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PostPosted: Wed May 16, 2012 22:28 
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Do you have a London camera exchange near you? Often it works out the same as ebay fees.

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What did you decide?


All my nikon gear is on ebay, oddly I'm doing the sensible thing with it and buying really awesome m4/3 glass rather than having it sitting there as a really expensive cat bed. Should get me enough for the Leica 25mm 1.4 and the Panasonic 100-300 for me nature photography and a bit left over. Mum is getting the G1, the girl uses the GF3 and I need to look at another body so we can all go out together and share lenses - right now mum is using her compact for everything and it's making her frustrated that her 8 year old granddaughter takes better pictures.

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I decided to leave the superzoom, and intended to leave adaptors a while anyway but couldn't help myself on the superwide :S I'd kick myself if the pancake wasn't wide enough!

We'll get the macro, hadn't seen that point.

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Awesome - Tesco haven't managed to stiff me like they did when I wanted to buy a laptop in a previous Exchange, despite the website failing last night; Macro lens ordered using unspent-for-18-months vouchers. Okay, the normal price is 25% higher than Amazon's, but I pay less than half that.

30mm macro, 16mm fixed, superwide adaptor, 18-55mm and 55-210mm - I think that's enough lenses for now!


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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:29 
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I love Flickr because it's not Facebook-like in any way.

If I want to show people a photograph or a set of pictures, it's perfect. You don't need to sign in, 'friend' me, and it's not full of idiots.

I can bung pictures up there and share them directly into my Rav account, I can use them on my blog. They are resized various ways to suit any of my needs and wants.

It provides such different functions to FB or IG that I struggle to see a worthwhile comparison.

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Olympus OM-D EM-5 in silver ordered :DD found one on the bay from my favourite UK based HK-import dealer the same price as the black is going for. Waiting on the gubberment for my lens money though :(

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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2012 8:36 
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The macro lens is astonishing. Snap a bank statement from a couple of centimetres and each ink dot is clearly defined. The paper structure is visible.

It's a bit of an arse to get it to focus on what you want in real shots, like flowers on young plants, though. N00b fail I'm sure.


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Which one, the 35mm or the 50mm? I was thinking about the Panasonic 100-300mm and the Panasonic Leica 25mm 1.4. and then waiting for the new oly 60mm macro. The new kit lens has a macro feature but I don't understand what this means as it's not telling me in 1:? terms

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This reduces the minimum focus distance to 20cm and sets the focal length of the lens around 43mm (although it can vary slightly depending on the position of the zoom in the first place). Using this feature allows the lens allows a magnification of 0.36x to be realised, which is quite impressive when the 2x crop factor of the system is taken into account.

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It's a bit of an arse to get it to focus on what you want in real shots,

That's macro! :)

More often than not I move myself to get into focus, and hold your breath like a sniper!

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The 35mm, Decca.

Z, do we need to figure out how to turn auto-focus off, then? Or half-press to focus, then move? It seems to like picking 1/80 and ISO100 with it (or the 16mm) on in the overcast weather we've been having, so moving's not too much of an issue.


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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2012 9:39 
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I always use manual focus for macro, otherwise the lens hunts around like crazy trying to second guess what you actually want to get.

By moving I mean leaning forward/backwards to get what I want into focus then take the shot. When you're dealing with outdoor stuff (bugs etc) even a slight breeze can fuck everything up so I found that's the quickest way to capture stuff for me. If I'm focusing using the ring on the lens more often than not I've missed the opportunity once I'm happy with the focus.

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Just remember that if you're doing macro, you're generally working with an exceedingly small depth of field. So instead of the difference between focussing on someone 5 feet away and someone 10 feet away, you're focussing on a leaf that's 50mm away instead of 53mm away. To get AF to know what you're trying to focus on is tricky.

Does the camera support multi-point AF? If it does, you can tell the camera to use a single point in the viewfinder to use when fixing its focus, rather than what they usually try and do and average focus across a large number of focal points in the viewfinder.

If it doesn't, then you'll need to work on either manual AF (although, do those little lenses even have a focussing ring?) or focus then move.

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It does have a ring, though i have to change a setting for it to work. It have multi point focus i think, and I'm supposed to be able to tell it but haven't figured that out that.


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That's why it's not working as you want it to right now then. What you're effectively doing is telling it that you want everything under all those AF points to be in focus. Then you're sticking a macro lens on the front with an extremely shallow depth of field, and it's freaking out because it's trying to get everything in focus, which isn't what you want. Switch it to single-point AF and you'll do much better, or get old-school like the Z-dog and shut off the AF altogether.

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It does the intelligent thing, popping up multiple boxes where it thinks the good stuff is. Is that mukti-point focus? Anyway - settings must be twiddled. Check.


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It does the intelligent thing, popping up multiple boxes where it thinks the good stuff is. Is that mukti-point focus?


Eh, kind of. It's telling you where it's trying to focus - and it'll try and do as much as possible. But that's not what you want for macro.

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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2012 13:39 
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Actually I use the focus ring when I'm doing indoor macro stuff on my tripod, the 'rocking' focus technique is for when I'm squatting in bushes.

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 Post subject: Re: Camera gear
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OM-D is here :DD Pretty much all I've done so far is set it up and taken pictures of the lens cap (battery needs charging) so all I can tell you is thatthe EVF is lovely, focusing is lightning fast, the main menu screen is rather good and my god is it pretty. Ordered lenses today and they should be here within the next week, went for the 25mm leica 1.4, the Panasonic 100-300 and the 35mm macro. Right now I'm very happy about the swap over from nikon, will be worth it to have a image stabilised 600mm lens which is something I could never have afforded otherwise.

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 Post subject: Re: Camera gear
PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 15:11 
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OM-D is here

Sure it's not an Aztec Camera?

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 Post subject: Re: Camera gear
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2012 10:59 
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I'm getting itchy for new stuff. A flashgun and some filters should do it. Are the cheapo flashguns on ebay a false economy?


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 Post subject: Re: Camera gear
PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 10:33 
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Yes they are, I got given one and it sucked arse. Jessops own brand are the cheaper best value for money alternative.

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 Post subject: Re: Camera gear
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Had a proper go on the fujifilm X100 in the brief periods when it wasn't raining. Then they say "quirky" about the focusing system they ain't joking. The viewfinder (in both modes) does on occasion what can only be described as "locks up" till it hits focus and this is with the latest firmware. That's not just in low light, it was also in very bright sunlight, compared to a dslr it can be "slow as shit" to focus. Checking what you have just taken sometimes makes it get all confused over what viewfinder mode it is supposed to be using and it freaks out a bit. You need a class 10 card or it takes forever to write. It's metering system blows the whites in sunlight when doing close ups if you are not careful (this was mostly when I was photographing a white flower) and does not like focusing on white in general, I suspect it's going to be easier to use the EVF and full manual at times. This is certainly not a beginners camera, you need to know exactly what everything means or does because the camera won't help you.

Those were the niggles, for street and portraits it's damn near perfection. The IQ is extraordinary, the colours amazing, the metering when doing a normal street scene is bang on, macro mode is incredibly useful for portraits (you can get as close as 4 inches). It is also not a beginners camera, this son of a bitch is making me work and think, same as all my old film cameras do. I'm going to take it to the winter gardens which should set a nice challenge for the both of us. It's also really wonderful to hold and use, the OVF with the overlay is smashing and reminds me of the wonderful ones on the old canon point and shoots.

Would I buy one? Yes if I owned a DSLR and needed a carry round. The Olympus OM-D is nearly flawless and so much easier to use but I wouldn't mind borrowing this when I don't want easy or for street in the short term until I can get a good case for the Olympus (the camera I'm borrowing has all sorts of nifty accessories, and it's box has "my other camera is a M3" in tippex on it, I'm not allowed to touch that, or the leicas but then nor is his wife of 40 years)

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 Post subject: Re: Camera gear
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 16:16 
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Hello fellow Nikonians,

Just noticed an update for distortion control. Covers lots of bodies (D5000, D90) and Nikkor lenses that we own as a hive. I guess some of you may have done this already but it's new to me anyway.

Here's the link for the Windows download: http://nikonimglib.com/dcdata/#os-windows

There's a Mac one too here: http://nikonimglib.com/dcdata/#os-macintosh

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My 85mm 1.8 arrived today, just in time for a bird of prey shoot on Friday. Excited.

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Did I post a link to SkyDrive for my Japan photos? Because I'd
appreciate some vague critique of shooting and hints for processing, if anyone had time to flick through. nothing in depth, especially because there's a lot and it's all unsorted.


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Going back to the debate about Flickr -- this is interesting.

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At 3 p.m. on Tuesday I took a photo of a sticky on my desk and uploaded it to several photo-sharing services — Instagram, Flickr, Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Path (and you can see it at the top of this article). And just for kicks, I also uploaded it to MlkShk as an afterthought, almost a half hour after all the other platforms. MlkShk is a site with only about 20,000 users, but it’s a very engaged community. These are the results of my extremely, exceptionally, highly unscientific survey after one hour on each site, ranked in terms of interactions*.

Twitter: 45 up votes (13,835 contacts)
Facebook: 35 up votes (2261 contacts)
Instagram: 19 up votes (1465 contacts)
MlkShk: 7 likes (337 contacts)
Google+ 6 up votes (14,468 contacts)
Flickr: 4 up votes (415 contacts)
Path: 2 up votes (105 contacts)

By the next morning Twitter was at 66, Facebook at 51, Instagram at 57, MlkShk at 46, Google+ at 19, and Path stalled out at 2. And Flickr, where it landed on the site’s “Explore” page that highlights the most interesting photos of the day? 23. Perhaps more damning than the poor showing in terms of up votes was how ignored it was in real-time. It was only even viewed a total of five times on Flickr in that first hour.

There are some obvious caveats attached to my impromptu social experiment. For starters, I have wildly different numbers of contacts on each platform. And then there’s the matter of my engagement. You often get out of a community what you put into it. I’m extremely active on Twitter and Path. I’m a most-days user on Facebook, and a regular on Instagram.

As for Flickr, while I post most of my camera photos there, I make very few of them public (or even visible to my friends), and I tend to drop by no more than a few times to week. Google+ and MlkShk are sites that I tend to visit when I come across a link, but I’m not a regular user of either. And of course, while the photo was publicly viewable on almost all of these, Path is private, open only to the limited community.
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Is that the same guy as before? Because he's making the same basic errors.

1) Flickr isn't designed as a social network. The others all, with the possible extension of Instagram, are
2) Flickr is somewhere where you put pictures you (in the main) think are good pictures. Not getting a reaction to a picture of a post-it with "please like me" on Flickr shouldn't really be a surprise to anyone
3) People visit Facebook/Twitter in 10s to 100s of times a day. Flickr, a few times a week.
4) I don't want to live in a society where the value of tools on the internet is based on how easy it is to get people to 'like' something of yours

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Eugh. Flickr used to be the world's best online photo album site. And I'd argue it still is. Stop being obsessed with sharing. Quantity really doesn't have a quality all of its own.

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Yeah these seem like things that the CEO of Yahoo should maybe be bothered about. Me, not so much.

But surely if they wanted to take on those other things then they'd do away with the paid pro accounts and stick adverts on there.


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I've spotted a pretty good-nick Rolleicord TLR camera in a shop near here. It's medium format film camera, 6x6 negs, and is the sort of camera the amazing Vivian Maier used in her New York street stuff throughout her life.

Bit pricey at £95 but I am hugely tempted to give it a go.

Here's what Vivian did with the camera...

http://www.vivianmaier.com/portfolios/new-york-1/

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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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A whole shitload of camera gear up for auction here:

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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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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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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:15 
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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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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:17 
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Or be chain smoking Gauloises.


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


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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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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:34 
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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.

Good luck getting the commision. You deserve it.

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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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