The Unofficial Official Photography Thread...

[shedobits]

I sometimes help out with a mates MTB guiding company and have just found a few pictures from some winters ago.







Above the clouds

 

[MattiThundrrr]

"What is the digital equivalent of lovely, he wondered. What are the digits that encode beauty, the number fingers that enclose, transform, transmit, decide, and somehow, in the process, fail to trap or choke the soul of it. Not because of the technology, but in spite of it, beauty, that ghost, that treasure, passes undiminished through the new machines."
Salman Rushdie

 

[shedobits]

Some more pics.

This is a start of a scary drop off the end of the earth. I rode it once... only once.

 

[KermitGKona88]

I'm a longtime fan of Nikon, been using their stuff since before digital metering. Thus, 13 years ago, when my first son was born, the choice was easy. I knew the operating system, liked the lens, respected the sensor.View attachment 756295View attachment 756294
Even though I was familiar with the buttons, I read the manual several times, taking notes and spending hours fine tuning the programmable settings. I snapped thousands of excellent images, discovered it's strengths and weaknesses, became one with the instrument. Now those images are trapped on a hard drive somewhere in my basement, or burned onto a compact disk for which I no longer have a drive. Worse, the camera's battery has died, losing all of my settings.
I need to make a decision here. Do I invest the money in a new battery, as well as the time to re reread the manual and reprogram, in spite of its diminished connectivity? Do I embrace the new, and make the leap to a mirrorless Nikon, or (gasp!) some other kind? Or do I recognize the new reality, give up on the idea of a camera in itself, and just buy into the convenience of a phone camera? My phone is cheap junk, and it's pretty trashed, so I could probably use the upgrade...

My Neighbour, a lifelong Nikon fanboy, told me the other day he was going to buy a Canon. I of course supported him in the only way I could, I scoffed and ridiculed him... He came back with a new s/h Nikon...

As @grantoury said, go for a newer Nikon, you can balance out the features you want, but will still end up with a lovely camera.

 

[ibbz]

I'm a longtime fan of Nikon, been using their stuff since before digital metering. Thus, 13 years ago, when my first son was born, the choice was easy. I knew the operating system, liked the lens, respected the sensor.View attachment 756295View attachment 756294
Even though I was familiar with the buttons, I read the manual several times, taking notes and spending hours fine tuning the programmable settings. I snapped thousands of excellent images, discovered it's strengths and weaknesses, became one with the instrument. Now those images are trapped on a hard drive somewhere in my basement, or burned onto a compact disk for which I no longer have a drive. Worse, the camera's battery has died, losing all of my settings.
I need to make a decision here. Do I invest the money in a new battery, as well as the time to re reread the manual and reprogram, in spite of its diminished connectivity? Do I embrace the new, and make the leap to a mirrorless Nikon, or (gasp!) some other kind? Or do I recognize the new reality, give up on the idea of a camera in itself, and just buy into the convenience of a phone camera? My phone is cheap junk, and it's pretty trashed, so I could probably use the upgrade...

Get a new battery and enjoy it !
Photography is in the minds eye of the taker and as long as the light and compositions are favourable it doesn’t matter about the camera - and this is more than good enough!

 

[ibbz]

I like old digital cameras - the colour and ‘look’ is quite unique with a lot of character.
Phone photos look like phone photos - clinical and in some ways lacking depth and feel. I have an iPhone 12 mini and though I use it to take snaps at times - I mostly use it for video - as smartphone video I must say is excellent for blogs and stuff.
Anyone use Hipstamatic on the iPhone ?

 

[mk one]

I agree with the above. Whatever camera you are going to actually use is the best one, get a new battery and rekindle your photography, then go from there.

 

[ibbz]

I agree with the above. Whatever camera you are going to actually use is the best one, get a new battery and rekindle your photography, then go from there.

and then see what tickles your fancy.
Lots of bargains around too - I do like the Olympus M43 OM cameras - the OMD EM5 series with a fast prime lens can be had for not much and very enjoyable

 

[ibbz]

Some great shots.

Have taken quite a few shots of the Red Arrows over the years, they actually flew over my house last week, but have never been able to get a good shot of them sadly.

I think this was Duxford Air show
Luckily all the aircraft were there to take my time with photographing
A long zoom helped a lot.
I really enjoyed the camera too - had some very pleasing images and colour

 

[ibbz]

Some more from the Kodak Easyshare Superzoom

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