Official Photography Thread: Vol. ICan'tFindTheLastOne

[kdwallace]

The other thing I just realized for accurate manual focussing is that you have to make sure that your eyepiece dioptric adjustment is correct. I just had mineat zero but I moved it a few weeks ago after fiddling with it and my focussing is now much better.

Basically just move it up until it starts to go blurry and then move it back down until it becomes clear again. At the bottom is actually a negative power sopeople who are a little short-sighted have correction - so for most people with perfect vision or glasses they are then having to focus their eye to seeclearly so the pictures will be slightly out of focus.

I spent some time fiddling to get it right - just taking pics of nicely lit sharp things and then zooming in to check them.

 

[SVNTI]

I remember reading a lot of D40 reviews saying that one of the drawbacks was having to go in the menu to change ISO setting. I was messing around in the menutoday, and noticed that by default some features are hidden, to make them visible you go into menu, Press the MENU button, then go down tothe icon that looks like a wrench (settings) and select Full for the CSM/Setup menu option in the setup menu. then go to thepencil icon (Custom settings) and go down to #11 (/Fn Button) and from there you can program the button to do different things when you press it. I switched itto ISO, and now all i do is hold it and move the scroll wheel to change ISO. just like changing Aperture.

 

[kdwallace]

^ yeah, that's handy.

Even if you don't do that it's not as bad as they say though, you just press the info button at the bottom left when you have the shooting info on thescreen and you can quickly change all sorts of things - white balance, ISO etc.

 

[kdwallace]

I've been out for the day taking some pictures. It was a good day - interesting cloudy sky but nice even light - although it got dark pretty quickly. Atthe beginning of these 4 pics I was shooting at about 1/50 and at the end it was 1/2.5. All shot with my manual 50mm lens - and on f/16 or f/22.

At a place right at the north of England called Lindisfarne or Holy Island - a small island with a castle and an abbey that you can only get to at certaintimes of day because the tide covers the road.

I took what I thought could be a great panorama but I'm having a little trouble getting it to stitch - the light was fading so fast that even though I hadall the settings locked and shot all 5 pics over a minute or so they look a little different.

1. The castle from the road in.

2. A little nearer

3. From down on the rocky beach - looks like supports from an old pier

4. I like this one, my older boy having a rest halfway up the path to the top of the castle.

5. This is one of the pictures for the panorama I'm still fiddling with. I like this one - I might go in and tidy up some of the crap floating in the waterthough. The light was really fading here but I like the mist rising from the water in the distance.

 

[sylintbob]

Thought i'd contribute a bit. Taken with my Sony Cybershot. Enjoy, comment, critique if u please:

1. A Special Container

on a Bronx rooftop


2. Me in Chinatown



3. My Fellow NT'er Reload N Reup

 

[seattle206]

How does an SLR compare to a DSLR in terms of print & picture quality? What difference is there between a 6mp and a 8mp DSLR? MP is only good for how bigyou want your prints?

 

[ebayologist]

Originally Posted by Seattle206

How does an SLR compare to a DSLR in terms of print & picture quality? What difference is there between a 6mp and a 8mp DSLR? MP is only good for how big you want your prints?

A 35mm SLR has print size limit of about 13x19 in a darkroom with a well exposed negative and like 100iso film and thats probably at the verymost. With film scanning it really depends on the scanner, with something like Imacon Flextight scanner you could probably get a bit more but not a whole lot.But if you just do the basic math that a print quality image similar to film is in-between 180-240ppi or so thats is the equivalent of somewhere8-14megapixels. So it's entirely dependent on darkroom or scanner and type of scanner, the iso of the film and how well exposed the negative is whether youcan less, more, or about the same image quality as a DSLR with a film SLR.

That being said you have quite a few advantages with film from a significantly more contrast and tonal range. And b/w film is unparalleled in comparison todigital. Digital is a simulation of b/w which is part of the reason why it's horrid in comparison to film b/w. When you get into larger formats film iswhen the cost and quality show the most. For instance you could buy some of the best medium format cameras out for a grand or so or less, to get the digitalequivalent you'd have spend at very minimum like probably 10 times what you'd pay to for the film equivalent. And Large Format film cameras digitalisn't even close to the print size/quality you can get from a 4x5 Large Format camera let alone an 8x10.

Edit: I asked a friend and we did the basic just rough math that with like a Imacon Flextight scanner with my Hassy and probably like 160iso film I could getabout the equivalent of 45 megapixels+. That may or may not be entirely correct, neither of us are experts and I'm %*##%#! terrible at math, but you getthe point... And just to give you an idea the highest megapixel camera is 39 and the pricing for it starts at like 28k...

 

[seattle206]

Wow, Thanks! you answered everything!

 

[baller mayo]

Originally Posted by SaNTi0321

Originally Posted by Amer2384

I have a Nikon D40, what would be a good lens to go buy so I don't have to use the starter one.

The starter lens isn't too bad if your just starting, like myself.

Some more night shots.

mad blurry.

you from the Boro ?

 

[SVNTI]

Originally Posted by baller mayo

Originally Posted by SaNTi0321

Originally Posted by Amer2384

I have a Nikon D40, what would be a good lens to go buy so I don't have to use the starter one.

The starter lens isn't too bad if your just starting, like myself.

Some more night shots.

mad blurry.

you from the Boro ?

Nah, I was at a friends house. Don Mills area, by Fairview mall.

 

[m eazy724]

mad blurry.


Tripod, low iso, and long shutter to get good night shots my dude.

 

[jaw knee c]

pickup'd a Sigma 10-20mm....

 

[kingcrux31]

^ Nice photos.

Thanks for the info ebayologist. I don't owe you jack.

So it's Canon or bust, huh?

Are Opteka lenses any good? I still don't get what a teleconverter lens is for.

I'm looking to buy the wide and fisheye lenses. Does Canon even make fisheye lens? I can't seem to find one online.

 

[ebayologist]

^I can hold out forever on that $.31...

When you come to your senses and decide topay me let me know.

I don't think its Canon or bust when I looked into that camera and attachments there were a couple other brands that came up that would work one of whichmade a fisheye, its right there on one of those links I left. No clue about Opteka personally I would stick with a lens I've heard of but those lens arecheap even the Canon ones probably aren't remarkably good. Teleconverter is usually its an attachment you place in between the camera and lens to give atelephoto lens more magnification but basically that one for your camera is a pump fake telephoto, lengthens the focal length beyond the physical length of thelens...

In Kingcrux terms when the cops had you trapped in that house for whatever egregious traffic crimes you committed if you had had a teleconverter you could havespotted the snipers I'm sure they posted with about 2 times as much ease.

Basically it doubles the focal length which is really only helpful in longdistance shots as I think it probably doubles the minimum focal length as well making it useless for macro shots.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/394246-REG/Raynox_DCRCF185PRO_DCR_FE185PRO_Fisheye_Lens.html
There is your fisheye...

 

[irpstakid]

Okay, 50mm should be coming by the end of the week.

 

[baller mayo]

Im planning on taking some pics for the largest firework show in Alberta tonight. I dont have a tripod, can anyone help with tips/suggestions? whats the bestway to capture fireworks?

 

[ebayologist]

You're going to have camera shake if you shoot at night without a tripod or resting it on something. It's just the facts. Even with a fast lens thatmight have like f1.4 your going to need either an absurdly high iso to get a handholdable shutterspeed. And the thing is high iso's on digital look horrid.On film it's an aesthetic, not one I particularly like but it's not that bad but on the other hand noise super ehh... I would honestly just buy atripod inbetween now and tonight... You could get something inexpensive like under or about $30 that would work perfectly well...

 

[jaw knee c]

playing with the new lens in the backyard....

 

[slowzebra]

http://Jaw-Knee-C.u.yuku.comJaw Knee C - pics lookin

 

[m eazy724]

Good stuff guys. My feeble attempt at HDR:

 

[seattle206]

i am thinking about trading two fishing rods & some tackle for a slightly used eos 350d. should i do it? one of my rods is worth $220 retail and the otheris $120, then the tackle is is worth about $100.

 

[SVNTI]

 

[kdwallace]

So todays trip was to the Scottish Highlands. I planned a route that would take in some nice spots and that we could just manage in a day - with an early startas it is still dark about 4pm around here. Didn't quite manage to Glencoe in the daylight which was a shame but I was astounded by some of the scenery Ikept stumbling across. I kept having to stop and take a few pictures.

The roads were fantastically quiet as most of the country was still unconscious when we left - and a good number probably still are now. It was a grey mistyday - my wife wanted to cancel but I was secretly hoping that it would stay that way because it could be interesting. It did clear a little about 100 milesfrom home which was good.

Here's a selection - I want to HDR a few of them but the software is on my pc at work so that will have to wait.

This was the first time I stopped - I just drove round the corner and saw this.

This was a few miles along the road - We were winding along a little road in the bottom of a valley and all of a sudden there was this church and graveyardhanging off the side of the valley. I couldn't get an angle to get a good shot showing how precarious it was - think Lord of the Rings and that hut thatthe Rohirrim had on that rocky outcrop. Just amazing.

This was one of those moments where I was walking back to my car and this view caught my eye - it's just the empty half of the parking lot. There was onecar parked in the middle and some other crap lying around so I removed them but other than it it's how it looked - not monochrome - just dull grey colors.2 versions of it because as I was fiddling with removing the car I did the second one by mistake and thought it was kind of cool. If you're a mountainbiking fan this is actually the parking lot at the bottom of the Fort William downhill course - we had ridden the gondola up to the restaurant at the top.

The eagle-eyed Harry Potter fans among you will recognise this as the Loch around Hogwarts (from Prisoner of Azkaban onwards anyway) - in some angles anyway -Loch Shiel is used more I think.

And the famous viaduct - this was just incredible. I had to climb up a really soggy slippery slope but it was really worth it - just an incredible feat ofengineering - just over 100 years old. I regret not going through the arches and climbing above the level of the tracks to get a picture looking down but thisone turned out okay - it's a pano made up of 3 exposures.

bigger version

And a last shot just at the edge of Fort William - we had just stopped at a gas station and I took this from a little bridge looking over the water.

 

[thehbkid]

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow...
Ottawa, Ontario
went out for some good hardy breakfast with my friends after one of their NYE party..
and came home to help my pops/neighbours with their driveway..
*dude int he olive coat is my dad. Shot it at like iso 600 so abit grainy..

 

[SVNTI]

^

Nice shots. were all of those shot with your 50mm?