This is the post for stupid questions that don't deserve their own thread.
>>4462404how close can you go if you set camera flash on AA mode
>>4462404Will a creepy grin behind the viewfinder each time I'm about to shoot make my photography better?
Will we ever get flashes with AF assist lamps compatible with mirrorless cameras? It's been years.
>>4462616Only visible light ones because thats all the sensor can pass
>>4462404should i buy a nikon z f ? by my completely ignorant and low IQ estimation, it seems to shit over its direct competitors.the main complaint from people seems to be that it’s heavier? but are these critics weak? do they suffer from muscular dystrophy?
>>4462645heavy? no lookin good? not really, it looks like a fucking cheap plastic replica of an old slr film camerafeels good? no. feels like a TV remote controler
>>4462654fuck you on ? its strait up metal frame with bras dials, my only complain is that bottom plate is plastic and finish is a bit meh but camera fells like absolute tank do you fucking like in alternative dimension ? >>4462645sure go for it or if you want modern formfactor z 5 II is even better value for money
>>4462404is it normal to have random debris on your sensor every time you take your camera out? i bought an old dslr and i have to use a handheld dust blower everytime i take it out
>>4462616My new neewer flash has an af assist lamp that works with AF. Its like a criss cross pattern that fires off in the dark.
Zoom is very important to me, i live on one of the busiest avenues in my city the p1100 focus is so slow and the quality of the 1/2.3 inch sensor is just a bit too bad for me, i only take pics and video of people So an aps c is the best option for me right? i was thinking about canon with their 1.6x crop factor with a 200-800mm or 150-600mm?
any decent way to extend camera strap? i bought one from a junk shop and it looks like the previous owner cut the ends a bit shorti want to keep it, but use it cross-body
>>4462785Which one is that? And does the feature have a name on the specs?
>>4462771No that's not normal. Could possibly be the foam buffer material that the mirror hits on disintegrating but I haven't personally seen that happen on anything that was made since the 70's.
>>4462974Neewer Z2 Pro. I think Pro is a recent one and its not the normal Z2, but not sure if that makes a difference, its just the one i have.>How it Works >Low-light focusing:>When you are in a dark environment, the AF assist light emits a pattern onto your subject, giving the camera's autofocus system a reference point to lock onto.>Integrated into the flash:>The AF assist light is a separate, built-in feature of the flash unit, allowing it to function independently of the main flash output.Honestly i was surprised it even worked and on a cheap 3rd party flash.
>>4462974You'll need a flash compatible with your camera to use the AF assist. Usually cross branded flashes will work as a basic flash because they're a standard hotshoe but the AF assist requires communicating with the camera to know when you're half-pressing the shutter button.
>>4462948sure its possible but just study part numbers and get decent one
>>4462979Dang. Even that one is still just a white LED. I was expecting a green laser. It's a shame there's been no good solution to this for mirrorless. My flash's AF assist beam never triggers on my compatible D3300, so I don't even how well the old IR lasers worked on DSLRs. Guess I can't miss what I never experienced.
>>4462999>Dang. Even that one is still just a white LED. No, its a red criss cross pattern. That white LED is completely different and for fill light video stuff.Sorry i got that meme arrow description from google, it was probably ai slop. I never read through the marketing, i just bought it for fill light.
>>4463000All the youtube videos I checked out are glossing over it. I hate review-for-ad-revenue slop. I'll have to keep digging to find a real showcase of it.
>>4462948What kinda sicko cuts the strap? How about passing another strap through the loop?
How do I get this?
>>4463030you will need a transwoman and the newest sony to get that combination of flawless autofocus and lifeless color science
>>4463008is there anywhere i can get the correct size string besides chopping up other straps?
I've got an old Olympus C-8080, it only takes CF and xD cards. xD is obsolete and CF is expensive so I tried a CF to SD adapter but it no worky. Tried formatting both on the PC and in the camera. Is there any formatting trick or magic adapter/SD card that will work here, or am I just SOL?
The feedback loop for long exposures in low light is so damn slow.Anyone have tips or tricks for figuring out the right exposure when the exposure time and in-camera metering can't calculate it?Talking 15minute or bulb mode time frames, with tight apertures like f/16 for deep DOF behind circular polarizer in low light.I know adding light is probably recommended but I want to snap some pics of super dark areas with a tripod without adding artificial lighting.
>>4463047>CF is expensive anon you can get a 8gb transcend cf card for $20 on amazon or just go on ebay and they go even lesscf cards don't die nearly as quickly as sds you're fine buying them used imo
>>4462890why tho
>>4463051Considering for that price I can get a 128GB-256GB SD card, yes, CF is expensive. I'm not a devoted shutterbug so I've never had a problem with SD cards dying, and it's just a more convenient form factor for me to work with overall. My card reader doesn't have a CF slot either, granted the C-8080 can transfer pics over USB but I prefer using a card reader.If I just have to bite the bullet in the end then it is what it is, but it'd be neater if I could get an SD card working in the C-8080.
>>4463049I'm not an expert on the subject but I've done it before by first shooting wide open at high iso to get the right sort of exposure and then calculating how many stops of time I need to add to compensate for the actual aperture and iso I'll be using.
What's a good (enough), cheap camera I can pick up for photographing artwork?
>>4463075If you're talking about art (you) made, either get a scanner, or any printer with a document scanner.Otherwise, just lurk around local camera shops and hunt for a good used deal. That's the best way to get a camera on a budget. As a bonus most camera shop staff, at least in my experience, know their stuff and can say off-hand whether any given camera would be good to go or not for your purposes.
>>4463056It's a 8mp camera. 8mp RAWs and Jpegs are gonna be 200-500 pictures with 4gb or 8gb RAW+Very hard to imagine youre taking 200+ pictures in one outing with that camera. Just pick up a CF reader off Amazon for $8 and a CF card for $10-20. A 128gb+ sized SD card might not even be able to be read by a old camera btw. The hard limit for alot of the vintage cameras is usually either 16 or 32gb cards. Even the cameras that have SD card slots from that time period don't work sometimes with a 128gb SDXC and you need to go find a 32gb SDHC.
>>4463078Scanners haven't been great on color even with color correction so I'm fed up and looking for a camera at this point.
>>4463081A camera will not do better. Wrong tool for the job.
>>4462404What would you say that makes a post be worth it its own thread, please? :) (just asking because I am trying to learn (of curiosity, not some real or imagined "job") + I am half self-discouraged of googling what many terms here even mean :) )
>>4463075Perhaps it would be worth your while inquiring at local museums, galleries, archives and libraries whose business it is to digitise artworks of various kinds.
>>4463100>be worth your while inquiring at local museums, galleries, archives and libraries:/ I did. That is why I am asking here. [ups - hand over mouth emoji]
>>4463100Because those set ups are done with tons of lighting equipment and cameras with special lens that I could never afford. It's why I'm asking here
>>4463103What if of making cheap set ups of just taking pictures of pages of books and sending/giving them to friends (=nothing illegal), for them to be available of borrowed to friends (=nothing commercial of/or illegal) and getting help of making the pictures be... available items of free resources (to friends, of course)... even without much internet, even knowledge? :)
>>4462977I got a nikon d300 for a steal but it wasn't in the best of shape. I'm going to grab a apsc swab and clean in for real and hope the debris stays gone this time.
I'm selling some of my K Mount stuff to pair down. I'm in the USA btw. Pentax DA 18-135mm - $80 locally / $100 on eBay (I paid $60, next cheapest is $100 from a Japanese seller)KF w/18-55 kit lens and 7869 shot count - $340 locally / $400 on eBay (next cheapest is $450 body only) Pentax-F 100mm Macro - $40 locally / $60 on eBay (bad internal hazing but still takes decent pics, pic related)Left: 18-135mm - 1/100 f5.6 1600 60mm Focal Length (brighter image)Right: 100mm Macro - 1/125 f7.1 1600 (darker image)Both SOOC jpeg (top) and edited (bottom, macro was darker requiring a -0.7 exposure for 18-135mm to match)Am I asking too much?
>>4462404Should I get a griii or a griiix
what’s the goal when editing photos i just play around with stuff until i think it looks goods to meanytime i share it, it’s always shit
>>4463144The difference is 28mm vs 40mm. The GRiii is the former and I’m thinking that one but is 40mm better for standing further away from hapless, random subjects
>>4463304>i just play around with stuff until i think it looks goods to methis is the way>anytime i share it, it’s always shitcalibrate your monitor and only edit at ~20-60% of your monitors min/max brightness, whatever is equivalent to the amount of ambient brightness in your editing environment
>>4463144Are you poor or something?
>>4463353Which one do you use the most
>>4463079I think you're right, I think 8GB may be the limit for the C-8080. I did find one successful experiment with using a 16GB, in that the formatted, but according to the guy the camera was much slower in general with the card in.An 8GB SD card is still about half the price of an 8GB CF card, though of course the price difference is smaller in an absolute sense. But it's literally the only thing I have that uses CF cards, which annoys me.Maybe I'll get one of those NOS(?) Hitachi microdrives on ebay for the novelty, lol.
>>4463358CF cards are more reliable than SD cards. My bigger issue is most laptops and computers not having a CF reader and the pins being bent easily on the camera if you put it in the wrong way. The latter is the real reason CF cards suck. But on the flip side they don't die as quickly as the SDs.
>>4463362Real homies buy business-grade laptops with CF and full SD card readers so you can make backups in the field.
>>4463362I guess I should count my lucky stars that Olympus included a CF slot and didn't give in to the invasive thoughts telling them to make it xD-only.>Max. size 2GB>Slow>Dead format, cards cost an arm and a legLol, lmao even.
>>4463353The iii. I love the idea of the iiix but in practice it feels a bit too tight at times. I mean maybe I’m just a shitter but wider feels better. It’s not bad enough that I want to get rid of the thing cause they’re still just great little cameras but yeah>requisite dog photo taken with camera
>>4463354Derp meant to reply >>4463621 hurray for phoneposting
>>4463621Thanks that’s what I thought, but something inside me feels like the 40mm is a challenge calling to me
>>4463030good lord is this what weebs watch all day. No wonder they are on the edge constantly
What's the best open source or freeware option for quickly browsing large number of RAWs to rate them before importing to target software to work on?
are there any resources online with production ranges for film boxes or canisters to guesstimate the production and expiration year?
>>4464851just browse the jpegs, the raws' thumbnails are copies of the jpegs
>>4464854No, I mean quick browsing AND rating, you know, these "stars" in file properties. In most software for editing photos you can filter files by rating and when I have, say, 2000 photos and only going to edit 200 of them, it would be quicker to view them all and slap rating on selected few and then import instead of importing all, load them inside software, rate them here and filter since any soft takes a while to load the image itself.
>>4464855You can do that in your camera can't you? That said, I'm pretty sure most cameras come with (not quite free but free with the camera purchase) software that does exactly that.
>>4464851XnView is best free, PhotoMechanic is best paidI've never been a fan of pre-culling before import, and even with LR, I would just wait for previews to build and cull easily after. Adding the extra step of funneling through separate software never felt worth it. Now with C1 and it's built-in culling features, faster than ever for me now.
how fragile are modern high end cameras?if I get Leica Q3, is it going to survive being in a backpack on my back while I'm on a run outside and jumping up and down?
>>4465055Yes, some people use the Q2/Q3 in literal warzones
>>4465056that doesn't answer my questionpeople photographing in "warzones" are not in active combat, it's still people slowly moving on foot with camera in their handI'm asking about the level of sustained abuse Q3 can handle
>>4465060>I'm asking about the level of sustained abuse Q3 can handleNo, you're being a pedantic retard, leave the board please
>>4465062no I won't>pedanticI don't think you know what this word means, I literally disproved your dumb point with facts and logicI'm assuming you don't have any knowledge about photography, so I'll wait for someone else to maybe reply
>>4465064you should buy the q3 and shove it up your asshole
>>4465065that's the kind of reply I expected from a /p/enthusiast, what are you currently shoving in your butthole? are you up to a telephoto lens yet?
>>4465055The Q3 has known issues with the LCD screen and you may have to baby it somewhat. Owners accept this as part of quick-onset Stockholm syndrome after dropping $6k on a Sony sensor with Panasonic-patent glass and dogshit AF.https://peterpoete.de/one-camera-one-lens-one-year-leica-q3/https://www.snapsbyfox.com/blog/leica-q3-43-long-term-reviewhttps://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/414201-summilux-q-43mm-f2-design-by-panasonic/
>>4465064You think>used in literal warzonemeans>People slowly moving on foot with camera in handYou are retarded, that's for sure
>>4465077>you may have to baby it somewhat.And then you go onto post a review that hypes up the build quality
>>4465153are you a woman? gushing about "warzones" like people that can afford leicas are going into bayonet battles you have no idea what you're talking about, girl
>>4465165No, I just follow a few war photographers and several of them choose to use Leica
>>4465155damn you're so gay it's crazy,
I know nothing about photography. Inherited a Nikon f70/n70 in the us.Keep or get rid ?
nx studio image looks different from lightroom without any effects done with the same camera standard profilehow do i tell nx studio not to fuck around with the image and start the raw development from scratch?picrel: lightroom, 100%, wb as shot, profile: camera standard
nx studio, 100%, standard picture control, original value everything
>>4465279There is no starting from scratch in practiceEvery raw program, even at defaults (or zeroed) settings, will look a little differentIf you have LR, zero reason to use NX
>>4465284I’m aware that different software interpret sensor data differently. I typically use Lightroom (arr matey) but am trying out NX Studio because apparently I need it for pixel shift processing images from my camera. I would like to use it for scanning media in large detail. I think my camera sensor has an AA filter, but at least I’d like it if the raw images don’t get Auto DNRed or other computer processing by default in NX Studio as it appears it has done on my sample image.
Nobody replied to this question in Instagram thread so I repost it here since it probably IS pretty stupid question - how people are expected to use Instagram? Various people tells me it is absolutely essential so I guess I will have to make account after all. But what to put in it? I upload galleries of my photos at private site so I guess I should put 5-10-15 "best of" photos from such galleries when I upload one and provide link? I'm sorry but I never used IG and have barely even experience with FB or other social media.
>>4465487IG is not essential and you should outright ignore it and oppose it. Both sides of the political spectrum will think you're based. Everyone hates social media.
Drunk purchased a x100vi. What do I do first?
>>4465492Numerous people at anime con, both cosplayers I photographed and actual photographers told me to make account as something absolutely essential for contact and leading people to my site, where I upload galleries.
>>4465507return it and order a better camera like a ricoh gr iiix
retarded fuji doesn't have a good 28 mm equivalent lenswhat do?35mm is shit....
If put my camera on a tripod and aim it at myself does it still count as a selfie
>>4465592Sure!
Best camera/lens to shoot homemade couple sex? Holding my smartphone is too close up.
>>4465668>fat peopletape over the lens of your phone and use that>otherwiseAny APS-C camera with an UWA lens. Canon 550D + EF-S 10-18mm etc.Bonus: UWA lenses are how pornos make the cock look so huge, because throwing a UWA lens real close to a subject will make it look much bigger than anything else in the scene.
