Photography Chat

yea, college taught me how to think critically and problem solve

LOL. I've had my mind on something practical for so long, it's hard for me to think about something like that...

doesn't something like creativepro.com/article/build-a-tilt-shift-camera-lens-peanuts also pretty much make it a pseudo bellows for macro work?

it is a place where we get to be users :P

If I could leave the programming world forever and flip burgers, I probably would...but I've yet to see a McDonalds that thinks my burger skills are worth 100k+

i think this conversation maps well to a brand war (Nikon/Canon) :)

if idiots mostly work with Microsoft products, maybe that says something ;)

@jrista i would hate to live inside your mind

i'd run for admin....but i don't want to lol

@JohnCavan Primaries help thin the herd. ;P

I'd spend the $6300 on the 600mm and be done with it :D

it is in this office, we got 100 photo panos here done w/600 and 800 :)

@jrista I was organised this week :)

ya, photography is a fast moving subject right now it seems...the tech is really moving at a breakneck pace

I'm going to take advantage of the new moon to go out and play with steel wool, batteries, and my camera... We'll see if anything interesting comes out of it. :-)

Just had a bunch of my favourite photos printed in 5x7. It's so easy to just forget about prints in this digital age. So pleased with the results and also the fact that my eye-calibrated monitors (MBP 13" and Dell U2410) came out spot on.

LOL, I find it ironic that there is more stars for the getting a 1Ds or D3x will make you a totally l33t photographer than the other comment. Sigh.

@Pearsonartphoto Again, technologically speaking, no particular brand is better or worse. Technology is ephemeral...transient, and it is the worst reason to base a buying decision on. Camera bodies come and go, and they can easily be upgraded when your brand leapfrogs the competition.

How I see it is that if you are either a newbie to DSLRs, or a high-end pro, Nikon's okay, but they don't seem to do as well for the person in the middle.

True. The big plus is that it gets me up and out, I've been doing a lot more hiking and camping since getting back into it.

@jrista i'm glad kacalapy picked your macro answer - it was the more complete answer

Woot! Got my 50mm f/1.4 :D

@JayLancePhotography I would say the American "industry", in general, has done an exceptional job telling, and convincing, everyone that they need everything. It is actually rather despicable.

The American wedding industry as a whole has done an exceptional job over the years of pushing the idea/myth of the 'It's the most important day of your life. Don't you deserve the fairytale wedding that you've been dreaming about ever since you were a little girl?' You wouldn't believe how many women buy into that marketing message and saddle themselves with debt that takes years to dig out from under...

@JayLancePhotography I think your about lighting and business especially push this site to quality level where I always hoped it to be.

We're not in the business of taking pictures (good, or otherwise), we're in the business of selling and marketing photography products and services, and if a photographer is unwilling to embrace that truth, then they will have an extremely hard time being successful...

I should add, I can't wait for the Smugmug SE site to go into beta;-)

wow, in 2015, there will be a total lunar eclipse at the same time the full moon is at its perigee

I would recommend you focus less on how much blur

i think alot of the ISO discussion Matt was having really boiled down to "use the appropriate ISO" - ie, don't use a lower ISO if it underexposes the image just have have "better" quality if you're going to have to fix it in post.

strobist.blogspot.com/2007/06/l102-light-controls-overview.html "Water, glass, mirrors, the extreme gravity around a black hole - whatever it takes." Something tells me that if anyone ever gets the chance to light a black hole with speedlights, it'll be David Hobby

that said, I'd like to get a 2.8 zoom, because f/5.6 at the tele end suuuuuucks...

@garikapati certainly. Its just a drive. The ReadyNAS device itself runs Linux, and has this special X-Raid software on it. To any computer, it just appears like a network drive. Nothing special.

small files greatly reduce throughput, but thats simply due to the additional overhead of managing far more files

I spent $700 just on the empty enclosure, then bought three Hitachi 2Tb 7200RPM drives to put in it

so it was about $1000 total

I get an average of 80mb/s reads

about 60-65mb/s writes, for big files

I intend to back up every scrap of data on it to BluRay, then add another 2Tb

Just in case the X-Raid expansion algorithm screws up

The ReadyNAS NVX is GREAT

collect all the desiccant "DO NOT EAT" packets you can find, bake them for 15 minutes at 150 degrees, and throw them in the bag

cables are cheap

the freezer trick works in a surprising number of cases

gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

grc.com/spinrite.htm

A large chunk of it was backed up, however my scheduled backup job has apparently been failing for about 4 months (kindly enough, windows doesn't actually tell you that a backup has failed...it just puts a little red x on an icon on your system tray, which disappears after a while).