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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 20:23 
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The media department was having a clear out of their old cameras so I had a snoop. Managed to get a Canon Powershot G3. Pretty pleased with it as well. It's only 4 mega pixels but has full manual controls, a 2.0 lens and does raw. I've taken a few nice pictures in playing with it. In short: chuffed. Pics to follow


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Here's a few that I took before the 32MB (!) CF card filled up :)

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Excellent.

Was that a freebie then?

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Yep. They were literally throwing them away


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 21:58 
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A whole shitload of camera gear up for auction here:

http://www.joneslanglasalle.co.uk/Unite ... Sales.aspx


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Good news, everyone!

Tomorrow I'll have my first medium format camera. Well, not strictly own, I'm getting it on long term loan. It's a Yashica Mat 124G twin lens reflex camera, I believe, and I can't wait to run some 120 film through it. I reckon I'll use Portra 400 for portraits, Fuji Velvia for night shoots and Ilford for street photography and still life.

Going to be ace fun test-driving it on Confederate and Union reenactors on the weekend, too! :D

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We used to have a medium format camera at school when I did my photography GCSE. Seemed to just take bigger photos. What was I missing?

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Mr Russell wrote:
We used to have a medium format camera at school when I did my photography GCSE. Seemed to just take bigger photos. What was I missing?


Basically it packs in:

Far more tonal variation, which is lovely for smooth transitions between colours and shades.

Damn good lens glass.

A greater depth between subjects making the photos more involving.

Far better control of highlights.

Excellent for street photography in that you look down through a waist-level finder and people assume you're tinkering with the settings.

Way more information in 120 film than 35mm. Even high-spec digital cameras aren't quite up to the 120 standard, apart from the super-pricey Hassleblads and Nikon D800 etc. A 35mm negative is the size of a stamp. The 120mm is the size of a playing card. This means not only that you get more detail, but you can enlarge the pictures far bigger without losing anything.

Check out this guy for his medium format TLR camera work:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickjoust/

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Looking forward to seeing your results Pete.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 23:43 
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Zoidberg style: Whoop whoop whoop!

I've got the Yashica 124G and it's a beaut! Lenses looks clear of any marks, haze, scratches or fungus. Shutter sounds okay, no scuff marks on the casing even and it has the leather case and strap and everything. I've bought a roll of Kodak Portra 400 so it's portrait time a-go-go come Saturday evening and Sunday morning. It's heavy, though! I have to say as well, it looks rather cool.

Me so excited. Me want to cry.

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And now I've just loaded my first film, in an incredibly nervous and tentative way whilst watching cute big-eyed Australian lass do same on YouTube. It's fun cranking up the camera. Whee! :)

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I have to say as well, it looks rather cool.

*Googles "Yashica 124G"*

Oh yeah, nice. You must wear a bowler hat when using that out on the street. It would be the proper thing to do.

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You'll be doing wetplates next. Which would be awesome.


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 Post subject: Re: Camera gear
PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:04 
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I may need the 50mm f/1.8 for my nex. Lovely portrait shots come off it because of the bokeh (second-hand explanation as I'm sure you would all guess, it being me talking). Extremely narrow focal depth.

Alternatively, I could see how well the background blur function works.


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 17:22 
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I'll just leave this here for you, Peter.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004 ... ukdeals-21

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I'll just leave this here for you, Peter.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004 ... ukdeals-21


Sexy! If only my sister wasn't getting married, thus imminently impoverishing me, eh?

But the next camera I get will be full frame, no doubt about it. The D600 will one day be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine.

Anyway, update on the Yashica Mat 124G. I successfully shot a reel of 12 of in it. It's a pleasure to use once you've worked out the obtuseness of the film cranking system. I chewed up two rolls before I got to grips with it. The loveliest thing about it is the viewfinder, looking through it feels like plunging into a movie. Also, the focusing knob is great fun, twidling shots in and out of focus is oddly satisfying. I used a film exposure chart I downloaded off the net and it seemed to answer reasonably well, though bracketing is sort of recommended. Out of the twelve shots only two came out as I truly desired, of Barker's Coffee. I showed the staff at the indie coffee shop these two pics of their place and they really liked, and told me that they're looking for framed prints to put on the wall of the place on their soon to open tea shop, and photos of that place in the coffee shop. They suggested I contact the manager.

So I'm going to try and wheedle a commission. Pics are below:

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Funny thing though, I thought I was shooting colour at the time. Turns out it's a rare B&W offshoot varient of the celebrated Portra colour film. Tch. Shooting these got me quite a bit of attention in the coffee shop, as the staff and folk were fascinated by the old vintage unusualness of the camera and kept asking me about it. I felt quite the hipster.

Ugh, hipsters.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:42 
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Great stuff, Pete. Nice to see the pics you've had from the medium format camera. How much is an average roll of film for one of these then?

I remember the ones we had at college were Bronica's (?). Never used them myself, only the Pentax SLRs, but I remember talking to a colleage while he was setting upo a still life shoot and being baffled at the view finder showing everything in reverse.

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 Post subject: Re: Camera gear
PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:45 
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I'm debating about buying:

1) A fast prime for the Nikon. Although I already have a fast prime on the GF1, so that might not be worthwhile.
2) A fast zoom for the Nikon. The Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 looks tasty and not un-affordable. A friend is getting married early next year and I'd like some new glass.
3) Some sort of studio lights to go in my dining room for food photography. Yes, really.


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Not sure how to advise there really. Food studio sounds fun.

I think one of these will be going on my Christmas list, Santa had better bring me the "black edition" or else I'll sulk like fuck:

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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
I'm debating about buying:

1) A fast prime for the Nikon. Although I already have a fast prime on the GF1, so that might not be worthwhile.
2) A fast zoom for the Nikon. The Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 looks tasty and not un-affordable. A friend is getting married early next year and I'd like some new glass.
3) Some sort of studio lights to go in my dining room for food photography.


Oooh. All depends on how much brass you got. If you're going the fast zoom route for the Nikon with a Tamron, this is probably your best bet with the 17-50mm f/2.8:

http://www.bythom.com/1750lens.htm

For wedding portraits with a bit of candid flexibility I'd strongly recommend the 50mm f/1.8G prime. It's actually got nigh-as-good bokeh as its more expensive f/1.4 brother and is a snappy auto-focuser to boot. Plus, sexy prime at only about £170.

As for studio lights I don't know so much about that, but there's some good DIY budget guides out there involving making soft-boxes to diffuse light from cheap IKEA lamps and the like. That might get you where you want to go. I concur that light is everything in photography, even over glass. I just wish I could figure out the mysteries of flash better, it still confounds me somewhat.

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Great stuff, Pete. Nice to see the pics you've had from the medium format camera. How much is an average roll of film for one of these then?

I remember the ones we had at college were Bronica's (?). Never used them myself, only the Pentax SLRs, but I remember talking to a colleage while he was setting upo a still life shoot and being baffled at the view finder showing everything in reverse.

Good luck getting the commision. You deserve it.


Ooh. Bronica. Never used one but I respect 'em from the number of photogs I've met who have good things to say. Bronicas have never had the romance of the Rollei or the Hassleblad, but they are strongly respected as a good Brit workhorse. The Yashica Mat shows everything in reverse too. Oddly, some of my friends when playing with it process this immediately and find no problem. For myself, and others, well we struggle a bit. Anyway, the film costs between £5 and £6 depending on what you go for, if you buy it from a high street shop. Online it's a good deal cheaper, which is where I'll be purchasing in future. Developing is £4.50, with an added £6 for prints and a few more quid on top for a CD. If I go down this route I'll wind up buying a scanner I think, to offset that cost. Obv I'll be looking for money from the coffee shop if I get my commission, and not any bullshit about increasing 'profile'. Petey needs new shoes, motherfuckers!

Pentax SLR 50mm f/1.4 supposed to be lovely, and reasonably cheap.

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Food studio sounds fun.
I think so too. I'm definitely at the level where I'm finding light limiting -- my kitchen gets little natural light in the evenings, particularly during winter, and has halogen spotlights that are dismal for photography. I'm thinking I could devote half of the dining table semi-permanently; put a cheap tripod to one side, with one or two light rigs on tripods or table stands, experiment with diffusers to see how I get on. Not sure about light tents; I don't really want the "floating in space" look and few of them are big enough for my needs, I think.


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NervousPete wrote:
Oooh. All depends on how much brass you got. If you're going the fast zoom route for the Nikon with a Tamron, this is probably your best bet with the 17-50mm f/2.8:
Won't autofocus on my D5000, which I think would bother me. I think the 50-75 mm range in the other lens would be nice for portrait work, too.

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For wedding portraits with a bit of candid flexibility I'd strongly recommend the 50mm f/1.8G prime. It's actually got nigh-as-good bokeh as its more expensive f/1.4 brother and is a snappy auto-focuser to boot. Plus, sexy prime at only about £170.
I already have a 40 mm equivalent f/1.7 lens on the GF1; that's the only reason I haven't bought that lens for the Nikon. Having said that, the GF1 struggles at ISO 400 and is unusable above it; that's one reason to consider the Nikkor prime. I dunno. Can't decide if carrying two bodies is worse than lens swapping either.

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As for studio lights I don't know so much about that, but there's some good DIY budget guides out there involving making soft-boxes to diffuse light from cheap IKEA lamps and the like. That might get you where you want to go. I concur that light is everything in photography, even over glass.
Aye indeed, I'd start cheap on this end and work up if required. Couple of lamps with some moderately pricey daylight LEDs at first I think.

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I just wish I could figure out the mysteries of flash better, it still confounds me somewhat.
Oh yeah... I'm also considering a SB-700.

It's a lot to spend at once, but then again I've not spent any money on camera gear in a year so it's not too bad. (I hope.)


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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
1) A fast prime for the Nikon. Although I already have a fast prime on the GF1, so that might not be worthwhile.
I have, staggeringly, still not bought the 50mm prime for the NEX after seeing how good it is.

Mostly I'd forgotten about it til you just said "fast prime" though.


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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
markg wrote:
Food studio sounds fun.
I think so too. I'm definitely at the level where I'm finding light limiting -- my kitchen gets little natural light in the evenings, particularly during winter, and has halogen spotlights that are dismal for photography. I'm thinking I could devote half of the dining table semi-permanently; put a cheap tripod to one side, with one or two light rigs on tripods or table stands, experiment with diffusers to see how I get on. Not sure about light tents; I don't really want the "floating in space" look and few of them are big enough for my needs, I think.


Hmm, I'd be very interested to see what you go with and the kind of results you get. I've been taking a lot of cupcake/cake/cookie pictures recently, but I'm shooting in natural light with long exposures to get the desired effect, and I'm definitely wondering if a basic lighting setup might help.


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(Condescendingly sarcastic, in the voice of an old public school housemaster, possibly played by Alistair Simms...)

SO. Mr Morte wishes to know which camera his friend should go for, eh? Well, I am prodigously gratified that he asked me so conveniently in the correct place, for in the following of conversations of this sort I am so apt to lose my thread... etc.

*Cough*

Sorry.

So! Well, I hate to admit it but the 650D is a damn fine camera, the most attractive points of which are a very good touchscreen and a sensibly generous 18 megapixel resolution. The direct competitor is the Nikon D5200, out soon. This Nikon camera has 24mp and better autofocusing, with more intuitive in-camera creative picture controls. But it does lack a touchscreen. However it will weigh in at £200 more on release, though it will quickly settle to the same price as the 650D.

If said friend is after a direct competitor immediately, then the D3200 has a truly brilliant sensor, but slightly poorer handling and autofocus than the D5200 and 650D. If said friend enjoys going out and about in rugged conditions then the D7000 is a great bet. It's a bit cheaper now, though still a touch more than the 650D in most places, but has great controls and handling, a still mighty-fine sensor and superb weather sealing meaning you can shoot in the rain and snow without fear.

Once again, MarkG's advice be the best one - go tell them to handle it in store. A decent place will alow them to shoot a fair bit in store with samples, to really get a feel for it. Also check the Flickr groups belonging to the camera and its kit lens, and see what 'feel' you prefer visually.

I will say the Nikon kit lens of 18-55mm VRII is a leap ahead of Canon's, but the Canon prime lenses are a bit more competitive in price, I believe.

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Oooo...cheers Pete...I shall cut and paste the advice and send it on.

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Looks like Jessops is going into administration. :'(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20958659

While I've been in a couple of branches I've not been overly fond of (I felt like Mr Burns demanding a package sent by Gyrocopter to Siam in the tiny, Das Bootian Liverpool branch, when I asked for some 120 film) I rather like Jessops. I bought my D40x from them and then, later, the D90. The staff in the Cardiff branch are friendly and I got them to make a nice canvas print of Lord Rixondale's dog, Minnie, made for his wife.

Most importantly for one who likes to actually, y'know, find out how a camera feels before purchasing it's a sore blow to discover this chain is in jeapordy. I cannot help but feel sometimes that we're all cutting our own throats in taking all our business online, or opting to buy cameras from supermarkets that don't give a shit - especially since they only ever stock the cheapest consumer cameras and kit lenses. Here's hoping they manage to recover.

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More reason to support your local independent stores.

Before buying online.

Sad to see them go, as I've used them in the past too. Bought my 35mm lens from the Blackpool branch and had lots of prints made at the Preston store.

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Zardoz wrote:
More reason to support your local independent stores.


Our local indie told my old man to go to Jessops, find a model he liked and then he would try and match the (non sale) price or even better it. In the event he bettered it.


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Just been on ebay and bought a lens hood and two filters, yellow and green, for my Yashica MAT 124G. Apparently the hood really adds contrast to a shot, and the yellow filter is tops for B&W, the green for colour landscapes. Neat. That and all the 120 film I hope I'll be getting for my birthday will mean lots of film fun for me this year!

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Hmm, I'd be very interested to see what you go with and the kind of results you get. I've been taking a lot of cupcake/cake/cookie pictures recently, but I'm shooting in natural light with long exposures to get the desired effect, and I'm definitely wondering if a basic lighting setup might help.
Getting a flash has transformed my food photography. I'm really happy with it. So far, I've only used it on-camera, bouncing the light off the ceiling or a wall. Next on the agenda is a cheap (~£75) lighting rig consisting of a stand, umbrella, and off-camera TTL cord to let me experiment with different lighting angles. Samples in spoiler:



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I do like your crockery, Doctor Gaywood. Very stylish.

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NervousPete wrote:
That and all the 120 film I hope I'll be getting for my birthday will mean lots of film fun for me this year!


Hope to see you in line this season!


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Canonistas! I'm after a wide to middling zoom, something in the 15-50 range. Any recommendations?

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I have just ordered a Fujifilm X100. Arrives Tuesday. Good review here:



Yeah, I know there's a newer version in the X100s, but I actually prefer the sensor on this one - it's more filmic, even if it is 12mp to the new camera's 16mp. (Unless you're printing bigger than a 23" you don't need more than 10mp, seriously.) Plus it's £500 cheaper and the new firmware has it performing almost as fast its successor. This will be my new main everyday camera. It's Flickr 'Interesting' stream is here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=x100&ss=1&s=int

I can't wait until it arrives! (Runs to door and sits down impatiently staring at it ala Scott Pilgrim.)

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Wow, beautiful bit of kit. Sounds like it was designed for you.

In camera panoramic stitching is a nice feature too.

I approve.

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YAY!

It's here! I've charged the battery and formatted the memory card (95mbps!) and am now giddy to begin. It feels great in the hand and looks lush too. :D

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Forgive my ignorance Pete - not helped by me not being able to watch that video here - but what is it about that camera that is "better" (for lack of a better word) over your existing dSLR?


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Forgive my ignorance Pete - not helped by me not being able to watch that video here - but what is it about that camera that is "better" (for lack of a better word) over your existing dSLR?



No worries Gazchap.

Technically my D90 is actually superior to the X100 in a few catagories. Its focusing is a smidge faster and more accurate. Its menu controls are more flexible and the D90 has the ability to use a wide range of lenses going back to the 1970's. It also has the same number of megapixels and the manual focus is far superior whilst there are generally no quality limitations in whatever speed or aperture mix you care to go for - the D90 has you covered.

So what do I get with the X100? Well firstly it is distinctly smaller, which is key for the candid documentary and street work I want to do. The D90, even though it is smaller than the bigger DSLRs such as the D3 and D700, still alarms people when pointed in their direction. The X100 is half the weight, half the size and with a pancake fixed lens that is almost invisible.

Furthermore the X100 is silent. The leaf shutter cannot be heard which really lowers your profile when out on the streets. The X100 looks pretty gorgeous too - just like an old film camera, and that fools people into thinking your just some art project student with a shiny old thing. It can also sync flash to 1/4000sec, whereas normal DSLRs can only do 1/250. This makes for easier and more dramatic flash lit portraits in full sunny light.

One glorious element to the X100 is its fixed lens. It's a 23mm f/2 Fujinon (translates as 35mm on the crop sensor) and it is rightly raved about in photography circles. Not only is it super sharp at ALL apertures but it gives a lovely creamy bokeh. The lens itself is almost worth the rest of the camera.

Next we have the sensor which is designed to work in perfect harmony with the fixed lens, giving overall a better quality than the D90's interchangables. The sensor has no AA filter either, which boosts sharpness. The ISO is amazing with the camera too, with very little noise up to 1600 ISO, and once you hit 3200 what noise there is looks like fine arty film grain due to the unique design of the sensor. Even 6400 is usable in black and white. That essentially adds two stops to my usual shooting range. Not only that but the dynamic range of the sensor is really well designed which means that skies burn out less easily and when highlights are clipped, they roll off smoothly.

There are also the controls - a numbered old skool shutter speed dial and aperture dial which give a more tactile and faster experience. I've no idea why modern cameras ditched that system. It also has a Hybrid Viewfinder which switches at the flick of a switch from ordinary optical to electronic - so you can see the final result as you take the shot. And since its a rangefinder design (albeit without the decent manual focus, blub) you can see what happens as you take the shot, and what is happening around the frame. No blackout - it's uninterupted.

Finally its small size and lightness means that I can take it anywhere, tucked under my jacket or in a big pocket.

It won't replace my D90 for gig work or US Civil War stuff where I need the range and flexibility, but this will be perfect for everyday shooting and street-street-street! (Landscapes and portraits are pretty neat too!)

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New blog entry on me new camera at the usual, folks. See siggy...

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Man, this camera is kicking my ass!

It's far harder to learn how to use it to its potential than a Nikon. There's a lot of fumbling and somethings the Nikon can do without blinking it just stand-up refuses to unless you do some twiddling. The first day I had it I couldn't make head nor tail of it and everything came out blurry or overexposed or poorly judged, and nothing seemed sharp. Had I bought a lemon, I wondered?

I then took it to a meet-up of Third Floor Gallery veterans at the City Arms. Despite never having handled one before they took to it like a duck to water, explained some things to me and made me feel happy by telling me that David Hurn swore by his. We began snapping, progressively more drunkenly, and friend Joni got a good one of me flexing my guns. (You'll see it later.) They seemed jealous of it, which made me pleased.

So I took it out again later. After a whole load of blah shots I finally shot a Velvia simulated JPEG of the library from outside in the sun at f/8. Man, it was beautiful! The colours and the glow and the sharpness surpass my D90! And I've finally begun figuring out how to use its bizarre menus to effect. Colour me excited.

It eats batteries for breakfast though. And three hours to recharge!

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SHOW!


Very well, here's two...

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So much to learn though. Still haven't figured out how to coax its optimum sharpness yet!

Oh... these were shot JPEG straight out of camera, btw - with just a bit of contrast curve adjustment for the second one in Lightroom. Second one is ISO 1250!

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Oooh, I'm beginning to get used to it now. I took it around Cardiff Market and the bay today, before helping to put up a new exhibition at the gallery. F/8, zone focus and bip the AF/AE button to snap-zoom if needed. That's the ticket. Black and white is lovely with this thing. Still learning, I keep underexposing just a touch, and I keep thinking in 50mm terms and not quite closing distance enough. Getting there, though.

These are shot JPEG with in camera settings.

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ISO 3200!

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I have proved, once again, to be an upseller's dream. I bought a couple of Canon 430EX II flash guns to start playing around with lighting, then realised that although they are capable of being wirelessly controlled, neither of them can be a wireless master (I was planning to have one on-camera and one off). What I needed was one of the newer 580EX flash guns to use to control the others. But I don't need 3 flash guns, and found out during my investigation that the Canon semi-pro range of cameras can be wireless masters themselves, without needing the external flash gun. So basically I now have a shiny new Canon 60D :)

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I have proved, once again, to be an upseller's dream. I bought a couple of Canon 430EX II flash guns to start playing around with lighting, then realised that although they are capable of being wirelessly controlled, neither of them can be a wireless master (I was planning to have one on-camera and one off). What I needed was one of the newer 580EX flash guns to use to control the others. But I don't need 3 flash guns, and found out during my investigation that the Canon semi-pro range of cameras can be wireless masters themselves, without needing the external flash gun. So basically I now have a shiny new Canon 60D :)

Does that mean TFF won't be buying my Nikon now then? :P


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