Digital photography

If you want to shoot a fast lens wide open for the small depth of field, but are shooting in bright light. You can use an ND filter to reduce the shutter speed to a value the camera can manage. For example bright sunlight at f2 could need a 1/4000 or above shutter speed. Also useful for moving water that you want to blur and have a small depth of field, that's where the tripod and long exposures can be useful.

Does anyone want a new and unused Nikon 1.4x teleconverter (TC-14Eii)? I bought it 18 months ago in the expectation that I'd also be upgrading my tele lens, unfortunately I never got the new lens so haven't used this even once.

Infrared shot i took in May of 2010!
D40, 50mm, Hoya R72, i think it would have been about a 30sec exposure.
titted about with in MS paint (truefax, i cloned out some dust, cropped it and made it as it is now)
I rarely use it, but its nice to have.
took some nice light trails with it last winter but never got round to uploading them.

Wow, I love that. Definitely going to have to go out this weekend to try something like that.

I know this has been asked before but I'm struggling.

I need to use some card recovery software to find some videos my 4yo deleted. All the software I've tried so far leads you on a merry trail before dropping a $40 bill before you can get anything useful.

Does anyone have something I can use, or know of software that is either cheap or free?

Oh and it's for a mac. Finding lots for PC but the mac ones are shit.

Found one!!! Got done by two money grabbing ones in the proccess.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/

Awesome, runs off the terminal and works. Will donate.

Awesome find. Hope it works for you o_0

Anyone uses these sling straps? Need to get 1 and Black Rapid seems a little overpriced for what it is. These have good reviews on talk photography and all...

Why.

I really want to get a double one and walk round dual wielding like an unstoppable photography terminator.

Dunno about the black rapid slings, I've played with them and it just feels a little off having the camera swinging around upside down by the tripod mount.
Straps in general are really annoying, they always end up in my face when on the job which is totally infuriating.

I really want to get a double one and crush both of my innominate bones simultaneously

fixed.

Straps in general are really annoying

Indeed. Bin them.

Isn't sling straps a bit like those mobile phone holsters?

And

lovely composition and contrast, really like it

Why.

What other alternatives there are? I don't like the idea of having a hand strap or just carrying my camera running up and down covering an event... I, too, don't like straps, but I would rather not drop my camera, which I know I would if I don't strap it to something.

I ended up ordering an Op/Tech one that loops round the usual loops on each or either side of the camera, seems more secure that way. Wouldn't bother with it and woudl just stick to a neck strap if I hadn't have a neck problem what constantly fucks up my right shoulder.

running up and down covering an event.

That's the one scenario when a sling makes total sense. Or as mentioned above, if you're rocking two cameras like some photographic terminator.

Oh, and cheers Eightball!

What other alternatives there are? I don't like the idea of having a hand strap or just carrying my camera running up and down covering an event... I, too, don't like straps, but I would rather not drop my camera, which I know I would if I don't strap it to something.

I ended up ordering an Op/Tech one that loops round the usual loops on each or either side of the camera, seems more secure that way. Wouldn't bother with it and woudl just stick to a neck strap if I hadn't have a neck problem what constantly fucks up my right shoulder.

I've got that optech one. It's shit and you'll soon hate it. It really gets in the way of the viewfinder if you use both lugs. I had my X100 on it. Got frustrated and just had it hanging off one of the sliders but the camera bounces around like fuck and hits against your thigh. It never sat in the small of my back, always swinging around at my side, stopping my arms front swinging naturally when I walked. Bin.

I looked for ages for a qr camera strap for my x10 I liked the look of the tamrac cones but impossible to find in the uk apparently

I've got that optech one. It's shit and you'll soon hate it. It really gets in the way of the viewfinder if you use both lugs. I had my X100 on it. Got frustrated and just had it hanging off one of the sliders but the camera bounces around like fuck and hits against your thigh. It never sat in the small of my back, always swinging around at my side, stopping my arms front swinging naturally when I walked. Bin.

This is my worry, but like well is it says, I am not very comfortable with the idea of the only contact point between the camera and the strap is the bit of screw at the bottom. I got mine from Amazon and have a day long event coming up on Wed, so i will find out soon enough.

Sometimes (like when I want to use both of my hands) I bring a 'normal' strap, adjusted rather short, so camera is hanging higher than my thigh.
I don't find the straps getting in the way of finders, more in the way of my hands holding the camera.

I would rather not drop my camera, which I know I would if I don't strap it to something.

Mkay.
I really hate having a camera dangling around me, especially when it's crowded, because people knock against the lens all the time.
I'd rather have it in my hands. I switch hands if it becomes heavy, and of course I just put it on a table / sill / car / whatever in between.

Besides not looking like a tourist it also gives you the advantage of not having to fiddle around with any strap things,
if something's happening and you want to capture it quickly.

This all being said, those 'hand straps' are very practical for SLRs,
but there's really nothing wrong with just holding the plain camera in your hand.

Carrying a camera bag is much more convenient, just bung everything in there when you aren't shooting and there's no starps in the viewfinder or in the way of buttons. The Billingham hadley is great but a little pricey but also really convenient to have when you need to work quickly. Loads of other companies make similar stuff but its generally function over form, think LowePro stuff...

The other option is the Peak Design Capture mount;

http://expeditionportal.com/mscott/Users/2013/March/Products/peakcapture.jpg

http://www.tangentphoto.com/reviews/images/capture5.jpg

http://www.magezinepublishing.com/equipment/images/equipment/Capture-Clip-4039/large/peakdesigncapturecameraclipsystem8_1329474991.jpg

I have it mounted on both the rucksack sling and belt, better with a smaller rangerfinder camera TBH.

With a DSLR and anything other than say a 50mm prime I always found the best way to carry was over my shoulder with the camera the 'wrong way round' if you will. Ie lens pointing in to my body rather than out.

This way the lens tucked in behind my back rather than sticking out where it could be bumped into by people. If you have a flash fitted it tips the camera out a bit more if you wear it the normal wear, tucks it into your body more if you wear it this way.

I think this maybe helps with the straps getting in the way too as if you have the camera on say, your right shoulder then when you bring it to your eye the strap going to the left lug tends to get pulled down, away from eyepiece and strap on the right lug is looser so more easily controlled by your hand.

If I was carrying two bodies I'd either carry like this on either shoulder or set one strap short and one long and carry on the same shoulder.