Digital photography

Some cheery seaside spots

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These are so good! Contrast in textures in No.2 is great (also partial to a corner). Bridge one is disorientating in a good way. Reminds me of the Birkenhead docks.

Great spot with the primary colours in the last one. That’s my fave.

Showing one cropped just to see the resolution… otherwise as-shot.

Been so so long since I did any street photos. I stopped around the time I sold all my film cameras. Digital has never struck me as ‘the same’.

Loved shooting Leica/rangefinder. Fast, manual focus, pot luck. Digital failed to show any character, or focus fast enough, or give satisfactory manual focus. Big bulky lenses etc etc.

I’d put the 16/2.8 pancake on a Nex3N in the hope it would do the things, but didn’t get on that well with it. Not bad, just not right for me.

Recently resurrected the camera. Bought the 7Artisans ‘biscuit’ toy lens fixed aperture but focus ring with no focus marks.

Out and about in Oxford today. Baby-outfit was Swindon beforehand.

Cropped image shows what I wanted …full size shows I’m too used to 35-50mm on film and not 28mm.

Really like this toy lens. The low resolution has a very film-like effect. Awful magenta fringing and vignette are Lomo as hell.

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Sounds like a fun setup. Love the baby suit on a sign.

Speaking of signs…
Black pro mist arrived, stuck it on the X100 and enjoying it more than last time I tried one. It has crazy reflections which is super annoying (usually run a fancy protective filter which doesn’t have this issue) but the subtle halation is nice.

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Definitely a not-serious setup. I have a 35/0.95 on the way from the faraway land, which I'll be throwing on the A6000.

I also switched to digital a couple of weeks ago and have been feeling something similar... I converted a lens from a cheap film p&s I like but it's way too shit on a digital sensor.
That lens you got looks nice, good shots with it

Yea I think if you can manage to find a focus point then it has an acceptable resolution. Certainly not an easy lens to exploit the best, but easy enough to use like a disposable camera.

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Thanks! Really enjoying your photos also. The last one is my favourite too, had high hopes for a better bridge photo but no joy. Hoping to explore the other side of the river on my next child-free day for some better angles.

Got up early and went to check out a few spots I’ve been meaning to visit.

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Continued

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^ these are great.
Very familiar @aglet

Very nice, love this edgeland type stuff.

Cheers, they’re fun places to wonder around in at 7am on a Sunday if you’re into that type of thing. Certainly not pedestrian friendly so my strategy has been to chuck a Brompton in the boot and park near by and basically just ride around.

Kentish Town, East Ham

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@Velocio there’s definitely a loss in saturation when posting images here. It might be from uploading rather than embedding from Flickr etc but looking side by side the yellow in “Tony’s” sign is much less vivid than the original.

Finally getting around to editing some stuff from summer, ironically around the solstice. These are all from Sweden. Caught an unusual cloud/rainbow thing.

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i found that images seem about 1/2 a stop darker on here

It is!

Yeah, I get that too. Makes my images look even gloomier than usual. Am not a fan of boosting saturation either, à la that Josh Edgoose fella, where everything looks a bit Disneyfied. Also I live in Scotland so..

All of these are bangers.

1 and 2 are my fave

Couple of other Darks.

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Someone’s been to Heligan

Haha yeah, my parents live just around the corner and got dragged along!