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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    briantrumpet said:

    TheBigBean said:

    I just use a fixed 50mm lens on a full frame camera. None of this zooming business.


    I did for years, on my OM1, but then splashed out on a 35-70mm zoom (I think), which Just stayed on the camera. I enjoyed the extra bit of flexibility.
    I have another lens with zoom. Perhaps 28mm to 300mm, but just found I don't use it. I don't use my camera often enough anyway, but the 50mm gets so much more light in to it (f/1.8 so not that good) that it is easy to take great picture especially of kids.

    This is all irrelevant for Pross though.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Just gone ahead and ordered the Tamaron. £175 for an excellent condition version from MPB. Just hope the wife gives me the camera soon so I can start making use of it. Next decision is whether to sell my Sony or keep it as a backup.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    Pross said:

    Just gone ahead and ordered the Tamaron. £175 for an excellent condition version from MPB. Just hope the wife gives me the camera soon so I can start making use of it. Next decision is whether to sell my Sony or keep it as a backup.

    My backup is my phone. 😉
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Had an initial quote of £115 for the camera, would hopefully get a few quid more with the lens so would nearly cover the cost of the lens I've just bought.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    New lens has arrived so the wife has given me my new camera early. Not going to get a chance to do anything productive this weekend though unfortunately
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    Pross said:

    New lens has arrived so the wife has given me my new camera early. Not going to get a chance to do anything productive this weekend though unfortunately


    Torture, but at least you're ready to go as soon as you have the time.

    I took my £160 replacement Sony out for a post-work spin. All seems to be hunky dory.


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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Is that the same model you had before?
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    Pross said:

    Is that the same model you had before?


    Yup. Straight replacement, as much as anything as I'm lazy and know the few auto settings that get the sort of thing that I want. I've got a Panasonic Lumix down in France, but barely use it, as I didn't like the auto settings so much (plus I think the image chip and lens is a bit better on the Sony).

    I actually like the challenge of having a basic camera and getting vaguely decent stuff out of it. And at least if I dunk it in the West Okement (or the Drôme) it's not the end of the world.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    I suspect I’ll be sticking with my new one for a long time as it sounds like Canon are moving away from DSLRs and concentrating on mirrorless.

    I’ve been looking at all the different automatic settings and in camera effects on mine and doubt I’ll ever master them. It has a good on screen guide though. The camera and kit lens are really light but my wide angle zoom is a heavy beast.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    Pross said:

    I suspect I’ll be sticking with my new one for a long time as it sounds like Canon are moving away from DSLRs and concentrating on mirrorless.
    ...

    All companies are.
    Doesn't mean DSLRs will stop working, lenses in particular, but support may be lacking.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    Yeah, it was more an observation that I’m unlikely to be upgrading from the new one any time soon (without going full frame) as there’ll be nothing newer with an APS-C sensor.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    The mobile did a passable job of capturing a wet web on my car this morning:


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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    I'd never seen two spiders on the same web fighting before.



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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,802
    On the top corner of my gate (frame) a persistent spider keeps spinning a marvellous web, which I try and duck underneath. Easy to see when wet, but once dry becomes invisible, so I forget and walk straight into it, destroying all its hard work. It must have done a full rebuild about 10 times this week.

    This morning's dew + sunlight on a dripping wet bush shrub.

    autumn colour
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    From my sister’s garden - I’m definitely not jealous of where she lives!


  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    No idea why that has uploaded so small. Typically I forgot to bring my camera out so had to make do with the phone.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,891
    edited October 2023
    Ah, they've tweaked the settings for direct upload.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,891

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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    edited October 2023
    rjsterry said:

    Ah, they've tweaked the settings for direct upload.


    Have they? Just trying one out then...



    It was the first time I've really seen all the works at Dawlish, and it's very impressive.

    EDIT - nope, still 335 pixels high maximum.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Is that where the train track washed into the sea many years ago? Those storms were great for surfing. I got the wave of my life at Praa sands.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    edited October 2023
    shirley_basso said:

    Is that where the train track washed into the sea many years ago? Those storms were great for surfing. I got the wave of my life at Praa sands.

    Yup, exactly there.

    A university friend of mine in later life has ended up as a construction tractor driver, and spent months at work on this project. Must be nice to have played a part in such a significant thing.


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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Amazing before / after pics there!

    Charlie
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,891
    briantrumpet said:

    rjsterry said:

    Ah, they've tweaked the settings for direct upload.


    Have they? Just trying one out then...



    It was the first time I've really seen all the works at Dawlish, and it's very impressive.

    EDIT - nope, still 335 pixels high maximum.
    On mobile devices the images are shrunk to postage stamp size.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    rjsterry said:

    briantrumpet said:

    rjsterry said:

    Ah, they've tweaked the settings for direct upload.


    Have they? Just trying one out then...



    It was the first time I've really seen all the works at Dawlish, and it's very impressive.

    EDIT - nope, still 335 pixels high maximum.
    On mobile devices the images are shrunk to postage stamp size.

    Gotcha. That's nuts - it was bad enough before, though I suppose at least now mobile users aren't fooled into thinking that direct-upload photos are any good.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,891
    edited October 2023
    Reading glasses on.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    A couple of macros from the iPhone plus a proper version of the hot air balloon

    Dragonfly

    Garden spider

    8 October-3
  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,802
    A rarity for me, a ‘woodland’ shot taken in bright light that I didn’t need to delete. I say ‘woodland’ because it’s a copse on a cliff that falls away down to the sea, hence the tinge of blue (sea) in the background.

    After an unplanned seal pup close encounter (well camouflaged), I was going to hang around for a sunset, but it suddenly clouded over, so that put an end to that.

    Beech trees

    I like the bold B&W Rjst.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    Tat yet again. But couldn't ride by...


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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,891
    masjer said:

    A rarity for me, a ‘woodland’ shot taken in bright light that I didn’t need to delete. I say ‘woodland’ because it’s a copse on a cliff that falls away down to the sea, hence the tinge of blue (sea) in the background.

    After an unplanned seal pup close encounter (well camouflaged), I was going to hang around for a sunset, but it suddenly clouded over, so that put an end to that.

    Beech trees

    I like the bold B&W Rjst.

    Thanks. It looked very ordinary in colour. The van annoys me, though.
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