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SSteezle
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This thread's to share what you're most stoked about in the photo/film world. I know people are busy and have a lot of ideas that they want to pursue, and just haven't quite had the time yet to make it happen. Hopefully posting some things you want to film will help you to create some time to get it done.

To start things off--

- I just got back in touch with a friend that four wheels and is so sick at it. I already have a perfect song picked out and have been picturing the shots I'll get for the last day. Can't wait to start filming.

- Finally picked up a sandisk extreme pro 32gb 95mb/s SD card for my t2i and no longer have to worry about "filming has stopped automatically", makes me feel so much more confident when filming important things

- Just purchased a 3tb hard drive, so all my shits backed up!

share your giddyness
Jun 27 2012 9:15AM
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1337
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Haha, I need to grab a few lenses before wedding season, and this one will be banger for skiing stuff too. I don't mind putting down the money on gear that returns $$$ for me, so, out with the leica, in with the canon gear.

#nofucksgiven
Mar 24 2014 4:39PM
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*DUMBCAN*
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lolz
Mar 24 2014 6:08PM
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1337
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we're not going to clutter this thread, if you have any beef, you can take it to PM's.

Carry on with stoke.
Mar 24 2014 8:18PM
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Rafiki
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i have beef

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Mar 25 2014 1:55AM
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Dwarftosser1
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Anybody seen this? About to rent it, looks incredible:

Mar 25 2014 6:36PM
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Bmo.
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Yup it's really good
Mar 25 2014 6:47PM
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TijmenDal
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Yup. Definitely worth watching. Good documentary.
Mar 25 2014 7:33PM
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PacificRimJob
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Wow, yeah, I'm definitely renting that one.



...on that note, what other great photography docs do you folks know about?
Mar 26 2014 9:26AM
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plorr
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Mar 26 2014 9:36AM
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TijmenDal
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Pretty much any 'big' photographer (especially the Magnum guys) has a documentary about them. Recently I watched a short one (like 30 mins) on Trent Parke, who's work I really dig.
Mar 26 2014 9:59AM
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TijmenDal
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*whose.
Damn. Saw it as soon as I hit the reply button.
Mar 26 2014 10:00AM
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boomie
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Got to shoot with a 5D Mark iii for the first time with some awesome lenses. Really wish I could afford one myself.
Mar 26 2014 10:29AM
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PacificRimJob
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I still feel like the one guy in the room who is rather unimpressed with it...

Not to say it's a bad camera, I mean, it's incredible... but the hype makes it out to be lightyears ahead of everything else when It's just not.
Mar 26 2014 11:08AM
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juicedrummer11
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i agree. i've shot with it a bit and its a lot of fun to use, but for the price, no thanks. not worth it yet
Mar 26 2014 12:12PM
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juicedrummer11
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i agree. i've shot with it a bit and its a lot of fun to use, but for the price, no thanks. not worth it yet
Mar 26 2014 12:12PM
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foodisfun
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Finally got a little teaser up from something I shot a year ago for a documentary production class. Submitted a ~7 minute rough cut for my professor last May but needed more footage to finish and then the whole project got put on hold... Hopefully we can link up again and get this thing finished, but I'm glad to at least have something out for now

Mar 26 2014 7:01PM
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loganimlach
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Didn't read and thought your Vimeo name was Kate Upton and immediately clicked play. I was severely let down. Nice teaser though.
Mar 27 2014 12:07AM
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PacificRimJob
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Welp. I'm done buying lenses for a while now, methinks. Only thing left to buy is a maybe a 24 prime, but I rarely use that focal length anyway.
Mar 27 2014 10:54AM
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foodisfun
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haha yea no relation, thanks for watching anyway.
Mar 27 2014 10:56AM
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Laurent.
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I don't get why more people buy Nikon AF-D lenses, which is good because it means they are cheaper for us.

That 35-70 is a great lens, it's build like a solid brick that would probably survive an IED from close proximity, it's sharper then a geek's Gerber throwing axe collection despite that being a bourgeois concept, it's tiny, it has a bloody aperture ring and it's coated in more rubber then the gimp I keep locked in the outhouse.

The only thing that makes me personally hate it (more frustration really for the brief moment that I've used one) is that it is a push/pull zoom with the 35mm at the outward end of the zoom, so exactly opposite of any other push/pull lens and what would seem logical.

Oh and it sounds like robots making love, but then again that's a caveat of any D lens, at least on something like an F5 which has an AF motor strong enough to tear plastic lenses to shreds and simaltanously reverse the rotation of the earth it will focus fast as dicks.
Mar 27 2014 11:34AM
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loganimlach
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had a little wave of DIY hit me so i made some leather straps for my cameras. pumped on the outcome and they only cost like $2 a piece.

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Mar 27 2014 2:52PM
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PacificRimJob
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Yeah, I love seeing Nikon n00bz bitch about not being able to change aperture in live view with their shitty chinese made, neutered, plastic G-lenses. Get a AF-D lens, you freaking imbecile. I'd rather change aperture with a ring than that stupid little thumbwheel anyway (or on Canon, by pressing a button and THEN turning a wheel with your index finger... Stupid)

But yeah... pro-quality lens for 170$? ummm yes please... It's got less distortion at all focal lengths than the 24-70 and the 28-70... and is made out of pure solid fuel booster rocket-nozzle grade Japanese steel forged from the caldera of Mt. Doom by Hattori Hanzo.. (but probably more like billet-anodized aluminium) so why the hell not? It was good enough that it was Nikon's main-go-to standard pro-zoom for like 15 years and zero people bitched about it because it wrecks face and doesn't have time for names.

The push-pull deal is actually pretty sweet for video. Super smooth for something like a hitchcock push - that said, yeah, Nikon's push-pulls are all backwards and I have NO idea why or how. my 80-200 f2.8 is the same way - yeah, got it for 250$ (!) - and it's got the same exact glass as the faster-focusing two touch D version that costs three times as much.

I really don't care about the noise the AF-D lenses make.. Who cares if it turns into a dubstep show? Who cares if the ring moves, don't touch it! Not that hard. Even if I'm doing street photography, nobody can fucking hear it (because guess what, you're in a freaking CITY), and it focuses just as fast as the SWM lenses, really...

Whatever. D-lenses are metal as fuck, and I'm stoked to have every focal length from 20-200mm (sans for 70-80, which sucks so who cares) locked up with 3 bitchin ass legacy Nikkor AF zooms. That I paid a grand total of 550 to get.
Mar 27 2014 4:39PM
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JuliusJ
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As soon as I have money, im buying both the 35-70 and 80-200 push pull for likely less than what i'd paid for just a 28-70 2.8. No regrets on switching to Nikon, glad you're stoked on it too.
Mar 27 2014 4:45PM
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PacificRimJob
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More like definitely less... at most you'd spend 500 or so on the two.
Mar 27 2014 4:49PM
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My first DSLR. So stoked, can't wait for my lenses to arrive to start playing with it.
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Mar 30 2014 11:13PM
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erikK
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good choice my man
Mar 30 2014 11:22PM
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PacificRimJob
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I'm picking one of these up sometime this summer as a B-cam for video, I think... Not a bad deal going on them right now with the 7100 coming out.
Mar 31 2014 2:02AM
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PacificRimJob
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...I love the lost and found box here at work. Free camera bags? hell yes.

unfortunately with no camera inside, but still stoke.
Apr 2 2014 2:39AM
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Laurent.
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I used to have a friend who's dad worked as a manager for a local bus company. They too had a lost and found and holy crap people forget things. They even actively tried to pursue the person who lost their stuff but in 92% of the time it just sat their at the office for 6 months before he took it home.

That kid had over fifthy hanbdheld consoles, a million copies of Pokemon, several laptops and a bloody Canon XL2.

It still amazes me to this day, I mean I have once lost a glove on public transport, but a several thousand euro camera?
Apr 2 2014 6:58AM
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*DUMBCAN*
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Just been offered the 'Head of Photography' role on the committee of my universities fashion society. I've never done a controlled shoot. I know fuck all about fashion. I'm not even a good photographer.

They're desperate, but it might be fun.
Apr 2 2014 8:31AM
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Laurent.
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@Dumbcan that´s awesome.



I went to my thriftshop again, no camera´s this time, but a sweet little Sigma 28mm f2.8 in bloody Nikon mount. Metal build, elements are clean as dicks, 52mm filter thread, focusses to about 22cm (which is bloody close) and according to the interwebs it´s rather sharp with pleasing Bokeh.

Also it comes with THE PERFECT HOOD!!

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Apr 2 2014 9:35AM
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PacificRimJob
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I have a friend who has that exact same lens. It's not terrible. Not like the 28 f2.8 AIS, but still a solid affordable option.
Apr 2 2014 9:52AM
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Laurent.
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I haggled it down to two euro.
Apr 2 2014 9:56AM
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No.Quarter
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I'm submitting one of my photos and a pencil drawing tomorrow in my schools art showing. Not really that big of a deal, but I have never really liked to "show off" my art so I'm kind of excited
Apr 3 2014 1:11AM
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PacificRimJob
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You have an awesome thrift shop...
Apr 3 2014 3:25PM
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RileySnyderPhoto
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Stoked on my brother getting a Fuji XE-2, so much potential with Fuji just hope they don't blow it!
Apr 3 2014 3:32PM
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RileySnyderPhoto
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http://petapixel.com/2014/04/02/let-us-roam-short-film-series-looks-at-the-creative-lives-of-skateboarders/

Sorry for the double post but this has me pretty stoked too for the rest of the series!
Apr 3 2014 3:33PM
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PacificRimJob
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I don't see how they could...

They basically own everyone when it comes to aps-c cameras these days...
Apr 3 2014 4:28PM
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Laurent.
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Anyone enjoying their Sony A7 or A7R?

Too bad:

http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr5-confirmed-via-multiple-sources-new-a7s-to-be-announced-on-sunday-follow-sar/

Entire photo industry: 1 body - many lenses
Sony: 1 lens - many bodies
Apr 4 2014 2:18PM
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Balto
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A7s, the S stands for 'sorry this time it won't have a light leak'
Apr 4 2014 2:22PM
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RileySnyderPhoto
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I am saying if they make a full frame X-Pro 2
Apr 4 2014 4:36PM
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plorr
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Just won a Mamiya 6 w/ 50mm f4 on Ebay for $900. Ahrhghrh I've been drooling over the Mamiya range finders for so long.

Now I'm considering buying the 150mm on Keh since they are pretty cheap. Then I'll have wide and tele covered w/ the M6 and standard covered with my Yashica Mat. Pretty damn baller medium format street setup if you ask me.
Apr 4 2014 7:03PM
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Balto
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give it 6 months and something will snap off of it, 6's are delicate little flowers of a camera
Apr 4 2014 7:34PM
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plorr
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Yeah but Leicas are overpriced and make tiny negatives.
Apr 4 2014 8:28PM
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Balto
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Machined brass > plastic with a shitty vf and 3 lenses. Shoulda got a hasselblad.
Apr 4 2014 8:33PM
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vandersteeze
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^ He's owned one as well, plenty of first hand experience
Apr 4 2014 8:36PM
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vandersteeze
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Also: Ultimate tensile strength of brass is ~450MPa while plastic lags around 85-90MPa

http://www.ezlok.com/TechnicalInfo/MPBrass.html
http://www.matweb.com/reference/tensilestrength.aspx
Apr 4 2014 8:39PM
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plorr
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3 lenses is all I really need. Plus the M6 is Ken Rockwell's favorite!

But I very nearly did pull the trigger on a 500c instead. That Scandinavian/German combo is tempting but the weight and noise scared me off.

In any case I can almost certainly recoup 100% of my investment if I change my mind. So step off my stoke bro.
Apr 4 2014 8:45PM
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CrotchKiller
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Stoked to finally film something.
Stoked on my ungraded footage.
Stoked on my how well my 50 dollar lens performed.

Spring from Mountain Vision Cinema on Vimeo.



Apr 7 2014 3:25AM
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PacificRimJob
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It's his favourite until something on it breaks.


...but seriously I tend to use Medium Format solely for shooting specific things. I never bust out my V-series to do anything where I'm going to take it very far or for very long. Basically I use it as if I was shooting 4x5. that said, 3 lenses really are more/less all you need - that's all I have for the Hass, anyway. (50/80/150)

The rest of the time, 35mm is totally useable, especially on-the-go and traveling which is what the Mamiya 6/7 were made for in the first place.

Still a sick camera if you need the resolution, and the 3 lenses you'll be able to use on it really are top-grade.
Apr 7 2014 3:46AM
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