantic Pentax news!https://news.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/rim_info2/2026/20260909_042557.htmlShortened takeaways from the pentaxforums summary:1) More Pentax DSLRs are coming. Ricoh is committing to "a new series of digital SLR cameras based on an entirely new concept," built on the K-mount legacy.2) Current K-series production is ending.3) It may be a while.
they're going to make a manual focus dslr (which is why the auto focus lenses have been discontinued), and then build an slr off the same body
>>4531787They're not gonna do any of that because that would be retarded and sit on shelves like the P17 and K3 Monochrome. They're gonna mothball the Pentax brand (which is what this announcement is actually saying) and maybe bring it back if there's still a market for DSLRs once silicon gets cheaper.
>>4531803This guy understands japanese corporate speak
>>4531803I think it might have some success. the 17 wasn't popular because it did the opposite with zone focus and no manual controls (what people like about old slrs) on top of being half frameit's the only thing pentax can really do either unless they go mirrorless. the 'experience' of using an prisim focus optical viewfinder is the only thing that really justifies using a dslr, so you may as well go all in on that. pentax then have the advantage of decades of production of k mount lenses already floating around on the used market
>>4531814So do I, but I didn't want to blackpill saying "Pentax is dead"
What's the verdict on this guy? Is he cool? Does he know his shit? Is he retarded? Am I the retard for watching his videos?
>>4531790QRD????
>>4532050NTA: Death by Emu, Spider, or Abo Petrol SnifferDon't go to the WA.
>>4532056I assumed there was some targeted threat
>>4532050he knows.
>>4532097You've been threatening him on his private messages?
The price of classic cameras is getting outrageous. The 7ii is now $6,000. >just film on digitalSome of us consider ourselves camera historians, but now it is literally impossible to get most of the classics due to zoomers buying them up and cranking up the costs.
>>4526799For around $900 you can have a mint Bronica SQ-Ai with a 50mm lens and a metered pentaprism. Bronica is great stuff, jump on it before it gets ruined too.
>>4526799>it is literally impossible to get most of the classics due to zoomers buying them up and cranking up the costsyou should be happy that people are enjoying things you have a passion for
>>4531477But you don't understand. Only he's allowed to enjoy things. Other people who enjoy the same thing are fake poser hipsters that only enjoy things out of spite. When he buys a camera the whole world cries with joy but when someone else buys the same camera model it's only to fuck him over and make the prices higher.4channer mentality is something else. This place needs to be studied.
>>4527642Where is the novelty in taking cat pictures with a medium format camera?
Or you could buy classic cameras that actually take classic looking photos? My main camera is a 70's compact rangefinder with a fixed lens that I got off eBay for 60 USD. OP's picrel is for people who want to say they shoot film but would be better off just shooting digital. I know "character" is an annoying buzzword right now but it's the one most legitimate reason to shoot film. Unless you don't care how the photo actually looks in which case why not just shoot digital? I guess that's a little narrow minded but I just find it odd to buy such expensive film equipment for the purpose of technical prowess when that's exactly why digital took over.
Well... I tried to find liminal and unsetting places in my Russian city.Post your liminal photos here
>>4527055Singapore?
>>4526537This place has Backrooms vibes enough during the day. I'll have to go there at twilight/night some time and get a creepier shot:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdnEs1oiutMWhen you're down in the tree line at the right angle it's exactly like some shit you'd run into walking a Backrooms level. I have driven past it a couple of times the last time I was in that part of the country. It's weird like you just turn off a normal road and this fucking weird old out-of-proportion building is just sitting there alone at the end of a field. You can take a pretty wide shot without getting anything modern/normal looking in frame, just a yellow diamond signpost that does nothing to help convince you that you didn't just step into the Twilight Zone.It's some kind of heritage bullshit, but strangely not even maintained or some museum that does tours or anything, it's just infested with pigeons inside crapping all over it apparently:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZjfmqs8jW4Some Backroomsfag needs to 3D model it before someone changes anything, and insert it into a level. It has a nice combination or old, weird, normal-yet-not, lonely, abandoned, and slowly decaying.
>>4526546dragon city mall?
I found this photo online. Does anyone know where this place is? It looks abandoned, but why are the lights still on?
This might be the most niche request, but I find a certain charm and seeing photos in dated equipment,
>>4529443I recovered some old photos on my gameboy color and they were fucking trash and unusable. Nostalgia is a fucking meme.
Ive been using a game boy emulator on my phone to take game boy camera pics
>>45294433 weeks ago, unsure how he did it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E2UMxauH0g&list=PL5QZN3_HZsMUxuKSjWCAaEvQOymXjT_C6&index=42
>>4531749Apparently from a short film done in 1982 called thunder
>>4531763I just watched it, pretty neat, get the feeling it might have been a frame by frame creation, not sure yet but it's interesting to think about.
>>4510339taking photos is not photography. Photography is using a camera to make art
>>4530846BASED.
>>4505195Yeah that's not photography is it
>>4510339I disagree, I think most people don't like photography at all or actually know anything about it, I would argue that it's even easier to stand out nowadays if you're a good photographer simply because 99.999% of the people who take photos are terrible at it (desu they're not trying to be "good", they're just taking pictures for themselves)
nice guy but damn his photos suck
>>4530657I know. Anything to avoid actually doing real photography.
>>4530657Where did I say that? Because the post I replied to was about getting attention on your work, not whether your work was good.
>>4526441>>4526450I hate cANON as much as the next guy but you have to admit he's not wrong here
>>4530595I dress so people stay away from me while I shoot. The landscape is for me not them
>>4530606>>4530657>>4531725No, no. It's not just about fashion but also "the way that you carry yourself". The way you act and speak, your manners etc. This dude presents the image of a sleazy ny lone hipster on the street vibe. He is tapping into the audience. His work is shit but let's take the example of good photographer from ny who had both, work and personality. Pic related is Weegee and motherfucker literally looks like photographer straight out of noir novels and films. Suits, cigars, big camera, being fat sleazy slob etc. The whole mystique of a strange photographer smoking cigars and listening whole day to a police radio just shoot a photo of a crime scene before the arrival of police. You can watch the films that he made for lolz on YouTube, see his personality shines through it. This dude is tryna be a sterile, thrift store, vegan food, politically correct version of Weegee for trust fund zoomers in ny. Not the work but at least in image, it's either Weegee or Garry Winagrand or copying his millennial peer, that condom beanie wearing snapshitter from brooklyn David Arnold or whatever his name is.
I'm gonna dump the pictures I took on my first trip to China and share my impressions along the way. Save for the snaps, I mostly shot analog with my F90x, and with my gf's mju.I'm very much open to criticism.
>>4523726why? the original is totally fine, this looks terrible.love the set anon; yes, they are mostly "empty", but they are nice and cozy, I really like how the reds pop on most of them... made me want to visit too.how many days? did you get a rental or just used the public transport?
>>4522983Chinese people are very outgoing, so it shouldn't have been problem to have made this journey more a documentary of life in China. All sorts of people took photos of us so. >>4523933Thank you. I must become bolder about including some more life into the scenes. We went for 25 days and traveled between the cities by train. Some family drove us to the wall at Huangyaguan.
>>4521763Great shots, should post some in the film general
China is honestly one of my most favorite places ever visited. people are friendly, cities are clean, food is fantasticthis thread makes me want to returntop tier thread, op, thanks a lot.
>>4521772man really pulled the big camera out in chef fei like they don't tell you they have 500 restaurants all over china
Soft EditionThe aim of this thread is to discuss compact digital cameras (digishits) and share photos from them.If your digishit has a "soft" picture mode, take some photos with it and share them in this thread. Feel free to share your digishit photos taken in any other picture mode, too.Previous Thread: >>4477534
AA batteries gang we won.
i got an olympus camedia x-1 when i was in japan last year because i saw it in a box of junkk cameras and it was 1000 yen, just got a battery and memory card as i was thinking i could throw it on ebay since i have so much junk but it actually takes okay photos so now i dont wanna sell it
it does have trouble focusing on my eucliwood figure though. im really surprised how good it looks
sucks it uses some meme memory card format though. it uses an sd picture card and theyre quite expensive i paid like 20 quid for 128mb
damn it can take great pictures of my crt too what a neat little pos
"The View From Your Room" EditionPreviously: >>4530268
>>4531963Can you point to which posts are mine?
>>4531856>>4531867>>4531868>>4531871>>4531877Who the fuck cares? How can you be so fucking lazy that you can't take a memory card out of a camera without bitching and whining like a pathetic little autistic 3 year old? My camera has a working USB port and I still pull the card because I like using a card reader and it's faster anyways. Grow up.Actually you know what, I hope they make literally EVERY camera ever read-only MTP over USB as an industry standard purely to make you seethe. Even better, I hope they decide that actually, USB in general is just more potential attack surface for no reason when card readers exist, and delete the USB port entirely as an industry standard. And I hope they put a combination lock on the card door too so that you can use it even though you don't need it and then forget the combination, like the moron you are.
>>4532010>How can you be so fucking lazy that you can't take a memory card out of a cameraWhy pay for a card reader if my camera can work as a card reader? MTP and PTP are slow and annoying to use for no good reason. Your camera can be interfaced with over USB in so many different ways being able to mount a memory card with real file system access is not that big of a deal. The only retard here is you. Hell bent on defending your dying brand of choice gobbling up that corporate cock like a good boy.
>>4532023>Just take the card out of the camera>NOOOOOOOO HELP ME LINUX TORVALDS I DON'T WANNA USE A CARD READER
>>4531951>only color bit depth and actual sensor quality are inherent to a camerathat's why all full frame cameras have the same colors right.
Never posted on this board before so sorry if something is wrong.Never owned a camera before, only taken pictures with my phoneDecided to splurge on an om-3 kit with a standard lense and a seperate long distance lense. What does /p/ think about my photos? Dont think 4chan will keep the original 4k quality and i would have to compress it so i made an album here https://imgur.com/a/rQb6g3Z
>>4531503copying ansel adams is like copying renaissance era portraits of royalty and greco-roman columns (and the people who call each "the REAL art" are pretty much the exact same retards)it's boring, and AI can do itforms should be learnt, but abstracted and rules should broken while being followed, to produce interesting photography
>>4531495Cinefag out here asking the real questions.
>>4531495Looks like a wallaby that spends Sunday arvo sinking tinnies
>>4531539I don't think we disagree. My point is after you learn to take decently sharp photos worrying about gear and technical perfection is a waste of time. A D40 is sufficient for good/real photography.Also Shore and Eggleston have fantastic compositions, are you blind? Printing large to get around poor photography is NOT what they were about. Their thumbnails read great.
>>4531792shore's don't desu>A D40 is sufficient for good/real photographybut people still use better cameras for a reason, and always have. 35mm film is significantly better than a d40.
Does anyone else here take pairs of images to synthesize depth in mages?This was taken from the Lummi Reservation looking east to Mt. Baker and the Sisters. Base was about 100 meters.
Sorry for the very late reply, but I've been pretty busy lately. In recent months, I had actually spent considerable time researching stereoscopes because I'm very interested in 3D photography and printing my work. I figure it would be a really cool gift for people if you could make a 3D image of something they're familiar with. Like, it's one thing to just see any 3D image -- It's cool, and it makes an image feel really tangible in a way that 2D can't replicate, but when it's personal and familiar, there's a whole new layer of wonder to it. Kind of akin to way you can't really appreciate extremely high-quality speakers unless you hear your own music in it, because your familiarity with the music is what enables you to perceive quality you've never experienced before. That's why it was such an interesting coincidence that this thread would randomly show up just a few weeks after my search! I'm absolutely amazed that stereoscopic viewers are so sparse. This is such a cool type of content, you'd think it would be way more common and accessible.>>4523803>Another format is "side by side" (SBS, or 'universal freeview L-R-L')Oh shit, that's really cool, actually. I wouldn't have thought of that.>>4523812Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. That might be useful when I finally get around to putting some real effort into making these. What I typically do for my own viewing is to just open multiple images and have Windows put them side by side. It's pretty ghetto, but extremely fast and easy for viewing 3D scenes you don't intend to put effort into. Picrel is another couple that I took on my vacation while on the road. Once again, it was in landscape, so the crop is pretty extreme and jarring.
>>4524733Here's that with slight adjustment saved as LRL
This is from a flyby someone posted on another forum. Combined two screen captures.
Left-right-left
>>4531042Red/cyan anaglyph
i enjoy taking pictures. dislike rising early however.11oclock is still morning tho so no biggie!>>4525703>>4526255nice colors!
>>4525459Yes.
>>4525666A Ken Rockwell
Theme: Night LightsLet`s keep it limited to artificial lights for this month.All photos must be taken during the current challenge month. No old or archived shots.Get creative and enjoy the process. Unique perspectives are encouraged!Previous thread:>>4515121>Go highlight your choice of best pics!
>>4528526>>4528639stronger texture but I'm not sure on the composition desu. its a good subject to return to when you can, I feel like it has a lot of potential
>>4530647and of course I forgot my photo...
>>4528526You could try again and underexpose it to not blow out the details in the cracked glass
Hi /p/.This month I was attending two anime cons, as "officially approved" photog and I wanted to upload some of the photos I did for opinions and advices. I made similar threads in previous years and they were always very productive so I would like to hear your opinions about these as well. This was also some sort of "test run" for new camera (Nikon Z5 II, replacing D750), most of these shots were made with Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 G2 lens (via FTZ II adapter), only few with telephoto (Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VRII). Also newest version of Darktable, since old ones would not handle the new camera. There is always room for improvement and I genuinely want to get better so any kind of advice, critique or opinion is welcome.If you like, I can also try uploading RAW files for selected photos, on temporary catbox link or similar.
Posting additional few shoots from artist performance during the idol contest, when jury took a break to debate. Somehow forgot about those and I actually like how they went out.
On the conclusion, I have to say that, while I appreciate all advices and opinions I got, I don't really know how to apply some of them. In particular, I don't quite understand the "tell the story" advice. Similar problem was touched in another thread and from what I understood, the problem lies with pictures being interesting only for people, who actually appear on them. I tried to mitigate this a bit with those idols, trying to take and later select moments that would translate into something recognizable by people, who have no idea what "idols" are and are not recognizing the characters or songs. I think that part with glowing umbrellas fit that. But at the same time, Im not exactly in position with complete control over what I can and what I can not shoot at the moment, having to keep in mind the stage limitations, jury table placing, other photographers (including guy with camera moving around) and audience. I tried to pick up moments that would try to carry some emotional or dynamic load but if those shoots are no covering this, Im out of ideas. Secondary question that still remains open is about what lenses to use. I have a feeling that 24-70 is not exactly right here since I often couldn't do much close ups while 24 was usable only in single group shoot at the end. Technically, it would also help with those shoots that cover floor and upper part of stage, with participant only covering small sections but again, Im not sure if those are interesting.
