Digital photography

I'd recommend you go for a 5d mate, with a small prime lens, job done. The thing I love about the 5D which I don't get with any other digital cameras is that I feel like I'm still using a film camera, mainly because It's full frame.

I'm planning on cycling the next tweed run with the 5d around my neck, I reckon it can be done relatively easily.

Thanks, looks like an option, but to me those are still big and clunky compared to what I'm used too. And a bit more than I was hoping to spend.

They are not that big if you use primes like a 50 and don't use a grip. The slight increase in size is worth it for the full frame chip. I have one for sale BTW :-)

There you go listen to MrSmyth go with a 5D plus 50 1.8 or 35 f2 even smaller :)

Oh and I should imagine that the fuji x100 will be more than a used 5d.

Plus once you see the full frame you won't want to go back to a camera without it.

Would love a 5D with a 35mm f2... nggggh payday on Friday so might drop you a line MrSmyth!

Serious question. Is the thumbwheel intuitive to use, without taking your eye from the viewfinder? For instance, in Av mode?

Piece of cake, It's very easy to use. You can set up both thumbwheels to control as you wish, I'll have a look once I get home and let you know.

Thats what I was thinking. Was hoping the price of progress wouldn't be a grand though.

I've got a Panasonic GF1 Micro 4/3rds with a 20mm (40mm equivalent) f/1.7 lens, £500, very happy with it so far. Very sharp and very portable with nice depth of field. Here it is next to a 5D!

Piece of cake, It's very easy to use. You can set up both thumbwheels to control as you wish, I'll have a look once I get home and let you know.

i found it quite easy to use, that combined with the exposure lock and playing around with the meter settings to get a feel for the different modes (multi/spot/center weighted etc) and it's not much different from using my nikon FA i had 20 years ago :-)

i will say that the chip was a step up from the competition when it was released and is in some ways nicer than current offerings, it may be slightly noisier than a 5dII/D3 but the noise looks like colour neg film grain.

I would like a digital camera because I'm going overseas for a while and don't want to do loads of developing or printing or scanning. I want something compact, not big fat DSLR.

My main gripe with digitals I've played with are that they are not as direct and intuitive to control. I don't like full programme mode and am happiest when I am shooting in aperture-priority mode with TTL metering and the aperture control is a nice mechanical ring on the lens. If I open the ring up, I get less DOF and higher shutter speed and if I close it down vice versa. Simples. So I don't want to have to spin a thumbwheel or waggle a joystick to change aperture.

I don't want to shoot moving film or any gimmicky stuff. I'm not hung up on interchangeable lenses but I'd rather avoid a zoom lens unless it is fast and sharp as I often shoot in low light. I'd rather look through a viewfinder than stare at a screen - but this is force of habit perhaps, which I could probably get over.

Am I going to have to save/wait for the Fuji Finepix X-100, save even harder for a Leica M8 or 9 (actually forget it, they're way too much.) Or do I conclude that digital does not yet quite fit my needs?

Though it doesn't have the aperture ring I would highly recommend the Panasonic Lumix LX3

It is solidly built takes some great pictures and can be used in a manual mode. It is also great value at around £300.

Pocket Wizard setups are fucking expensive. Does anyone have any experience with eBay radio slaves? I have been tempted to try them for a while but have heard a lot of different things about their reliability.

elinchrom skyports.

Climb the historic structure, its what they want us to do - Duisberg - Germania'land -* misc 35mm film*

Digital is dead, film is king*

*bollocks really. But I travel with film as 1) cams are less desirable to thieves, I go where people don't want to go so avoiding being turned over is a high priority 2) loose a mem card, loose your entire job, loose a film, you only loose a few shots of many 3) need more film? every dodgy corner shop man the world over sells film (although in varying states of decrepid'ness) 4) I like the smell of freshly unpeeled film rather a lot.

loose a mem card, loose your entire job, loose a film, you only loose a few shots of many

that's what back-ups are for and leaving a disk/pen drive in an envelope at the hotel so they can send it to you if your kit and back-up goes missing, only a cretin would leave a whole job on just one memory card.

film can only exist in one place until it's processed
back-ups to seperate hard drives and if your really paranoid ftp'd raws overnight.

you can keep your roll of dirty-five mm film that's been cooking in the window for 3 years in a dodgy cornershop.

Hoping someone can help me out with a problem I can't find the answer to. I am starting to do some very part-time paid work. I have built a simple site with Wordpress and a few plugins (hosting all the images on Flickr and pulling them through with a great plugin called Slickr Flickr).

All the images appear correctly on my Mac at home, but when I was looking at my site on a work computer yesterday I noticed that two of the images are not how I see them at home - the colour is way off; they look like they're displaying in CMYK, not RGB (I am not even sure what I am saying here is right). Here's the link to the page; it's images 1 & 6 working from top left: http://www.timarnoldphotography.co.uk/mysuperheroes/

I do almost all my post work in Lightroom, but these two were tweaked in Photoshop so I can only assume the issue is there. Any ideas? For info, the colour is also off when they're viewed in the Finder.

could be colour profiles that's embedded or not? try to save a jpg and untick the embed profile box thing

Cheers, Kboy - I'll try that.

try converting to sRGB first. it could be all sorts of issues, some browsers are profile aware (most aren't unless you tell them to do so) also flickr fucks around with images so not a reliable way of hosting.
also vieing in the finder is from an embedded thumbnail, i don't think the finder is profile aware.

Thanks to both of you. The images had the wrong profile assigned. I have also just learned that monitor settings in Windows have a higher gamma than Macs and that monitor colors are darker on Windows, and that you can change proof settings in view to give you a PC representation. Fucking hell, there's a lot to learn!

macs and windows are now 2.2 gamma

99% of computers have uncalibrated screens and the brightness turned up to max (not 120 lumens/m2) most monitors cannot show the adobe98 colourspace, most laptop screens are 6 bit dithered to 8 bit colour.

colour management is a complicated as you want it to be :-)

macs and windows are now 2.2 gamma

99% of computers have uncalibrated screens and the brightness turned up to max (not 120 lumens/m2) most monitors cannot show the adobe98 colourspace, most laptop screens are 6 bit dithered to 8 bit colour.

colour management is a complicated as you want it to be :-)

Okay, so does it matter what proof setup setting I use, as long as RGB for web and CMYK for print? And what does 'proof colours' show me when it's on, and when it's off?

I shoot in Adobe98 and export as sRGB when using the images for web - correct? If I was sending an image to print, I would keep the Adobe98 colourspace and work in CMYK - correct?

I don't want it to be complicated! I do think it's important to understand how it works though.

Okay, so does it matter what proof setup setting I use, as long as RGB for web and CMYK for print? And what does 'proof colours' show me when it's on, and when it's off?

I shoot in Adobe98 and export as sRGB when using the images for web - correct? If I was sending an image to print, I would keep the Adobe98 colourspace and work in CMYK - correct?

I don't want it to be complicated! I do think it's important to understand how it works though.

i think you need to do some googling as it's not a question of answering a yes or no.
and there are lots of if's and but's and i don't think one reply on a forum is going to be the answer.

work in RGB then convert to cmyk if you have a print profile as generic cmyk is not how it's going to print .

sRGB for web? yes. a smaller colour gamut that should work well on all devices/platforms/browsers.

some basic info on soft proofing here:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/soft-proofing.shtml
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/profiles.htm

Though it doesn't have the aperture ring I would highly recommend the Panasonic Lumix LX3

It is solidly built takes some great pictures and can be used in a manual mode. It is also great value at around £300.

I've heard these are good too. It's worth saying though that the extra £200 for a GF1 and lens buys you a sensor eight times bigger.

what about the new olympus. fastest zoom decent size sensor and twiddly thing round the lens?

What about one of these?

Giving some srs thought to buying a DSLR. Anyone know any good deals? Looking potentially at a 5DMK2, possibly on a piss-take of a repayment scheme at about 2 pence a month for the rest of my life.

try camerapricebuster.co.uk for 5dII pricing