It's 2026 - here are my new years' resolutions:

I'm going to leave this godforsaken board. This is a fucking highly negative place infested by gearfags, chartfags and the mentally ill. This board sucks all the joy out of the hobby. A bucket of crabs so to speak.

I'm also going to leave all other photography related forums and communities. It's full with nophoto assfags who are just frustrated at their own lack of photographic skill and try to pull down everyone and anyone to their own level of incompetence.

Cya fuckers.

As a parting gift I'm giving you a bunch of shitty firework pictures.

dude talks 20 minutes about colors, and he uses pictures of a guy with a very weird color, like how the fuck do are we supposed to know what color this guy is supposed to be?

is he half black half white? is he indian? is he pakistanese ?

what the fuck this seems like the most ellaborate troll video ever made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PLMnUf0Gc

What's a man got to do to optimise prime lenses here? I want to take reasonably good photos without breaking the bank but I feel like I'm getting bogged down by the maths. Will I always be held back by this unexceptional camera or is it perfectly capable if you're not a retard?

Give me your most abstract images related to cameras.

Haven't posted in a couple of months but got a few rolls developed recently and I'm slowly going through scanning them.

Exif: Leica M3 + Nokton 50mm f.1.5 + Vision3 250D (for the first seven ones), then Aerocolor IV for the remaining four.

Welcome to /m43/general!

m43 sisters, we are known to be adventurers at heart. While Wormfags and Snoybois debate mtf charts and x-trans rights, we go out and explore the world around us. Capturing its beauty within m43's infinite depth of field.

In this edition: I am back to m43. I've sold my huge bulky Nikon Zf after realizing that I'm way too feminine to lug around such a huge piece of Japanese technology and I got meself a brand new OM5 Mk. II.

I also got a GX9 to live out my closeted homesexual street photography urges. Picrelated is my sane financial choices in one picture. Enjoy!

A list of m43 youtubers you should totally watch if you hate yourself:

Landscape (leaves and rocks):
Guido v. (OM1) - https://www.youtube.com/@GuidoVanDeWater
Henry Turner (OM5) - https://www.youtube.com/@HenryTurnerphoto
Waterfall Joe (OM1) - https://www.youtube.com/@WaterfallJoe/videos
Ian Worth (OM1) - https://www.youtube.com/@ian_worth/videos

Nature/Wildlife (bird buttholes):
Lee Hoy (OM1.2) - https://www.youtube.com/@leehoyphotography
Espen Helland (OM5, OM1) - https://www.youtube.com/@EspenHelland
Emilie Talpin (OM1.2) - https://www.youtube.com/@EmilieT

Street (just buttholes):
Jimmi West (OM5) - https://www.youtube.com/@jimmywestphoto

Gearfags/AIDS (insufferable assholes):
M43 Guy - https://www.youtube.com/@ThatMicro43Guy
Micro Four Nerds - https://www.youtube.com/@MicroFourNerds
RED35 - https://www.youtube.com/@Red35Photography
Robin Wong - https://www.youtube.com/@robinwong
Thomas Eisl - https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasEisl.Photography
Chris Baitson - https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisBaitson (ultra fag)

Why do some people genuinely not see photography as art? It has existed for over 150 years, yet people still see it as nothing more than a reproduction of a subject. We live in an age of images, where our culture is steeped in the ubiquity of photography; the camera is inside everyone's phones, and proliferates on every app. Keep that in mind when you realise that a good photograph is hard to come by; despite an inundation of images, a truly beautiful piece of art, a stunning photograph, is harder to grasp. A photographer only hopes to make about one or two genuinely good photograph in their lifetime.
But even if we narrow our assessment of photography to people who buy the right gear (film cameras, full frame cameras, mirrorless cameras, ecosystems of lenses), we find another issue. How many people in the photography community can even take a masterful photograph? The worst thing I see in hobbyist photography is not necessarily a lack of passion, but a lack of vision. A family snapshot with low technical skill is only interesting to the person who took it. You can find people on Lomography, Instagram, Discord, or Reddit just post photographs that boil down to these elements:
>lack of detail or sharpness
>tonally flat (i.e., no tone splitting, no contrast between highlights and shadows)
>no choice in colour or tones
>no pre-production elements that would convey vision or ideas
>centre-shot
>no forethought about depth of field, especially if someone is just using the same aperture all day like Sunny 16
>noisy or grainy for no reason
>no meaningful use of negative space
>no sense of narrative
>flat with no sense of visual hierarchy (i.e., how your eye is supposed to be guided, from point to point)
>no ambiguity, so the photo is obviously just about a particular theme or subject

Have you ever exhibited your work at a gallery?

My phone fron 2021 claims to have an AI camera. How do I make sure my photos aren't pozzed?

Your photo must be at least 5 years old.
If you are new to photography - share the oldest you got.