Thread: Photography

I dabbled in film for a while, but only enough to gain a weak understanding of what goes into an exposure.

I bought a Nikon D40 (the bottom end DSLR) about 3 years ago and found out shortly after that you can buy fast manual primes for cheap. I've been in manual mode, chimping without a light meter ever since. It's a fun and fast way to learn.

I think you guys will like this Craigslist find--it's what I've been tinkering with as of late:

Kodak DCS420c (welcome back to 1994). A 1.5 megapixel digital back on a Nikon N90s. No LCD screen. No menus. Besides the delete button, there is not one single digital control. Vitually zero image processing. It's just a big film camera that writes .tiffs onto a PCMIAA drive (I'm using a CF card & adapter).

The sensor is tiny. See the box on the mirror? That's the crop--2.6x baby! Colors are impossible to control if you don't put a hot mirror on the lens. It also can produce moire patterns like you wouldn't believe. And yet, this lack of filtering makes it wickedly sharp.

That's kinda cool

I really like film, but I don't have room for a darkroom. So I invested in a Nikon D100 and went from there. I really like the N90 tho it's a great camera. Never seen it with a digital back tho.

Digital is for girls. Real men use real cameras.

Yep, worked for a couple of years, mainly doing photojournalism. Not anymore as my degrading health put a halt to that! I hope I'll be able to get back into my groove!

Originally Posted by v76

Yep, worked for a couple of years, mainly doing photojournalism. Not anymore as my degrading health put a halt to that! I hope I'll be able to get back into my groove!

I wish you the best of luck, and hope that you feel better and up to the task soon.

I just wrapped up my first "pro" gig shooting the Empire State Shootout for Action Sports Photography. Man, that was a looooong weekend. We had one to two of us shooting with one at the desk; I was working with the owner and one other guy that he hired helped out part of the time. I was there for something like 43 hours in three days, with the last day being the shortest. Worked the cameras most of the time and ran the tables and computers a bit too. I shot upwards of 5 thousand (non-instant delete) frames easily, which could be more than I've shot in my whole life. It was a great learning experience, as it was my first time shooting hockey, and I'm going to be working for the guy in the future covering other tournaments in the area, but there's no way I'd want to do this for a living. I am worn out and sore...

Did a degree in photography some years ago, all film stuff from matchbox pinholes to Sinars and most stuff in between. Nowadays I just piddle around now and again with my old Nikon D1x - nothing serious. Done a few weddings but usually it's just for my own pleasure as an amateur.

Sparq- nice Deardorff!

I've been a serious amateur photographer for the last 30+ years; I always have a camera with me. For my son's sporting events I use a digital SLR, but I'm a film guy. I usually use all-manual 35mm rangefinders and SLRs from the 1930's to the 1970's, and 6x6 twin lens reflexes.

Matt

I've been shooting for a while now. I've been trying to shoot as much as possible since around the end of February, as that was when I got laid off. I've shot for several clients since then, so I guess I'm kinda pro/am. Here are a couple of shots, if you're interested:

1940 by ~erickghint42 on deviantART
Her soldier isn't coming home by ~erickghint42 on deviantART
HA by ~erickghint42 on deviantART

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting links...

I shoot on film, and prefer slide. Since I'm a computer nerd, I'll scan and do the rest in the machine. Back in the days the slide was the end product, for me just an intermediate step.

That said, I like 'different' camera's. I've got 3 Kiev 60 bodies and some lenses, which see fairly little use, now that I've got my Fuji GW 670 II and for the fun of it I shoot with a Horizon panoramic camera as well.

Oh yeah, I do my own E6 processing too.