/hob/ - Hobbies

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>>52123
Keep the photos going my man

>>55570
Cans are dope as fuck. I need a can zone at my house

>>61435
There is a wagie in each of these windows.

some really wonderful stuff in this thread

>>61437
Agreed, I never thought of photography as something I could get into, I'm more of a videographer but this thread makes me want to take photos

https://www.vintag.es/2016/04/stunning-vintage-photos-of-everyday.html

where do sites obtain vintage japanese photographs? is there some central archiver of this stuff? maybe japanese libraries?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/196713437@N04/page1

i uploaded all my shit from japan a few years ago to flickr. these are from the dslr. i had a smartphone i used to take photos as well, not sure where those pictures are at the moment though.

Phone camera

Just a few pics I took on my wiz walks. This is my first time posting in the thread.



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>>51214
Thanks for this post. It's something i want to get into this year and it's a lot to wrap your head around. I was looking at prices for cameras and i was blown away by how expensive these things get.

>>63663
the electric tree reminds me of japan, good shot

>>65439
thank you!

Thinking of buying a Panasonic Lumix GX85. Anyone have one or thoughts on it or something better for a reasonable price?

>>65577
Yeah it it looks solid and reasonably priced. I honestly don't know much about cameras so i thought i'd ask.

>>61435
this is really pretty

I love photography as once in a while I riffle along the photos I take and remember the good and bad memories. Now I don't have to worry about forgetting, I just bring my camera everywhere

Is it possible for a quadriplegic to do photography as a hobby?

Not sure about photography as a hobby, but I like taking a ton of pictures for research purposes. Sometimes I come across beautiful ones, sometimes I get ones like this

>>48726
>Any photography hobbyists here?
I suppose I'm a pro actually.
I went through a course, got certificate and I've went through a couple of months of practice in a studio. I did some photos during a wedding, a baptism or two, learned how to put them on mugs (like pic related), did some photo restorations, but mostly did boring photos of people for their documents like passports and driving licenses.

That being said, my photos are still fucking ugly and I don't have much to show. Somehow once taking photos became a job it also lost a lot of its appeal as a hobby and I haven't touched my SLR camera in years. Funny how that works.

>>51191
These are beautiful OP,at least compared to the other ones in this thread.

>>51191
Are these shot on film.

>>68100
>at least compared to the other ones in this thread.
Rude prude
>>68101
If by "film" you mean "a digital camera" then yes.

>>68034
Is it a hard field to get into/ make a living off? Seems like something i wouldn't absolutely loath like most wage cuckery

>>68034
If people paid you for your photos then I am sure they are far from ugly.

Some shots I took in the past.

what device do you use? or you use. your phone?

>>69521
Yo that's cool. What even is this place?
>>61342
Love the snow vs the warm inviting lights.

>>69821
>What even is this place?
A Halloween store. It's empty except for the month of October, where it gets full of cute succubus outfits for little with succubi, and anime cosplay. After Halloween, all of the employees are ground in to a fine paste and shipped to the shrimp farms as chum.

>>69820
Photos are taken with a camera. Phones are for ordering pizza.

I've decided to take up wildlife photography as a way to live my life to the fullest while living in a tent on public land.

I just bought an Olympus E-M1X used and an "open box" Panasonic Lumix G VARIO 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6 lens to go with it.

I decided on the micro four thirds form factor simply because the super telephoto lenses are significantly smaller and cheaper due to the 2x crop factor from the smaller sensor. The 100-300 is essentially what a 200-600 on a full frame camera would be. They also make lenses with significantly more zoom than that all for less than comparable sony, nikon, or canon lenses.

The olympus bodies are especially well weather sealed which I desired. This lens was the cheapest weather sealed supertelephoto lens I could find. I think the larger body of the E-M1X should help it balance well with large zoom lenses.

I still want a 12/13 mm wide angle lens for landscapes but I might wait a while to buy one because the camera + lens I just bought cost me almost $1200 after tax. This is not a cheap hobby sadly. I will report back after the camera arrives and I've had a chance to use it.

>>71048
>I decided on the micro four thirds form factor simply because the super telephoto lenses are significantly smaller and cheaper due to the 2x crop factor from the smaller sensor.
>I still want a 12/13 mm wide angle lens for landscapes
You can get a speedbooster. It's an adapter to put larger sensor lenses on smaller sensor bodies, with a corrective element to scale the full field of view down without any vignetting. It also results in more light reaching the senor overal, which is where it gets its name. There are decades of full-frame Canon ultrawide primes on eBay that get boosted to something like f0.95.

I shoot video on MFT and I find that the MFT versions of new lenses are always a bit cheaper for some reason.

>>71049
Interesting, never heard of a speed booster before. I had been eyeing the 200mm f/2.8 to use with the 1.4 and 2x teleconverters as a potential upgrade path down the line. From what I'm reading it seems the speedbooster is pretty much like a teleconverter but in reverse. The more I learn about the MFT form factor the more I like it. It truly is versatile.

>>71050
>The more I learn about the MFT form factor the more I like it. It truly is versatile.
That's a common consensus. APSC sensors are bigger but their current issue is that cameras using them try to cram as many megapixels as possible over its real estate. The end result is smaller texel size which means each pixel is fueled by less light, culminating in a darker image with poorer dynamic range. My BMPCC4k is MFT but it only needs to spread a 4096x2160 image over that sensor so the images just glow straight off the camera.

The Rokinon 12mm is a good ultrawide I use and I hear good things about the (older) SLRMagic 8mm video lens. The former is a photograpy lens so it's sharp. What's nice about both of these lenses is that they're ultrawide but with glass that physically corrects the barrel distortion, so you don't get the severe fisheye effect.

I hope you see many cool birds and other wildlife in your tent adventures

>>71051
Thanks for suggesting the rokinon. Seems like exactly what I need. I shouldn't need autofocus for landscapes after all. Part of me wonders if it is actually worth it though when my phone is so good at landscapes already.

Thanks too for the well wishes. I reciprocate them and hope you enjoy videoing whatever you're trying to shoot.

>>71048
Update: The camera arrived and is in excellent condition. I did splurge for one rated as in excellent condition and I'm happy to say that was true. It looks brand new and has a shutter count in the 8k range. The lens also looks brand new. I took a couple of shots of flowers and they look pretty good. I'm going to try and shoot some birds tomorrow morning.

Here is a photo I have graphed. You can observe a neko-sama if you look hard enough.

>>71090
>has a shutter count in the 8k range.
That's a lightly used camera indeed, but it makes me giggle seeing shuttercount used in camera dealing discourse these days. Shuttercount was used as a metric for determining a camera and lens's remaining lifespan because in the days of film and the early years of DSLRs, every exposure depended on a series of intricate mechanical movements to achieve the dialed settings. For lenses with an f-stop defined by the camera's software, each shot would fire a stepper to mechanically open or close the aperture to the desired setting at lightning speed. A grading point of lenses would be how many times this could be done before the aperture blades and mechanism begun to fault (Typically in the tens of thousands). For film and DSLR bodies, each shot would result in the mirror lifting at similarly high speeds, again another precise mechanism that would wear down over time with lifespans varying by camera make.

For Micro Four Thirds and Canon EF lenses, the aperture is set by the camera and then the lens maintains that setting until a new one is set by the shooter. Even if the lens is detached, the last used aperture setting is held in place. So shots taken in succession with the same f-stop wouldn't impose any additional wear in these components. Adversely, for Nikon F lenses, the aperture is held at its minimum by a spring at all times, and every exposure quickly opens it up to where the camera says it needs to go. A caveat of this is Nikon F lenses being notoriously bad for reverse-lens macro photography as it requires an addon or tricky finger work to open the aperture manually.

Mirrorless cameras that lack the mirror mechanism, and use a mount that maintains the aperture, are justly abstained from the wear imposed of many exposures. One photograph on a mirrorless camera has the exact same mechanical consequences as one single frame of video, so a shuttercount of 8,000 is no different than a measly 150 second video recorded at 60fps.

>>71090
Another update. Took a few pictures. Still have no idea what I am doing though. I took most of them at 300mm just to test it out. The images are a bit soft and out of focus. Not sure if this is an issue with the lens, the exposure settings, or the actual focus itself. I just used autofocus for everything. I also realized the default resolution on my images is kind of high as fuck. I will try uploading my best picture I took this morning and see if wizchan can even take it. I may try and downsize a couple others and post them but I forgot how annoying that shit is to do and I need to look up what tool to use first.

>>71093
I resized and compressed a few more pics. Luckily there is a built in option in the windows picture viewer that does it.

>>71095
The one on top of the feeder was taken at a bit closer distance and with a shorter focal length I think. It came out a little sharper

>>71092
This is a really beautiful cat and a great picture. I know the shutter count is mostly meaningless for actual wear but it does give an indication of how much the camera was used at least.

One thing that keeps happening though is the buttons on the top left of the camera don't do anything most of the time when I press them. They're supposed to bring up camera menus. I don't know if the camera is actually defective or there's something I'm doing wrong.

I just bought a drone this morning because the government in the US banned chinese drones which are far and away the best and cheapest drones out there. Basically the way they're doing it is anyone who has a drone still gets to fly them and the current stock on the shelves is legal to buy and fly, but they won't be getting more and you also can't repair your drone through them if it breaks. The repair thing is potentially concerning, but I figure we should be able to get parts because there is a big enough demand for them someone will be making them. There are already boards you can buy to hack into batteries and override their cutoff mechanism that stops them from working if the case is opened. As far as I understand it, the reason they're doing the ban is because Trump's family members own some sort of drone company now and they're trying to get rid of the competition. I figure this nonsense will die down once the Trump crime family is out of office.

I always look at expensive purchases through the lens of what is the depreciation curve going to look like and can you afford the depreciation cost of trying something out and potentially not even getting into it and then selling your stuff later. I hate selling stuff because it involves interacting with normies, but I do have an ebay account in good standing that I use for that from time to time. If I don't like this drone I expect it to sell well because it was the top of the line consumer drone at the time the ban came in so it will probably be in demand going forward on the secondary market.

It looks like it might be a fun way to shoot some video though, and I want to try using one to do some 3D gaussian splats of areas sometime.

I took some videos today of some deer at 1080p 120 fps with my new E-M1X and they came out better than I was expecting. 4x slowmo looks good. I realize I probably need to get some sort of tripod though.