What camera do I buy? / general gear talk

What's the issue with the side shot? It's lit a bit oddly if you ask me, my eye is drawn to the fork and front hub which I'm not sure is the point?

Also - distortion can be fixed by checking a box in lightroom, so no biggie. Unless I'm missing something obvious?

If you're willing to spend that amount of money I'd say go for @h2o lens. It'll give you more room to play with composition.

Spotter was kind enough to lend me his 18mm lens, I quite enjoyed it, in my own bumbling amateur fashion.

It seems to prefer bright situations:

Or at least when there's brightness somewhere in shot:

And it's nice to be able to get a lot of landscape into the frame:

But as soon as the light gets lower it doesn't really seem to like it.

How do you measure light? Spot or scene? That’ll impact how the camera sees the shot

Spot, I believe.

Does anyone have a canon prime I can borrow for a week starting tomorrow?
I’ve had 2 50mm 1.4s and one had the common focus ring stop working and the 2nd is very inacurate and soft/hazy edges.

as soon as the light gets lower it doesn't really seem to like it

Yea, it will get really bad with the clock change, as every year.
I heard vitamin D supplements help.

If you measure spot, the camera will make sure that light is correct at the spot, not for the overall scene. So if you're using spot on that tree / sky scene above and you want the sky to look good - point at the sky, press shutter half way and the camera will measure and set focus there, then frame the shot and complete the shutter press to take the picture. Same if you want the trees to come out good, you point at the trees to measure and focus, then frame and shoot.

Hardly any camera, unless it has a HDR-setting, will manage to capture a bright sky and shady trees well on auto. If you shoot raw though, you can most likely recover one or the other when you post process the photo.

It basically comes down to the light being to different in the two areas and the cameras light range is too narrow to capture the whole thing.

If you shoot raw though, you can most likely recover one or the other when you post process the photo.

I was playing around yesterday, and was curious how to do things like this. I downloaded darktable based on a recommendation from here, can anyone link me to a guide on how to work on things like this?

I've never used darktable, only Lightroom, but for LR there's heaps of tutorials on youtube / skillshare

Ta

The answered interested me too, so I searched around a little bit... Try the links from this post, I think they may help with your question: https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/88080/how-do-i-adjust-overexposure-in-certain-parts-of-the-image-only-using-darktable

Oh that's awesome, thank you. Photography stack exchange will be my haunt for a while I feel.

just to note, some of the links were dead but you can easily find the pages they referenced (look at the url for the chapter/section numbers and then find it again in the most recent darktable manual). Good luck!

I was playing around yesterday, and was curious how to do things like this. I downloaded darktable based on a recommendation from here, can anyone link me to a guide on how to work on things like this?

With a matrix metered digital camera it's likely that the sky will be exposed about right to slightly over, and the ground will be under exposed. You'll need to bring up the exposure on the ground, whilst keeping the sky about the same or slightly bringing down the exposure.
You chiefly achieve this with the exposure, shadow, highlight, black and white sliders and probably the best way to learn is to play around with them yourself. Keep in mind that it's a bit of a juggling act at times, and moving one slider will mean you need to adjust another to compensate.

Probably easier to demonstrate if you've got a photo that needs working on ?

Here's one I did, shot straight into the sun. I started by upping the exposure by about a stop, and then further brought up detail in the ground by upping the shadow slider. To deal with the now blown out sky I placed a graduated linear filter across the top of the photo and dropped exposure on that part only by about a stop, and also dropped highlights by a good chunk. I then fiddled with whites and blacks to taste and added a slight vignette.

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^ this thread

descended into sillyness though

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/304019/?offset=50#comment14196748

any recs for some sort of soft pouch what would fit a leica with small lens attached that can be chucked into a normal bag, not looking for anything ovverly fancy/protective, just to stop it rattling around with keys and other random bag shit

which leica?

we have an M8 w/ Zeiss 28mm

Domke wrap

good shout

plenty of cheaper alternatives on ebay etc

I use one of these.

Optech USA lens pouch. Mine are medium size I believe. Fits a Rolleicord IIIc perfectly, a6000+16/hood. Likely a Leica will also be fine.

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Has anyone used https://www.mpb.com/ for part-exchanging camera equipment? Any tips or caveats?