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Anon10/23/26, 17:49No.4535938

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Anon10/23/26, 17:53No.4535941

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Anon10/23/26, 17:54No.4535942

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Anon10/23/26, 18:12No.4535943

Gearfags would rather make an entire fucking camera from scratch than to take a photo

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Anon10/23/26, 20:05No.4535973

how can you all hate each other when you spend so much time together

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Anon10/23/26, 20:31No.4535978

Anybody getting any good deals on the used market?

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Anon10/23/26, 21:43No.4535995

what does everybody think about the new Sigma FPii?

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Anon10/24/26, 02:23No.4536041

fug it im buying a z6iii tomorrow. $2k hopefully sell my z5 for ~$600 on ebay.

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Anon10/24/26, 03:01No.4536050

new to /p/ and i can only assume this is the appropriate place to pose this question, but this thread does seem rather more concerned with faggotry than photographyi have an olympus OM-2S from like 1988, a Zuiko 50mm lens, and a Quantaray 28-80 zoom/macro lens the Zuiko is great for portraits and the Quantaray is great for landscape photography and macro photography of things like mushrooms and flowers, but i've been wanting to get into like, birdwatching and there's a lot of complications with shopping for lenses for a 40 year old platform. is anyone familiar with the Olympus OM series, or have any recommendations, for a decent lens with a bit more zoom than i already have? I got the camera and lenses from my parents, and i've been having a lot of fun with the lenses i have, but i've recently been wanting to branch out with what i can do

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Anon10/24/26, 03:17No.4536058

[/p/thread/4535009#p4535951] You're just proving you're a glowie with connections to the diplomatic quarter >nazi >argentina baka it's like the Molotov Ribbentrop pact still echoes to this day

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Anon10/24/26, 04:57No.4536076

Noob here. I don't know where to start. I had a Canon D500. Used it for years. Someone advised me to buy a 5D Mark II to get the full frame. I reflected and now I notice I didn't choose my camera according how I wanted to use it, but just asked for a higher model. Now I ask: what camera to take landscapes? Can a camera properly respond to different needs? I guess having different lenses can make it polyvalent, right ? My main goal is to photography landscapes, especially clouds. Picrel is what I could take with my D500 freehand during sunset (it's a cropped detail). Isn't this blurry? More clear-cut is possible, right? I want details. What's the best setup for this ? Tripod? Or do some camera allow you to take neat details freehand? Which type of camera? DSLR? mirrorless? Which brand? Canon? Nikon? Sony? Lumix? Panasonic? Fujifilm? Everybody seems to hate Sony, here. I thought on taking a 5D on a tripod, 18-55mm. How good of a choice is it? If the landscapes are my main discipline, I also plan to take models sometimes. Can a single camera properly do both? I also want to film for YouTube videos. Should I buy a film camera for this? The D500 could film but only in 30fps. No big deal, but I feel some 1080 60fps would be nicer. Videos didn't look bad but 30fps sounds bad, what do you think?

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Anon10/24/26, 06:16No.4536084

I know some basic wood and metal working and was actually planning a little project like this but instead with a brownie box type camera instead of an SLR.

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Anon10/24/26, 13:36No.4536102

>cropping looks like shit >NOOOO *triple essay posts* All furfags are lolcows

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Anon10/24/26, 13:45No.4536109

I don't even understand how there is an argument for this topic.Focal length between 20-100mm are meant to be chosen primarily for how tight or wide you want the perspective to be. Greater focal lengths used to take long-distance shots look like shit. That's simple reality. Fighting against this is like a tardie fighting against his meds. The proper use-case for longer focal lengths is for smaller subjects, and for when closing the gap is simply not possible. This is your Birding, Motorsport, Deep Sky Astro, and oh fuck there's a lake in my way type photographs. >inb4 getting closer changes the photo Yes, getting closer changes the perspective and background compression. This is rarely more important than increasing your subject's definition, contrast, and sharpness. In order to disagree you must append your melty with a photo you've taken that was ruined from being too close.

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Anon10/24/26, 14:40No.4536137

Reminder, dpreview test scenes are unrealistic and bad science >They have been caught exposing cameras differently to skew the noise results, for example, exposing nikon cameras brighter and fujifilm cameras darker >They have been caught using colored lighting with different cameras to change the color science, for example, exposing olympus cameras under a heavily green tinted light source >The software they use to generate their previews, adobe camera raw, is not industry standard, and has notoriously poor support for fuji .RAF and sony .ARW files because fuji and sony directly partner with their superior competitor, capture one (the industry standard). However, if you use nikon, adobe will get great results because adobe and nikon are corporate partners. >Dpreview typically tries to use sharp lenses at their sharpest aperture, but often fails to do this consistently so one camera will be tested with a sony G master, another will be tested with a shitty sony-zeiss, and DSLRs for which the sharpest lenses were sigma ART and zeiss primes will be tested with an inferior first party prime

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Anon10/24/26, 15:47No.4536149

>cANON thinks a 5D2 is a fuji >a fuji is a sigma >and a sony a7iv is a canon 5DIV There you have it. Gear doesn't matter.

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Anon10/24/26, 15:54No.4536150

These two cameras have been used to convince /p/ they were looking at the output of over 15 unrelated models and brandsA better camera is just more versatile at imitating lesser cameras

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Anon10/24/26, 16:52No.4536166

[/p/thread/4535009#p4535946] My K1 with the glitchy meter, shitty AF, and failing mode dial was not damaged. It was near mint.Pentax simply did not make the K1 well. They are out of business because their cameras suck and all of their FF lenses were optically mediocre, big and overpriced, or just rebranded tamron zooms and their entire APS-C lineup was just DX nikon from 5 years ago

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Anon10/24/26, 17:30No.4536178

I am sorry for venting a little bit here: A couple of years ago I had a really nice digital setup (D850 and some nice lenses like 70-200mm. I sold everything and bought an M6 with a lens. I’ve been really happy shooting just film for the past couple of years, but just today, I saw a huge flock of swans just chilling in a lake, and I really wanted to take photos and videos of them. It was like first time in three years I feel regret with my decision. Man, I really wish I graduate and find a job soon so I can start saving up money for some gear and shoot some wildlife next spring. Maybe R7 with a 100-400mm F5.6-8 could be enough for that kind of work.

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Anon10/24/26, 18:43No.4536218

Are there any good prakticar lenses?

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Anon10/24/26, 23:33No.4536266

>spent 4k buying my first digital camera >a7v with 24mm 1.4 gm lens >realize it was pointless because I never leave my house so I can't take pictures of anything interestingI only leave when I go out hiking but then I don't feel safe going out hiking alone with 4k worth of camera gear. How do you guys do it?

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Anon10/25/26, 00:11No.4536273

Am I better off replacing my M10 with an M10-R or an M11?

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Anon10/25/26, 00:39No.4536278

Chat, is it true that Mamiya 645 lenses have ARRI DNA in them?

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