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I am thinking of getting a light effect mist filter (1/8) to soften up highlights. Do you think a HQ-brand filter like Tiffen or Urth performs much better than a filter off of Amazon at half the price? Thoughts, opinions? Thank you.

I have long lived under the impression that 35mm is not a very strong FL in Nikkor lenscape. The old 35mms are bad or overpriced one way or another, (correct me if I'm mistaken!:)) the 35 f/1.4 G is apparently good but it's a G lens, not suitable for film cameras. Suggestions and discussion...

So a dumb novice question about fixers. During development, are all fixers compatible with all developers, or are there some recommendations? In another words: my starter kit chemicals are Adonal and Adofix Plus for B&W. If I get myself Microphen, is it safe to fix with Adofix Plus? A more...

I am sure that Kodak Ultramax 400 is supposed to be way more saturated in color but how exactly can I tell what's the truth in a particular roll shot, developed, scanned, processed by myself?

1. When you crop for aspect ratio, you're wasting megapixels. You may think your 16mp 4:3 photo may lose a lot of fidelity (and pixels) when you crop to a 10MP widescreen format but your DPI doesn't reduce at all during the process. Do the math! 2. You need massive numbers of pixels to print...

First three test shots out of the pack. First one was taken in room temp, developed fine. The other two were taken in 0C / 32F but I had the camera inside my jacket and also placed the ejected film right into a inside pocket. The third one obviously, taken right after the second one, hasn't...

Let's assume you have money. And not just some scratch lottery money that enables you to consider a $10k Canon R5 setup, let's talk about a real hulking megamillions type of deal. You're set for life, your descendants as well. You have that FU money. Instead of looking at cameras you can window...

I am looking to get a Polaroid camera and film as a late Christmas gift for my brother. Polaroid Now can use i-Type batteryless film which a tiny bit cheaper. But the cameras cost more, being newer and having slightly more electronics in them. Polaroid 600-series plastic nonfoldables (just...

Time to review the year of 2022. Out of the various camera gear purchases, what worked best for you? What was the highlight? The previous year's thread is here for pointers. https://cameraderie.org/threads/what-was-your-best-purchase-of-2021.53364/

I am currently looking to get another Pentax body next to my KP. I am definitely going to go for a low-budget option this time. Because Pentax CCD cameras are often lauded, I can kill two birds with one stone here and get me a low-budget Pentax with a CCD sensor. In particular I've narrowed it...

"Just turn the knob until the image is sharp" sounds like a simple enough method. But what if a third of the range produces sharp image but the eye just strains more, possibly without the photograper realizing it?

I am, and have been a cityphile for a long time now. I love me a big city. I am excited walk the streets of a big city. I like to read about the little neighborhoods of various cities across the world and imagine how it might be to live here and there. Walk across prestigious and expensive...

My Panasonic S1 is not attracting any buyers so my backup plan is to keep it and buy new adapters for it. Getting the necessary motivation to do so, my question would be: what lenses could justify this expense? I originally bought the S1 for Leica and Nikkor lenses but I found it's in part...

Starship making a milk run on a Friday afternoon.

It is summer time here in Finland and school's going to be soon out. What summer leisures we choose to enjoy, all the time in the world, not a worry in mind? It is not summer everywhere so all kinds of leisurely activities are welcome. If it suits you, I want to see less photorealism and more...

We're gaining in members and we've been having discussions about discoverability of photographs, among other topics. We have tangented the topic of featured images section on our front page already. I would like to voice out a, well it may not be a concern but let's call it that, for a lack of a...

I've used this strap since December and it's okay. Not perfect but given the design goals it's probably as good as it can be. I'm finally fed up with how it fastens around my wrist. The sales pitch says about this: But I can't figure out how it would be done, lock the cuff in an open...

A mixture of acquisition/gear review! I scanned a topic of this sort on a photo forum somewhere, but I can't now remember what forum and where. So, looking back to 2021. What single piece of gear that you bought was the highlight purchase of the year for you? To me it was the 175 € Fuji...

The latest toys arrived yesterday. I had to entertain guests so it was until late when I got to my new camera. Some super early impressions that I got handling the camera without a memory card in the dark. The body is as compact as the reviews let you to know, but it's still way more compact...

Some time ago I noticed on PhotonsToPhotos.net that GX80 might have its best DR at its "pull ISO" setting of 100. Usually DR suffers greatly if you let the camera overexpose by a stop to achieve this pull setting. But the graph at PhotonsToPhotos begged to differ. I made sample shots just out...

I planned on a quick stroll around the park next to my building before going for the groceries. Both my socks were drenched not 15 minutes into my walk, so I decided it was best not to explore any further. The wonderful FinePix X100 could have taken much more. Such a beast that handles itself...

End of the year extravaganza. This is the third DDD, a digital image editing/processing challenge. The rules are here. Please read them. The basic idea is the challenge host provides a source image and participants process it to taste and post one or two entries. The host selects the winner...

I made some quick shots around the house with the TTArtisan 50/0.95 choked to f/1.4 and the Summilux 50/1.4 wide open. The results may impress you. In the bokeh department it is difficult to force the lenses render differently! In some results not pictured, the TTArtisan lens may suffer...

Urth EU sells a Nikon F to L-mount adapter for 30 €, and a Nikon G to L-mount adapter for 7 € more. I first ordered the F-L adapter but fortunately I thought about it a bit and I canceled and went for the G-L adapter instead. This G-L adapter has an aperture ring as one'd expect. With my...

Fuji X100 is able to show good information when I enter picture playback. There's histograms, there's even highlight blinkies. But the automatic after-shot picture review doesn't show any information, just the picture. Can it be configured in any way? It would be so perfect if I could get...

I deny that I have any GAS! At least not the "bad kind". I claim I have the good sort of GAS, that I have my addiction in control. (For the sake of the scope of the following discussion, I limit this to camera bodies only.) ~ Let's take a journey, start from the beginning. I'm pretty new...

Would be cool. Please? It can apply globally under any forum. And give it an irritating bright color 😎

I have these manic-depressive ups and downs regarding gear and in the upswing phases it is easy to produce tons of mindless drivel that not many wants to read, I fully appreciate. I decided I'll open up a personal diary type thread here where I will be probably publishing my streams of...

Post your blue hour photos. This being on the "Color" forum I suggest the tonalities relate to the hour also. :)

I sold the PanaLeica 15mm f/1.7 today. It's a fine lens and was an object of desire for a long time. But in my hands I couldn't meaningfully make it work for me.

https://alikgriffin.com/how-in-body-stabilization-works-3-axis-vs-5-axis/ Alik Griffin just posted an article how three axes of stabilization is the best you can get when you adapt a foreign lens to a modern mirrorless camera. I think the reasoning seems rather sound. He does make a mistake...

A coworker of mine urged me to go test this Tampere summer speciality -- rolled ice cream. And he urged me to document the process. Here goes. :) First some cream (or whatever substance ice cream is made of these fatfree days) is poured on a cold plate. Then the sauce of your choice...

Show seascapes, lakescapes here. .. Despite the title, I opened this thread with a view over the lake Näsijärvi.

So I went ahead and got myself a neat Leica M9-P. This move was totally bonkersville for me because I've been shooting my M240-P happily for 2.5 years and what shortcomings this camera has, it is the M10 lineup that fixes them for me, not M9... Better-behaving high ISO. Banding-free 6400 would...

Stylized luxury apartments in a rowhouse configuration next to Turku harbor. Thought I'd share these architectural shots.

I often forget, and it subsequently surprises me every once in a while, how many in the photo communities are actually paid professionals. They have clients, they have projects. Or should I say, you have clients and projects. :) Then what even is a professional photographer? Maybe I won't...

Regarding 28mm f/2.8 lenses for Nikon. The Series E lens has for whatever reason gained in asking price and is now close towards 100 €. Some of you will say the time for Series E was when these lenses could have had for 50 € or so. A general consensus seems to be that the 28E has the worst...

The first vintage Nikkor I bought for Df was the Nikkor-Q.C 135mm f/2.8. With its four elements its design is what @BrianS calls a "unique formula". Not necessarily a Sonnar but it's not a double-Gauss either. Fast forward to this year and I was buying the Nikkor 135mm f/3.5 because of its...

It's a short cable meant to connect a dumb battery grip with the camera body. I have a battery grip but not this cable. I can't seem to be able to come up with the proper keywords because I can't find one on ebay, aliexpress, anywhere.

I've had this thing for some years now. I apparently didn't remember to showcase it here. So what it does? You put a picture of yours in it (it won't go over the internet, anywhere) and you tell it what FL you used to take the shot. Uncropped files will work the best, naturally. Use either the...

PK, PN, M2... there are plenty of different tubes offered for Nikon F mount lenses. But this is my current understanding: PK tubes are Ai and won't really fit with pre-Ai lenses. PK tubes offer automatic aperture and pass aperture selection to the body. PN tubes are pre-Ai and offer/won't...

Give me a camera with the on/off switch from Olympus Pen F. Such a tactile switch. Give me a camera with a shutter dial with half stops from Leica M. The only way to fly. Give me a camera with a nice ISO selector from the Fuji X-T series. Works a treat! And give me a camera with the...

Any conceivable reason to choose the non-micro f/4 lens over the Micro-Nikkor 200mm f/4?

I have thought about it, discarded it a few times, then got hyped about it again. Getting a camera body solely for the purposes of adapting older goodies. I don't have to care what the native lens options are for the given body, all I care are the specs of the body and how it enables me to...

We don't have a (very recent) thread about movies about photography and photographers. Everybody knows Blowup (1966) but I don't think photography-wise it's the best treatment of the subject. My subjective opinion of course, I'll put these movies on a pedestal as the greatest: Life (2015)...

The rumor has it that the next version of the compact APS-C Leica CL will come out by springtime and will have a 26 MP chip and an IBIS. In another words, much like a Fujifilm X-T4 but with Leica flavored processing and everything. The Leica crop sensor TL system is a small one. Just 4 primes...

Boris is a skillful image processer, no doubt. By his own words, he doesn't do tutorials (which can be a bit of a snoozefest to be sure). Instead he makes short (7-10 minute) annotated videos on how he edits a shot using the freely available darktable. I have used Darktable since summer 2017...

https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/blog/article/12520/ Before M I happened upon a nice deal on R-D1. I didn't take it because I was unsure about the platform. Now I have a bunch of M lenses and I could clearly envision myself going this direction for a more recreational body, not replacing a real Leica...

While I don't like to read or watch photographs on a small phone screen, my LFI subscription doesn't allow desktop viewing of their archives. On an occasion I do read an old issue on the phone. They had "reader submitted photographs" even back then, nice to get amateurs and pros side by side...

I learned about a filter named "Dream Smoothing" which is part of the free G'MIC plugin library. Grabbed a random car picture of mine and ran it through. Love the results!