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30" @ 10mm on balcony railing
30" @ 10mm on balcony railing
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Your photos surely wouldn’t be the same without the hot sauce 
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My late uncle was a sherriff’s deputy. When he retired, he wore holsters for his bottle of emergency hot sauces. We all thought it was the greatest thing.
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In German hot is “scharf” and sharp, like in sharp photo, would be “scharf” as well. So maybe we don’t need darktable to sharpen our pictures, when hot sauce is doing a better job. 
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So… 
Diffuse or Scharfen 
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I carry chili peppers dried on a string (in a zip-lock bag). It is the traditional way of preserving them in Hungary, and it is carry-on compatible (no liquids).
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One time, I asked for hot salsa in a Mexican restaurant. The waiter acted like it was a weird request, but he brought me a dish of salsa that had been warmed. Americans say “hot sauce” when they mean spicy sauce. In Spanish, caliente means hot while picante means spicy.
To this day, I don’t know whether the waiter was sincerely providing what I requested or fucking with me.
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Yes, I saw that but I’ve never heard of this brand so I’m skeptical.
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I am still shooting DSLR and will most likely continue to do so for the years ahead. My kit right now:
2 Nikon D810 (one around 35k, the other around 90k on the shutter)
Nikkor 35 mm 1.8 G
Nikkor 50 mm 1.4 G
Nikkor 85 mm 1.8 G
Nikkor 16-35 f/4 G VR
Nikkor 24-70 2.8 G
Nikkor 70-200 2.8 G VR II
- all this fits inside a Billingham 335 with two side-pockets
7 Flashes (2 Metz 58, 4 Metz 48, one Neewer 400 Ws Compact Head)
a bunch of stands, light-formers, power conditioners and whatnot
- fits into the “coffin” - a 50x60x140 cm box with wheels an one side and two grips on the other
I also shoot analog with my Nikon F2, Nikon FE, 35mm f/2, 50mm 1.4 and 105mm 2.5 on Kodak Tri-X.
That kit has been build-up since 1979. Only three items have been bought new: the Nikon FE (in 1979), the 85mm 1.8G (2014) and the Neewer 400Ws head (2016) . All the rest was bought used and I will likely continue the used route, if I ever need to upgrade or change - which is very unlikely!
I have build my kit for my use case. You might remark that I have absolutely no long tele lenses, no high-speed power-grip and no super-zoom - because I have no use for them. I shoot mainly (sensual) portraits and the D810 is a great camera for this. 36MP are more than enough and my subjects don’t run away, so AF-speed isn’t my main concern.
The 70-200 is my “do it all outdoor” portrait lens, the 16-35 is an excellent lens for city-trips and one of the bodies is always in the bag with the 24-70, a lens that can do 99% of all my work. Yet I prefer the 50 and 85 when shooting indoors (faster than the 2.8 zooms)
Hauling a D810 with he 24-70 around is a horrible experience - every time, every day, every moment and especially on mountainbike trips. Big, heavy, clumsy, hardly fitting in the backpack and hurting my backbone every now and then. It sucks. But why take less with me when I have the absolute best and ideal tool at hand? Photography isn’t about convenience! It’s about the result, the moment, the image.
Swinging over to mirrorless … would cost me a fortune and Hasselblad has the most appeal to me. I’d have to splash out around 25 grand (or north of that) to build a new system, so why not start at the top? Because I don’t have 25 grand lying around ;o). My next camera (in case one of my D810s goes belly-up) will probably be a D850 with less than 10k on the shutter.
Naw - Nikon F-Mount lenses are a dime a dozen today and their quality is still excellent. I’m good.
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I was referring specifically to packing luggage. When you’re doing a transatlantic flight, with its own set of rules, you have to also bear in mind the cheap flight in Europe and pack accordingly. That can be a problem for your 10-hour flight when you want your laptop and other little luxuries.
Otherwise, I have no problem with the discount airlines in Europe. They’re incredible, and I wish we had more like them in Canada. Flying to the other coast of Canada for me is about the same price as flying to Europe.
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I note that it is the 10th anniversary of the battle of the nifty fifties
Maybe they should be a public holiday where everyone is encouraged to photograph cats
I’m so opinionated on photography that I don’t recommend anybody’s YouTubes but this I feel is relevant to this topic
added later’ a supplementary view
I did prefer the analogue days in this regard :nobody would question you having the same camera for a quarter of a century or more
Amateurs used the same cameras as professionals and could afford them maybe open source is in this tradition
For example Jane Brown using an Olympus OM,1 analogue
I have some Olympus analogue literature making some of the points made in this forum and with an interesting change of background by angle of view chart; they seem to want the 24 to 70 zoom to be the new standard lens; free to a good home if anybody would like it though the 70s photography will not be to everyone’s taste
It makes the point
’ the advanced photographer however understands the illustrative characteristics of lenses and considers such factors as controlling perspective and varying depths of field effects’
I’m doing similar experimentation with different sensor sizes: depth of field, less imposing cameras, dynamic range etc
I think moving the camera away from the eye a bit more opens up some creative options and my anti-consumerist argument is somewhat undermined by the fact that I now have every type of sensor
As this post illustrates I don’t think there is a correct answer a hyper-realist will use different cameras to a street photographer
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I don’t get his 5 minute rant on the single focus point since any modern camera can also work like that and have the exact same workflow.
Yeah, especially screens that let you shoot from the waist like a TLR. Saves you from having to squat around, or laying down on the floor 
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That’s in my top 3 reasons why I was considering a mirrorless with a fully articulated screen - full AF capability without needing to lay on the ground, or else having no idea where is the camera aiming.
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The problem is that the claim in the video is not true.
If you focus in the middle, then recompose, the point you focused on may no longer be in the focal plane (if you assume a perfect lens). You would need a lens with a spherical field curvature for this to happen, usually they curve the other way (zoom lenses especially).
Now this may not be significant, if the point is not far from the center, and/or if you have sufficient distance to your subject. But you cannot always count on these.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that these lines of DSLR cameras are extremely capable and are still a great alternative today if you know what you are doing. But not all advances in AF are gimmicks.
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Or you have a macro lens where
- the focal plane is almost perfectly flat
- your DoF is a few millimeters, especially from 1:2 magnification or more
But at that point you might be better using the LCD screen with a focus point on your subject and digitally zoomed in, moving slightly back and forth to place the subject into focus…
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Maybe they should be a public holiday where everyone is encouraged to photograph cats
We don’t need holidays, we need cats.
Battle of the Nifty Fifties: Canon’s 50mm f/1.8 Lenses
The true winner is the Sigma 56mm anyway (on APS-C cameras). I don’t agree that the hood should come with the lens, On an APS-C camera you can use a tighter hood, and the wider the lens, the more important this is.
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I’m almost exclusively in the Fuji system right now. X-T20 (which holds its own after 8 years on the market) and an X-H2S. I’ve got a full range of lenses that take me from 10mm all the way out to 400mm (800mm if I want to use the extender, which isn’t recommended for this system).
I say ‘almost exclusively’ because I also have a Canon Powershot G9XmkII, which is a capable compact that I take out now and again. RawTherapee handles the RAW files with no problem.
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How do you like the X-H2S if I may ask? Any reason to pick it over the X-H2(video, fast action)?
Affordability and opening things up to more people therefore might be his point; that was why I put it on, he does also cover other issues
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