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Forum: Photographic Technique
03-05-2012, 05:02 PM
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I admit, I post on /p/ quite regularly. I Like it because they don't beat around the bush. If a picture sucks they won't hesitate to tell you. That's why when you discover /p/ in the image, it goes way down. In the rare case /p/ loves you for some reason, they stroke your ego majorly, which is why it goes up a lot at that point too.
But if you ignore the crap people post, there is usually good advise to be found.
When people hear its on 4chan they think the worst, but really, its not that bad.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
09-03-2011, 09:32 AM
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Being from new hampshire, I could possibly go. But the gas, parking, or train ride on top of the hotel might get too pricy for me. But I leave for the navy in november, so this would really be the last trip I could go to.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-04-2011, 05:18 PM
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VERRRRRY expired c-41 b&w film. 3 years it was in a hot bag, and for 1 year its been in my fridge. I think the random grain changes was from the expired-ness of it. I walked around the city asking random strangers if I could take their photos.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-04-2011, 09:33 AM
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pricewise, the best bang for your buck is the sears 135mm 2.8
~$15 on kmount!
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-04-2011, 09:25 AM
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Wow, I love this. Get it developed at fotoshops?
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-03-2011, 08:15 AM
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the hack job on the left is horrible haha. Oh, and this stuff broke my hole puncher
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-02-2011, 08:31 PM
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cutting the stingray is like cutting bone. it sucks, but I'm working on it. I'm doing my pentax 645 first. It looks very rough (cutting quality wise)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-02-2011, 05:43 PM
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
02-27-2011, 09:48 PM
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hot pixels can be avoided in an easy fashion. Instead of taking a long shot, take a lot of shots at 30 seconds. Every 25 or so shots take a black shot with a lens cap on it. Download the program startrails.exe (free, google it) and stack all the images you just took. They have a section where you add black images. The purpose of the black images is to get rid of hot spots.
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7136/37530791.jpg
that's a 4099 second long exposure using this method. I count only 2 small hotspots that are very easily fixed
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-27-2011, 09:41 PM
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yeah, I bought some stingray leather off of ebay. Its non adhesive and uncut. I have superglue and a scalpel for that
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-27-2011, 08:14 PM
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this thread inspired me to do something I've always wanted to do. I went on ebay and bought some exotic leather (7" by 24") to put on my cameras :D
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-27-2011, 06:58 PM
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technology is a wonderful thing.
Google startrails.exe
its a stacking program that's free
set up your camera outside
expose it properly
take your wired shutter release and lock it into taking photos continuously
why do this?
Pros:
>The longer you take photos the hotter your sensor gets, creating hot spots. Hot spots are like huge pieces of grain everywhere. Except they are bright red and noticeable. Taking a lot of 30 second photos gets rid of hot spots
>more control over what the final image will look like.
>more creative freedom, such as adding people into startrails
>you can make a cool time lapse movie!
Cons:
>It takes up a lot of space.
4gb=200 raw images=100 minutes of continuous shooting (obviously jpeg will give you more)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-27-2011, 02:12 PM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-27-2011, 01:10 PM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-26-2011, 11:17 PM
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yeah =\
tomorrow I will do it again. Instead of AF.S, I will write down exactly the focus measurements
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-26-2011, 11:14 PM
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Yeah I noticed that. The DA had auto focus, and it was confirmed focus on the tape measure. The quantaray is also confirmed on the tape measure. I had it on AF.S mode so it wouldn't take the picture unless it was confirmed focus on the center =\
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-26-2011, 06:22 PM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-25-2011, 08:11 PM
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I dunno, the quantaray blew it away haha
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-25-2011, 08:10 PM
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each bottle was about 2 inches thick, and the front of a bottle was parallel with the back of the bottle in front of it. The tape measure is also ~2" thick and has the same distance from the other bottle. On top of that, the keyboard spans the entire setup. The camera was ~3' from the setup and the hookah was ~3' behind the setup.
The tape was the focus point, and it is ~1cm from the Evan Williams Honey Reserve
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-25-2011, 04:22 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-27-2011, 10:13 PM
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a vivitar x2 macro tele converter, with three more 2x tele converters, on a pentax smc-A 70-210mm on macro mode, and to top it off a backwards pentax smc-a 50mm 1.7, just to make sure
I did the math out for the aperture and it was well over a hundred hahaha
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
01-26-2011, 07:19 PM
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I do indeed have an A/M switch! The tessar doesnt though *grumble grumble*
The tessar is a 50mm I believe. 2.8. Its more of a macro lens then a portrait lens
I actually got a minolta bellows today for free. I think Its broken though. The rail is missing haha
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
01-25-2011, 08:23 PM
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Yup! That's a mint zenit with a mint helios 44M-4. Everything in the picture besides the big cameras cost me $10 at an auction. I love m42 on my dslr. I also have the m42 zeiss tessar 2.8 and a m42 sears 70-230mm
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