The Photo Snob Thread

Chriso_29er

Likes Bikes and Dirt
Haven't played with film since I was a teen.
But just acquired this bit of kit.
Hopefully get some time to have a go sometime over the chrissy break.

It's a minolta srT101 from about 1973, with Tamron glass and a heap of accessories.

Let's see how many rolls of film I can waste haha.

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fatboyonabike

Captain oblivious
Haven't played with film since I was a teen.
But just acquired this bit of kit.
Hopefully get some time to have a go sometime over the chrissy break.

It's a minolta srT101 from about 1973, with Tamron glass and a heap of accessories.

Let's see how many rolls of film I can waste haha.
at the price of getting it developed, i'm guessing not many!
I used to shoot with a Minolta XG9 with a motor drive just for shits and giggles
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
Haven't played with film since I was a teen.
But just acquired this bit of kit.
Hopefully get some time to have a go sometime over the chrissy break.

It's a minolta srT101 from about 1973, with Tamron glass and a heap of accessories.

Let's see how many rolls of film I can waste haha.

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at the price of getting it developed, i'm guessing not many!
I used to shoot with a Minolta XG9 with a motor drive just for shits and giggles
I had both at one time! I lusted after an XM Motor but changed sides when Minolta decreed autofocus wouldn't be able to use manual lenses.
 

Chriso_29er

Likes Bikes and Dirt
at the price of getting it developed, i'm guessing not many!
I used to shoot with a Minolta XG9 with a motor drive just for shits and giggles
Places will develop then straight to digital, but yeah not cheap.
Will be sorting settings with a lot less trial and error than with the dslr!
 

link1896

Mr Greenfield
Plastic fantastic Tamron lenses, you really do get what you pay for. Our 8yo boys have crop canon cameras to play with, kids don’t get to touch the full frame bodies and the wife’s L series collection.

Tamron glass might be on the good side of ok, but the housings are rubbish.

Went to throw this 18-270 onto a canon d1100 for one of the boys and the focus lens group had more fungus on it then the ceiling of a dodgy hotel in Darwin. Lens had been in a proper equipment bag for a long time, suspect this was a second hand lens and it had been exposed to mould by the previous owner.

Getting it apart wasn’t fun, getting it back together will have to wait till a cold winters night with beer.

 

Oddjob

Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
I've got Pentax, Tamron and Sigma lenses. Weirdly the Tamron SP 70-200 has some of the best glass I've seen but as you point out the body is awful. The Sigma has the best motor but the glass is ok. I've got a single Pentax HD and it is an absolute tank, full metal construction but the motor is meh.

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beeb

Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
I've been thinking about getting a new camera for a while now, but figured before I do it was probably time to dust off the old mirrorless (a Fuji X-E1 and kit 18-55mm) and make sure I still really had an interest first. I had a quick 15 minute window on the way back down from Falls yesterday to stop at a creek and grab a couple of shots - and me being me - went straight for some long exposures.

I felt very rusty, but it was fun to have a go after so long (it's been several years since I've done any 'arty' photography). I think the biggest perk of a newer camera would be having a rear screen that's actually bright enough to see the final image clearly in full sun (hence the exposure being a bit low on the second shot, couldn't really tell much past the basic composition when shooting...).
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Who else still busts out a "real" camera, or have we all succumbed to the ease of the smartphone?
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
I've been thinking about getting a new camera for a while now, but figured before I do it was probably time to dust off the old mirrorless (a Fuji X-E1 and kit 18-55mm) and make sure I still really had an interest first. I had a quick 15 minute window on the way back down from Falls yesterday to stop at a creek and grab a couple of shots - and me being me - went straight for some long exposures.

I felt very rusty, but it was fun to have a go after so long (it's been several years since I've done any 'arty' photography). I think the biggest perk of a newer camera would be having a rear screen that's actually bright enough to see the final image clearly in full sun (hence the exposure being a bit low on the second shot, couldn't really tell much past the basic composition when shooting...).
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Who else still busts out a "real" camera, or have we all succumbed to the ease of the smartphone?
DSLR, will grab a Z9 next year because the D800 is playing odd games at times.
 

beeb

Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
DSLR, will grab a Z9 next year because the D800 is playing odd games at times.
Ooft, just had a geez at what that is. Do you get much use out of the full-body form factor? I could never be bothered with the size and weight of them. I had Canon 5D II/III’s in the past, and even they were heavy beasties once out bushwalking with a few lenses and a tripod. I tried a a7r II for a bit wihoch was a brilliant sensor wrapped in a horrible (to hold and use) body. And the lenses were actually heavier than the Canon equivalents so I got fed up with it after a bit. Hence I’ll probably end up back in Fuji world again this go for the smaller form factor. Gotta want to take it along with me or it won’t get much use anyway, lol.
 

Cardy George

Piercing rural members since 1981
Gotta want to take it along with me or it won’t get much use anyway, lol.
This one. There's been plenty of times and places that I've wished to have my DSLR, but it's the convenience of the potato camera that wins. Thats greatly helped by the S23 Ultra having the camera it does.

But, as they say, the best camera is the one you have with you.
 

dancaseyimages

Mountain bike pornographer
I've been thinking about getting a new camera for a while now, but figured before I do it was probably time to dust off the old mirrorless (a Fuji X-E1 and kit 18-55mm) and make sure I still really had an interest first. I had a quick 15 minute window on the way back down from Falls yesterday to stop at a creek and grab a couple of shots - and me being me - went straight for some long exposures.

I felt very rusty, but it was fun to have a go after so long (it's been several years since I've done any 'arty' photography). I think the biggest perk of a newer camera would be having a rear screen that's actually bright enough to see the final image clearly in full sun (hence the exposure being a bit low on the second shot, couldn't really tell much past the basic composition when shooting...).
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Who else still busts out a "real" camera, or have we all succumbed to the ease of the smartphone?
Those are some nice shots.
I still bust out the cameras every now and then (D750's) but haven't been as motivated these days as I'm back to studying ontop of working and moving between Canberra/Brisbane, just had a NAS drive fail a few weeks ago that I host all the family images on so been a bit sidetracked with uploads / updating everything though.
I find the smartphone pics tend to get 'lost' but they are easier to carry around and grab a snapshot, would recommend Snapseed for smart phone editing.
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Arguably I think the camera photos are 'created' so theres a lot of thought and a story behind capturing that image so its cooler in that way. Digital has probably helped loose some of that story as opposed to film, but its still a carefully curated image at the end of the day, and its the story behind it that creates the memory.

Maybe its just romantisied the way I look at it, but look through old photo Albums and its the memory behind that image, a smart phone is sometimes just a coffee or a photo of a bathroom tile or something to take to bunnings so more like a digital notepad.
 
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