Photography thread

[Ltdave]

i mostly shoot PJ work but im trying to get more commercial work with some fashion/beauty.

this one at least is 'gun' related. sort of

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[Dragonsdad]

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Getting use to the forum's image handling software is going to take me awhile.

[Allen]

K1000?
I went with a *ist D once I found out the lenses would interchange. I still have it even though my point & shoot is usually more 'at hand'. My son is one of the phone cam crowd but still does pretty nice when he takes the time to compose and crop.

No, a Spotmatic ll. I always wanted a Spotmatic. By the time I was able to buy one they had been replaced with the Spotmatic ll. Big mistake. A great camera but they take a specialized flash that incorporates the amount of light given off based upon conditions. The camera has a photo eye or sensor on it that sends the info to the flash. Most of my pic's were taken outside so no real big deal there, however, me and a flash suited for that particular camera never came about. They quit making the camera and the specialized flash units.

I think the K1000 WAS the one that replaced it.

[Dragonsdad]

I'll drool over nice gear same as the next guy but I tell anyone who'll listen that the main thing is to be taking pics.

[Allen]

The K-mount lenses are still popular.
There's quite a few on mflenses that use them on various Sony and Fuji digital cameras by using a mount adapter.
For me , the Nikon F mount is still king, and the nikon f mount lenses work extremely well on the Nikon D-810.
Apparently, the last (?) Nikon DSLR is the D-6. All the new ones to follow will be mirrorless...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

Due to my age (69), health, and other factors, I don't get around much anymore and lost most interest in photo's.

I now use a small digital Lumix with a Leica lens. The lens is fixed and not removable. It is my go-to camera because it is so easy to operate. I also have a digital Nikon D-3200 with a telephone lens. I got my wife a digital Cannon 50D (I think) but she has only used it once.

Since the invent of the camera phones I see this art disappearing. Some of the newer camera phones are really good and you don't have to carry a bulky camera bag around with you.

Not saying these beat a SLR 35mm nor have I ever said that CD's and tapes are better than vinyl records but as times change I have changed some too.

[dryheat]

Photography is changing real fast. From the DSLR's to Mirrorless and now phones are what the majority of people use. Digital Photography Review, that's been around for 25 yrs. is shutting down this week. I will never really get used to holding the Iphone to take a picture but like everyone else, it's with me a lot more than a camera even though I don't carry the phone around everywhere I go. I'd never heard of AI (artificial intelligence) a year ago and maybe you haven't either, but you will be. It's huge. Insert what kind of photo you want and it makes it. You can open your fridge door and point your phone at the food and it can tell you what you can cook up with the ingredients it sees. The big fear is that it is going to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs.

Here a gun pic:

[lyman]

sad to hear about DPR, I used that sight when I bought my last DSLR

I used Sony Point and Shoots for years to take pics of stuff to sell online, but with the tech in phones now, I started using my phone instead,

easier, and since it is an android phone, and I use a Google phone, it sync's right to my laptop , very easy to download,

[Dragonsdad]

I try to discourage interdevice communications.
I don't trust the microwave and the toaster oven's starting to act a little shady.

I usually yank the memory card and slap it into the desktop to get started.
...unless I'm using the Android. The 'droid gets cabled.

[lyman]

my phone is part of my business, besides the usual calls and texts,
it is my camera,
hot spot for wifi while on the road or at a show,
map (Waze is a good app)
my alarm clock,
etc etc

if it can integrate and save me some time or effort, then I all for it,

but I don't have it connected to the TV (have not tried honestly)

[Dragonsdad]

My older Samsung lacks the ability but I could sync through the connected Roku.
...option listed under 'settings'

I just realized the Samsung is over 10 years old.
That's more than double the life of my original Roku.
...first one fried, literally overheated and cooked itself

[lyman]

I have a roku upstairs, wife is warming up to it,
I mostly watch the downstairs TV, which has a Flex box (from Comcast) that was part of the internet package, and is kinda the same,

we subscribed to Apple TV, since the first 3 months are so are free thru Verizon (wife has an iphone)

so I got to see the first season of Foundation, (very good, but a bit of a departure from the books, as expected) and the second season starts this summer,

otherwise, I am digging Pluto TV (getting used to commercials again) and there are some decent stations on Samsung TV, (lots of good cooking and a few good travel shows)

[Doc Sharptail]

Phone sensors are still incredibly small. For serious work with images, I prefer the big and bulky and soon out of style full frame sensor DSLR.

My latest phone was a huge mistake- a Samsung A-20. This is the first in a long time wireless phone that I really dislike a lot.
The camera in it is a real turd- extremely low pixel count. I shudder thinking of trying to get anything other than 3" X 5" enlargements off it.
The user interface is incredibly poor in it's response- not only with the camera, but also most of the phone functions as well.
It doesn't come anywhere near what my old work-issued S-6 was.

Personally, I like the concentration that my current photo set-up requires.
Focus, compose, check exposure, and shoot.
I am using the manual exposure function with the camera a lot. Despite all it's intelligent exposure modes, it still cannot properly expose a strongly back-lit scene without some type of user in-put, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
The idea of this with me is to have fun, and increase my profiency with what may well be a dying art form.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[Dragonsdad]

There's things I miss about B&W darkroom work, not enough to try and go back to it but there's parts I miss.
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Used to be, thinking about what I was trying to accomplish was a bigger part of things.
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[Phloating Phlasher]

Some semi good news.
Even though DPR is going to die they are at least going to archive all that's on it.
It wont go forward any more obviously, but at least all that great info is still going to be available!

[Dragonsdad]

Phone sensors are still incredibly small.

Even knowing that to be true, some of the car/dash cam sensors out now blow me away.