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>the lens when I found it

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I broke my fisheye lens when one of the tripod's legs gave out

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>>4513670
the outside focuses with the ring, but the broken part in the center is fixed at something near 1:1, slightly macro even

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>>4513671
it kinda funny

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>finally decide to treat myself and upgrade my 20 year old setup
>R6MkIII and some wide L glass I've always wanted
>get in the car and head towards one of the state parks around me
>"eh, I dont need to bring my whole bag, I'll just put the camera on the front seat"
>beboppin down the local roads to get on the interstate
>round a corner and there is an entire family of geese in the road
>slam on the brakes not thinking
>camera launches into the dash and then slams to the floor
>pull over and the screen had opened but other than that no damage to the lens or body
>10/10 luck
>will always pack shit in my bag from now on

(pic related: FUCK these guys)

>>4513670
priceless desu

>>4513668
>had 2 cameras RIP to the sun
>one mirrorless, one DSLR
>both repaired free from the manufacturer

>request a camera from brand rep to try out
>nothing, email to follow up, email again to follow up
>camera gets sent to me with no further communication
>never told to return it and no longer work for the camera store anymore
>too bad the camera isn awful to use

>up front at wedding getting ready for aisle shots
>phone in pocket
>forgot to turn off, it starts ringing
>yank it out power it off, set it up on a ledge
>happens so fast that most ever assumed it was a guests that I snatched and set aside

>>4513674
Don't stop for anything smaller than deers. Fuck those geese for shitting up my local lake. Makes sense they're Canadian, lmao!

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>>4513674
>place expensive electronic outside of protective unit because muh nothing ever happens mindset
>something happens
Brother it's like never using your seatbelt because you've never crashed. Lucky for you it just bounced around harmlessly but lenses can decenter their elements surprisingly easy so be fucking careful.

>>4513697
>request a camera from brand rep to try out
QRD?

>>4513847
>work at camera shop
>email our rep for whatever brand
>try out gear for a few weeks / months
Except this was for an older camera with a smaller brand, so I just got sent it and they forgot about it

>>4513847
Sony did this to me with an a7cII. I shoot weddings and have a youtube channel. They never got back to me, I got an a7cii, no communication. It was a good camera but it would heat up while off, something no one mentions online, so I think they sent me a QC reject unit assuming it was going to be demoed and sent back. I took some nice snapshits of a dog and sold it for $1300 to some black kid.

>>4513671
saved. nice shot

Does it have to be gear related or just in general?
>trying out street photography and portraits
>there's some guy that looks really weird and interesting
>ask him if i can take a photo
>guy goes into some insane rant about there being nothing in it for him, demanding money straight up and then following me for a while shouting and demanding money because he thinks i already took the photo (i didn't)
I also asked the same of some interracial couple (black guy and some really old white woman) and they also went into some insane tirade that I don't even remember the details of, also ending it with demanding money.

>>4513941
lesson learned: just snap away
people hate us anyway lol

>>4513697
>had 2 cameras RIP to the sun
Can you elaborate on this?

>>4514045
He probably did long exposure for 30+ seconds too often in the sun or recorded video non-stop for long periods in the sun and cooked the sensor.

>>4514100
Why would you do a 30+ second exposure in bright sunlight?

>>4514111
Likely put an ND filter on and wanted to capture flowing water or to have it remove people from a photo of a busy city, there's a few good reasons like that but at the same time doing that regularly in the sun isn't a good idea.

>>4514113
Well if the ND filter was dark enough to do a 30+ second exposure in the sun then it would be no different from doing a 30+ second exposure in low light from the sensor's perspective.

>>4514114
Maybe or maybe not, I'm just guessing here. OP would have to say how he did it specifically. There's even other dumb shit like just leaving the lens cap off with the sun hitting the sensor directly for a long time without even taking a photo.

>have 10 day holiday to dream destination
>fucked around a lot with my camera
>decide to factory reset so everything is "clean" again before my trip
>forget to turn on RAW
>bunch of jpg only pictures
>cry

>>4514142
defaults are best buy/walmart demo settings. why would you do that? i dont even reset ebay cameras because the last guy usually set it to raw and bbf like every camera should be

only boomers and the retarded still use jpeg and af with shutter

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>>4514045
>nikon d2h with 50 f1.2 AI-s or 85 f1.8 af-d, cant remember
>camera on tripod pointed towards subject with setting sun behind, basically picrel but with the sun getting lower and more direct
>taking pics, camera locks up, turn off and on, nothing, removed lens and small amount of smoke comes out
>look inside and see burn marks on the edge of the mirror
>nikon offered free d2h service for a certain issue, even outside of warranty back in 2010
>nikon did a free courtesy repair, and camera came back basically all new, af-d screwdrive stopped working soon after though

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>>4514045
>xpro2 with xf 50mm f2
>firmware update adds 4k video
>chilling in back of store, just recording at whatever
>sun is reflecting from from cars grill in front of store, enjoy this ai recreation
>don't really pay it much mind, camera keeps working perfectly fine
>later on, starting doing shots at f5.6-8 and noticing tons of odd shapes like dust or hairs
>take of lens and see the damage
>send in to Fuji expecting the worse, repaired as just a 1st year warranty repair for free

I have seen someone else post similar looking damage on a XPro2, but theirs was caused by a laser.

>>4514147
Oh I agree I was stupid.
I was taking a photography course and we had tested different settings (metering, shutter types, drive mode, white balance, etc) for different assignments that at some point I thought I'd better start blank instead of checking everything again.
I was just lazy, last time I did that.

>>4514147
>af with shutter
what's wrong with shutter AF?

>>4513668
>be me
>work second shift so I am always up at 1 AM
>decide Imma do some nighttime star trails
>bust out Yashica D TLR, mount it on tripod, ready to rock and roll
>hell_yeah.jpg
>cold as hell outside cus winter
>do a bunch of short stuff (like 30 second to 10 minutes)
>decide its time for the big one
>1.5 hour exposure
>let it rip
>fast forward 1.5 hours
>pack up, develop it next day
>I forgot to cock the shutter only on the last frame
>mfw I froze my ass off for nothing
this hobby is a cruel mistress sometimes

>>4514142
How did you not notice for 10 days? Did you never move a single image off the card?

>>4513668
I just had the strangest dream
>be me
>staying in a cheap holiday place
>spent like $300 for a few nights
>winrar
>except the place is a bit of a dump
>time to leave
>someone has a shower and leaves the JBL speaker on in the bathroom after
>go in and turn it
>look at the taps in the shower
>they explode
>huh, this place rly is a dump
>go out into the living room
>the bookshelf on the wall to the bathroom fell over
>shit shit shit
>liftan.webm
>dat_form.jpg
>huh? my camera?
>oh shit
>it’s totally wrecked
>everything that could fall apart fell apart
>it’s now camera, front of lens, barrel of lens and back of lens
>pick up the barrel and look through it
>the glass elements were squished
>well that just ain’t right
>put it down and go out to check out the DVDs on sale outside

>>4514185
brutal

>>4514182
Nothing. If anything decoupling shutter AF is boomer coded.
It was very relevant with early DSLRs, because you were incentivized to use center point AF focus and recompose.
With mirrorless, it's not really as necessary since we don't need to focus and recompose, and AFL/MF is all you need in the certain situations that call for it.
On the flip side, some cameras offer extra MF functionality when in MF mode, and you can just use a button for AF to get the best of both worlds.

>>4514249
Focus in center + recompose still makes sense because it's much quicker than hunting with the joystick, or taking your eye off the EVF, tapping the screen, and shooting.
I'm not even a DSLR boomer that's fighting old habits, I got into photography recently, straight into mirrorless. And I find center focusing, with back button focus, very convenient and intuitive.

>>4514249
Lol no. Shutter AF is boomer coded. Every photo a boomer takes has a person in it so they have only ever needed face or eye detect AF-S anyways, and even if they wanted to use BBF the more complex grip triggers their arthritis. See: boomers shaking their cane at sony
>the grip aint cushy or hand shaped and i cant use my pinky and its puttin too much strain on my other fingers dagnabbit! you think i can use my thumb for anythin but holdin the camera? damn kids

>>4514263
>quicker than hunting with the joystick
>your eye off the EVF, tapping the screen,
But you don't need to do that anymore with modern mirrorless.

I agree focus and recompose can be convenient, and do use it myself (moreso place tracking box and recompose), but I don't bother with decoupling shutter AF anymore. It was a solution for something that's not really a problem anymore. No need to add an extra button to a workflow that doesn't need it.

>>4514249
I see... usually when something doesn't make sense in photography it's a boomer/DSLR relic.

I just move the focus box with 4-way controller. A joystick would be nicer for sure, but I don't do it often enough to make it essential.

>>4514191
About five days in. The battery of my laptop wasn't charging on arrival and it took until I got a new adapter at the third hotel before I did my first transfer.
Again, I was stupid. I've gotten way more cautious now.

>>4514299
Brutal, sorry to hear about the mistake. I'm a bit of an autist and either check image quality at the start of the day or I transfer photos at the end of the day to my phone with a USB C cable and I find out then.

>>4514283
Back button focus is the standard for actual photography for workflow reasons I’m not autistic enough to detail. You’ll understand if you ever have to.

Not so much for snapshits/street photography or prosumer boomers.

Anything that’s a default is the boomer setting because boomers are the ones buying new cameras.

>>4514304
>You’ll understand if you ever have to.
And you'll understand once you no longer need to use it

>>4514304
>Back button focus is the standard for actual photography for workflow reasons I’m not autistic enough to detail.
NTA but it's that common? I did it just because half pressing would always re-adjust focus and it pissed me off too often.

>return to my car after a photo walk in the woods
>set camera bag (ff body w/ pancake + two lenses in separately attached bags) on top of car for just a moment
>get back in the car, get on the highway
>forget bag
>don't realize what happened until i see it falling in my side mirror, lens bag first
>hurriedly park my car in a very narrow pullout and start running back up the road
>the bag is right in the center of a long curved stretch and traffic has to swerve significantly to dodge it
>finally get it off the road with no fucking accidents
I lost my 70-300mm zoom, but everything else was miraculously fine. Even the body only had the slightest chip from the back bottom corner that somehow didn't affect it's trade-in value a few years later.

>>4514305
It’s really not worth explaining to someone who passionately defends the best buy demo model default optimized for 40 plusses.
>but saaar its the dslr way mirrorless is now saar!
Such a 40+ thing to say.

>>4514307
Here's a thread from almost 20 years ago
https://www.nikoncafe.com/threads/af-on-or-shutter-release-poll.79322/

>>4514307
Yeah

Shoot college sports or a wedding sometime. BBF+Shutter AEL.

>>4514310
Could you describe what situations you want to half press the shutter but not have focus engaged?
Why use 2 buttons when 1 can work just as well? Assuming you don't think it works just as well, what are those situations?
I used to use it a ton, and saw the clear advantages, but now I don't see the point anymore, because I know my focus will just always be correct

>>4514312
>Shutter AEL
Ah, so you need to extra button because you need automated exposure

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>working at radio shack in the early 2000's
>we sell those fancy new digital cameras, always wanted one but i'm a brokeass college student and they're too expensive
>customer is buying a fuji finepix, asks me to put the batteries in for him
>i fumble the camera when opening the battery lid, it falls to the concrete floor
>put the batteries in, but it doesn't seem to focus on anything
>put that one back in the stockroom and grab another one for the customer
>months later, we're doing quarterly inventory. the broken camera is still in the stockroom
>"hey manager, what should i do with this?" manager: "it's a write-off, throw it out"
>later i take the trash out, but pull out the camera and put it in my truck
>get back to my apartment and start messing with it, maybe i can fix it?
>figure out that the macro mode switch was on, it must have gotten flipped when the camera fell
>camera works fine

and that's the story of my first digicam. i still have that thing. pic rel is one of the first shots i took with it.

>>4514318
Absolutely based.

>>4514304
This guy shoots DSLR and wants to lecture mirrorless users how to use their camera. Typical boomer arrogance.

>>4514315
Any extended focusing/tracking without shooting, with or without leaving autofocus off or refocusing because mirrorless autofocus got lost again. Half press AEL lets you decide to hold or release exposure as things move through different lighting.

You probably spam shots like a boomer tho

>>4514339
Mirrorless AFs tendency to switch subjects and do retarded shit in general has made BBF more useful than ever.

This argument isn’t as strong if you use the newest flagship camera and pay someone to cull your 120-frame bursts, but on the other hand, BBF makes it easier to shorten those bursts without losing AE lock and make them more manageable.

>start photography
>decide to check the 4chan board for intelligent discussion with other hobbyists
Boy that was a mistake

>>4514357
>Half press AEL lets you decide to hold or release exposure as things move through different lighting.
The sorrow of not being able to sinply shoot in manual exposure
>Mirrorless AFs tendency to switch subjects and do retarded shit in general
lol, nope, you should get a better camera mate

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>>4514383
>still thinking shooting manual is impressive, or better
New to this huh
>just use the newest canony for a hobby with occasional gigs
Sorry, I’m not a fucking a retard. Smart people too out at an older sony. That’s why smart people can afford homes and everyone else is fucked or a gigantic autist who has the newest sony but drives a shitbox from 1998. My uncle has a whole business shooting weddings and he’s still on his 5DII. Get a clue.

Pic related its me with my used snoy

>>4514392
omg you are so hot
please destroy my gaza strip

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>>4514392
>still thinking shooting manual is impressive, or better
It is. Why the fuck would you want your camera, which thinks pic related is an ideal exposure, decide what your exposure parameters should be?
Then you take your retarded exposure into Lightroom to wrangle it into looking decent, at the same time negating the benefit of using a larger sensor camera. i.e. a properly exposed crop sensor image will always have better quality than a badly exposed full frame image slidered into looking correctly exposed.

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/exposure/stop-letting-your-camera-guess-exposure-trust-me-manual-mode-is-simpler-than-you-think

>>4514418
Dunning kruger post. I’m sorry you don’t know how to control auto exposure and haven’t done photography enough to understand how the light meter works. Once you learn you won’t use manual for anything but time lapses, movies, extreme low light and panoramas.

Let me guess - you not only shoot jpeg, but have something against raws? You call it “spending hours at a computer like a cringe unc”?

If you’re this new shut up and lurk.

>>4514422
>control auto exposure
If you're doing auto, and just using ae-lock + ec comp to control the auto, you're just doing manual with extra steps
If you're doing manual and just chasing the needle, you're just doing auto with extra steps
If you can't see why manual is still superior, you haven't shot enough
If you're using auto ISO to account for changes in exposure, you are opting for convenience over IQ
>Once you learn you won’t use manual for anything but
Or anytime you want consistency between different shots, so any people, sports, concert, street, landscape, etc. Shooting manually is exposing for a scene and considers all subjects and their context. Shooting auto exposure is exposing for a subject, regardless of the scene or context.

>>4514428
>You’re just shooting manual but much faster, more accurately, and in a way that lets you use conveniently placed controls for things other than exposure!
Correct.
>uhm consistency?
Not how cameras work. Not even on negative film. Exposure alone can not attain consistency. Managing clipping at exposure and normalizing raws (one click btw) does.

Manual is a cope for people who aren’t familiar with their camera.

DGAF about the rest of your smug beginner rant. Shut up and go teach yourself something. Maybe smoke some pot for your narcissism. If you were knowledgeable you would have pointed out that a priority mode is great for some time lapses when combined with a movable spot meter and an appropriate amount of exposure compensation to prioritize the foreground or sky.

>>4514428
The last retarded quip is literally ae-l hold lmao

nocamera. why are you talking about devices you obviously havent used?

>>4514429
>I can't soot manually quickly or accurately yet
You'll get there bb.
>Not how cameras work.
For the same scene, two shots of the same exposure wont be more consistent than taking two shots that might vary in exposure? Interesting logic. If you take your camera, and point it around a room, does your metering never change ever? Weird.
> Managing clipping at exposure
Is best done by shooting manually, and especially avoiding auto ISO.
>Manual is a cope for people who aren’t familiar with their camera.
Auto modes are cope for people lazy about their camera.

> a priority mode is great for some time lapses
So you can introduce the possibility of flickering exposures?
>an appropriate amount of exposure compensation
Or I can just shoot manually!

>Shut up and go teach yourself something
Since you seem interested in timelapses
https://visualwilderness.com/fieldwork/6-practical-tips-for-time-lapse-photography
>Use Manual Camera Exposure
https://digital-photography-school.com/timelapse-photography-tutorial-an-overview-of-shooting-processing-and-rending-timelapse-movies/
>The most important concept here is full manual control
https://www.learntimelapse.com/time-lapse-exposure-avoiding-flicker-and-dragging-shutter/
>Manual mode (M on your camera dial) is usually the best choice

>>4514430
>is literally ae-l hold
Yes, so you would rather hold/press a button, I would rather just change my settings directly. I don't know if you've ever taken many family portraits, but sometimes it can take a while between people and you might find yourself taking other shots, where you'd have to give up the ae-lock temporarily.
Don't worry, the more you shoot, the more you will learn from experiences like that. AE-lock is great, provided you never have to unlock it until you are absolutely done with a certain exposure.

>>4514432
>>4514434
>dunning kruger manualfag writes huge dunning kruger essay after getting BTFO left and right
>quotes blogs meant for BEGINNERS
>PROFESSIONAL cameras continue shipping with PSAM dials
>only modeless cameras are fujis meant for beginners and leicas meant for posing non-photographers
KEK

Literally nothing you said is new even for this thread or of any consequence beyond being standard disinfo
Its so sad your ego is so fragile you will gladly triple down on being wrong at the cost of potentially misinforming other new retards who have barely know how to use a camera and have no familiarity with how they work

Maybe when you’re not a retard you’ll know how to use auto exposure. But that day is clearly not coming soon.
>AUTO! IN A TIME LAPSE!
Yes, if your camera has a movable spot meter to exert more control over it. Varying exposure in time lapses can be desirable. You’ve probably seen it often.

>a literal i shoot manual so im good poster
I thought these idiots were confined to reddit?

>>4514435
You sure sound like someone confident about winning an argument lol
>>4514436
>I haven't shot enough to see the value of M
I believe in you!

>>4514435
lmao he is literally threatened by ael lol lmao

0 photography experience beyond leaning on kodak golds lattitude with his film shitter, at most

>>4514438
Better than being scared of M lol

>>4514437
You clearly think about shooting more than you do it and have never used a digital camera properly if you think using the same exposure constantly is how to get a consistent look (in fact, its how to get an inconsistent look that bounces between crushed low res shadows and blown highlights - you should be shooting properly exposed raws and normalizing them like everyone else who knows what they’re doing)

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>>4514439
>u-ure scared of M!!!!
I have shot manual cameras you don’t even know how to operate. Yet another smug beginner. Let me guess, you also think the mark of a good driver is a stick shift? Lmao

Get a clue, newbie. You’re not good at this or you would have had a photo to back up your unorthodox (for experienced and skilled shooters) hot takes.

My offhand phone snaps made from the 4chan post box are better than your photoless posts

>>4514440
>same exposure constantly
For a scene, it is.
>its how to get an inconsistent look that bounces between crushed low res shadows and blown highlights
That just means you aren't setting your exposure properly to begin with. Just like priority modes can expose incorrectly too. I'd rather pick the right exposure form the start than let the camera potentially pick the wrong one.
>you should be shooting properly exposed raws
Yes, and the best way to do that is M.
>and normalizing them l
If you're normalizing in post why not just skip that step and normalize at capture?

>>4514441
>All I do is chase the meter
Once you get past that stage and start thinking about exposure more broadly, I'll see you on the M side of things

>>4514442
No, it means the scene has more dynamic range around the room than the camera.

Do I have to explain why raw is better than jpeg and is now the standard for all professional and skilled hobby photography to deaf ears too? So it can go over your head because you have no real experience and are worse than that pentax sperg struggling with editing?

Shut the fuck up already. You have no clue what you’re talking about. You can’t even provide a phone snapshit of your camera.

>>4514443
Is that your new favorite phrase to parrot, nocamera, nophoto, notphotog?

Leave this thread and know that every time a $5000 professional camera drops, you are being de-facto humiliated by the presence of a mode dial.

This is literally the oldest and most repetitive argument in cameras. Your side of it has consistently lost because it is exclusively brought up by beginners.

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>>4514444
>Do I have to explain why raw is better than jpeg
No, I only shoot RAW
>You can’t even provide a phone snapshit of your camera.
Idk why that matters but here's a few of them, let me know if you need to see more

>>4514446
Oh great, not just a smug beginner, but one that wastes money on funko pops, I mean, poser cameras. Typical.

I hope the guy at the lab is paid enough correcting all those randomly under/overexposed scans of flowers and cats kek

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>>4514428
saving this post because it's 100% correct and based.

>>4514448
>broken down into samefagging

>>4514447
>why are my colors sometimes wrong? is this the soul of film?
>no your exposure is inconsistent
>no, it isn’t. i shoot manual. these are all the same scene and i used the same settings. that means they should all look the same. this camera is clearly broken. i’m buying a better one.
-that guy, probably

>>4514429
>Exposure alone can not attain consistency. Managing clipping at exposure and normalizing raws (one click btw) does.
yikes this guy is auto2

>>4514451
Correct. The dynamic range of real life exceeds that of any camera you can buy. Without a non-linear recording medium you actually have to put work in or you’ll just have /rpt/ grade sets of snapshots that are 30% underexposed and 30% blown out. Even with a non-linear medium colors and shadow detail gradually shift with exposure.
Maybe one day you will close ebay, learn the secrets of correct exposure, and keep your further shopping to massive orders of film from b&h.

Take it from someone whose camera can’t even fit in one photo, but can fit inside your mother. Auto exposure exists for a reason and it’s not people who have no idea what they’re doing ("help! its all neutral gray! auto bad!")

>>4514446
>spend $10,000 on a gimped camera without autofocus or autoexposure
>get angry because people make good use of them and you can’t
>try extra hard and cope to pretend these things you spent so much money not to have are actually bad
>meanwhile leibovitz sets her sony a1 to P (for professional) and takes aim
>locks exposure with the shutter button and thumbs AF-ON
>feet: cut off
>lighting: soft
>editing: intern did it
>museum time
>the cringe collection, by annie leibovitz
now this is a photography fail

>>4514452
>it’s not people who have no idea what they’re doing
True, it's for convenience because you trust the camera more than yourself
(and you also don't care about the benefits of a better aelock)
>>4514450
>consistency is chasing the needle
Nah

>>4514454
>a gimped camera
It also doesn't do any video, but it's fun to use >>4514144

>autoexposure
It does have auto ISO and aperture priority lol

>>4514452
Let me guess, you think auto white balance is good too?

>>4514456
You keep saying chasing the needle because keeping the histogram correct is too much for your tiny leica brain, already fried from the task of taking photos of the backs of the WBCs heads

>>4514467
>auto white balance is bad
>keep the dramatic green cast from that cheap commercial window
>yes it wasnt there in real life, it wouldn’t be as nasty on film, and digital cameras dont do white balance correctly and never have
>yes its an easy way to start with a close WB in raw
>but its auto so its bad!
Well, I can see how someone with a nikon would have problems with AWB but canon and sony actually get it right lol

>>4514472
its always the nikon users
>auto white balance is bad (because my camera is bad at it)
>auto exposure is bad (because my camera’s bad ergos make running the psa modes effectively a PITA)
>raw is bad (because it reminds me what good color science could look like)
>autofocus is useless (because mine is)
a leica user with a nikon… peak cope.

>>4514467
why is auto white balance bad for raw files

>>4514478
If you don't record an accurate white balance on scene, setting white balance in the RAW editor later when sitting in your chair is guesswork.
You can make it "look nice", but if you care about documentary integrity - communicating the scene as it was - this requires capturing the white balance on site.

>>4514479
lmao. love your use of quotation marks on "look nice"

>>4514479
This is such a nikon user post lol
>auto white balance? correct? impossible!
On canon and the newer sony cameras AWB is within 100k and 1 tint of gray card wb, which is the only actual way to guarantee white balance and only for the light falling on the gray card. However it doesn’t matter that much because color on digital is fake (doubly so if you’re stuck with bad color science ie: nikon, olympus, lumix, early sony) and digital cameras are actually incapable of correct white balance if the light source is anything but pure sunlight or flash, while film and human eyes are much closer to each other. Even the right way isn’t right.

Of course nikon cameras amp it up by making the color difference between direct light and shadows look 1000x more obvious than it really is which is why nikon users often have green or blue in their dogs fur.

>>4514482
is that really just a nikon thing? i tried a z6ii after an eos r and all the shadows were fucking blue and grass cast so much green youd think it glowed. went back to canon and magically shadows were just like everything else but darker and grass no longer glowed.

>>4514308
holy shit bro

maybe chill on the sperg out guys
this is a thread for greentexts

>>4514454
Ebin

Also its the same guy with the leica and zf trolling himself every time in every thread
How is he so good at taking bait? Are leicucks and niggors simply that retarded?

Photography fail king right here >>4514446

>>4514392
>hates Sony and using manual
So this is what the mind of the Snoy poster is like then.

>>4513668
>use M mode on camera
>camera EXPLODES

>>4514511
>It's just trolling bro
Another win for corgichad

>>4514543
Who the fuck is corgichad? Why is it always a *dogbreed*fag? Husky, corgi, german shepherd. God damn. No dog, you aren’t winning. Continuing an immature argument that manual is better (most started and most lost argument in photography) with someone who has called you retarded and laughed at you multiple times is not winning. It’s willingly making yourself mad. Its like going into the micro four thirds thread to be mad at it (was that you too? god damn)

>>4514544
>so good at taking bait

>>4514545
>stick to r/leica your presence makes every thread on /p/ worse thanks

>>4514547
>I'm new to the board
Welcome newfriend

>>4514545
This.

>>4514544
Newbies appeal to manual because they think it's something challenging or rewarding or appeal to some "skill" or virtue, they just chase the needle because they don't know any better
Enthusiasts see that as silly because you can just shoot in priority modes and leverage your control options to work faster for the same results, they are focused on a per shot snapshot basis
Pros go back to manual because they have a better understanding of exposure controls for min/maxing on IQ, and type of shooting most pros do lends itself more to consistent exposures, they are focused on a cohesive body of work

Someone brought up Dunning Kruger earlier, that's the "auto exposure" is best group. They have enough knowledge to know that A/P can get the job done most of the time, but not enough experience to see why M is usually better.

>>4514547
>>4514544
Honestly agreed. 100%.

/p/ got better when the husky rapist left and /p/ will get better when the corgi turd leaves too. Literally every thread is him arguing with someone about his latent attachment to fujifilm, insisting nikon is good, or some cope adjacent to justifying owning a leica to take photos of his dog. Corgishit used to be a good poster but he’s pretty checked out from photography and doesn’t do it in a serious capacity anymore. He’s been blogging about slowly selling all his gear after years of perfectionist consumerist neuroticism (which he still engages in over cameras he does not even own). Knowing photographers and members of other gear based creative hobbies who eventually quit, he’s on the same path. This guys entire recent history is a fail we can witness in real time and learn from. The behavior that leads up to stopping photography altogether.

German shepturd is the only good dogfaggot. He actually takes photos, tries to improve, and doesn’t cope with generic digicuck consoomerism. Knowing photographers who eventually got published as serious artists, he’s on the right path.

>>4514550
>pros go back to manual
This is literally not the case and never has been. Priority modes are just manual with more efficient controls that allow manipulating all the other camera settings much faster and more conveniently. Most cameras are actually designed to be used in a priority mode, which includes manual+autoiso (TAv priority) and are not set up for convenient manual control of the entire exposure triangle. The vast majority of professionals, when asked, shoot priority modes when not forced to shoot manual by their camera. Every manual only/manual forward camera is marketed to newbies and dilettantes who wish to pose as serious photographers in a way that normies can instantly pick up on.

Shooting manual is also more tied to jpegs. Matching raws after using exposure only to expose to the right is what most pros do, to keep the level of grain and highlight blowout the same between images. Using manual to try to make every photo look samey is a very fujislug jpeg thing, for people who can’t work with raws effectively.

This is just more of that dog guy coping and trying to feel good about wasting many thousands on a leica to go with his dying hobby isn’t it?

>>4514553
>The vast majority of professionals, when asked, shoot priority modes when not forced to shoot manual by their camera.

I hate to break it to you, but "professional" does not mean someone is good at what they do. It means that they have persuaded someone even more oblivious than they are to give them money for a service.

The professional that has better than bare minimum competence is extremely rare. That applies to all fields, not just photography.

>>4514569
>pros agree with me so im right
>wait, they don’t?
>pros are talentless fools!
kek heres the latest photography fail for this gem of a thread

>>4514573
It's funny how the samefag always assumes he's also dealing with a samefag.

One time I decided I was going to try street photography and I went downtown. I was walking in front of two girls when inspiration hit and I turned around and snapped a picture of them. They looked at me and laughed and it was awkward and now I only take pictures of strangers if I have a telephoto lens.

>>4514586
Kek reminded me of what happened to me.
>trying out street photos and walking along the sidewalk
>have camera hanging off my neck since i still used a neck strap at the time
>some women with a lot of cleavage on display put their hands over the chests very obviously when they saw my camera
>put my autism on full display by saying "i like taking pictures of buildings, calm down" as i walked by
Another unrelated one
>took photo of some interesting looking guy on street
>he notices and quickly comes at me
>"yo did you just take a picture of me?!"
>yeah
>demands to see it
>show the photo
>"okay yeah that looks good"
>nods at me and just walks away
Weird how he was so intense and then so calm. Maybe he was going to be pissed if the photo didn't look good.

>>4514580
>im being stalked by one guy. wherever i go someone thinks im dumb!
kek!

>>4514588
I've had my light meter out(incident/spot) and black people have told me to stop recording them multiple times.

>>4514588
>put their hands over the chests very obviously
lel

>>4514588
>dress specifically to show off breasts
>but then hide them if someone is looking
why do women do this?

>>4514594
Kek