photography

Just saw on Facebook that Pentax has released its promised film camera. It’s a half frame 35mm. MSRP is $499. I read a couple of reviews, seems like a nice camera, but a bit over budget for me.

Every week we select a new theme, and then go out and shoot that theme. This week the theme is Summer. As always be as imaginative/creative as you like when interpreting the theme, creativity is what we're looking for. Summer is on the way. Show the kinds of Summer things you do.. Show us...

According to Canon Rumors, along with the R5 Mark II release which was announced earlier. Announcing both these cameras simultaneously will lead to the inevitable comparison between the two and undoubtedly, a lot of kvetching about what how the R5 II was crippled to create differentiation to the...

Available for pre-order at the usual sites. Sounds like a beast... kinda spendy at $2500 perhaps? Anyone here going to be an early adopter? Some features: Nikon's first partially-stacked 24.5MP CMOS sensor and EXPEED 7 processor Extraordinary low-light focus detection and a blazing fast...

This is interesting.... Nikon is providing service manuals for their products on their website and parts and specialized tools for purchase so that end users can attempt their own repairs on their cameras and lenses. Details are in this petapixel article linked below. The direct link to the...

Maybe a bit disappointing to consumers who find Canon's RF lens prices a bit hard to swallow, but it appears that Sigma is going to focus on crop lenses for the RF mount for now. Details at: https://www.canonrumors.com/sigma-no-plans-to-release-rf-full-frame-lenses-yet/

Every week we select a new theme, and then go out and shoot that theme. This week the theme is Tension. As always be as imaginative/creative as you like when interpreting the theme, creativity is what we're looking for. Let's see if we can find examples of Tension this week. Here are the...

I have a set of amazing EF L lenses... due to a combination of luck and being very picky, my particular copies of the 16-35 F/4L, 24-70 II F/2.8 L, 70-200 F/2.8, 70-200 F/4, 100 F/4 macro, etc. are stellar. Even though the converter is annoying when used with my R5, the lenses are so amazing...

Does anyone have this? Do you like it? https://witharsenal.com/

I do almost none of my flowers in B&S, but this one was in a nearly uniform red that added nothing, and I thought B&W would better bring out lines without the distraction of the red.

Every week we select a new theme, and then go out and shoot that theme. This week the theme is Examples of DOF. As always be as imaginative/creative as you like when interpreting the theme, creativity is what we're looking for. This we let's see some Examples of DOF and your use of it.. Please...

I found reference yesterday to the news that ON1 released a free copy of Photo Effects Plugin in January 2024. But when I tried to download it, ON1 indicated that the offer had expired. However, I felt sure that it must still exist somewhere. After a very long search taking me to many barren...

Africa and the Circle of Life - I took this picture several years ago while in South Africa. Five Cheetah took down the Aardwolf ( aka Earth Wolf ). I was able to witness the hunt and film the kill. Camera: Canon 5Dmkiv.

Disney World Animal Kingdom 2024-05-29-5 by Chuck Miller, on Flickr

Didn't find an existing 10-20 lens thread to add to. So I started one. A couple taken over the Memorial Day weekend.

Some images from the weekend. 1. Rolled-up miilpede 2. Backlit owlfly 3. Coreidae eggs 4. Mating weevils All shot on the Olympus EM1 m2, 60mm macro, Godox TT 350O C&C sought. Cheers! Hayath