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4 spined jewel spider

flash a bit too bright in reflections but happy to see this uncommon sider

>>4306513
Where do you find such a goofy spider? I don't think I've ever seen one like this in person.

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>>4306539
australia of course, this one was just down by the creek

i've also seen a christmas jewel spider
(shot with extension tubes before i got my macro lens)

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>>4305309
Then just buy it, I don't regret the purchase at all
As long as companies offer real purchases instead of crappy licenses I'm willing to give them my money

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>>4306539
I saw similar stuff in central america

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Annoyingly breezy last night, but I don't mind this one too much.

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>>4280143
whys this picture moving toward me ?

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>>4303869
seems like this comet likes to hide behind trees

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should i buy the A7S2 ? is it easy to solve the star eater problem ?

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>>4306728
Depends on your use case
The star eater problem is present in the A7SII under certain circumstances / firmware.
Personally I would suggest the A7III, that's what I used for astro back when I owned it, if you're lucky you can find them for $1k flat. I sold mine to a dude for that price since his camera broke, you can find good deals still.

Example image I took with the A7III.

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>>4306656
Where did you go, anon?

>>4306716
Spain, fgt.

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>>4306718
careful now Chuck Noland

>>4306716
I went to Tenerife, didn't see many beaches but hiked up the highest peak in Spain.

>>4296301
Better off with a zeiss 85 1.2

>>4300934
>he bought a $3,000 lens to take snapshits of his cat

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>>4306832
you wouldnt?

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>>4306835
No, I bought a $100 lens to take snapshits of my dog. (Tamron 85mm f/1.8 VC, Nikon D800)

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>>4306851
Good man

>>4304153
Yes, there is a silver model, as usual.

yo

>>4304160
Ah, sorry, I was thinking about the EM1-III, not the OM-1.

>>4305167
oh right okay, can you not get this one in sliver also??

what up

>>4305588
>strike 1: called me a faggot
>strike 2: reddit spacing
>strike 3: audacity in daring to use The Goose image
>strike 4: I don't know lol but am interested now that you mentioned it

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>>4305589
>>4305590

being this new to 4chan. I actually fucking found in buried in apple notes. enjoy it.

https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/channels?profileId=evan-collins-1522646491&channelId=channels&page=2

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>>4305590
>>4305589
You will never be this cool.

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>>4305596
some old hasbeen that got famous for play fighting while on steroids? What a quaint time

>>4305589
Nigger do you even know where you ar

>>4301983
your photos remind me of the threads on /gif/ of people filming themselves ejaculating on passersby by the street or on the subway. sometimes they notice, most times they don't

>>4306518
Seconded

>>4306510
But notice that you didn’t say they were incorrect…

>>4306510
>I don't really street photography all that much, but you're a fucking pseud. Shut the fuck up. Your ideas are uninteresting and your tier list is embarrassing.
This isn't really a rebuttal

Street creepshots are trash, offensive to the ideals of art itself

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>>4306787
Anything can be art though, can't it?
Gotta back up "ugly" results with some kind of idea though

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>>4306760
ugh I just went and hauled my d80 out of the basement and tried it with a manual lens, and DOF preview is also disabled,
but it certainly does stop the lens down when taking a photo.
It also won't do a DOF preview when an AF-D lens is mounted but the lens's aperture ring isn't locked.

>>4305665
Yeah i think those were Nikons in name only, not made by them.

For late model feature-rich SLRs stick with the FA, FM3A, F100, F3, F5, & F6.

>>4306795
…though the F4 and F5 are beasts.

>>4305665
Anon, with how cheap film SLRs are and how little difference there is between models, you should settle for nothing less than a F80 and if you can and don't mind the extra bulk, get an F100. Don't pinch pennies on sub-$100 items that shape your experience the whole time you're shooting.

>>4306795
>FM3A
>feature-rich
kek
It's basically a 70s camera made in the 2000s, the point of that model isn't being feature-rich and it likely has less features than the F55 OP asked about. Better built, that much is true.

>>4294262
>clicked on all those posts
pathetic, unimpressive

one last bumperino. check out the followup >>4300071

>>4294481
thanks, it's one of my favorites from that season

>>4293925
Most of your pictures don't show "soul". I'll pick out the ones i do like

>>4293930
I like it
>>4293933
I like it
>>4293936
I like it
>>4293940
Hahaha he's giving the side eye
>>4293955
I like it
>>4293964
I like it

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>>4302988
Maybe you just like candid portraits. I thought the OP pic is the best but portraits aren't my thing.

Your pictures of people really suck, and a lot of your shots are dark for no reason. It's fine to have something like that every once and a while, but you overuse it. That said,
>>4293925
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>>4294482
I enjoyed these.
Keep it up, anon!

Have had stuff on Pond5 since like 2009 and shutter stock from like 2012ish. Probably still average like a couple hundred a year these days.
That shit got me through high school and college, funding all my photography needs at the time. Peaked at 2k/year on both for a while. Game changing money for a youngster.

>>4306743
Lucky you started early. So saturated since around 2015. Can still make decent side income with videos though on pond5 and shitterstock

>>4305078
it happened 2 years ago and i spent around 16-17 grand total (i think) - and that was also my first ever experience with a camera (i didnt even own a digishit before)
i think i even made a post about it
>a7iv
>35mm GM
>55mm 1.8
>85mm GM
>135mm GM
>a big aluminum hard case for those 4 lenses and cam
>gitzo bag
>gitzo wrist strap
>random expensive carbon fiber tripod
>random cheap chinese strobe set (3 stands+3 strobs+3softboxes)
>3 extra sony z batteries
>some random expensive as shit cards for the camera

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>>4306686
oh yeah, i also bought an asus proart laptop for the whole GREATEST IDEA EVER autismo spree, i completely forgot about that one
so add another 3.2k to the total money spend

>>4306686
That's every country. Actually, my sister's wedding photographer went on to shoot fashion. If you're good and you can handle the bs it's not a bad way to start doing portraits.

>>4306690
thing is i wanted to (and still do want to) avoid doing weddings by any means possible
have a bunch of friends who quit photography altogether, after 1 or 2 or many years of doing it, because of wedding related bullshit and stress

>>4306686
Give me the 35mm gm (for free)

>>4304802
>Even the 7d and the 6d aren't made very well
You could tell that from the AF array and the X-sync speed.

>>4304802
>non-spiteful build quality.
When are they gonna bring back the metal E-M5?

>>4305151
I know right, the mark 2 will always be my fave. So weighty and the last one to keep that metal tripod mount. Worth giving up 4 megapickles for i reckon

>>4304585
yo yo yo

>>4306684
stop bumping your shitty gear threads that should've gone in sqt. there's nothing to discuss further

>>4306645
>well ackschully
good job anon being so fucking retarded that you dont think anyone else understands how exposure work. surely you must have mastered photography if you feel the need to point this out, you fedora wearing faggot

>>4306654
Your anger over this has nothing to do with anything except the price of the lens.

>>4306655
i'm not even that anon, and go back to red dit you cock sucking queer

>>4306654
Exposure is different than light transmittance.
f1.8 gives you better AF in low light, once focused you can then use whatever shutter speed/exposure for the shot.
Two entirely different things.
Fast lenses matter.
In the past, they delivered brighter viewfinders since they were optical, but these days you just dial up the gain to produce a noisy/bright electronic viewfinder but the benefit of "fast" glass is still highly relevant when it comes to autofocus systems.

Birdfaggot lenses at f5.6 and such work in daylight, but ~f2 is nice for everything else, even if you still plan to shoot at f8 for a deeper (not bokehfag) DOF.

>>4306673
Fast lenses only benefit SLR autofocus. Mirrorless focus stopped down up to a camera/firmware specific limit (usually between f2.8 and f5.6), even if you turn preview off.

They are awesome for actually taking photos of small, distant fast moving objects though.

>>4304941
Yes, it doe seem to be people born in the 90s hitting their 30s. And people born in the 80s hitting their 40s. Each successive generation has been exposed to more environmental pollution than the last, after all.

>>4304946
so why aren't zoomers dying on a mass scale

>>4304946
>pollution skyrocketed in the past 2 years
Kek

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He's most likely fine. We are in an era of cancer over-diagnoses. Everyone has "cancer." The real question is, will it ever become a meaningful issue for your health, and if so, will it kill you before old age does? Hospitals get paid by the patient, remember that in all conversations about what treatments you "need."

>>4306675
Its worse than pay per patient. They are paid in WRVUs. These reward more difficult and intensive procedures with more pay, and a larger cut for the hospital as well.

It pays the hospital considerably more to remove a benign visceral tumor and tell you it's potentially metastatic cancer than it does for them to over-diagnose cheap little melanomas.

>>4304282
Using phone camera with a telescope. Results as expected. Either get a real camera and proper adapter for your telescope, or simply use the viewfinder and enjoy the telescope. Phones and telescopes are often worse than a camera with a decent lens.

>>4304282
Is the waviness atmospheric distortions or some phone AI postprocess stuff trying to fill in detail it thinks should be there?

>>4304918
Are you talking about the banding?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_banding

>>4304282
Got some things that were fun for me and not bank breaking to try out if you are looking to expand on the hobby.

theres pretty cheap adapters for phones that allow you to hook up your phone to the telescope and take pictures trough the eyepiece,

If you still have a canon/nikon DSLR laying around you can look for whats called a T2 ring, it allows you to attach your camera to your telescope and essentialy use the telescope as your lens,

Youve probably noticed by now that theres no zoom button on your telescope, you can achieve different levels of 'magnification' by buying different eye pieces, the simpelest way to look at this is the smaller the mm the more 'zoomed' in the view will feel, you probably got a standard 25m with the telescope, maybe look into getting something around 10mm aswell and maybe a 2x barlow lens.

as the other anon said a big part comes from the software, look up youtube videos that teach you how to stack the pictures you take from the nightsky and the right settings for your camera

lastly try to share the hobby with other people in your circle, if youre looking at something cool call over a family member, or throw out the telescope when you have friends over, ud be surprised how many people have never looked trough one.

>>4306519
Nah look really close at the surface of the moon it has an odd texture that my mind tends to associate with AI images or otherwise modified images.