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    Personal gear review

    Thatā€™s a good point. I enjoy having a camera in front of me that Iā€™ve never used before. Being able to spend time with it and learn how it works is fun for me. There are several new cameras I would like to check out like this, even though I know I would get tired of them in a few weeks or...
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    Personal gear review

    Well, thereā€™s collecting cameras and then thereā€™s using cameras. A guy named Daniel Kahneman talks about two different kinds of happiness, remembered happiness and experienced happiness. Pursuing one is not better than pursuing the other. As long as you can keep priorities and budget sorted out...
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    Why we should pay for Flickr.

    I know Adobe started this practice, and itā€™s become industry standard, but I still donā€™t like it. The practice is advertising the price per month for a yearly subscription instead of giving the price per year. Flickrā€™s website does not list the cost per year of the annual plan until you hit the...
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    Yet another EDC / casual carry / preference change thread

    Huelight is a set of RAW camera profiles that work in Lightroom. Huelight Camera Profiles Many years ago they were described as delivering more olympus-like color to panasonic cameras.
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    Yet another EDC / casual carry / preference change thread

    Are you using Lightroom? if so, for image likeability, I have two suggestions. For JPEG, the XEQUALS color presets are quite good. Products Archive - XEQUALS - Learn. Create. Dominate. Sorting through them to find one or two everyday presets is time consuming, but could be worth it. For RAW...
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    When your gear preferences change

    Some aperture rings have click stops at certain settings. Some do not. Some have a way to turn the click stops on or off. Most all in one zoom cameras have an optional "step zoom" setting that makes the zoom lever change the focal length from 24 to 28 to 35, 50, 85 mm equivalent and beyond. I...
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    Would like to try ?

    Good point. Both growing up now and being a parent now have their challenges. How much social media access to give the kids, and how to educate them, is certainly a challenge. It will be interesting to see how generations that have experienced social media in their childhood decide to raise...
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    Smartphone Cell Phone Camera photos

    Some welcome rain after the fires. See my post a few images above for more context.
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    Cars, trucks and things that go!

    I did not know that Jensen Interceptors were made in India! :-)
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    SHOW Paths, Tracks and Roads

    Before today I didn't realize this category existed. Here are two photos from September.
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    Smartphone Cell Phone Camera photos

    A couple from Saturday: Normally on a Saturday these seats are filled with people eating brunch or lunch. Normally the color would be a bit brighter. Smoke from the fire (over 100 miles away) is responsible for the color of the photos and the empty chairs.
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    Would like to try ?

    Iā€™m glad there are very few permanent records of some of the things I did and said when I was a kid. :-) Growing up in this era would be a lot different - balancing having fun and trying different things with maintaining a public persona that is preserved in social media.
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    Would like to try ?

    This camera definitely has my interest. The light weight and ease of use are attractive. Insta360 ONE X - Own the moment. It would be my first step into video. I would edit my videos down from 360 degrees to fit in one screen with no user option to pan and zoom. The idea of shoot now, compose...
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    The Light L16 Camera

    Color calibration for 16 different sensors with different lenses could be tricky.
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    The Albany Bulb

    I revisited The Bulb yesterday. Here are a few photos.
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    News Yongnuo entering the mirrorless market

    The image doesn't look real to me. The lens looks like it is lying on the ground, not connected to the other part at all. I would like to see an image of the front of the device. Ah, I see dpreview has one: Yongnuo teases YN450 mirrorless camera with Android, 4G connectivity I'm still not...
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    Ian Ruhter, wet plate collodion photographer

    I've followed Ian's work for a few years. While I was organizing my bookmarks today I discovered that he just released a new video, called Obscura: In it he takes a photograph on a 66 x 90 inch sheet of glass - that's about the size of a sliding glass patio door. This is not a gee-whiz techno...
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    Campus at Night

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    Micro 4/3 Decision made!

    I find Thorpe's videos very helpful. As you mentioned, he doesn't shout, which is rare on youtube these days. David Thorpe
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    Google Google Pixel 3 (I think I'm done with "traditional" cameras)

    I agree, but I donā€™t think there is enough money involved in traditional cameras to make it worth Googleā€™s time - or Appleā€™s time. Another alternative would be for Panasonic (as an example) to hire away some people from Google or Apple. Howerver I donā€™t see the management of any major camera...
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    Google Google Pixel 3 (I think I'm done with "traditional" cameras)

    Interesting video! High points for me: - The use of pixel shift to decrease noise and increase resolution. This makes in-camera digital zoom much more effective than cropping in post. - Some of the computational features, particularly image stabilization, are baked into the DNG file. I wish...
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    Food Court at Night

    Thank you. This is the first time I have used this lens at night - I didn't know what to expect. At full size I see some noise and some watercolor effect. I can't get rid of both at once, so I try to find a balance with NR settings. Very few of my shots were blurred - Image Stabilization did a...
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    Food Court at Night

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    Always-Carry Camera

    I've already posted about my current situatiion. The original post in this thread included some speculation, so here are a few of my forward looking thoughts. A phone that gives me 28, 50, and 85mm equivalent photos at the same or better quality than my current 28mm phone camera would be very...
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    Always-Carry Camera

    Iā€™m using an iPhone 7 right now and it works pretty well as an everyday camera. I shoot DNG and edit in Lightroom with my own custom camera profiles, so Iā€™m pushing the camera about as far as it can go. I just threw away a Nikon Coolpix P330 with some intermittant problems. At 28mm equivalent...
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    Insta360 One X camera

    Iā€™ve always been interested in panorama and fisheye photos, so Iā€™ve been following the 360 degree camera scene out of curiosity. This new camera could represent either the next big thing, or it could show the last gasp for the 360 degree camera. Insta360 ONE X - Own the moment. It was released...
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    Colour me Gobsmacked!

    Here's a phone grip product that showed up on dpreview today. It is actually shipping, and costs $40.00. It has a bluetooth remote and a stylus (?), but no knobs. iPhone Stylus | Adonit Wireless Photogrip
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    Personal gear review

    This turned into a bigger project than I first thought. This year I made new camera profiles for just about every raw photo I have, even from cameras I no longer own. Iā€™d been putting off reloading the newly processed images to the website. This was a good time to do that. A few more...
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    Colour me Gobsmacked!

    The reviews of the iPhone app used with the existing, lower spec models of this thing are mixed. They use a proprietary communication method instead of bluetooth, and some people are having connection problems. The viewfinder interests me, but Iā€™m not optimistic about miggo/Pictarā€™s ability to...
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    Smartphone Aim the lens, not the screen (on your phone)

    I helped a client set one up way back when. At the time they were introduced they were high tech and innovative - not at all a toy camera, though they look like one now. Hereā€™s a review of the last one in the series, with an overview of previous models. They ranged from 1 to 3 megapixels...
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    Smartphone Aim the lens, not the screen (on your phone)

    My depth perception doesnā€™t work like most peopleā€™s. Perhaps the difficulty I have is related to that.
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    Smartphone Aim the lens, not the screen (on your phone)

    That camera was fun! The small size was nice to have in the era when phone cameras were not so good. Dpreview specs below: Kyocera SL300R And here is a Yosemite panorama made with the SL300R.
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    Smartphone Aim the lens, not the screen (on your phone)

    For a long time I was not comfortable composing on my phone in landscape mode. When I moved the phone, the scene on the screen changed in a way that was not used to seeing or dealing with. Hereā€™s how I solved the problem. Place my thumb and index finger on the phone at points directly under and...
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    Personal gear review

    "What equipment will, or won't, improve my best work." This is an important question and one that a review will answer. Two other reasons to buy equipment are: Experimentation: "Will this equipment possibly push the boundaries of the type of work I do?" After discovering fisheye lenses two...
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    Personal gear review

    This is inspiring. I started a review today. For those who have zoom lenses and/or use different sensor sizes, I recommend this "Data Explorer" plugin for Lightroom. Jeffrey's "Data Explorer" Lightroom Plugin The "Explore: Focal Length 35mm Equiv" setting is very helpful. What I confirmed in...
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    Tables

    Here are a few from earlier this year.
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    Industry, light and heavy

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    News Gear talk: Panasonic FF and m43

    Some reference material on the camera industry that I like: By Thom Hogan - Dead mounts... I See Dead Mounts | DSLRBodies | Thom Hogan By Ming Thien - Brand (dis)loyalty... Brand (dis)loyalty, mirrorless and why itā€™s good for everybody
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    Feedback Gear Talk: Phone Cameras??

    I wonder if adding a "Phone Cameras" category to the Gear Talk section would be a good idea? Currently there is a thread in Herman's Genres on cell phone photos, and several posts in Other Brands. If there was a "Phone Cameras" category, I think I'd be more likely to post a few photos at a time...
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    Smartphone Cell Phone Camera photos

    Some benches from earlier today. :)
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    News Size comparison between Nikon Z, Canon R and Sony A.

    I take it back. The web page you linked to has useful information on it. To make the page the rumor site captured several screens screens worth of information from camerasize.com and added larger labels. To me that seems like an appropriate amount of work for a post at Cameraderie, but a little...
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    News Size comparison between Nikon Z, Canon R and Sony A.

    I agree with the clickbait designation. The images in the article are all from the Camerasize.com website. Anybody can visit that site to compare camera and lens sizes. Compact Camera Meter Note that hovering over a camera will give you the weight in grams. For some odd reason, the "compact"...
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    Stroll Seen while strolling...walking and wandering outside

    Two contrasting images from my camera walk yesterday.
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    Labor Day Weekend in the Industrial District

    I don't like to get too close to our local Steel Foundry when they are working, so I wait for Sundays or Holidays to drop by with my camera. There was a lot of road construction of some kind nearby. It seemed to fit the Labor Day theme.
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