dry, loose, fine of the finest sand... I'd rather leave camera in car and just go to beach without. But wet sand won't be flying around, not on these beaches I've visited.
after all, it is hard to say what kind of protection is really needed without seeing the exact spot/area where those crabs are.
Thinking too much of potential damage to your gear quickly makes you place the whole set in the darkest corner of a closet and leave it all there.
@dpollitt made a comment I'll quote here: It isn't a fragile collectors item meant to sit on a shelf to be admired. Get out and use it. Ignore the rest of the advice given here(so far) and shoot some pictures. Use common sense, don't submerge the camera, try to keep it dry and clean and you will be just fine. If you spend the trip worrying about trivial camera worries, you will miss shots and miss the trip!
@Daenyth Ghosting from light bouncing off the sensor and the off the back of lens elements and captured by the sensor is most often an issue when you have a very bright source in a generally dark frame. If the rest of the frame is reasonably bright it will be far less noticeable. The reflection will always be a double reversed image. That is a light at the upper left will ghost at he lower right at the same distance and 180° from the center of the image.
@D3C4FF it makes me think of bars on a cellphone. I like the overall color, but I wonder what the architects of the apparently second tallest building were thinking
it looks very out of place with the rest of the skyline
but the sky itself and the water reflections are very nice and the angle is good I think
maybe from slightly further away would have improved the perspective a bit
the right hand side feels a little too close
but it looks like there would be other things in the shot then
@EsaPaulasto yeah, that was kind of why I said you'd still have to be very careful and use some judgement
if sand and spray are flying everywhere, avoid it, if the sand is fairly matted down and water is calm, then a tarp should suffice to keep the area clear
@EsaPaulasto but fungus grows in the dark
;)
@MichaelClark whoa, Michael Clark makes an appearance in chat... :)
@EsaPaulasto I'm not sure who it was that said that, but I like it. Certainly doesn't apply to all shots, but I personally think it works well enough for this one
I'm very satisfied with the performance of the Sunpak flash I recently bought when I use it to bounce light on subject, but I'm at loss how to make it give me enough of light when directed straight on subject. Of course I would avoid flashing that way, but I have a need to know my equipment thru and thru. I am missing something obvious, I believe.
So I went to read flash-tag :)
No help so far, but there's no hurry either. I'll figure it out sooner or later.
@AJH it was in an answer to one of questions tagged 'flash' which was what I was reading earlier this week. The question was about using on-camera flash and seeking help with washed out faces.
Hmm.. mine does preflash for TTL but yes, it sets the power so low that images turn out dark, underexposed. So you manually flash and hit the exp.lock just about the same time. Yeah I can see that would work, but you know it is a workaround and not really the solution :)
I thought it might be a design fault between Sony and Sunpak, none too uncommon with third-party accessories, so I've not been worried too much but ready to accept it as it is. While of course searching (casually) for a solution, a settings I missed or suchalike.
After all, direct head-on flash is something to avoid if possible. Bounce flash puts out so much power that I can hear the Thud-sound of the lamp over shutter-sound :)
I recently purchased a Speedlite 600EX-RT for use with my 5D Mark III. I'm shooting with a 17-40 f4/L lens. Particularly when using the flash in the standard forward position, I get extremely severe underexposure when shooting in P mode with the flash in either High Speed Sync or First Curtain ...
@AJH thanks for the link to your question. First of all, it's "good" to hear that even first-party quality gear shares this problem. If I ever find out how to do it, I'll write an answer to your question, and naturally use the pretext to praise the overwhelming cleverness of Sony cameras, lol :)
Flash sounds, "Bop!..bewwwww.." simulate or at least emulate the human wake-up process. You are first asleep, until "Bop!" your conciousness kicks in and you are suddenly awake, then to spin up "bewwwwwww.." into the morning and daily routines of breakfast and newspaper and a drive to work :)
basically external audio always gives more expandability and generally better quality, so it's generally one of the best things you can do to improve your videos. Then it's just a matter of getting the best quality video you can for the price you want to spend. That pretty much goes in order of something like the GoPro to DSLR to high end video camera, but you'd price out before getting to the end of the DSLR part of the spectrum
there isn't a lot of reason for a consumer video camera above the $500 range unless you need the small size or certain other special cases, the interchangeable lenses and superior photo performance with really solid video performance makes DSLRs pretty awesome for video, particularly now that cameras with PDAF during video are coming out
(phase detection auto focus, which allows for autofocus with video on a DSLR)
@EsaPaulasto except I don't wake up for several hours after I get out of bed, not fully anyway
@EsaPaulasto I can't reliably reproduce it. It happens at random times
I've changed my approach some and get better results now
but not sure what caused or fixed it
and it does still occasionally happen either badly under or badly over exposed
@AndyM oh yeah, and on the cheaper end, a $500 camcorder would compete with the GoPro in terms of zoom (for example, having one) but for your purposes, quality seems to be king with little need for zoom
that's the trick of the GoPro. With most video cameras in that range, you are paying for a bunch of other features and get a fairly cheap image sensor. For the GoPro they bought a nice sensor and put the minimum of other stuff around it
makes them extremely good for the price as long as it fits your use case
Hey guys, I know somebody that owns a 5D MKIII and is buying a 7D to get the additional "length" out of her lenses. Does this make sense? It doesn't make sense to me but I'm not sure. I'm also having trouble explaining why I think it doesn't make sense, but that might be because I'm wrong. I feel like you're better off cropping a 5D photo
well, the APS-C sensor would have a higher pixel density, so it will sample more points, but a teleconverter would be a cheaper option
basically, it comes down to the number of pixels you can cram within the image circle
and the actual resolution that the lens is able to resolve
since an APS-C sensor is smaller, it effectively magnifies the lens because it takes only a smaller portion of the image circle but fits more dots in that space (assuming the resolution of the sensor is higher than the equivalent area on the full frame camera)
effectively a teleconverter does the same thing though and is cheaper as long as they only need to lengthen decent quality telephotos that are supported
though it does cause a stop or two of aperture depending on the amount of the multiplier, though I would expect that effectively the APS-C crop must impact the amount of light that hits too
@AJHenderson cat in Finnish is "kissa" and when little kids sometimes have difficulties with pronouncing S they say "kitta" :)
this white one is the only one of our cats who can open doors.
Both ways, no matter if the door opens in or out. The same as the older one of our two dogs, he also knows how door handles work. Younger dog just follows him :D
well, that was not a good sample of Finnish music. Here's a better one, with a story too, though in Finnish language which probly sounds like nothing else you've ever heard before.
This band is among the most popular in Finland ever. The band plays well but the singer is just another dude who got to sing the songs because all the other band members refused the job :)
but yeah, my tastes are towards more aggressive, but I musically appreciate the stylisation of the former of the two songs and the latter wasn't bad, but seemed kind of standard
ah, yeah, I do like well done lyrics, though for me it isn't normally enough to bring a song up that much in how much I like it unless I like the music well as well
both Arabic and Malay are on my list before I get to any other languages
and I'll probably head east from Malay once I learn that
particularly when dealing with the primarily disused cases that are pretty much only used in old books such as the Koran (which I have to say, I still don't see how they think it is at all based on the Bible since the stories, while similar in name, are completely totally different in content)
nah, it's useful for Bible study, faster and slightly more in depth than having to hit up a Strongs concordance repeatedly (even if it's just taping a link on my phone)
but as far as Biblical greek goes, there are sometimes subtleties that don't translate well, using a good concordance and parallel translations can help figure out where those are, but it's still not quite as good as being able to know the original language's complexities
speaking purely academically, we have a much higher degree of confidence in the quality of source material we have for most of the new testament than we do for pretty much any other period work
and that's pretty consistent with most academic scholars, particularly after the discovery of the dead sea scrolls
@EsaPaulasto yeah, it looks like his thing was almost entirely based on finding those, though I'm not familiar enough with his work to give a refutal myself since I'm having a hard time finding details of his claims either, though interesting the one thing I did find pointed to his work as a reason why it's important to know Biblical greek and hebrew to be able to see some of the issues with his work that don't match up with the texts
I recently purchased a Speedlite 600EX-RT for use with my 5D Mark III. I'm shooting with a 17-40 f4/L lens. Particularly when using the flash in the standard forward position, I get extremely severe underexposure when shooting in P mode with the flash in either High Speed Sync or First Curtain ...
