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Photographic Clubs
Just got back about an hour ago from the first one I attended and it was great :D, very friendly people and I learnt how to use off camera flash with a soft box for portraits - there was a bar downstairs too (which is always handy :wink:)
Posted by NickJS on 16/04/2012 - 23:47
Updating from K 20
A Pentax DSLR with a vastly improved autofocus system and vastly better high ISO performance. I think that's fantasy to be honest. Please see my shot of the Vampire in my portfolio here. That was pretty much pitch black and I wouldn't have been able to focus manually. The K-5 focused with no problem...
Posted by johnriley on 16/04/2012 - 22:10
Updating from K 20
It is the ability of the camera to lock onto a fast moving vampire, flying through the air that is of more interest to me. The lens hunting around for focus and then the shot being missed is a right pain in the neck.
Posted by Hyram on 17/04/2012 - 13:27
Updating from K 20
It is the ability of the camera to lock onto a fast moving vampire, flying through the air that is of more interest to me. The lens hunting around for focus and then the shot being missed is a right pain in the neck. Hyram I actually have two K-5s and have compared it's focus system to that of Ca...
Posted by Smeggypants on 18/04/2012 - 02:28
A pleasant afternoon:spoiled
"He said it was a private club" what has that got to do with privacy in a public space. You cannot have privacy in a public space. I have had many people quote the law along similar lines, I just smile back and igonore them, seems to wind them up nicely.:P
Posted by snappychappy on 16/04/2012 - 17:50
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does that include photo journalists too??? I think you will find it was unknowledgeable security & police officers that caused all this confusion, not journalists or newspapers.. It was the very sensationalist media the journo's work for that propagated these ridiculous assumptions about people t...
Posted by eenymac on 18/04/2012 - 08:50
A pleasant afternoon:spoiled
A few years ago I was down by a nearby canal out in the countryside taking a few shots where it bent round under a very old stone bridge about 100 yards along, just waiting around for the best light. I then noticed several canoes emerging from under the bridge coming towards me with 3-4 children in ...
Posted by genesisphil on 17/04/2012 - 10:29
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Wow, you people actually communicate back to these idiots??? I prefer to just ignore them, it winds them up even more...
Posted by cabstar on 17/04/2012 - 12:36
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Seriously, the paranoia the media have created is astounding and all common sense on the part of most people just seems to have evaporated. :( indeed. You've only got to look at the Panic Lemmings who queued for hours to fill their car up with petrol recently on the back of a non existent tanker ...
Posted by Smeggypants on 19/04/2012 - 09:54
A pleasant afternoon:spoiled
does that include photo journalists too??? I think you will find it was unknowledgeable security & police officers that caused all this confusion, not journalists or newspapers.. It was the very sensationalist media the journo's work for that propagated these ridiculous assumptions about people t...
Posted by cabstar on 19/04/2012 - 17:25
100 things about photography
Taken from 1. Just because someone has an expensive camera doesn’t mean that they’re a good photographer. 2. Always shoot in RAW. Always. 3. Prime lenses help you learn to be a better photographer. 4. Photo editing is an art in itself. 5. The rule of thirds works 99% of the time. ...
Posted by dinneenp on 17/04/2012 - 14:42
100 things about photography
2. Always shoot in RAW. Always. Even if you just want a quick jpeg to upload to ebay? Why? Definitely not Always! 4. Photo editing is an art in itself. Try photo editing a colour slide. 7. UV filters work just as well as lens caps. But they don't stop the sun burning a hole in the v...
Posted by JAK on 17/04/2012 - 14:58
100 things about photography
Perhaps the list was put together by a focus group! :) John
Posted by JAK on 18/04/2012 - 23:13
Photographing from public land...
...but this time the management back up the security guard. At one point they refused to allow the reporter to leave. One said: "It's gone too far for that."
Posted by SkyRider on 19/04/2012 - 15:07
EnglishRussia.com
A lot of girls want to do modeling and it's wrong to say what someone can and can't do :wink: I could never understand why they took Pan's People off Top of the Pops, obviously they weren't PC :shock: They replaced them with a PC group of mixed dancers (Ruby Flipper) who were a flop that nobody r...
Posted by Algernon on 20/04/2012 - 11:16
EnglishRussia.com
and later they brought back all female dancers with Legs and Co. And , of course. Though there were guys as well as girls in the group. Arlene Phillips didn't just materialise on Strictly Come Dancing from nowhere, you know :) I liked the 80s :)
Posted by ChrisA on 20/04/2012 - 12:02
af teleconverters
99% of AF teleconverters are fixed so the lens is doing the focusing. The exception is the Pentax 1.7x which moves and does the majority of the focusing while the lens is fixed. The TC needs a manual helping hand to get close to the focus point and then takes over. Hence the reason it so so go...
Posted by Mike-P on 21/04/2012 - 15:45
Wedding dilemma...
He loved the Canon - that's his prerogative However he expects you to use a camera with which you are not familiar and he wants to you shoot his wedding on the Canon - would have thought that was a recipe for a disaster. Ask him if he would like to do a professional job with a camera he didn't...
Posted by techno-terminator on 22/04/2012 - 17:35
Wedding dilemma...
You can shoot most if not all of the wedding using the Tamron 17-50mm and maybe the 30mm f1.4 for any low light stuff in the evening. You have longer lenses if you want them for tighter portraits earlier in the day. It's far too common to only focus on fast lenses for low light purposes. And it's a...
Posted by Smeggypants on 23/04/2012 - 06:19
Wedding dilemma...
As others have said, this will be a high stress job. I did my brother-in-law’s, wedding many years back, in the film days using my SpotmaticII, plus his SpotmaticII, as a back up, also to have a second lens choice, without the need to change, on camera, plus a TWR, with black & white film. All camer...
Posted by ChrisR on 23/04/2012 - 10:10
