Photography Buddies
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Hi All,
I'm new to this forum, having just joined yesterday, and am hoping to make some photography buddies.
I'm a Minolta faithful, started casually with a Yashica SLR in 1991, and to date I seriously use nothing else besides Minolta. I'm also into digital photography, but still prefer SLR shooting when shooting serious subjects.
In my opinion, I'm just an amteur and at best just intermediate. I do not join photography clubs as I believe in exploring on my own or within a circle of serious shutterbugs, and monthly magazines. I'm into landscape mostly, I use mostly wide angle lenses, and sometime delve into macro photography. I do also like streetshooting, candids, and a little abstract and still life.
I shoot mostly in negatives, and have been shooting slides in past years. Once I acquire a slide and film scanner, I will probably go back to slides again.
My equipment is as follows:
Bodies : Minolta Dynax 7 & 800si / DiMage 7i
Lenses : SIGMA 15mm fisheye, 17-35mm, 15-30mm, 28-200mm,
& a fixed 50mm Minolta f1.
Films Preferred : Kodak Negs / Fuji Provia or Velvia Slides
Tripod : Manfrotto
BackPack : LowePro Trekker -
hey welcome shutterbug!
wah u seem super pro to me! eheh many years of experience, nothing can replace that
we have a photography outing coming up soon, u might wanna join us, the link is in my signature.
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like jonno said.. come along
probably learn from everyone coz i haven't the foggiest what the heck you just typed
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ahahah oh cmon.. we're all here to learn.Originally posted by the Bear:like jonno said.. come along
probably learn from everyone coz i haven't the foggiest what the heck you just typed
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these:
Lenses : SIGMA 15mm fisheye, 17-35mm, 15-30mm, 28-200mm, & a fixed 50mm Minolta f1.
Films Preferred : Kodak Negs / Fuji Provia or Velvia Slides
but then, i don't know much if anythingOriginally posted by jOhO:ahahah oh cmon.. we're all here to learn.
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ok i try to explain, shutterbug can correct me.Originally posted by the Bear:these:
Lenses : SIGMA 15mm fisheye, 17-35mm, 15-30mm, 28-200mm, & a fixed 50mm Minolta f1.
Films Preferred : Kodak Negs / Fuji Provia or Velvia Slides
but then, i don't know much if anything
sigma is a brand of lenses/cameras..
15mm fisheye is one of those 180 degree view lenses that the image comes out round. there are 15 mm RECTILINEAR that comes out normal.. as in rectangle, but of course u get heaps of barrel/perspective distortion, ie, buildings look like they're falling over and rounded.
17-35 and 15-30 are just the focal lengths for the lenses, which are pretty wide. technically, anything under 35 is considered "wide". btw shutter, heard the sigma 17-35 f2.8-4 (i assume it's this one u using) is pretty soft? (bear: soft just means "not sharp")
28-200 also the zoom range of the lens. it's approx the same as urs.. ur sony has an equivalent of i think 35-240mm thereabouts.
ok film, basically film comes in negatives (i'm sure u know wat they are) or "positives" which are called "slide film" that means after being processed, they are in the right colours, while normal negatives have inverted colours....
as for the diff between negs and slides.. that one i'm not too sure liow.. but i do know fuji velvia produces really nice and saturated colours. -
Hi! Joho and the Bear,
I am NO pro, bros. I just love the hobby, even though it always burns a big hole in my shallow pockets. ehehehe
Yes, the SIGMA 17-35 EX DG ASP, is soft under certain focal lengths - especially wide open at 17mm. But if I set it at f5.6 or higher like f8, things sharpen up. But Still, there will be softness around the edge. What to do, cannot afford expensive lenses what. kekekeke
I love wideys ( wide angle lenses ), because it really sucks in everything within view, and depending on subjects, I often like the distortions.
Sorry guys, I don't mean to be braggy or showy, I just wanted people to know what I'm used to, my preferences, and of course extent of interest in photography, so therefore I listed my equipment. Still, I think I have a lot to learn still. In Singapore, 10 years of doing something, is only actually 5 year - because the other half of the 10 years actually devoted to trying to make a living in Singapore, heheheheheee.. so in fact, I just begun! Not like in the States where you can pretty darn do anything to get by....
Here we have to make sure our CPF keeps growing. ( ! )
In shooting, I like the use of natural or, available light. Hardly use flash. But if a flash is necessary, I will often bounce the flash, defuse it, or reduce output by about half to one stop depending on how I want the subject to turn out. Shadows and dark areas in my images are what I like to see. Especially shadows with visible details in them! But funny thing is, I can never get a grasp of black & white photography. Just can't seem to see in black and white lah.
*sigh*
Thanks for the invite to join the outing, I will have to see my schedules. Preferrably, I was thinking of shooting Ubin island. This old rustic island is ideal for outdoor photography. I been there some few years back, and would like to go again amd see what else has changed and basically brush up on my shooting. It's a great stress reliever being there and peering through a camera's view finder.
I will be there over next weekend with some underwater photographer, one video editor, and a music media engineer to do some project exercise with them. So, next round, I wanna go free and easy.
Perhaps you guys can tell me more about your adventures and preferences in photography? I find shooting negs very forgiving, because of the negatives' tolerance for overs and unders, while slides gives great color rendition, it is less forgiving in metering errors - over it by a 3rd of a stop, and things will turn out white-washed. Under it likewise, and details will also be lost in dark areas. So, shooting slides requires spot on metering of subjects. But with a digital camera, one can first test exposure values by taking a shot with a digicam, before committing a shot in slide. Because the digicam's metering principle is same as slide - +EV brightens, -EV lightens, while in negs, it is opposite.
Well, hope to hear from you guys... -
Here's some shocking news: Minolta just annouced at their Europe Web site about their new Dynax 7 Digital!
Looks like I'll be burning another big hole in my shallow pockets again!
My wife's gonna kill me!