It's your 1st amendment rights to use that camera anon.
>>4484129Its competitive camera use, not art. If you dont use a leica and a 24mm-28mm its cheating. Like playing hockey with a lacrosse stick.
forgot about this thread desu>>4484144how so?
>>4484129You say it's fraudulent because of its pretense that ugliness is beauty that deserves to be celebrated?
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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
Dead board.
>>4477903Contests won't help you build your career as much as putting the same effort elsewhere (networking and marketing)Most photo contests are just rights grabs for a company to get free stock photo, they dangle a modest prize, and get back 10x that in photos they can now use for their own marketing purposes
If its free to do and you don't lose rights to your images, whats the harm?I don't do it because my photos are not good though.
>>4484677Find any contest and it's easy to see the problems, even OP's has effectively a +$75 entry feeThe only ones worth doing are small community ones with no real rewards, like we used to have here, and like you can find on other photo forums
Photography has the power to not only document the horrors of the world, but also bear the mark of its maker, for better or worse. It is not simply opening and closing a shutter.Take this evidence that the SS photographer, Friedrich Franz Bauer, implicated himself with. He usually made propaganda of concentration camps to normalize them against any moral outrage. This was part of the Nazi regime's policy to beautify their camps and "Jewish settlements."Here, Bauer takes photos of innocent children in a psychiatric hospital. He knew full well they would face forced euthanasia during Aktion T4. But history now sees this photo as a criminal act, a witness to the worst parts of humanity, as well as a bystander who did nothing to stop the rise of modern evil. Again, photography is not merely clicking a button. It has the power to echo throughout history.
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Anyone else like taking photos of mundane shit like stairs when they're on vacation? i feel like no one's taking photos of the stairs and the trash cans so it's my responsibility to.https://files.catbox.moe/ms28zq.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/x5znqx.jpg
>>4484133use a list of local words as incentive.egskakatcheeeqan idk how you spell it. cool photo, instant updoot
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>>4479022>>4479025>>4479054great>>4479168GADAM>>4479932clipped subject :(
>>4480060solid imo. i dig the melo vibe>>4480288oh my>>4480297yes>>4480922I LOVE EM!!! great pair
>>4480943>>4480994nice>>4481259>>4481262saved>>4481439this moves me
>>4481749>>4481750great!>>4481921nicegood rpt
>>4479188Too dark. The lighter one is better.
show me what kind of weird shit you can make with photoshop
Looking for pre-2000s landscape photography calenders. Not having much luck. Anyone seen any around?
>>4481652>when I go to a national park gift shop and the calendars are digislop with bad white balance instead of large format velviaMade me fucking sad.
>>4481652as in scans or prints to buy?
Why are image sensors rectangular when a camera’s image circle is… well, circular?
>>4483957So sounds like straight lines are easier then, thank you for confirming
>>4483891The wafers are circular to begin with. Just make the wafers smaller and have one sensor per wafer.
>>4483963Yes, they are, unless you're a physicist, then they're the fallacy at the root of all your nightmares. You're welcome.
>>4484156>not just using the entire wafer at their current sizesensorlet
>>4483892explains why lenses are rectangular and not spherical
Recently got a camera without a light meter, looking for some tips on how to meter by eye.I get the principle behind sunny 16, and have the table in my head, but I'm constantly getting different readings from my (phone) light meter than I'm getting from my guesses using sunny 16. Is it just practice?
>>4484229Where's this? You did a fantastic job of making it very ambiguous
>>4484231in Lyon, I was gonna take a picture of the street but the guy thought I was gonna get him. So I did end up shooting him.it's a cool city
>>4484233ended up*
>>4484234fuck I'm retarded tonight, why did I see a typo thereAlso found this picture I apparently never edited, it's completely off topic but that girl is pretty
>>4481784Shoot the same ISO for a year using one lens and you'll get a good understanding of sunny 16.
Three sciences about light that'll help you understand: The science of photons, electromagnetic radiation, and bosonsTwo technical concepts that'll help you understand how your camera works: How computers work, how chemistry works, and how the mechanics work in a camera. (Anon here like what the fuck computers? Yes anon your digital camera is a damn computer like a smartphone is a damn computer. Hell even in some cases a calculator can be a computer. And the next what the fuck statement is about film photography which is indeed chemistry.)Last thing is knowing how all the programming and placement of the camera functionality is in your camera. Such as knowing what the hell C4k is in a Panasonic GH5 for example.You do all this you would know your camera like a mechanic knows a car. Congratulations you are a step ahead in being a photographer or cinematographer.The most important part about all of this is the hardest part which is does it make sense to you like any other art form?
>>4477834>Know the camera like a mechanic knows a carYeah if you want to scam single mothers you can either be a car mechanic or a jostens photographer so I guess you're right.
>>4480588No. I'll tell you what this is like. When the video game Crash Bandicot came out, the developer knew the PS1 so much he put a hack on the game to allow the game to use more data than it should. From doing that, Crash Bandicot had higher resolution graphics than a lot of games on the PS1. The same thing can happen with a camera. Say you know what am EF mount is. You being the common consumer would (I hate doing this NeoNazi speak but I have to to sell my point on this site) have to go to Jew BHPhoto on this site and Jew Amazon to buy new lenses. So now instead of buying from Jews you can buy a cheap lens from a Japanese guy on eBay (Jannies I tried speaking his language). Now imagine the same with lights. You don't want to buy all this expensive equipment when you know from how light works a few cheap high output lights will do. You know from reading the light meter on your phone at daylight there is enough light under a shade for a photo.
New info: light summed up is a quantum function like quarks and leptons.
>>4477837hi, I've learned this statement by heart, internalised the knowledge and took a picture. It looks like shit.
>>4484251Based.
what the hell happened to lighting? 40 years ago you'd have a nice controlled hairlight even on a presidential portrait
Ever since the producers of commercials did a study a couple of decades ago and found out that children and people with lower intelligence paid more attention to video if the camera was constantly moving, good cinematography and lighting no longer mattered as long as you had a shaky image. Then it moved on to television programs where it looks like everything was shot handheld. Cheap background synthesized music followed. Works out well for the production company because it saves them money. That migrated into still photography where proper lighting no longer matters as long as you grade your images.
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>>4482153Back then you had to get it right in camera. Now every fag thinks they can fix it in Photoshop. That's all has gone to shit
>>4482615You haven't ever met gen alpha. They make ChatGPT do all their homework.>t. Once a Teaching Student
>>4484160yep. we fail them.They were remodeling the floor I'm on and were going to remove the old 1800s copper ceiling panels from the hall, said we'd finally have cell reception out there. I asked to have them installed in our photo lab under the guise of eliminating EM interference with all the sensitive photo electronics. :)No one can get a cell signal in the photo lab.
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>>4484117Wow!
>don't switch to a new mount in the digital transition so all your customers can still use their old film lenses>pride yourself for upholding true photographic tradition and having the finest lenses with the most "character">release the first full frame camera that can actually make full use of all those "sweet" 35mm pentax lenses in 2016, literally 10 years after the competition>in the meantime only make shitty APS-C kit zooms>Release your only monochrome camera for the true affecionados>It's APS-CWhy is this company such a joke?
Pentax bros I’ve been using my old K1000 exclusively for the last 8 years and I’m coming back to digital. I only have a shitty old APS-C Canon tho, can I find low-light happiness with a K1ii/5Div or do I have to abandon the DSLR life for a soulless mirrorless system? Please take a compressed-as-shit Ilford print as payment
>>4486035K1ii feels like it can take pics in the dark especially with the FF sensor it just eats at <3200 ISO. KF/K-70 was pretty damn good too. This is at 12800 ISO and one of my favorite pics. Pentaxes are very ISO-agonstic imo...its the garbage AF + not-screw drive lens selection + horrible support that kills them. I regret selling my KF for $380 honestly kinda wish I just kept it, kinda shopping for another one <$300.
>>4486085This is at ISO 6400...my biggest issue is shooting auto (I know I know) the KF/K-70 was kind of dumb...the program line loves to trend towards a higher ISO than it actually needs. K1ii isn't nearly as bad at this aspect I have a line on a KS2 for $150 locally w/18-50mm kit lens + 50mm f2 SMC but its 2 hours away (Allentown PA when I live in NYC) and I think the guy told me to go fuck myself because he quit replying when I said I wanted to keep in touch closer to Saturday to head out there.
>>4486085>not-screw drive lens selectionit doesn't matter if you have screw drive autofocus if you take pictures of servos
A bunch of new firmware just dropped.2025.12.05 PENTAX K-1 MARK II FIRMWARE UPDATE VERSION (2.51)2025.12.05 PENTAX K-1 FIRMWARE UPDATE VERSION (2.51)2025.12.05 PENTAX KF FIRMWARE UPDATE VERSION (1.33)2025.12.05 K-70 FIRMWARE UPDATE VERSION (1.16)
Hey, /p/.I'm new to this board and I'm looking to buy my first dslr camera. I was wondering if you guys can give a beginner like me some recommendations on what camera to buy. I've heard Canon is the go-to-brand, but I'm not sure what model is the best option. Camera recommendations that won't make me look like a redditor lesbian would be greatly appreciated.I've got about $950 to shell out. Thanks.
>>4482773my favorite post itt unironically shop for a pre-2012 dslr with a good lens selection, preferably from nikon/canon so you can adapt the lens onto a nice newer camera if you like it (think nikon d750/d850 or canon 5div/5ds).my ccd shitters have taught me how to work to get a good photo as opposed to just firing auto and letting the camera do the work. at the end of the day they're fun to use and i love swapping between my k1ii and something like a konica minolta 5d. i suggest a nikon d200 or d600 or a canon 5d 6d or 7d (i like the single digit d models since theyre the pro models vs consumer...better build quality and nicer to use) https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/pho/d/manassas-canon-5d-mark-camera/7896150454.htmlhttps://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/ele/d/brooklyn-professional-grade-canon-6d/7884263025.htmlpersonally not a fan of pentax or sony for this price range you can get more money and a better camera for the same money (and a way better camera if you upgrade)...the sony dslrs/slts have awful build quality. would only recommend if you found something like a a350/a380/a390 for <$100 or a a68/a77 for <$300. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4480615Unless you're a decent-skilled photographer, the camera you use doesn't matter I recommend using the archive to look at the digishit threads, you'll see some good stuffIn your portfolio, do you even have any photos you took that you unironically think "this photo is dogshit, but if it was in higher resolution it would be amazing"? I highly doubt any properly composed photo goes from being bad to being amazing simply because of camera, don't fall for the consumerist bullshit
>>4483502you're a faggot. post your own pics.
Is it true Asian women find camera guys a turn off?
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