― g-kit, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Does anyone else put all of their photos thru Auto-Contrast in Photoshop (or similar) before uploading? It's no real use on poorly lit shots tho - not from an Ixus 55 at least. I'd say it improves two thirds of the photos I take though.
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― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_lane?printable=true
This piece makes it almost seem worthwhile to dev and scan the negs. And M-series bodies seem much cheaper than they did pre-digital. But I still doubt the existence of the "Leica glow", except in the eyes of people justifying a £2500 lens.
― stet, Thursday, 27 September 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to be naughty and print that NY article for consumption on the train home.
In Lens News, I now have a Hanimex 28mm f/2.8 (£12 on eBay) which...isn't going to do my kit lens out of a job any time soon and a 80-200mm f/3.5 zoom/macro beast by the same manufacturer which the vendor bunged in for a fiver when I turned up to collect the 28mm. The latter seems a bit better value. Perhaps I'll get more out of the 28mm on a film body with a nice, big, bright viewfinder. Came with a couple of 52mm-dia filters, which is nice.
I'm wondering whether the search for a cheap, manual, wide-angle lens that does what the kit lens does but, like, better, is kinda pointless. The Zeiss Flektogons are too expensive, the sub-£20 stuff seems fairly hopeless. Thinking about Tamron Adaptall gear next (28mm f/2.5 has a good rep), but that's another adaptor...
Oh, and then there's the tantalising world of IR photography. Get a Hoya filter from the Far East for coppers + big P&P or a Kood filter from the UK for £12 + small P&P?
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to spend ages fiddling trying to get the right exposure on IR, until I worked out you can just show the red channel in photoshop and convert to gray to get much the same effect.
― stet, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
80-200mm f/3.5 zoom/macro beast For a fiver! Nice one. Is it any good?
― stet, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I've yet to really test it out (that moon pic on Flickr was taken with it, some flower shots in Golden Square the other day, that's about it). I don't think it's as good as the Zeiss but the 1:4 Macro might come in useful. Very heavy and long - not likely to be taken out and about much. There are hilarious manhood compensation jokes to be made when I attach it PLUS the extension tubes to the 300D. I don't know if anything of worth came out of that particular session of mucking about...
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 27 September 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
That Lane piece is eh... he's a little too into the fashion aspect. The whining about viewfinder blackout is a bit dodgy as well - it's a few tenths or hundredths of a second, can you even register small details you might be missing?
I have a Leica, purchased with gambling winnings when I was younger and stupider, and it is a wonderful thing (though the ergonomics, frankly, suck - there's a reason every modern SLR has a big grip for your hand) and if I had a darkroom I would shoot nothing but Tri-X until it was just me, Keith Richards and the cockroaches left.
But I don't. And I hate scanning film, even if I had a scanner that could do the Summilux justice.
So I'm selling it, I think. I will probably regret it someday, but for the ~$4000 I stand to take in (a couple hundred more than I spent, actually), I can buy either a 40D or 5D dSLR and actually get to shoot as much as I'd like.
― milo z, Friday, 28 September 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
That's the thing, really. I mean the trade-off is immense. I had a whole darkroom at my disposal, with a minilab to dev the film, free film and a top-end scanner and I still couldn't be arsed and got dust all over the negs.
It's only when I look back at scans from the color negs I realise just how wildly much more dynamic range C41 has compared to digital, which is a pisser.
― stet, Friday, 28 September 2007 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Most fun I ever had was making darkroom c-prints from 4x5 negs.
For all digital's compromises, it is at least painless. Scanning film is torture.
― milo z, Friday, 28 September 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
At my first newspaper job, the scanner would choke on neg strips any more than 5 long, so we first had to cut the rolls by hand, then manually align each frame on screen, adjust the wildly crazy colour settings by eye, then scan it (which took about 10 minutes). It nearly drove me insane.
― stet, Friday, 28 September 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
The whining about viewfinder blackout is a bit dodgy as well - it's a few tenths or hundredths of a second, can you even register small details you might be missing?
It kinda matters.... Kinda. It really comes down to how you shoot and what you're trying to do -- if you're stalking a group of six people, you want to be able to see when all their eyes are opened.
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 28 September 2007 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I seem to have a skill for getting eyes shut. I've taken self portraits where it turns out my own eyes are shut, ffs.
― stet, Friday, 28 September 2007 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Thinking about getting back into film (Pentax body for me M42 lenses or Canon EOS body for me, er, single EF lens [EF-S kit lens not backwards compatible] - not sure yet; or maybe just *find* Pam's FtB, buy a cheapish Canon FD zoom and away we go...).
Now, Photo CDs from 35mm film processing as offered by yr high street photo labs - any experiences? I believe Boots only offer 800x600 images (which isn't even the right aspect ratio for 35mm negs) AND you have to pay £2 per film (despite the fact that, at that resolution, you could pack loads of films on a single CD). Does anyone provide high-res TIFFs for this service? And any comments on quality of the scans? Better one would hope, than taking yr negs/prints home and doing it yourself on a general-purpose A4 scanner.
Oh, and another question - didn't Boots offer those Ilford film mailers at one time (about £7 for a pack of ISO400 B&W plus processing by Ilford)? I assume they're still available somewhere?
I know, working in Soho, that there are probably tons of very good pro labs around but I'm curious about the best of the cheap alternatives.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought a digital camera recently.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 8 October 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Canon 40D + the 17-55/2.8 IS zoom vs. Canon 5D + my trusty old 50/1.4
thoughts?
― milo z, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
5D's full-frame and the 40D isn't so yr old 50mm would be an 80mm (in terms of FoV) on the 40D. Doubt the 17-55 is as good at the long end as yr old, fast prime and you'd miss that. Dunno though... Need to catch a train, I'll have to think about it...
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I see yr dilemma - the 5D is the better camera, no doubt, but will it leave you any cash add to your 50mm prime? And 5D and L-series glass go so well together...
The 17-55/2.8 IS looks nice but I wonder about the resale value of these EF-S lenses. They can't be used on old EOS film bodies (or the 5D/1D/1Ds) and, who knows, five years from now maybe the cost of making 36x24mm CMOS sensors will have fallen sufficiently that full-frame D-SLRs become the norm rather than the exotic high-end. Where does that leave all the APS-C-optimised gear? Of course, if this is the last upgrade you ever make, you won't care cos you'll have taken thousands of pictures with yr 40D/17-55. (Do short zooms really need IS, though?)
Maybe someone who has actually handled these cameras (I fumbled around with a 30D once) can offer some insight.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Lovely stuff. Maybe I'll shoot at 24mm FF and crop everything to 2.71:1 for a while :)
The GFX was my first ever experience with an EVF, and it kind of spoils you for other lesser models. Wandering around looking at the world with an Acros filter was nice.
Here's the (then) 13yo toting the big bugger around Fitzrovia...
https://live.staticflickr.com/881/39491176020_4fa94fc5a1_b.jpg
And the (then) 11yo working the other Fuji, as shot with the GFX...
https://live.staticflickr.com/796/41237312082_16d9e812da_b.jpg
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 30 September 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
beast mode
― calstars, Thursday, 30 September 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
fantastic!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 30 September 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
https://i.tformers.com/g/generated/46865/Takara%20TOMY%20Canon%20EOS%20R5%20x%20TRANSFORMERS%20Optimus%20Prime%20Official%20Image%20(14)__scaled_800.jpg
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
(from https://tformers.com/takara-tomy-canon-eos-x-transformers-optimus-prime-r5-crossover-official-images/46865/news.html )
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
:)
Even has the tantalising dream of a L-grade pancake (optimus) prime on there.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
Hilarious !
― calstars, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
The light was fantastic today in London when the sun was out: everything crisp and clear, and trees and foliage drenched with light as if illuminated specifically for photographers. I took my EOS 5D out for the first time in quite a while, and the colours were fantastic. I particular like the way bright colours - such as red and orange - seem to almost pop out of photographs. For example a red and white polka dot blouse against a background of green foliage and a bright orange Vespa against grey brickwork. What a camera!
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 28 October 2023 20:45 (six months ago) link
Let’s see some shots!
― calstars, Saturday, 28 October 2023 20:49 (six months ago) link