The Photography thread!

[TheLinguist]

They didn’t have anything else when I Started, and my dad was infatuated with wining some Aduboun Society Photography contest for birds in flight and everyday after work and on weekends we’d go to the local park lake and shoot rolls of film.

Did he win?

 

[Gandulf]

Charles (2019)


Guilty Simpson (2017)


Lil' (2017)

 

[Gandulf]

There's days, I love being a photographer, videographer and camera editor. Nowadays, I'm in a mix between heaven and hell.
I love learning new stuff, it's a trade you have to be in for years to know all it's tips and tricks, and twenty years later you'll still be learning. The better you get, the better clients you get, the harder jobs you get. Sometimes I feel less like an artist/creator (not to be elitist) but more of a computer technician, which I really don't enjoy.

It's also not the healthiest of jobs in the world. Most guys I know in the business are experiencing a lot of shoulder, neck and back problems. Many are overweight to obese (me included) and dragging crates of heavy gear day in day out doesn't improve the situation. Work early, work late, work at night, eat in a truck stop or grab a slice of pizza in between shots, it's not the lifestyle I would have imagined. I'm blessed to have other ventures in life than this, because I understand a lot of people burn out trying to make too much content or working impossible hours, often for peanuts.

The photography community is a lot more toxic than the video community, main reason I think is because the video guys are still getting money so they don't have the feeling to shoot down on everyone.

Today I received a few thingies I bought second hand online, a walimex 14mm f2.8 fullframe lens, that I checked and sadly has the rear element slightly scratched and a 2x converter that seems to work well. The scratch doesn't seem visible in low apertures, I'm going to take it outside tomorrow to see what happens in higher apertures.

I think next year, I'm going to stop all video and photo work for clients and work on a documentary or one or two youtube channels.

 

[90 50]

Did he win?

No LOL, it was a really really big deal back in the day, it might not have been Audubon society it might have even been nat geo don’t remeber but it was a big enough deal that it was a driving factor for motor drives etc iirc and faster long lenses.

I’ll have to ask him exactly what the deal was.

 

[Kardashians]

Marketa Lazarova, Czech medieval film from 1967.



Whole film is on YouTube(with English subtitles) if you want to watch it.

If you don't have experience with a camera like that previously Kardashians the main thing you'll need is a light meter to judge exposure settings, could buy one or perhaps theres a phone app? do you know whether the camera actually works? a lot of them of such age don't or the shutter times are slow/fast.

Oh thank you! I'll have to check that out!

This is my first time using a camera like this. As it is now I'm already having a time just trying to load the film lol. Wouldn't be so bad if these Youtubers stopped putting their hands all in the way of what they're doing. Last I was told it's in working order, but they also told me it takes 35mm film lol. So I can't say at this point. At the very least I like the smell it's got to it. I have to figure out it by Friday. I told the women I bought it from I'd take her picture with it next time I saw her (it was her father's camera, and he took pictures of her when she was a little girl).

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Oh thank you! I'll have to check that out!

This is my first time using a camera like this. As it is now I'm already having a time just trying to load the film lol. Wouldn't be so bad if these Youtubers stopped putting their hands all in the way of what they're doing. Last I was told it's in working order, but they also told me it takes 35mm film lol. So I can't say at this point. At the very least I like the smell it's got to it. I have to figure out it by Friday. I told the women I bought it from I'd take her picture with it next time I saw her (it was her father's camera, and he took pictures of her when she was a little girl).

Not exactly easy viewing, made to be deliberately confusing and disorientating but one of my favourites.

Looking that camera up online it shoots discontinued 620 film rather than regular 120 medium format film so you'll probably need some kind of adapter to put on the spools to get it to work.

 

[TheLinguist]

This is Wu Kang mansion, built in 1924, it’s a serious piece of architecture and a very expensive place to live, situated in a very chic part of Shanghai it’s a great place to wander around with a camera and often meeting new friends makes it awesome.

Was up at 4 and set up at 5 in the AM for this shot

As per wiki:

The Wukang Mansion or Wukang Building, formerly known as the Normandie Apartments or International Savings Society Apartments, is a protected historic apartment building in the former French Concession area of Shanghai. It was designed by the Hungarian-Slovak architect László Hudec and completed in 1924. The building has been the residence of many celebrities.

 

[TheLinguist]

There's days, I love being a photographer, videographer and camera editor. Nowadays, I'm in a mix between heaven and hell.
I love learning new stuff, it's a trade you have to be in for years to know all it's tips and tricks, and twenty years later you'll still be learning. The better you get, the better clients you get, the harder jobs you get. Sometimes I feel less like an artist/creator (not to be elitist) but more of a computer technician, which I really don't enjoy.

It's also not the healthiest of jobs in the world. Most guys I know in the business are experiencing a lot of shoulder, neck and back problems. Many are overweight to obese (me included) and dragging crates of heavy gear day in day out doesn't improve the situation. Work early, work late, work at night, eat in a truck stop or grab a slice of pizza in between shots, it's not the lifestyle I would have imagined. I'm blessed to have other ventures in life than this, because I understand a lot of people burn out trying to make too much content or working impossible hours, often for peanuts.

The photography community is a lot more toxic than the video community, main reason I think is because the video guys are still getting money so they don't have the feeling to shoot down on everyone.

Today I received a few thingies I bought second hand online, a walimex 14mm f2.8 fullframe lens, that I checked and sadly has the rear element slightly scratched and a 2x converter that seems to work well. The scratch doesn't seem visible in low apertures, I'm going to take it outside tomorrow to see what happens in higher apertures.

I think next year, I'm going to stop all video and photo work for clients and work on a documentary or one or two youtube channels.

Toxic people in the photography world have been there for decades, many elitist pricks, insecure assholes and out right haters.

Here in Shanghai I’ve only met great people who are nice.

Video side has been the same, just helpful people who are also keen to learn.

LA IS DIFFERENT, so many nasty “photogs”

As for the burn out I’m just glad it’s a hobby (not one I’m good at I admit but enjoy throughly)

Sorry to hear you had some rough times there but you got some new toys! Hope you can get up and find that motivation to take some photos and drop them here, can’t get enough of looking at skilled photos

 

[Deleted member 110072]

I remember staying at the Broadway mansions in Shanghai at one end of the Bund, interesting design having cold riveted girders with cores of pure selenium.

Back to the endless stormy B&W skys...

 

[Gandulf]

CM System training


Dunkirk, France (2017)


Jim (2017)


Lil (2014)


Lil (2019)

 

[TheLinguist]

The Nikon Z50 is a 20MP mirrorless camera: the first time the company has put an (unstabilized) APS-C sensor behind its new, larger 'Z' lens mount. The company says the camera is designed to attract a generation of users who don't consider themselves to be photographers.

Alongside the camera, Nikon has announced two lenses designed for this sensor size: a 16-50mm F3.5-6.3 collapsible standard zoom and a 50-250mm F4.5-6.3 telephoto zoom - both with built-in image stabilization (which Nikon calls Vibration Reduction).

Key specifications

• 20.7MP BSI-CMOS sensor
• Twin control dial interface
• Up to 11 fps shooting with AE/AF, 5 fps with live view
• 4K video at up to 30p from 1.5x crop of sensor
• 2.36M-dot OLED viewfinder
• Rear touchscreen tilts up by 90° or down by 180°
• Bluetooth-enabled Wi-Fi (via Snapbridge app)
• Creative Picture Control effects

The Z50 will be available for sale from November, with an MSRP of $860, body-only. Adding the 16-50mm zoom takes the price to $1000 and a two-lens kit with both DX zooms takes the list price to $1350.

WTF is Nikon even trying any more??

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Honestly besides the questionable marketing spiel its pretty close to what their rivals are offering in terms of price/specs, If anything it seems like a bit more of a photographers camera than most of its APSC rivals(bar maybe Fuji's XT-30) with larger controls and viewfinder. The main argument over Canon and Fuji they have I spose is that the camera offers a direct FF upgrade path on the same lens mount although that will probably need to wait until you have some decent Z-mount tele lenses to be very meaningful.

 

[90 50]

The Nikon Z50 is a 20MP mirrorless camera: the first time the company has put an (unstabilized) APS-C sensor behind its new, larger 'Z' lens mount. The company says the camera is designed to attract a generation of users who don't consider themselves to be photographers.

Alongside the camera, Nikon has announced two lenses designed for this sensor size: a 16-50mm F3.5-6.3 collapsible standard zoom and a 50-250mm F4.5-6.3 telephoto zoom - both with built-in image stabilization (which Nikon calls Vibration Reduction).

Key specifications

• 20.7MP BSI-CMOS sensor
• Twin control dial interface
• Up to 11 fps shooting with AE/AF, 5 fps with live view
• 4K video at up to 30p from 1.5x crop of sensor
• 2.36M-dot OLED viewfinder
• Rear touchscreen tilts up by 90° or down by 180°
• Bluetooth-enabled Wi-Fi (via Snapbridge app)
• Creative Picture Control effects

The Z50 will be available for sale from November, with an MSRP of $860, body-only. Adding the 16-50mm zoom takes the price to $1000 and a two-lens kit with both DX zooms takes the list price to $1350.

WTF is Nikon even trying any more??

No 50 or 35 1.8’s at least for that body?

No thanks.

 

[ssBaldy]

The Nikon Z50 is a 20MP mirrorless camera: the first time the company has put an (unstabilized) APS-C sensor behind its new, larger 'Z' lens mount. The company says the camera is designed to attract a generation of users who don't consider themselves to be photographers.

Alongside the camera, Nikon has announced two lenses designed for this sensor size: a 16-50mm F3.5-6.3 collapsible standard zoom and a 50-250mm F4.5-6.3 telephoto zoom - both with built-in image stabilization (which Nikon calls Vibration Reduction).

Key specifications

• 20.7MP BSI-CMOS sensor
• Twin control dial interface
• Up to 11 fps shooting with AE/AF, 5 fps with live view
• 4K video at up to 30p from 1.5x crop of sensor
• 2.36M-dot OLED viewfinder
• Rear touchscreen tilts up by 90° or down by 180°
• Bluetooth-enabled Wi-Fi (via Snapbridge app)
• Creative Picture Control effects

The Z50 will be available for sale from November, with an MSRP of $860, body-only. Adding the 16-50mm zoom takes the price to $1000 and a two-lens kit with both DX zooms takes the list price to $1350.

WTF is Nikon even trying any more??

Canon also spewed out a turd (though,with of a different kind) with their EOS M200. IMO aps-c mirrorless would be great for video but no, both of those cant shoot 60fps 4k. Canon has better optics for their cropped cams as of now, 350$ for a lens with 6.3 aperture seems idiotic.

 

[Kardashians]

Not exactly easy viewing, made to be deliberately confusing and disorientating but one of my favourites.

Looking that camera up online it shoots discontinued 620 film rather than regular 120 medium format film so you'll probably need some kind of adapter to put on the spools to get it to work.

sounds like my kind of thing, which is why i was interested by your avi.

yeah i order my film from an online place, and they offer 120 film i think it is, and sell it pre-rolled onto a 620 spool. i got it in quite easily once i got pass my worries that i'd ruin it and the world would be over lol. i was reading about it online as well and think i've got a pretty good grasp of it's functions so i'll be ready for tomorrow. i took a photo with it last night, and everything seems to be in good working order, but i guess i'll truly find out when i send the film to be developed.

im hoping it'll be decent out this weekend so i can venture out for some nice photos. im getting to be obsessive though, wanting to take three cameras out with me. the vollenda, my dslr, and polaroid lol.

 

[TheLinguist]

Honestly besides the questionable marketing spiel its pretty close to what their rivals are offering in terms of price/specs, If anything it seems like a bit more of a photographers camera than most of its APSC rivals(bar maybe Fuji's XT-30) with larger controls and viewfinder. The main argument over Canon and Fuji they have I spose is that the camera offers a direct FF upgrade path on the same lens mount although that will probably need to wait until you have some decent Z-mount tele lenses to be very meaningful.

Garbage to me. Absolute waste of money. And one I predict will fail to sell

 

[Deleted member 110072]

sounds like my kind of thing, which is why i was interested by your avi.

yeah i order my film from an online place, and they offer 120 film i think it is, and sell it pre-rolled onto a 620 spool. i got it in quite easily once i got pass my worries that i'd ruin it and the world would be over lol. i was reading about it online as well and think i've got a pretty good grasp of it's functions so i'll be ready for tomorrow. i took a photo with it last night, and everything seems to be in good working order, but i guess i'll truly find out when i send the film to be developed.

im hoping it'll be decent out this weekend so i can venture out for some nice photos. im getting to be obsessive though, wanting to take three cameras out with me. the vollenda, my dslr, and polaroid lol.

Again its up on Youtube last time I checked in quite good quality, just be prepared to be rather confused on first viewing.

Besides the metering probably the biggest challenge would be the focus as it looks like the camera has no built in rangefinder(although you can buy them separately), less of an issue if the cameras stopped down along way but for shallow focus or a closer portrait you'd probably be best having a measuring tape.

 

[fungi]

 

[Gandulf]

The Z50 looks like an absolute turd. Nikon is shooting themselves in the foot again. And they're already not doing great in terms of finance.

Marketed at non photographers... euhm that's what the M200 is, half the size, several hundred dollars less and the same specs (not saying the m200 got me hyped).

Selfie screen only flips downward so you can put it on a tripod/stabiliser/monopod/cage. What fucking dumb decision is that. It's 2019 motherfucker, if you wanna attract the InFlUeNcer crowd you will need 2019 specs, and that stupid screen is one of them.

Near 900 dollars and no ibis... the M50 did that last year, for 200 dollars less...

Also their z6 grip is quite stupid, and the price on the 50 0.95 is crazy. What's going on with the company that brought us the amazing D500 (still the best sports camera under 3 grand)

I saw some footage from the Panasonic S1 today in a facebook group. Absolutely impressed. Next thing I want to cop.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Again to me that seems like some dodgy marketing blerb, in reality the camera is a pretty standard high level APSC mirrorless.

The 58mm 0.95 seems to be aimed at high end portrait shooters and videographers, probably a lens that will get rented rather than bought a lot of the time I'd imagine. Nikon are going to put out a 50mm F/1.2 as well aren't they?