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How about the good old heart-shaped berkuh "filter"?

>fun and artsy

Dangeruosly reddit, but I see what you mean. Some options include:
- low con and high con filters
- diffusion filters (see pro mist / glimmerglass or putting stretched nylon pantyhoes in between the lens and the sensor)
- star filters (as mentioned above)
- streak filters (to give you streaks of light like you might get from anamorphic lenses - see Escape from New York for examples)
- you can also buy variously shaped prisms to put in front of the lens to give interesting effects -> triangular and hexagonal prisms on long lenses (think 50-85mm or more) can give interesting effects, doublings, mirrorings, etc.
- pieces of fishing wire across the lens can do something too, as can split diopters or broken pieces of magnifying glass

Hope you have fun

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Vaseline on a UV filter.

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>>3952808
>unreliable
Right
>piece of garbage
Wrong.

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>>3952808
There's a comment in this blog post that says it's some power chip that is causing the problem with the Contax N Digital.

https://cameralegend.com/2020/11/09/the-contax-n-digital-revisited-2020/#comments

my sp1000 has by far the best focusing screen of any camera I own.

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>>3952923
True, there's really no comparison between Spotmatic and most (or any?) APS-C cameras. Haven't tried the viewfinder on the K-1 though. It should be a lot better.

Top: Spotmatic with a 50mm lens, bottom: K10D with 35-80mm zoom @35mm.

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>>3953360
I use the O-ME 53 on my K-3, the viewfinder is almost as big as on my K-1 vanilla

>>3953700
>>3953698
EOS R5
You can still use your old glasses
The old EF 50 1.2L on the R5 is simply phenomenal

>>3953707
>The old EF 50 1.2L on the R5 is simply phenomenal
The result will be unremarkable actually. No different from the results on the initial R camera.

You can't draw additional detail out of a lens that is unremarkable by simply increasing the resolution..

>>3953401
>>3953427
>>3953431
turned out to be $2500 as expected.

>>3953707
>>3953709

I think the ability to get focus at 1.2 may be what he's referring to here.

I'm on the fence about the 50 1.2 as a low light lens. mpb has one for $1029 and it's in my cart.....but so is the r6 and an rf/ef adapter.

fucking ridiculous canon wants $350 for the battery grips for the r5/r6 and there's no aftermarket grips anywhere.

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>got new job recently
>massive pay bump, from $75k to $122k
>still tempted to cheap the fuck out on lenses and gear
In the market for a mirrorless, my first thought was to go for broke with an A7R IV but I think I've landed on an A7 III with a 24-70 mm F2.8 GM and either a Sony 70-300mm or Sigma 100-400mm. Going to buy it all preowned since I can evade taxes by purchasing on this one site online that somehow just does not give a shit about collecting 10.1% extra from me. Just waiting for the A7IV release to drive the cost down further on the A7III.

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>>3953328
not a bad choice if you want to limit yourself to two lenses

I'd maybe go for 56 + 33 + 16, but then you're talking about more costs and one more lens to add to your bag
Then also I like a 50 equivalent more than a 35

>>3953395
>t. guy who only uses one prime

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>>3953449
nope I have a whole kit of primes. seethe.

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Bought a "new" Fujifilm X-T3. But it seems a bit sketchy to me. The plastic wrapping is not the one I usually know from Fuji and it didn't come sealed. What's also strange, there is an additional Fujifilm note saying "Due to changes in supplied accessories, the camera now ships with the strap clips and covers attached, and a clip attaching tool is consequently no longer provided."

I checked shot counter and it says "1" after the first image I read. There are also no signs of use. But that it isn't sealed is strange. Any danger in using it or should I send it back and buy from somewhere else?

>>3954075
Did it come with a battery charger?

>>3950247
>fucking Americans, tarmac can't take nearly half the weight an airport pavement requires to take, it's literally a dirt road with a thin veneer of asphalt on top to make it more durable
Fucking groundlets thinking tarmac literally only ever refers to tarmacadam when "tarmac" was used by the Royal Air Force as a generic term as far back as the 1930s and thinking every colloquialism in use comes from the Yanks.

>>3950005
Is it not? Its basically the equivalent of pulling the fire alarm in a crowded building.

>>3950005
It is

>>3950247
Americans don't know the difference between tarmac and asphalt, but use the proper one
We also call petrol gas even when it's liquid

>>3952298
petrol aka gasoline
fucking retard

>>3952587
black jacket has an all time pony tail going on. the true embodiment of business in the front, party in the back.

>>3952587
Classical triangular composition. This some next level stuff.

>>3952675
explain

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wish i could tell ye. shooting this asshole is difficult even with the birdcam.

>>3952587
god this is funny. even funnier is the average peetard thinks they are better than this.

>>3947539
... Plus a weird little fixed-focus shitty 35mm camera with a 35-55mm zoom lens that I picked up at the Goodwill the other day just because I'd never seen a camera like that with a zoom lens before, even if 35-55mm is barely a zoom.

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Polaroid 360. Pretty much the pinnacle of the pack-film Polaroids. It really sucks that I won't get to shoot much more with this camera--I have two more boxes of pack film and then I'm pretty sure I'll never get to shoot it ever again (unless someone makes an Even More Impossible Project to bring pack film back).

It really sucks because I absolutely love the look of Fuji's discontinued pack film. And it still works even though it's been expired since 2014 (cold-stored the whole time).

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Canon PowerShot A3300 IS. I found this in a thrift store the other day for fifteen bucks, and it's kind of interesting because apparently Canon cheaped out on the lens and made up for it with software. When shooting at the wide end of the lens in JPEG it looks normal, but when I shoot raw (thanks to CHDK firmware) it's damn near a fisheye and I get a significantly wider field of view. Kind of a neat effect.

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VTech KidiZoom. Of the two shitty pink digital point & shoot cameras targeted at 3 year old girls that I shot with this year, this one was definitely the best. Still not very good, though.

This one also has games, but they seem to be slightly more advanced than the ones that >>3939019 has. Also, looks like it's legitimately 2MP, which sure is nice.

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Sony H300. Absolutely awful image quality. It fails at startup if the lens cap is still on the lens because it has to extend slightly and it can't when the lens is capped. Specs look good, but they're basically a lie because the shitty lens and shitty sensor aren't really giving you anywhere near 20MP worth of image data. So, standard Sony stuff.

I picked it up at a thrift store, and the EV compensation (which you have to menu-dive to find, naturally) was set to +1. I did a file recovery on the included memory card and found the previous owner's vacation snaps (no nudes, boo) and they were all one stop overexposed. I wonder how long they'd had that +1 set and were wondering why their photos always came out a little too bright.

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>>3952704
Because it's a beautiful place with high visual impact that people want to see. I know we all like to say that local landscapes are just as valid but let's be honest, unless you live somewhere like Colorado nobody wants to see your snapshots of the local park pond.

>>3952704
Laziness. It takes skill and time to find a good location. It takes no skill and little time to shoot at a known location.

>>3952704

To show that they've been to the same place as everyone else

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>>3952759

>>3952759
I'm new to /p/

>>3949572
That's based on the presupposition that there aren't any or that film is inherently more artistic than digital. That's pretty poor argumentation

>>3949587
An actual, plausible reason

>>3950455
Which contemporary photobooks you own?

>>3950464
Henrik Spohler – The Third Day
Toshio Shibata – Japanscapes
James Casebere – After Scale Model
Michael Sherwin – Vanishing Points
Michael Wolf – Hong Kong Lost Laundry

>>3950485
rekt

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>>3950485
These are pretty great. Thanks!

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>>3952670
i never got the scanner because my car broke and im poor so now i gotta spend a gorillion bucks on fixing it boo hoo :(((((

>>3952746
Take the amount of time you spend on here and channel it towards making money.

both on the right? digital has very defined pixels in the wheel's shadow and brick textures

>>3938147
this

>>3938110
Right is film
The light hitting the glass jar gives it away as film.

Left photo is bamboozle. FUCK YOU

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>>3953043

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>>3953057
>and lenses from Asian lens companies
Pretty sure my F-mount Nikon can mount Nikon lenses, also Laowa and Samyang ones.

>>3948576
>photography is 90% subject 10% lighting
>gearfagging is good as long as you sell stuff you don't use
>slides are ultimate photography
>small and compact>>>>>>>large and technically superior gear
>you arent a true photographer unless you take photos for yourself and yourself only
>99% /p/haggots have no clue how to take pictures

happy to fight anyone who disagrees

>>3953122
>>photography is 90% subject 10% lighting
Maybe, but my hot take on that is that 90% of the time, subject matter is not a valid thing to critique. In my mind, it's rare to find a "bad" subject, as long as you have a good execution of your photo of it

>>3953146
>as long as you have a good execution of your photo of it
Then in your opinion photography is 90% lighting/composition, which i agree, subjects are for the cattle.
>>3953122
You are completely wrong in everything and also contradict some points

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>>3943779
Absolutely lovely.
>>3943814
Fuck off, he used a filter.

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>>3953051
Looks like glowing star wars ship from the thumbnail.

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>>3953063
imagine defining your entire reality by a few fictional works. so smallbrained. fucking normie.

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>>3951867
It's an impressive lens, considering the year it was made in. The lens uses that weird focus by wire setup the Canon use for a few of the very first lenses of the autofocus area. 600 F4 the 300 2.8 and a very nice 200 1.8 all use the same Focus motor.

When I bought my 200 from Henry's, I made sure that it was a pristine example that hadn't been used heavily and it came from an old guy who bought it thinking it only weighed 3 lb not 3 Kg so you barely used it.

And then Cannon decided to stop offering repairs on a bunch of these cameras and started selling all the spare parts that they'd collected for that on the open market and I'm I'm in mind to focus motors for it brand new off of eBay for $300 each. Fucking bargain.


I had a brief interchange with an eBay seller years ago on Taiwan who is trying to sell the 1,200 he had and he mentioned that is Focus motor was acting up a little bit and I told him that the ones from the other lenses as I mentioned would fit in this lens.

One guy who owns one of these lenses has a winter place up here near me at Whistler BC. I think he's a bigwig in the some kind of a camera company Ted I think. He phoned me up later and offered me a thousand bucks for each Focus motor but I told him that I'm going to keep at least one for my 200

>>3952295
Quite a few companies could duplicate this optic. When was a company called astrophysics which makes refractors and occasional maksutov telescopes for astronomers. You should go at Boeing Surplus, I dug up some old glass left over from some project oh, and it was the exact same rear flicktype called anomalous dispersion Flint that they needed to use to make their tiny astrophysics stowaway 4.9 93 mm telescope.

I have enough in the four sheets that I've got that they could probably make me and eat or a 10-inch version of this one but it would probably have to be slowed down to F 6 or so.


A few specialized telescope companies could make a maksutov that's that fast but of course it would have the infamous donut bokah effects.

The only current lens that I have that would get close to this one is my 1,000 m m f 5.6 Zeiss Mirotar. Unfortunately, the damn thing has a Contax Yashica mount on it.


Or actually have no small amount of talent when it comes to building things and Optics is something I've just started on in the last few years. I just built myself a couple of 12 in Newtonian telescope. Thing is if you want to do this hobby all these old people who took this stuff up 40 or 50 years ago are all dying or dead and their kids are going through their collections of stuff and selling them off for pennies on the dollar. I'm asked myself a huge surplus of Pyrex blanks all the way up to 18 in, and from an engineering firm that I helped my wife's friend get a glass desk from for her house, they were using a bunch of 4 by 8 2 in thick Pyrex sheets made by Corning as a place to put their engineering diagrams on saw horses and didn't want these anymore and didn't realize just how expensive this material is now. A friend of mine worked at the Port Mellon pulp Mill , and I'm taking a tour through there during one of their big shut down when they were reengineering and rebuilding whole bunch of the production line

>>3953055
And I come across pile of glass that they'd taken out of various places in the production line. All of them were circular inspection windows so you could directly view the process oh, and while I was standing there they put a few more down. Quite a few of them were Pyrex from 6 in 18 in in diameter. Then they started bringing out larger ones that were much thicker and one was a 24in window that was meant for a pressurized reaction vessel that contain caustic material. I think that was a window that looked into a pressurized vessel where the reaction with the wood fibres and the black liquor causes the lignum in the wood to be lost just leaving the fibres behind for the hope. These ones had inspection numbers written on them and one of them dated from nearly 30 years earlier and the inside of it was slightly crazed from being exposed. And when I saw the General Electric materials label on it oh, I got excited because this meant this piece of glass and a few of the other ones were actually fused silica not the less expensive Pyrex. They were going to just dump it and they were handling it a bit carelessly so a few of them got chipped and one actually got broken because they dropped it while they're handling it. But all pulled there's over 30 of these little bastards there and I had to convince my friend to load them into his truck so we could take them off. This was 12 years ago oh, and he recently asked me if I still had them oh, I had traded we're giving away a few of the smaller ones in the 6:00 and 8 inch range but I kept all the larger and more expensive material ones. A university asked me if I wanted to sell them the 24in blank is he wanted to research size telescope for the observatory Down Under but the price they were offering was only $2,000. My guess is that General Electric would sell this for the region of about 12 to $15,000US now. If I can find a proper corrector, I could build myself a 20-inch maksutov

>>3953055
>>3953066
What are you operating on today?

>>3953072
Currently I have 4 commercially made Maksutov telescopes from 3 1/2 to 10 inches.


I plan to build at least one big one around 11 or so cuz that's the biggest one that my Mount and Observatory could easily hold. Those rough bits of optical glass aren't suited for refractive Optics so they become Newtonian reflector or possibly a big cassegrain

VOTING is open for "Photo Challenge 18 - Trees" winner here:

https://strawpoll.com/oze3rgfks
Everyone gets unlimited number of votes. Vote for all the photos that you like the most.

Entry list: >>3950565, >>3950564, >>3950562
Previous thread: >>3939776
Archive: https://archived.moe/p/thread/3939776/#q3939776

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>>3950561
Fix for third place.

First Place Tie: Coincidentally Took Architecture: >>3936149, https://i.4cdn.org/p/1630953012545.jpg 12.31% (8 votes),
Late Night Barn Fire Under a Billboard: >>3935501, https://i.4cdn.org/p/1630804225993.jpg 11.43% (8 votes)
2nd Place: Luminous Cross: >>3930307, https://i.4cdn.org/p/1629630598661.jpg
3rd Place: Spires: >>3930607, https://i.4cdn.org/p/1629693558515.jpg

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Sick tree

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>>3939776

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Missed deadline by a day.

>>3952515
>All the great painters ground their own pigments
no they didn't.

>>3952517
Well, technically they had their assistants do it, but the point is, they had both technical and artistic know-how. You need both, it's never enough with one of them.

>>3952515
>Knowing composition and storytelling is absolutely necessary, but not sufficient to be a great photographer.
Don't beat around the bush, to be known as a great photographer you need marketing schemes, unrelated charisma with either the public or executives and characteristic physical appearance.
If you want to be a great photographer on your own you only need to really, really like your own pictures. Someone who also likes them will always like your work because you also do.

I watched his clean room video but thought my design was better

>>3952580
Interesting. What do you use yours for?