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Anonymous Wed 21 May 2025 10:54:14 No.4428429 View View Reply Original Report

Dead system edition.
I love dead systems. They all have the lenses I need, no new lenses to tempt your money and cheap AF.

Previous thread >>4424884

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 10:01:51 No.4431575 Report

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>>4431568
my local store has had a late model, still with box, pentax 105 2.4 for the 67 system. They've had it for 3 years now. It's priced around the median for the model, cheap for the condition.
Sometimes you just can't find a customer. I've had a lens on consignment at another camera store for over 2 years now. Don't even expect to ever sell it at this point. Might just go pick it up and try online myself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 12:48:14 No.4431590 Report

Quoted By: >>4431621 >>4431624 >>4431707

is f/4 good enough for street + travel + low light for said street and travel when exploring at night or should i go for f2.8? considering how good denoising is in lightroom and how capable modern sensor are, is pushing iso here and there really such a bad idea? not to mention that f2/8 is way heavier, bigger and expensive

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Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 13:12:22 No.4431598 Report

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If a film era lens has a hill and valley style focus ring it's automatically a good lens.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 14:27:36 No.4431620 Report

Quoted By: >>4431709

aps-h should come back

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 14:27:41 No.4431621 Report

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>>4431590
>considering how good denoising is in lightroom and how capable modern sensor are, is pushing iso here and there really such a bad idea?
why don't you just shoot with your phone then

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Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 14:37:37 No.4431624 Report

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>>4431590
You'll also get better AF performance with double the light. However at the same time you'll also have a shallower depth of field, so you could very well find yourself wanting to stop down anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 15:08:36 No.4431637 Report

Quoted By: >>4431645

>>4428429
The "Cooke look", "Leica look" etc. these are all fake, right? Nobody can distinguish them in a blind test side by side with a nikkor f1.4 lens, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 15:27:44 No.4431645 Report

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>>4431637
Correct.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 17:32:59 No.4431707 Report

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>>4431590
yes. F2.8 is nicer of course but I finds street photography at really wide apertures has too much out of focus. I have a modern camera so I personally don't mind iso 6400 or so

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Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 17:35:04 No.4431708 Report

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>>4431568
yeah that's why I want to add value by cleaning or fixing stuff. Or just getting things for way too cheap from ebay auctions. Losing 60% is pretty retarded I wouldn't do that

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 17:36:04 No.4431709 Report

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>>4431620
I don't think there is really a reason to

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Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 18:39:55 No.4431730 Report

Quoted By: >>4431743 >>4431757 >>4431783 >>4431948

I have the Canon RP, I want to explore birding, should I get the 600f11 or the 800f11?

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Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 19:27:04 No.4431743 Report

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>>4431730
800mm. More is more.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 20:45:18 No.4431757 Report

Quoted By: >>4431760

>>4431730
With a long prime you could end up fucking yourself over by going too long unless you're super sure of the reach you need and it won't be varying (probably more suited to particular sports desu), and the fact you're asking which to get means you don't really know. I would look into one of the zooms instead, quite a few options in the X-400/500/600mm range and they're going to be faster too. I'm guessing the 600 and 800 are pretty light weight (too lazy to look up specs), which is a valid advantage if you can deal with the compromises but I think in your case they may be too compromised.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 20:58:28 No.4431760 Report

Quoted By: >>4431790 >>4431799

>>4431757
Yeah the portability is appealing. I have also been looking at EF mount zooms btw, like the Sigma 150-600 and similar, but you know how it is with heavy equipment, it tends to stay home more.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 21:52:47 No.4431783 Report

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>>4431730
you'd be surprised how much the F11 will fuck you(well depends on where/when you're shooting I guess)
between those two, 800, you always need more range for birding
the ideal solution is a faster 150/200-600 BUT one that you can get a teleconverter for
don't be like me and fuck yourself over by buying a new lens that will never ever get a teleconverter

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Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 22:02:52 No.4431790 Report

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>>4431760
>but you know how it is with heavy equipment, it tends to stay home more.
Totally get that. But it's also not much good having a lens with you if you're missing shots because it's too long and you aren't able to back up. If you're going out specifically to bird and you'll only bring the one lens then it's honestly not that bad to carry around. If it's on a monopod over your shoulder you probably won't notice the extra 750g, and if what I'm seeing is right and there's no tripod foot for the 800mm f/11 then I'd rather carry the heavier 150-600mm by the foot (I have an older 150-500mm and that's how I carry mine) than the lighter setup by the body's grip.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 22:58:36 No.4431799 Report

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>>4431760
>but you know how it is with heavy equipment, it tends to stay home more
nta but I have the opposite problem, I'm always thinking "but what if I need this lens" and end up carrying too much
it's retarded gearfagging and I've been making a conscious effort to under-pack and deal with it if I'm caught with a suboptimal lens

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Jun 2025 23:37:43 No.4431804 Report

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There's pigeons walking around the city you can just photograph with your phone you know.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Jun 2025 07:09:15 No.4431906 Report

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>>4431053
in a sane country maybe but where I live the secondary market is full of people who "know what they have" and anything more niche than glass or bodies for top 3 manufacturers is only slightly discounted compared to local MSRP(so higher than actual prices if you know where to shop)
I guess I'll take a look at ebay though.
>>4431276
yeah sorry no I want to do something better than MFC-tier garbage

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Anonymous Mon 02 Jun 2025 07:36:15 No.4431907 Report

Quoted By: >>4432552

>>4430963
I would probably get a single used flash and bounce it off the wall/ceiling.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Jun 2025 12:43:00 No.4431948 Report

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>>4431730
Can you afford that white 200-800? it'll be faster than the 800 f11, is supposedly compatible with the extenders (though their practical usability seems dubious...) and seems rated pretty well.

Once I go R series the 200-800 is on my list, extender compatibility or not, still a shitload of reach for not that much money.

Though if you have 2K to shell out on the 200-800 consider the EF 100-400 IS II with an extender. I believe this will work on R series. I have the 100-400 II and it's built like a tank.

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Anonymous Mon 02 Jun 2025 12:43:40 No.4431949 Report

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>>4430758
I bought a new gfx50sii for 2500 euro. I guess that was a good deal because it seems to be the used price on ebay

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Anonymous Mon 02 Jun 2025 22:33:50 No.4432111 Report

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Oh no, another one joining the band. Who could have thought. BUT the American lens manufacturers will thrive!

https://press.sigmaphoto.com/corporate/05/us-pricing-adjustments-starting-june-2-2025/

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Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 00:23:28 No.4432458 Report

Quoted By: >>4432547

i bought this

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 08:11:26 No.4432547 Report

Quoted By: >>4432932

>>4432458
how much did you pay

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 09:23:39 No.4432552 Report

Quoted By: >>4432611

>>4431907
I do have a decent flash and some modifiers and on camera bounced flash does work somewhat but it's very limiting.
I need to get my transmitter working so I can try off camera flash, but it stopped connecting for some reason after my flash battery died.
I kinda thought I'd need two flashes for what I want but I've been looking at some pro product photography stuff on youtube and it seems like I could do what I want just with bounce cards and single off camera flash.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 15:05:55 No.4432611 Report

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>>4432552
It all depends on what you want to shoot. I kinda assumed you were cataloging or something. If your camera has onboard flash you can try syncing the external flash to that.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 18:19:57 No.4432656 Report

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I've spent my entire vacation jerking off to gear.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 19:11:44 No.4432667 Report

Quoted By: >>4432842

>>4428429
Just bought a Pentax ist
What am I in for, /p/sistahs?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Jun 2025 06:58:17 No.4432842 Report

Quoted By: >>4434026

>>4432667
horrific CA and a limited lens selection

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Anonymous Thu 05 Jun 2025 15:01:08 No.4432904 Report

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Scold me.
BTW the Tamron was cheapish because the texture thingy around the zoom ring is gone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Jun 2025 16:54:37 No.4432932 Report

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>>4432547
900€ for the body

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Jun 2025 02:05:04 No.4433270 Report

Quoted By: >>4433346

After a while attempting to genuinely discuss gear here, it seems every body and sensor is an overpriced shit system for coping retards
In this respect we can assume any camera will be sufficient

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Jun 2025 10:38:28 No.4433346 Report

Quoted By: >>4433490

>>4433270
yeah basically, hearing people say that things like the sony A7IV isn't a pro quality body and you need an A1ii to call it a pro body, when you could still grab a 5dII onwards today with an older ef 24-70 and shoot a wedding, says a lot about what people think professionals need

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Anonymous Sat 07 Jun 2025 21:09:24 No.4433490 Report

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>>4433346
I mean it's all relative, like half the "pros" in my shithole country still use canon and nikon aps-c DSLRs lmao

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Anonymous Mon 09 Jun 2025 08:51:53 No.4434026 Report

Quoted By: >>4434661

>>4432842
Don’t they take a lot of K mounts?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jun 2025 17:08:08 No.4434093 Report

Quoted By: >>4434097

Will we ever get cameras with per-photosite ISO?
When shooting under meme lighting it would be nice to have analog gain for the underexposed channels to make up for white balancing.
Right now if you're shooting under heavily biased lighting only one channel will be getting properly exposed and your white balance may be multiplying the red or blue inputs by 4-5x and being able to apply gain to compensate would be nice.
The only alternate solution is to use colored filters to try and normalize the light intensity but that requires longer exposure.

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Anonymous Mon 09 Jun 2025 17:27:52 No.4434097 Report

Quoted By: >>4434218

>>4434093
to be clear I'm just interested in applying gain to the red, green, and blue separately
not any kind of per-pixel just something that gains the photosites behind r/g/b with different values but still a consistent value for all photosites of the same color

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Anonymous Tue 10 Jun 2025 00:54:57 No.4434218 Report

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>>4434097
>not any kind of per-pixel
funny enough I was just reading today how apparently some thermal cameras actually do this
but yeah per-channel analog exposure control would be pretty cool
(my film scanner can do it but by changing per-channel exposure time)
unfortunately sensor design & manufacture is so expensive we just don't see a lot of interesting design ideas, just moar em pees

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Jun 2025 05:23:46 No.4434661 Report

Quoted By: >>4434706

>>4434026
I misread it as an ist-d
my bad
Still bad CA though, but the M series lenses feel great

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Anonymous Wed 11 Jun 2025 07:38:17 No.4434706 Report

Quoted By: >>4434707 >>4434810

>>4434661
Works okay if I put another lens on it
Pentax K 50mm F2 A Lens

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Anonymous Wed 11 Jun 2025 07:39:32 No.4434707 Report

Quoted By: >>4434810

>>4434706
That was blurry because it's hard to see the focus in the viewfinder (and it's manual focus)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Jun 2025 18:41:55 No.4434810 Report

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>>4434706
>>4434707
What?
Use a tripod..

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jun 2025 17:19:00 No.4435217 Report

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>>4429163
I hate that lens so much. I wish there was something like the 16-55 G at that size.

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Anonymous Sat 14 Jun 2025 11:35:37 No.4435775 Report

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I did it. I bought an R6 II and 24-70 2.8 yesterday.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Jun 2025 05:30:54 No.4436035 Report

Quoted By: >>4436470

Is this the right place to ask this? I just bought a cheap nikon dslr but only have manual focus. This lens is really close by and I think being af-s means it'll auto focus.. Is there something particularly bad about it apart from being cheap?

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Anonymous Mon 16 Jun 2025 09:32:34 No.4436412 Report

Quoted By: >>4436474

>>4429709
No need or an OVF if you have a hot-shoe kitty.
I think this must be the smallest camera combo to acheive a normal focal length with APSC. The battery is surprisingly good too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Jun 2025 14:55:44 No.4436470 Report

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>>4436035
I don't know whether it's good or not, but if it's cheap, 18-135mm is a nice range to walk around with and figure out what you want.
It's a cheap superzoom, don't expect miracles.

I see them for €86 on mpb, don't overpay.

It's APS-C only, meaning it won't work on full frame bodies.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Jun 2025 15:00:47 No.4436474 Report

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>>4436412
When I got my hot-shoe kitty I instantly couldn't imagine being without.

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