My biggest gripe about DSLR cameras, and Camera Companies
May 18, 2018 07:34:16 #
Well not everyone is a photographer, but they are at least picture takers. Just cause you have $5k in camera equipment does not mean you know how to take pictures. I take car racing pictures, and just like cars, just cause you have a fast car does not improve your ability to drive at fast speeds. :)
May 20, 2018 17:02:20 #
Tomcat5133
Loc: Gladwyne PA
abstractist72 wrote:
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You can pick film looks for your pictures from a inexpensive plug in Alien Skin has been around for years. It has reams of film stock filters for your shots.
Visual Learning google and youtube have 100's of photography how to's by really good people. I have used for stills and video extensively.
I think I know what is bothering you and I agree. It is so complicated most things we do with our image equipment now. I am pretty good at high
tech but find it frustrating to get things done without a song and dance.
That said early on when I had just got into digital I sat in a chapel in Italy. tried shooting different approaches and check the screen for what I had
created. It took while until I had something that I thought would be appreciated. Now I can look at my Sony monitor or the viewfinder and
see what my settings make an image or video look like. A small miracle. Good luck.
Jun 3, 2018 13:07:48 #
SierraP
Loc: Eastern Sierras
First off, since the manufacturers are smart, they do not make DSLR's that are film friendly for us old film shooters. Face it we are dying out so that is a disappearing market. There is no real market there in the first place. "We are a dying market".
Secondly, you learned film, get off of your rear and join the twenty-first century and learn digital. There are dozens of book & manuals out there to give you a bump start into the real world. You will find that you can do anything you could with film and more, and easier in digital without breathing developer/ fixer fumes. So stop complaining and join us old dudes in the digital world.
Secondly, you learned film, get off of your rear and join the twenty-first century and learn digital. There are dozens of book & manuals out there to give you a bump start into the real world. You will find that you can do anything you could with film and more, and easier in digital without breathing developer/ fixer fumes. So stop complaining and join us old dudes in the digital world.
Jun 3, 2018 13:29:30 #
For what it's worth, the OP posted this on March 3, made a few replies ending on March 4. He has not been heard from since. I have a feeling he's gotten it all out of his system. 
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Jun 3, 2018 14:50:33 #
donald4u
Loc: California
Well I hope you feel better. I am from the old film days. Using D 76 and fixer to do my films. Enlarging it on a Omega D2v ..Ahhh smelling the chemicals. Now I have a dslr. I learn a lot from Utube. I have blown up my pictures at home to 8X10 and my photo buddy has done the 11X14. May I remind you that when we got into low light. We used Diafine to push the film . Now how about a point and shoot camera. That car you drive should be replace by a horse and buggy. All kidding aside. There are Utube videos that show you how to set your camera. Good luck with that horse. HINT. Never stand behind a horse in the early morning. :>
Jun 4, 2018 18:17:43 #
Abstract,
GET OVER IT!
Your DSLR has all the ways you need to take any picture you want. Start with ASA--ISO to the DSLR. Same concept, same numbers. Pick a low number like 100 or 200. You'll get smooth exposures. Neat thing is, for those 3 shots that would have been mid roll, you can goose it up to 1600 or 3200 and get interiors or fast action.
AND, you don't have to wait for development. You can see what you got instantly--even faster than Mr. Land's invention right on a bright screen. Then use your photosmarts to make the adjustments and shoot again.
You even have the same choice to go B&W in what we call Post Processing on the not so smelly computer. No second body with separate film. There is software--some of it FREE that will allow you to choose to make an image monochrome and compare--while still keeping all the color data in the file.
Sure, I'd like a digital back to my FM2 or Canon A2, but that's not what this is about. This is a way to capture images in digital form that gives you infinitely more options and capabilities that we ever thought about with our film relics. So, now that you've blown it all out your stack, go to You Tube, and search to your heart's in the privacy of your own room. Keep an open mind and have fun re-learning and enjoying your old fascination with capturing and developing images.
And, check out how to get prints from Costco or Walmart and send some with a thank you note--long overdue--to whoever gave you this new window onto the world.
Craig
(a former Plus X, Fuji Portrait, Agfa Portrait and Ilford Delta BIGOT)
GET OVER IT!
Your DSLR has all the ways you need to take any picture you want. Start with ASA--ISO to the DSLR. Same concept, same numbers. Pick a low number like 100 or 200. You'll get smooth exposures. Neat thing is, for those 3 shots that would have been mid roll, you can goose it up to 1600 or 3200 and get interiors or fast action.
AND, you don't have to wait for development. You can see what you got instantly--even faster than Mr. Land's invention right on a bright screen. Then use your photosmarts to make the adjustments and shoot again.
You even have the same choice to go B&W in what we call Post Processing on the not so smelly computer. No second body with separate film. There is software--some of it FREE that will allow you to choose to make an image monochrome and compare--while still keeping all the color data in the file.
Sure, I'd like a digital back to my FM2 or Canon A2, but that's not what this is about. This is a way to capture images in digital form that gives you infinitely more options and capabilities that we ever thought about with our film relics. So, now that you've blown it all out your stack, go to You Tube, and search to your heart's in the privacy of your own room. Keep an open mind and have fun re-learning and enjoying your old fascination with capturing and developing images.
And, check out how to get prints from Costco or Walmart and send some with a thank you note--long overdue--to whoever gave you this new window onto the world.
Craig
(a former Plus X, Fuji Portrait, Agfa Portrait and Ilford Delta BIGOT)
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