keep reading about famous exhibitions like New Topographics, but how am I supposed to view them when there's no archive and they were touring 20 years before I was born?

Most photography isn't art. But that doesn't matter, because it's able to do things art rarely can. Photography is a vial for a memory, it makes the intangible tangible. This feature is even more potent in black and white photography. Even more potent if there's some motion blur. So don't be sad your "snapshit" will never be art, be glad that you captured what your eyes could only see for a split second just for it to vanish into nonexistence. Advocates of cineslop say it's sculpting in time. Photography is making time meaningless, cutting right through it and spitting in the face of Chronos. That's why La Jetée is genius, beneath the superficial time travel argument lies the fact that photography is how we travel in time. It's how we make the fleeting eternal. Just think of how the accounts of deja vu phenomena skyrocketed after the introduction of photography, it literally pierces the matrix of time in the minds of those who experience it. I'm certain that if we one day gain the ability to control time, photography will be a huge part of that. Time is first and foremost about perception and only photography has what it takes to train the brain to be able to take charge and go from passive observer to being the one in control.

Yo i want to get a digital camera with film grain, the same film grain as movies like downtown 81 or premenant vacation. also don't want to be too big cuz i want to walk around with it. can some1 name a camera that sounds like that. film is expensive and i dont want to edit it after.

What the hell is lomography? Trying to get an actual answer is impossible, I'm met with "dude it's like an experience vibes bro" bullshit

I have these two older flashes. Neither work.

Minolta was thrifted without testing for like $10.

277T speedlite came with an old Canon T70 I received as a hand-me-down.

Do these older flashes just die? Feel like I've tried most of the usual hacks to get it back. Left it on for a few hours to recharge capacitors, cleaned the contacts. Opened up the Minolta and thought I was gonna die from discharge so closed it right back up.

Minolta charges up and makes sound but never fires, 277T doesn't even charge up.

Any other hairbrained ideas to get these working?

I've been looking to get a fast telephoto (Nikon) without breaking the bank and as everyone slowly moves to the new mirrorless platforms the prices for DSLR lenses are 30% of their original

I would assume there wouldn't be too much of a deterioration in optical quality from the use of an FTZ adapter as it's really just a spacer to match the original DSLR focus plane

I would also likely have a teleconverter for more reach as needed in front of the FTZ which I think shouldn't pose any more drawbacks than with the original DSLR

my main question is if there's any major advantages to getting a native mirrorless knowing it's going to cost 3x more and lose half it's value as soon as it's bought

there's currently a local seller listing the 300mm f/2.8G VR II for $2,000 USD (currently $5,500 USD new) which could probably be knocked down a bit further

I just finished my first project. Shot with a Pentax k1000, Kentmere Pan 400 BW film. Instead of just dumping everything in one go, I'll post as the semester goes along.

I’m finna do before and after fights portraits of fighters at some ufc type event.
Picrel is my light gear.
I was thinking of putting each lamp on one side and give it hard lighting (a bit like the portraits shot by Martin Schöller)
Any tips, recs or suggestions?

https://youtu.be/L6IbmqtgP0c?si=9ALDnUQ31pp-B4Ve

a newer one