After much positive feedback to the /m43/ general I re-thought the whole thing. Why limit to one mount if the defining defining feature is the aspect ratio?Let's have a /4:3/ general for all the based chads who shoot in 4:3 ratio!Welcome: Everyone whose system shoots natively in 4:3!Also welcome: Those who accept the superiority of 4:3 and crop their 3:2 (cringe) images to the 4:3 (based) ratio.Not welcome: Everyone else.Topic of the first /4:3/ general ever: Are 5:4 and 6:7 based, too? Or are they just tryhard?Discuss!
>>4505346tripod or long shutter speed, the OM image stabilization works really well Here's a video of Robin Wong taking very nice looking night time photos, using the same camera model as you, with a 12-40mm F2.8 though. That's on 200 iso though so you can put the ISO a bit higherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcf8AZod1Zg
>>4508342>tripod or long shutter speedshould've clarified, looooooooong shutter speed on tripod or just a longish shutter speed handheld
>>4508342>>4508343I actually just bothered to go out down the street and give it a quick try myself because I haven't actually tried using my OM at night and the results are definitely not bad at all, 200 iso and 1/13 shutter
I saw a gh7 but it was too expensive, gh6 is also still out my budget
>>4510632Consider ghb
How does /p/ feel about zines?They seem fun. You print your stuff, distribute it however you want, and people look at it. They might toss it in the trash but at least you made an impression.You can make them for pretty cheap. I made some lo-fi DIY-style ones with my visual art at home using just an inkjet printer, and I've been dropping them in random places for people to find.Anyone ever make zines?
Tourist from /lit/ here, you guys are inspiring me. I think I'm going to make and distribute a poetry zine.
>>45030048 pages, I did pic related.Did the design for Letter paper, forgot to add bleed/margins so had it printed on Tabloid sized paper centered and scaled to fit. Happy accident that made it a nice size after some trimming with a ruler and razor.
>>4503146that's cool. congrats on 10 years of marriage
Who would be into a seasonal /p/ zine?
>>4510348I would.
Guys, I think I have a problem>be me, chatting in discord with the boys>get @-tagged with cyberpunk exoskeleton camera rig bullshit on youtubebro imagine pulling this out at your kid’s soccer game>mentally catalog my current loadout>A7CII on neck lanyard, daily driver>A6700 on hip, first camera, still good>A7RV on other hip, srs bzns cam>A7IV in tactical dick-carry>extra lenses packed in pouches around back, artsy vintage bokeh grenades>GoPro mounted to forehead for BTS>Instax Evo concealed-carry>already optimized all my gear for hip carry>glass is heavy>lots of glass is heavier>actually exoskeleton sounds financially and medically responsibleComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4509796>What on earth do you mean, friend?Rather than swap lenses on 1 body, they want a 2nd body so they can use a 2nd lens without having to swapSensible, I do the same often
>>4509676/thread
>>4509695Robocuck
>>4509798Convenience, speed, ergonomics come at a price
>>450978 #Since when was the last time you went out for a photo walk with exactly one camera, I’ll bet you had at least 3 on you.
And god damn is it rich. There is such high contrast and strong vivid colors compared to the pentax i used before. Picrel was shot with kodak ultramax 400, and i absolutely adored the results. Never have my pics with ultramax been this vivid. I'll post another picture itt to show the difference. Anyhow, the camera gets this funny glare on the bottom. I dont quite know how to feel about it. And I dont know if its fixable. I got this camera second hand, so this was the first roll I shot with it.
>>4510508You would never in a million tries be statistically better than random chance at picking out film photos scanned at a lab by different lens coatings, dont lie to people like this, pretending there is somehow a difference in the end result
>>4510514there is measurably a better result since coatings allow for more transmission by reducing internal reflections. coated lenses are significantly higher contrast than uncoated. coated lenses also suppress flares and ghost images to a significant degree.
>>4510508I havent checked the condition of the camera, I'll do that! Kindof scared its going to be too expensive however.
>>4510518Thats not what I said and not related to the thread question. But nice chatgpt reply
>>4510514I would have to agree. Lenses do have different color (top picrel), but it's usually pretty marginal. Bottom picrel (which is definitely not mine), is the same lab and operator, just on different high end scanners, which shows just as much difference.>>4510436Film stock gets you like 90% of the look in terms of color and contrast, but some lenses are definitely a bit contrastier and sharper. The lens looks mighty soft on the Pentax, what is it and what aperture are you using it at?Assuming this is the same lab, machine, operator, I would be curious about differences in metering / exposure between the cameras. There's some amount of "correction" a lab will do, so while the scans might look similar in terms of exposure, shooting under or over could lead to the difference in contrast.For reference:>Underexposed = Thin negative, saturated colors, strong contrast. Colors can become rather inaccurate if severely underexposed (more than a stop or two).>Exposed at Box Speed = Natural to somewhat strong colors depending on film stock. Good for general purpose landscape shooting when moderate contrast and color is desired, though a little extra exposure typically won’t hurt. >Overexposed = Dense negative, soft colors, subtle contrast. This is often used for portraits to keep soft skin tones. Nearly endless details can be pulled out of the highlights, though tonal separation in details becomes narrower. https://www.alexburkephoto.com/blog/2019/12/17/pushing-the-dynamic-range-of-color-negative-filmIf you got your negs back, you could take a look and see if there is a noticeable difference in density.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
new to analog stuff, just wanted to ask if anyone has a method for digitising hi-8 thru the trv67. i know there's a method by using the rca converter but i can't seem to find the cable shown in the image (video + mono audio), only stereo rca cables.even just the name of what this cable is officially called would really help
>>4510468Isn't it just a mono RCA cable with male ends on both sides? Also, you can get a converter for stereo RCA to mono I'm quite sure.
>>4510471not sure if i'm retarded but i can't find anything that fits that on amazon.i've been looking for a while but it's all just rca or at best, something like a splitter that's male to female.
>>4510471nevermind, finally found what i was looking for. ended up purchasing an s video cable and a seperate male to male stereo to mono rca and the adaptor.thanks for ur help
Do you scan your own film? If so, what’s your setup? Basically everything <$400 looks like crap from what I’ve seen.
>>4502991Supposedly the Nikon Coolscans were really good but I don’t think they’re manufactured anymore. Plustek make a few but I only seem to hear mixed things about those, and the professional Noritsu scanners cost literally thousands of dollars. Is it even worth having a scanner set up at home or is it best to get a pro lab with a really high quality scanner to process your negatives?>t. film newb
>>4510347Ideally when negs are scanned, you scan them flat and export to a TIFF or Raw file to give more flexibility in post. If your exposure was slightly off, slight crop, things like that. The problem I ran into when I got started was labs charge out the ass for Tiff files and high res scans. Basic JPG scans are dog shit typically and leave little room for you to fix. I grabbed a cheap second hand epson scanner and its definitely not perfect, nor incredibly sharp. It's enough for my IG or Flickr posts but when I print my book later this year I'll go back and rescan with my digital camera. Attached is a scan of gold 200 on 35mm that looks just fine on a phone screen.
>>4503074here's my setup btw. i haven't looked in over a year, but i think the 360 is one of the better film holders if you want to do both 35 and 120
>>4510347There's also primefilm which I basically never see discussed here. I have an XA+ and now that I've used it for about a year and a half I'm pretty satisfied with it. Excellent slide scans, very good negative scans as long as the exposure is reasonable. Night shots and meh exposures don't always work with the inbuilt neg inversion profile so I end up scanning those as positives and then doing inverting/editing in darktable. The only complaint I have is that the automatic full roll scan feature has never worked for me, but they could be because I'm using busted 70s SLRs and not a digital brained plastic Nikon with an electronic frame advance mechanism that would make frame lines computer consistent.
>>4510473>Describe scanner>Forget to attach imageYeah anyway picrel is 800T that I scanned so you can judge for yourself
>the perfect compact FF camera doesnt exi-ACKPreviously: >>4507402
>>4511265Zoom lens is not as good as prime.No amount of quality can make up for the intrinsic sacrifices made for a zoom lens, so a 24mm prime will usually always win and so will a 70mm.If you're okay with subpar quality in exchange for convenience in adjustable focal length I don't see a reason not to get one but just don't expect great optical performance. With that said, consider using all of that as an excuse to shop for something cheaper and maybe with a bigger zoom. Getting a "quality" 24-70mm is basically copium vs primes. If you don't care too much about quality then maybe pick up a 24-105 or something.
>ef-m lenses are not getting any cheaperWhere the hell are all the boomers ditching it?
New bread >>4511297
>>4511272I care about quality but also dog I absolutely need a zoom for cosplay photography, like you can not do shit with primes, you have literally 5 seconds of interaction total and no control of the space.I want to be able to hit a full body and a portrait usually, so like I'd have to have enough space with a 35 to snap a pic and then sprint up and shove the camera into their face for a portrait and then the background will look retarded
>>4511265It's a good lens but it has optical flaws you wouldn't expect of such an expensive one. >>4511272 captain obvious here is sperging about primes when you clearly are looking for a versatile lens. Personally, and someone will sperg at me about this, I would get one of the gen 2 Tamron 24-70 f2.8 lenses over the non-stabilized version of the Nikon 24-70. Optically it's a wash but stabilization is something you always wish you had once you finally get a lens that has it.
Why has the world abandoned photo shoots of good looking women?99% of anything I see now is selfies and if its a photoshoot its just to sell clothing or some super generic looking agency testshoot. 10 years ago or whatever the world was full of every good looking girl doing multiple photoshoots just for content. What happened?
>>4502153vegan? you really are retarded..
Where do I find my first ever model?
>be famous>have unlimited budged for every shot you make>get good pictureswow
>>4481289the world is saturated with content, and in that world the only thing that matters is e-girls building a parasocial following, and for that they can just use their phones
There still are real women out there. Get out there and ask. The camera in your hands, and leaving it wherever they're comfortable is the key. If you want photos of women, go ask women to take their picture. The more plausible deniability you give them, the more likely they are to say yes. If they're with friends, green flag. If you're in public, green flag.
It's over, lads. I've given up on my Instagram photography page. I watched it slowly die over the years, while other snapshitters gained tens of thousands of followers for posting reels of tHe PrOcEsS and talking about how they made the photo, only for the end result to be "in another post" so you had to check out their profiles, or they'd say "I will post the result if this reel gets X ammount of likes". Apparently people like that nowadays. I never really liked to talk about my art and photography. Always considered that a photo has to "speak" by itself. Either way, I saved some of my favorite shots, and I will dump them here. Bear in mind, they are screenshots of my posts, as I never bothered to back them up to any cloud, and recently my SSD went bonk. Was also too lazy to figure out how that data exportation feature worked on Insta. So I hope you can get over the low quality of the images.Cheers, hope you'll enjoy them. Feel free to criticize them if you want. My only intention is to share them with people who might appreciate them before they all get lost in time, like tears in the rain.
>>4502906Alright. You lost me here.
aesthetically pleasing images>>4502929this one i dig, because it has more story element to it>>4502911also this one>>4502902cool too>>4502921best one i thinkI think my critique of the work is it feels too safe.It doesn't feel like you took any risks creating these images.Like going into an abandoned house should make me feel something, some danger,but to me it feels a little too just like you were there you took a photo to satisfy style rather than the moment itself
>>4502943Dawg
>>4502943Is this genetic... the feeling wanting to kiss a "dawg", pet it on the head and say "good boy". Crazy how humans and wolves evolved to form such grandios partnerships.
>>4502904Excellent grade and subject matter but I don’t like the borders on the long edge only, I prefer this >>4502894 (also a good shot). I don’t like the hard contrast look to the majority of these, a little more tonal depth between the shadows and lower midtones wouldn’t hurt>>4502905This one has a nice grade, not too hard
Do you ever gift gear to newbies or friends or family who want to get into photography? I sent a 50mm Canon EF lens to a friend because he likes photography and photo editing, but he’s got a shit zoom kit lens. It’s really soul to have a bunch of gear laying around so you can give it to someone else.
>>4505174I am holding onto my APS-C kit to give to my nephew but I am afraid he is turning into the generic zoomer-alpha brainrot kid. If something is not instant success or "lookmaxxed" he is not interested. I had a theme of giving Lego sets as gifts, turns out they are a whole lot of fun for his father and he only looks at them when they are finished and are promptly forgotten. We had a common theme with my cousins of DIY-ing and building things but it is absolutely absent from the kid. I am devastated.
>>4505174yeah, I gifted my old EF 18-55mm (aps-c lens) to my photography friend. Who shortly after stopped photographing due to not having enough time :/Now he is just my friend.
>>4510188Oh, and I gifted my old Zenit with the Helios lens to my best friend a year ago. He never even touched it… What the fuck am I doing wrong haha
>>4505174I've gifted X700, Rebel 2000, and a Nishika N8000
>>4505174Yeah I gave my mate an Olympus lens because he gave me such a good deal on a 1Ds2. I gave another friend a Pentax Zoom WR90 to get him started out on film.
post your favorite pussy pics1/9
Fuck this captcha it's the fucking worst
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>>4503321Love the light fall highlight on the eye and overall aesthetic
From a recent little photoshoot I did for my Katze
>>4510180Silly little sofa-pisser
Have you ever taken a still life photograph? What did you learn from it? I am not good at it yet, but it is my favourite genre of photography. I like the idea of trying to execute a concept, telling a story with visual grammar and narrative, but there are many factors that can ruin a still life photograph. Pic related needed better composition, angling, leading lines, better props, a better background (preferably with a backdrop because the white wall does not add much), and maybe a better table. It was fun nonetheless, and I think I learned something during the shoot because I tried so many arrangements under a time constraint and learned about workflow.
>>4509558>how did you light the scene?thanks. i don't remember honestly. i think i had a strobe bouncing off the ceiling
finally get to post some goods on this board. I'll have more of these prints developed over the next few weeks, but I've been doing nothing but still-lifes over the semester.
>>4509917I should say that this print isn't the final edition; my idol's face needs some burning in on the highlights. this was just the first image I had on my phone
>>4509917Dod you make the sculpture?
>>4509991no; boyfriend made it. certainly one of the most interesting things he's made.here's the final print
Someone Step Up and Make a New Thread Already 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: If you were going to try one antiquated/non-traditional printing process (gum bichromate, collodion, oil print), which would it be and why?Previous thread: >>4504208
>>4511175i hate the culture around leica. i do not care about how nice it is to be analog, give me a real fucking review. i love this m4 though, i will get a leica lens next pay check, probably an ltm since they are cheaper than m mount.i also hate the naysayers like "you could've bought film with that money" or "waste of money just get a leica lens" this camera is the smoothest camera i own, and idk when its been last serviced.
>>4511218another nice thing about being into M mount is that you get access to 300ish dollar chinese glass that has better coatings than some of the lenses of yesteryear. it lets you fill niches in your lineup. this was taken on a laowa 12mm
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What's your favorite lighting, /p/? My favorite lighting is golden hour.
>>4497922I don't even own a strobe. It's all softboxes.
Luv redheads so much bros
Backlighting
>>4497411Love me a lantern softbox, especially indoors.It lets me get a natural window light look even in a completely dark room.
Post thunderstorm sunset or sunny winter/fall day with crisp light and deep shadows.
Why does it happen anyway? I feel like this is something which adobe could work on giving us a tool for in Photoshop. Something which cancels out edge glow but also can be adjusted by depth etc.(I know edge glow can be removed with a new layer and clone stamped with Darken mode on)
>>4501417just don’t sharpen the images. Let them be a bit softPicrel I took yesterday
>>4509903pixel peepers should go eat shit>used to be a pixel peeper myself
>>4509903Good take, the longer I shoot, the less I've cared about perfect pixel peepingI don't even like doing lens corrections for older glass anymore, it's supposed to be a photo, so I want to lean into the optical qualities of what I'm using, not hide themJust like there are different forms of paintings, sometimes hyperrealism is cool and has practical value, other times it just looks sterile and inorganic
>>4509929Lovely example with the paintings and ductus
>>4509949I dig it, here are a few of mine from a few of my favorite lenses
