Digital photography

Someone I know is using old manual lenses with his D810, are any of them that good?

Yes, apparently. Not Leica like maybe, but pretty fucking good.
They are usually on the heavy side / build like a tank, and handle like a dream.
I really enjoy shooting with those, even with very beat up ones like my 20 / 3.5...

Cheers.
Yea I don't photograph a lot of people lately, and when I do I often am not supposed to post them on places like this.

Yes, D3 is on the list for beginning of next year (when, hopefully, all the rich fucks have bought themselves D4's for christmas, thus selling their old bodies, and I can score a good one for less than 1k).
I had a D4 in my hands today testing the 50mm primes again.. aww, man, so fucking nice..
It really feels lighter though it isn't that much lighter, and generally feels like a dream.
But D3 will have to do if there isn't some bloody spectacular paid jobs in the next weeks...
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On the "fast standard Nikon AF primes" topic -
I don't want to clog the whole thread with tech talk (after all it was me complaining about it the other day),
so to make it short: what helped me decide were Ken Rockwell's articles, and the elaborate reviews on photographylife.com.
I want a 50mm that feels good to me, is fast (AF), not fucking expensive (as I will photograph in bad weather which may kill it sooner or later), sharp, has nice bokeh, and is light (and priorities are in this order).
So I went to another store and tested the new 1.8G again, on a D4 this time (yesterday was on a D750), and compared to Canon's 85 / 1.8 on a 60D - which focuses pretty fast in my eyes.
So as mentioned the D4 is fucking lovely of course - and the lens was focussing satisfyingly faster on it, although this does not make much sense to me. It's not as snappy as the Canon (boo), but it's alright. Feels very very nice, and is just €180,- new...

Canon 60D / 40mm STM

@Tina.Kino are you on Talk Photography forum? Their classifieds are pretty good, worth keeping an eye on for used D3.
(you do need fo have been a member for a while and made a certain number of posts though, if you're not a member)

..no, not a member there - I'll check that out, thanks!

Any reason why you are going for a D3 and not a D700?

Two: D3 fits a lot better in my hands and it is tougher, allowing to beat non-complying models with it.
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450D / 50mm 1.8

Fuck yes.

^^quality

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Niiiiiice

Nice work.

Hey so I have one transmitter and three receivers (one is broken, probably easily fixable) and a remote of this: http://www.hahnel.ie/index.cfm?page=dslrremotecontrols&pId=64
Need to get shot as the remote cable doesn't work with my 750. It's Nikon fit.

Anyone interested? Tenner?

yes please :-)

Can you post?

Quality. nice one dude. Love how the grey tiles create a motion effect. and the mirrored step. Right place right time huh!

Cheers all. I just lucked-out with timing on that one. I went to shoot a frame with only the guy in the hood and then the other dude just popped out, perfectly in sync.
I like how the workman is at the same angle as the tiled pillar.

450D / 50mm 1.8

no, not a member there - I'll check that out, thanks!

I am, and you're welcome to use my log in details to browse the classifieds if you wish.

They are a strange bunch though and I'm on my 4th or 5th account as I keep getting banned for saying fuck or bugger or that sharpness isn't the be all and end all or some such nonsense. As such, not sure how a purchase would progress if you do find something but you're welcome to look I guess.

Hi guys, cross post from the PC thread but photography related:

I've be given give a 2009 Dell 6400 laptop (the orange one) and I'm thinking of upgrading it. If I stick in 16gb of RAM a decent 256gb SSD for programs and 500 gb hd for storage. Planning to install windows 7 64 bit. Do you think it will handle photo editing with lightroom 5 comfortably? The processor is a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core QX9300.

Cheers.

That's going to be a fair bit of dorrar to upgrade but it should get the job done. Is the screen any good? That would be my main concern if its going to be used for photo editing.

Yeah I was thinking £200 for SSD and RAM and I have the other HD spare. It was the top end DELL workstation laptop 4 years ago so the screen should be decent enough. I use the newer M6800 at the moment but it is really my work PC and I'm wanting to have something at home all the time as it's a brick to carry on the bike.

Nice. Is that Cuba?

Thanks, that was in Morocco