I've only ever shot on film, looking to buy a dslr. What's all this other stuff, the CDs and other cables. Is it important I buy one that includes them? Or am I fine with the camera body, CF card and battery alone?
>>4522528NoYou need a camera body, a medium telephoto lens, a memory card, a battery, a charger you can get a card reader that plugs into your computer for 15$ at any Best Buy in the country
>>4522528That one has a dummy battery for plugging it to AC, useful if you plan to shoot video to keep it on. The thing on the right seems to be a remote trigger, some have interval shooting features. They're nice-to-haves but unnecessary.That camera in the pic seems to be a barely used one.The CD stuff, just forget about it. Outdated software you can download from Canon's site if you want with your serial number.
>>4522528All you need is the camera body, a lens, a battery, a charger for that battery, and a memory card which is predominatly an SD card.Batteries can still be bought quite easily for the most part, and chargers are everywhere even if they're chinesium that will burn down your house. SD cards aren't as cheap as they used to be but just get a standard 16/32GB one off Amazon for $20. Some large cameras take CF cards instead, and some older shit uses proprietary nonsense.The single point of variance is the lens. Some sales will include one, most won't. If you are unsure what you want to do, you can normally save a small amount of money by getting a combo off fleabay, then using the provided lens to better understand its shortcomings / your expectations. For complete beginners, a standard zoom is likely what you want. You may or may not rather a standard prime.
>>4532652nobody really makes art just to keep it to themselves
>>4532685what about cereal killers
>>4532032Telling your dog to sit then taking a photo is legitimately more photography than 80% of the photographs posted on pee
>>4532652>le just collect funkocameras for yourself and don't use them as the communication tools they are!manchildren are so fucking gay i stg
>>4532712>"communication"feminine>"manchildren"100% feminine
So this one is about horizon and field?
>>4524387kot
>>4521147O fcourse
>>4521147>feet cut off0/10, absolute shit photo. Was it taken with a toy camera or something?
>>4532524What kind of elitist shit is this. I would just assume it's a picture from the 70s.
>>4529969>>4529968>>4529966Get closer to whatever you're trying to capture. Fill the frame. Those photos have no clear subject and no composition.
I was there tooOne hek of a party
would b-roll footage, the world and society as a whole look less lame and gay if we went back to shooting with analog and digicams without any post processing that smartphones do?
>>4532363yesis there anything else you wanted to do in your thread
>>4532363I think so. I bought some really shitty disposable film camera during COVID and even modern living just looked better when looking at the photos.
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>>4532242It could depend on the codec used: maybe you need the pro version to use some types of log or raw or uncompressed codecs while others (that are less intense) work fine in the free version of resolve. Or, maybe the limit is in delivery.
>>4531499>>4531771>>4532242To clarify, it's not all 10 but editing that can't be done in the free version. There used to be whole guides on how to reencode your 10bit footage if you wanted to edit it in the free version.You have to use a really storage-heavy codec though (forget which).Also, I know from experience that there are 4.2.2 codecs (like mjpg) that work in the free version.I believe the ones that don't work are specifically h264,h265 and prores. I think dnxhr works but someone would have to check because I forget which ones are 10bit.Also, the issue with the free version isn't 8bit timelines. The issue is that most 10bit codecs won't actually load in the first place. Resolve will just interpret them as audio-only files.Theoretically this could have all changed within the last few updates (we all thought it would never support prores raw afterall).>>4532238>don't you need to shoot raw to change WB in post?Ideally. But not necessarily.You can edit wb on an 8bit image. It will probably just look weird/wrong depending on how much you change it. It's really straightforward to do.If you do it to raw footage, it should look as good as if you changed it before recording. The 'should' is because not all raw codecs are equal and a lot of raw codecs aren't actually raw (ironically, braw is one of the better ones despite decidedly specifically not being real raw).
>>4532365BRAW can’t be real raw because the 12k and 17k sensors aren’t normal bayer sensors so real raw wouldn’t work for them.
>>4532383That's not the reason. Real raw is just recording the sensor data before processing.The sensor design they use for those cameras differs because they use rgbw instead of rgbg. They could, if they wanted, record 'real' raw from those cameras. They would just have to release a specific way to debayer the image from the actual raw (this is currently done internally, sort of). There's not really any point in doing that though, especially since they specifically don't want their cameras to be edited in anything other than resolve.(the braw codec and what they do now already does the same process that would be needed, just in a more complex way that undermines whether or not it really counts as raw)It's hard to go into more detail than that because they obviously aren't super open with exactly what their codec does. And I have my suspicions about how accurate the info they're provided actually is.
>>4532365>I believe the ones that don't work are specifically h264,h265 and prorespisses me off since those are literally the most common, basically everything always encodes as hevc>The issue is that most 10bit codecs won't actually load in the first place. Resolve will just interpret them as audio-only files.that's been my issue. having to convert to some mega sized video is ridiculous since resolve can handle 10bit but just choose not to support hevc 10bit just to fuck you over
Well... I tried to find liminal and unsetting places in my Russian city.Post your liminal photos here
>>4532435>>4532436>>4532437>>4532437>>4532436>>4532437>>4532438>>4532440Never posted here before but are these good pics?
>>4532427One last attempt at an edit. Also I apologize for pixel count. I've no idea what i'm doing
>>4532436This is a good concept; it could be improved on with a more clear subject to give it some narrative, but the composition otherwise is solid.
>>4532460Thank you anon
Photo taken on top of Lovcen mountain in Montenegro
St Andrew Cathedral in AMALFI window
>>4516117That's tuff
>>4516019>>4516031The problem of photography. Leveling images make them more perfect but takes away the impression that it was captured just in the moment/just as seen but carefully planned and photographed. It will be discussed here endlessly due to the emotional standing people personally have, regardless of whether the photo it is level or not. Either it will be imperfect or a bit boring. No?
Could’ve been taken closer.
>>4516013>>4516117too far
Oops! EditionPlease post film photos, talk about film photography, film gear like cameras, film stocks, news, and tips/tricks in this thread.Also talk about darkroom practices, enlargers, photo paper, techniques like dodging/burning, tools, and equipment related to enlarging, developing, and printing.Thread Question: Did you pick up film as a hobby after shooting digital? Or did you just never stop shooting film? And do you do both simultaneously now (phone snapshits don't count)?Previous thread: >>4520917
>>4533225the meter was set to 400, but the camera overexposes about a stop... or underexposes a stop? yikesi should start shooting a fucking automatic
my gay ass film lab taking 1 whole week to sacn and develop xp2i thought the whole point was for it to be developed and scanned same day
>>4533310Man, reminds me how common the one-hour photo service was back in the day. How good we had it...
>>4533312And cheap as shit film, thanks to economy of scaleI miss it, bros
Theme: CloudsAll photos must be taken during the current challenge month. No old or archived shots.Get creative and enjoy the process. Unique perspectives are encouraged!
I saw this while droving home from the grocery store yesterday. I'm still not satisfied with the photos I got because none of them can quite express how the clouds looked in real life - they had such volume and dimension to them, it was like seeing a bubbling angry tide coming in upside down and breaking upon the hills.
>>4520619Pretty cool it worked at all, let alone enough that we can tell sky, clouds, and a horizon of sorts.
Clouds around the eclipse
Found this one on Wikimedia Commons. It’s one of the featured pics on there. It was taken last year, March 29, during a partial solar eclipse. The clouds made it especially attractive to me.
Is photography art? Be honest.
>>4532300>ironicFuck off empress paplatrine, go get tested or something
>>4532306>not plaplatrinezoomer iq is at all time lows
>>4532307Pap as in pap smear, you walking biohazard
>>4532309Plap plap plap plap get AIDS get AIDS
>>4532220Cope
Anyone here is a street photographer? How do you deal with all the cringe? Because everyone gets pissy; it's cringy as hell getting in their business. I thought people would be way cooler with what we're doing.
>>453231899% of street photographs are taken without consent
>>4532340>>4532318Outward facing security cameras are recording people 24/7 without their consent.
>>4532340Oh no, think of peoples privacy when they're outside in the public!
>>4532340Consent can be given in the moment or post factum.
>>4532342>>4532369No wonder that with this attitude, people don't like to have you around.
I thought freeware was a meme until I tried RawTherapee and Darktable, and quickly realized the amount of neetbucks I would've saved had I not used Lightroom sooner. I don't even take pictures regularly. Why do photographers shill a corporation with comical levels of greed?
>>4532274Tom tier post, based
>>4532233>edits photos on resolve>cinefagI feel relieved I'll never be this retarded
>>4532285>HOW DARE YOUFuck off pleb shill, Resolve is better than whatever pleb approved software you use
>>4522804skill issue
>>4527115every IT project and opensource especially has this kind of sperg that thinks that it's only his vision is valid one and he has the best ideas, the rest of people are morons and don't understand him. So he changes posiotions of few buttons, "optimizes" by removing shit he doesn't understand and proclaims it's better and faster now. Then goes on jewtube and publishes his two hours long rants.People like this should be kept in forced labour camps to be useful.
Is Neil Postman correct about the best photography being in television ads? Excerpt from "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
>>4531897Product photography and advertising have often produced high-quality images, that's for sure. But what do the images say or mean? That's a more difficult question. >>4532048ads have always sold a lifestyle gramps, stop listening to so many podcasts and read a book.
>>4532048Yep, the whole argument is> Haha isn't it funny how the best art is at the service of corporate America. That's kinda Based, amirite fellow Americans?While Americana isn't the same any more.
>>4532061They used to reinforce a lifestyle, now they actively astroturf one. To be fair jews always did but it wasn't as prevalent as today and it targeted sectors ( (((Bernays))) convincing feminists to pick up smoking)
>>4532062To be fair the book is 41 years old so it's only natural that cherrypicked passages aged like Angourie Rice
>>4532066Hey it's better to age like Angourie Rice than like Emma Watson
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"
