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[old.user4556]

You should be joyus and embracing of EF-S and EF-M - closer flange distance so that lenses can be optically simpler and thus cheaper, lighter and better.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

FLANGE

 

[TdC]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtvX5pDxXiE&list=UUuw8B6Uv0cMWtV5vbNpeH_A&index=1&feature=plcp


"See that lens? It's white; that means PROFESSIONAL!!"

lols!

 

[old.user4556]

"red ring ... oooohhh" .

 

[milou]

Famous: http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.co.uk/2006/06/great-photographers-on-internet.html

 

[Wazzerphuk]

How'd your evening go last night milou?

 

[old.user4556]

Famous: http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.co.uk/2006/06/great-photographers-on-internet.html

Didn't Petapixel interview you at some point with your picture, looking all grey and distinguished?

 

[milou]

I now look like WH Auden.
http://www.petapixel.com/2010/01/14/interview-with-david-baker-of-milouvision/
http://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2011/08/featured-photographer-david-baker/

 

[milou]

How'd your evening go last night milou?

It was a bit haphazard I thought. We had name badges with our images on so I spent most of the time staring at badges. The pictures looked good on the walls although mine was at the back behind the bins. I met with a couple of peeps for a chinwag.

 

[old.user4556]

A couple of NEX lenses worth a look.

A new 16-50mm optically stabilised pancake 'powerzoom' standard kit lens to replace the ageing 18-55mm - http://www.ephotozine.com/article/sony-e-16-50mm-f-3-5-5-6-oss-lens-review-20667

Looks great for a standard kit lens, stopping down yields best results and the chromatic aberrations are very well controlled given the optical simplicity due to flange distance. Given it's only £300, I'll pick one up purely for holiday / lightweight use.

A new 35mm f/1.8 optically stabilised prime. Sharp wide open to biblically sharp from around f/2.8 - http://www.ephotozine.com/article/sony-e-35mm-f-1-8-oss-lens-review-20665

A bit dearer at £400, but the sharpness and minimal aberrations make it bargain of the century.

More to come.

 

[TdC]

the new 17mm 1.8 for the m4/3 is also giving me serious horn Gbacon. 34mm equiv, almost perfect. Still there is also the 12mm...or even better the 14-35 2.0 gives me even more serious horn hahaha

 

[old.user4556]

The beta version of Google Chrome is now colour managed. That means photos on flickr and the ilk will not look washed out / super saturated any longer on IPS panels.

 

[milou]

Still need to nuke that sharpening.

 

[old.user4556]

Dear Santa...

http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/lenses/leica-50mm-f0-95-noctilux-m-6-bit-black-lens.html

 

[caLLous]

Dear Big G,

Fucking do one.

Regards,

Santa

Just bought my first actual "normal" ball head. Yay. I stopped grumbling and got the tripod collar for the 100mm f2.8L as well.

*quietly grumble*

 

[milou]

Dear Santa: http://www.alpa.ch/en/products/cameras/camera-bodies/alpa-12-stc.html

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Dear Santa:

SOME FUCKING LIGHT IN LONDON PLS

 

[old.user4556]

You don't need light in London, here's one I took the other day!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I wasn't talking about night shots (or tourist shots )

 

[old.user4556]

I saw this post on DPReview today:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/50358891

Look at that creamy bokeh, if I was a portraits sort of guy I'd have a Canon 135mm L f/2 in a flash.

 

[caLLous]

I bet the 85mm f1.2L looks magical on that body...

 

[TdC]

Dear Santa: http://www.alpa.ch/en/products/cameras/camera-bodies/alpa-12-stc.html

sexy! takes me back to my school days with mechanicals

 

[milou]

It looks epic but whether it's £50k of epic is a moot point. A beautiful engineered product.

Dear Santa: http://www.gitzo.co.uk/product/0/GT...C_Series_5_carbon_tripod_anti-corrosion_4-sec

Books on the Dear Santa list:

Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature
David Wilson: Wales A Photographer’s Journey
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
Jan Tove: Silent Landscape
Jem Southam: The River Winter

 

[TdC]

I want a tripod for some night stuff, but it will prolly be a cheap and cheerful basic manfrotto weighing in at 17 kg or so

 

[Wazzerphuk]

For €150 you'll be able to get a good Manfrotto and head. You won't need anything hugely fancy. Mine cost less than that and it weighs feck all (about 500g more than the stupidly expensive carbon fibre ones)

 

[TdC]

For €150 you'll be able to get a good Manfrotto and head.

that better be some good head. I bought my first MF about 20 years ago. it was heavy as fook 0o anything lighter than 10 bricks is just awesome in my books!

 

[milou]

http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-manfrotto-190xprob-tripod-with-496rc2-head/p1532711

 

[TdC]

oooo shiny! ...and tempting!

 

[TdC]

BTW...

http://www.digitalrev.com/article/drtv-christmas-song-the-hard/NjIzMDExNjg_A

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Flickr Explore appears to have changed. It's no longer hugely awful.