I've been figuring out which camera body and lens to get. I want something that takes really nice pictures. Over the years I asked /p/ a few times, but each time they just ranted about consumerism and skills and how only the elect are worthy of nice thingsCan someone just give me some real world recommendations? Based on cameras and lenses you have or have used.
>>4505859Recommend me a camera and lense. Please nothing used, I am not rolling that way
>>4505280Please comment on this reply I posted.
>>4505842>will it make better pics than the latest iphones?No. Unless youre shooting f/1.0 on a FF mirrorless brick, modern day smartphones are 99% as good and will even take better pics instantly as they dont require manual editing.
>>4505842no, phones are far far better than even phase1, mind you
>>4505251OP, R6 MII is an absolutely excellent camera. I don't even want to upgrade to MIII despite better video options (i might get C50 just as dedicated video camera).Autofocus is apparently second best to sony, but I still find it loses eyes all the time and has trouble getting them back, especially when shooting kids who are always moving around.
Reply if you're a real mf'er
>>4505982A sekonic studio deluxe 3 is like 85 bucks on fleabay, and will last you a lifetime. Getting a combo spot + incident will be a lot more expensive, but maybe not entirely necessary. Spot meters are really great to have, but not entirely necessary.>>4505984Filtered by a lil gadget that takes like 3 seconds to use. 120 film ends up being around 1 dollar a shot or more. Probably a good idea to make sure they count. Save your snapshitting for 35mm.
>>4505982Just get metered prism
>>4506022Sekonic l-508 for 125 on ebay right now, and that's a combo meter. I see some spot meter only models for under 100 beans.
>>4506011>>4505991I got a 2nd hand Sekonic Flashmate L-308S for 60 euros, shold be fine I think. Thanks for the advice.>>4506011Maybe later, after ive used this camera for a bit.
>>4506026There's still spot meters under 100.
With the AI boom, it doesn't matter if your camera is good or bad, you can just ask the AI to transform your flat iphone photo into something much better.With a Light Field Array camera, you can take photos that AI can't replicate.People will need new screens too, screens with 3d depth.
Bring back Lytro!It allowed adjusting focus after taking a picture.
>>4497754Since we've already had them, aren't they cameras of the past?
>>4497756The man is watching the photos
>>4497756That's the Observer who guarantees the photons behave as particles rather than waves.
>>4497754>Light Field Arrayyes, i also remember the lytro meme threads
How do you change your camera settings when you want to photograph a black person?
>>4502185I'd bump up the right ones shadows in post if you're picking up what I'm putting down
>>4502169Holy shit, that got to be the niggest of them all.Also: Why would I want to take a foto of a nigger.
>>4502169CCTV uses auto settings.
>>4503942I
It's like taking a picture of a sewage, go to your local sewege and spend an evening capturing whatever you find
Since I'm unlikely to ever get any kind of Xpan camera, I thought it might be interesting to post some wide crops from two cheap digicams and a phone (Fuijfilm J20, JX500 and Nokia Lumia 520) taken over the last few years. The JX500 has a scratched lens but nice colours and I think it does OK.Some of these I've posted before, some I haven't.
>>4495236Nice bread, OP. I've been fascinated with the format for while as well because my new phone's camera app has a built in xpan mode. Ever since, I've also been using my "real" camera for taking multi-shot panos quite a bit in the past year or two>>4495271>X-Pan is a format only fit for very specific use casesI personally really like the format for high alpine photos. It lets you capture a sweeping landscape without making the mountains look small. It's also nice for dramatic subject isolation if you have a plain scene
>>4501043That is a very good use-case indeed, look really good!Putting three together often works really well when the subjects match this well
I enjoy these threads when they appear.Though I usually crop to 12:5.
>>4495236As I've not taken any 'XPan' photos recently, I thought I would post a 16:9 image I took this morning by poking my Fujifilm Finepix J20 through a building site's fence.
I am going to post random images I made which I have also edited and I would love my /p/iss bros to give me feedback on my composition, but mostly editing style... or direct me towards an editing style that would fit me.>feedback on composition>feedback on editing>direct my towards my own styleStarting with opening image...
>>4502365The electric windmill would likely look better with some more tonality. As is now it feels a bit flat, with just black windmills/black foreground, light sky and then just a tiiiiny bit of additional tonality beneath the windmills Feels like you should have been closer to the ones nearest to you, to create more depth in the shot and get slightly less sky. When it comes to B&W I personally prefer grey tones, the darkest being dark grey rather than crushed black. Like Bryan Schutmaat. Your foreground isnt that far off from dark grey, just a tiny tiny bit too dark imo. But just some tiny changes to your composition/tonality and I would 100 % believe it to be one of his images if I saw it.
>>4502365A fleet of old Siemens wind turbines. Cool. Where at?
Anon, I like your style, mine is the same. I like desolation and lonely scenes that are semi abstract. I really like how the black and white enhance that theme. Good shit anon.
>>4502365I cannot answer because 4chan consider my answer spam but thanks for the photo thread.
>>4505935There’s a limit on how many posts you can reply to at once. Anything over the limit is spam.
New Davinki version includes what looks like a very solid looking photo editor, what do y'all think about that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuKgfytA0lg>https://petapixel.com/2026/04/13/davinci-resolve-21-is-now-a-lightroom-alternative-raw-editing-tethering-masking-and-more/
>>4504924How long have you been on 4chan?
>>4505783On site since 2006ish, on /p/ since 2009ish
>>4505783He’s sony’s biggest fan. Its the guy who ignores that sony colors are weird (pukey greens, blotchy red skin tones, dull everything else) even after editing because he knows that without a reference (ie: seeing it irl) people cant tell if his heavily edited photo is actually of something that was that ugly and says “yeah but you cant tell if i used a sony!”He’s been here forever because sony always needs defending
>>4505792My editing comment has more to do with the state of editing threads in general on the board, I think anyone, regardless of brand should spend some time editing to really make their photos as good as they can be, and it's sad to me that that part of the process has become largely ignoredWe used to have editing threads quite often, and they would be quite popular, and we even had more editing focused trips tooMost shooters now don't edit as much as we used to in the past, same is true for making use of more technical approaches at captureGranted a part of that shift was having to find solutions when working with not great gear, where as all the gear nowadays is generally awesomeI just don't see the virtue in not knowing how to edit
Tried it yesterday , didn't work with my raw ( LUMIX S5II )But i have to say, i tried to work with a jpeg of mine, and i was very lost, i used davinci before but i forgot how complex that software was, if you want to go into the real color game.Overall im pretty sure that in two-three year it will be the best for color ,it would be nice if they can give us a workflow as fluid as other software, the node system isn't that different of using masking in LR , but it's confusing especially with all the tools for colors , you just feel lost
Ones you've actually used.Give reasons.1. Panasonic - pleasing JPEG, best QOL - lots of features that work well.2. Fujifilm - decent but I didn't like the JPEG detail rendering.3. Olympus / OM system - decent, but I don't didn't like the JPEG colors (tans pushed to red).4. Sony - lots of features on paper but they're half-baked and riddled with needless incompatibilities.
>>4500480You do know you have to be a specialized technician to use those cameras right? It isn't like a Leica DSLR camera where you can just flip through the settings and get a beautiful image.
>>4497140its subjective, but here is my ranking:1. what ever i have handy for the right shot at the right time, be it a cellphone or a potatoe. That said for me: if i want to do landscapes or fruit and shit, i'll go with canon 5dm2, raw setting plus mid level jpg for ease of use on the computer.If i want to do urban shoots, building and shadows or even sporting events, there is nothing like my fuji x100. it looks like a leica and does not cause a creep/perv alert if doing public photography of crowds etc, or even pretty women or men in biz attire. My favorite outing with photog groups is hitting the main train stations in nyc or other urban places.during floyd riots, i was able to use fuji x100 to take shots of mosly peacefull looting and burning of cities. honestly 2020 was comfy, free gov money, and happenings every night. tldr: 1. what ever i have handy. 2 canon with nice glass, fuji x100.
>>4497140• Pentax: — Cameras Used: — • K10D— • K-S2— • K-5 IIs— • Optio S4i— Opinion:>They’re reliable yet somewhat prone to manufacturing issues, like faulty solenoids and “sudden death motors” in AF lenses. They have simple button layouts and menus. They have sturdy build quality, as well as IBIS, even since 2006’s K10D. They’re compatible with 50 years of K-mount lenses. Autofocus leaves a lot to be desired, especially in the tracking department. A little heavy and bulky compared to mirrorless cameras, especially compared to full-frame MILCs. Fairly good JPEG creative styles with options for customisation, especially in the newer bodies. — • Would I Buy One Again?>No, if I buy another camera body, it’ll be a MILC. There are too many practical advantages compared with a DSLR.• Sony— Cameras Used:— • a7IIComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4499423I’m still waiting for your Q thread, anon.
>>4497140As a literal snapshitter my ranking would be:1. Snoy - by mere luck i bought a NEX-3 camera for about 50 USD on ebay (seller though the screen was bad but it only suffered from delamination) and got me into the system. I went from NEX-3 to a6000, then to a7 (OG) and now i'm using a ZV-E10. I really hated how slow the a7 was and felt on my hands a lot worse than the a6000. I thought on going back to the a6000 but i found a cheap E10 and i'm pretty happy with it. I found it easy to use and has pretty good image quality. Videos are also excellent. If i even switch again i'm going full retardo over an a7iv but i cant spend that amount of money on cameras at this moment.2. Canon - the first DSLR camera i used was a Canon T3i/EOS 600D. Not exactly mine (it was a work tool) but it was the camera actually motivated me to buy a digital camera, it blew of the water my GE camera and got me into the RAW world. I used it mainly as a documenting tool (taking pictures for a project) so i never used it for personal stuff but it made a good enough impression on me to get into the tryhard camera world.3. General Electric - my first non-meme camera was a General Electric X5, a pretty neat bridge camera. My brother uses it from time to time for family photos.4. Agfa - i own a ePhoto 1280 that i use from time to time, it has the late 90' low res vibe that Charmera can't replicate.I really don't have anything terribly bad to say about any camera i owned. I'm pretty sure my opinions wuold be the same if i have found a Nikon or Canon or Fuji chance.Also, >>4497166>more of a computer than a photo tool.Maybe that's why i like the sony ecosystem. Pic related
I'm going to post some stuff I've taken and you guys can tell me how much I suck.
I think that's about all I wanted to post. Thanks for looking at my shit
I don't want to buy a new flagship every two years. I just want to have a nice pocket camera and keep my midrange for a while. My old olympus pocket camera lasted for almost a decade. Preferably nothing more expensive than $700
>>4498443You’re right. The rx100s shouldnt be more than $50. What the camera market puts up with is unjustifiable when applied to mass produced plastic electronics. Those shitters aren’t even better than a phone, just more philosophically palatable to anti-AI slacktivists. The pocket camera market offers you two sane choices:Ricoh GRwhatever working PNS you can find for <$50
>>4505499>they are no longer being produced at all except for some chinese cameras that are equivalent to budget cameras from 2006you lost me there. rx100 is still in production.
>>4505559Well, yes, but how old is it and at what price?
>>4505640The latest one was released 2019. or have a ricoh gr iv from 2025, they're the same price.personally i don't care about cameras being that small. at that point it's a fashion thing like a phone.
>>4491769Of course, a GR-series camera would be excellent for OP, but it won’t cost him $700 or less. Maybe a GR1? If that’s the 16MP one, I just found a listing for one… $899… let alone the ones you’ve mentioned.
Which is your favorite photobook/s of all time that you can recommend to others? Which photobook/s are your least favorite ones? > FavoritesNew York in color by Ernst Haas. GOAT. Good quality and amazing photography.> Least favoriteMarvin E Newman Photographs 1949 - 1983. Shit binding, a handful of great shots (2-3?), some decent and a lot of shit. Some seems to have really fucked up colors (degraded color negative film?). I dont think whats shown in the book is good enough to be published in this format, a big Coffee table book with many pages. Should have taken the decent shots and put them in a small cheap pocket book. This is a cash grab. Honorable mention to; Ara Gülers Eye of Istanbul, saw a few images from it and was stoked before ordering but those 4-5 are the only really strong images. Lots of boring photos.
Favorites include Yokosuka Story & Yokosuka Again by Miyako, From Uncertain to Blue by Keith Carter, Sentimental Journey by Nobuyoshi Araki, The Pencil of the Sun by Shomei Tomatsu, and Das deutsche Volksgesicht by Lendvai-Dircksen.
>>4505102>From Uncertain to Blue by Keith CarterI discovered Carter few months back and it was a surprise. Very romantic and kino aesthetics. What are your thoughts on his work?
I hate any photobook that's "le epic alternative underground of new york"Fuck off with that shit
>>4505359The work of his that I like is very idyllic and a bit vernacular, much of it reminding me of a Texas that I can hardly remember; From Uncertain to Blue is touchingly nativist. Ezekiel's Horse is also fantastic, horses are quite difficult subjects and his composition there is great.
>>4505410Lots of younger american photographers are photographing the shit out of Texas these days. Why is that? Are they nostalgic about 19th century wild west? Lots of cowboys hats and horses. >a bit vernacularHow does he pull this off without falling into cliches?
Redpill me on screen vs viewfinder debate. Personally I find screen to be way more comfortable. Viewfinder is a total pain in the ass.
>>4498781I have no idea why this isn't more common. There are so many situations where it is highly beneficial.
>>4501583not present
>>4499264lmao
>>4497900One of the dumbest fucking things I've ever read here, and I've been on /p/ since fucking 2005
>>4497900what if it's bright outside
New Ken Rockwell just dropped! Time to dial those saturation sliders to 11, babyhttps://www.kenrockwell.com/trips/2026-02-route-66/index.htm
>>4504322Come to think of it, I haven't seen Eggy post in a pretty long time now.
>>4504336It's not a hyperfixation. It's called a creative constraint and it has been a great idea to focus on one incredibly based subject for so long. Try it. >>4504337I've been too busy with my doggie daycare and growing senpai... I mean growing farm! Farrowing season was like a month ago.
>>4504341Based, I liked seeing your threads around and always hoped I'd be in a pic, but I probably don't dress well enough kek.
>>4504314Literally >SAGE in that picture. He also references the anal probe schizo posting from time to time
>>4499456man this is some horrible processing
>>4501272I haven't used it yet, but this was the last good picture I took with it. Thanks for the encouragement, anon.
Screwdriver and Patience
>>4501020they just feel nice to use, but I started on nikon
I did so many stupid thing to my Nikon - for example once I tried to clean the sensor with a vacuum cleaner, suprisingly my camera still works like nothing happened
>>4500885>buy dslr in 2014>face camera down when changing lenses>not a single spec of dust on my sensor with thousands of exposures
So when are we doing this again?
>>4504954Langis
>>4504928Is that someone who died?
>>4504928very subtle
>>4504927Looks like fun time.
>>4505464Nah. 5hoe simply couldn't be there.>>4504954I N N I TNNIT
