The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Deux

There’s no hate like an eighties something hate

 

Mine were taken with a Pixel 6a phone.

 

I have a Canon S3 which is a great size and weight for hiking but it's getting close to 20 years old and I definitely want something with better resolution and video taking. But there doesn't seem to be a modern version of that kind of camera.

 

Meh...I still got my perfectly good camera that works just fine. I still remember my 1st Airline flight on a DC3 and I got some great pictures once we hit our altitude ceiling. I was able to count the dots!

 

I use Micro four thirds format cameras (Panasonic/Olympus-OM Systems) They are one of the best options for portability. They are interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras. The smaller sensor size allows for reduced size and weight, yet provide excellent image quality and function. Lots of options in the used market for both bodies and lenses. I could never do some of the treks I do with a large heavy kit.

 

I guess you havenot got a bunch of canon lenses, so you could switch to other brands without losing out on then redundant lenses.
In here you get a list of cameras, out of which you can select the one best suited for your needs.
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/buying-guides/best-zoom-camera

 

Got to hear the cicadas yesterday afternoon. They were majestic! Not so many around my own house, but I was in the car, with the windows rolled down, and I could hear them over the traffic and over my own engine. They're loudest in the late afternoon, if my experiences are any evidence.

 

I literally quit photography once it became clear that I was going to have to upgrade to digital. I owned, among other brands, a Nikon F, a black Nikon F2 with the MD motor drive, an FG and finally an FM. Nikkor 50, 105/2.5, two or three other Nikkors I can't remember, a Sigma 80-200 zoom, a medium fornmat Graflex Norita with three lenses (no meter, tho). I owned the F2, FM, Graflex and all the aforementioned Nikkor lenses at the same time. It would have cost me more than I could afford to replace that stuff with like digital. I'm not ashamed to admit that I liked the gear as much as I liked the art. Used to go to local nonpro sporting events and shoot a couple of rolls. I still have a great image of a Datagraphic goal at Piedmont Park somewhere around here.

 

Can't you do that anymore?
Over here there's a resurrection of fotography with film among fotography students.
Still can buy film.

 

Yeah, I can, but it's a shitload of trouble when you're shooting color. Plus, all that stuff's long sold now. But I have been looking at prices online. Most of it is still there.

I do appreciate the ease of the digital format, and if I were x decades younger, I'd see film as largely a waste of time outside the art world.

I had the photojournalist/sports shutterbug fantasy, not the NYC art school one or Ansel Adams out West one. I wanted to be Walter Iooss at the Super Bowl or the guy at the corner flag during a crucial moment in a La Liga title race. You got your press pass, and a couple Nikons around your neck. Film or digital doesn't make a lot of difference in the sort of photography I was most interested in. I'll probably just buy one decent digital SLR sometime in the future.

 

@Auriaprottu With your equipment I guess you recognized the sound of the camera a bird in New Guinee was mimicking in a David Att. docu.

 

I didn't see the doc.

I actually briefly worked freelance for a drum and bugle corps, Spirit Of Atlanta. I photographed them during a parade/practice in downtown. 30 minutes later I bumped into one of my HS classmates who had lost his way, so to speak. It was the last time I saw him.

 

The lab mates missed the opportunity to play along with the joke, by for instance saying it's surprisingly early to hear them and feed her with "interesting facts" about the jackalope

 

I used to get my hair cut at a shop that had a jackalope head on the wall (a rabbit with antlers).

 

Consider an interchangeable mirrorless from Panasonic or Olympus in micro 4/3s. There is a bit of a tradeoff between size and capability vs a full frame, but they're excellent for backpacking and such. With the smaller sensor, there's a crop factor - so a 100mm lens is the equivalent zoom of a 200mm on a full frame. I use the kit lens that came with my Panasonic G9 and picked up a 100-300 zoom. 600mm equivalent is great for birds and sports. Image stabilization has advanced to the point that you can hand hold for many shots. If you go down to a one inch sensor, there are many options in the fixed lens category that have absurdly good zoom capability. The biggest limitation with the smaller sensors is with low light situations, but they'll still be vastly superior to what you're using. Many of both categories are weather sealed as well, which I insist on because I'm not careful. I often rent my gear first through lens rentals dot com (or one of the others) - if I like it, then I just purchase the rental - the rental cost is then deducted from the used price.

I post some of my stuff on my insta - definitely not pro, but I've sold a handful. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch8nLhtsXef/

 

Cameraman called an audible

The camera man smh pic.twitter.com/gqpqLzkSMQ

— The Instigator (@Am_Blujay) May 20, 2024

Apologies to Nutter for the sexism and Sounders for the heterocentric post, but I had to share.

 

For real, tho, that guy's probably gonna get fired or reassigned, lol

 

That man needs a promotion. People don't recognize greatness.

 

https://www.billboard.com/pro/nemo-the-code-eurovision-global-chart/
Eurovision strikes:


Funny Yanks like a song they don't understand a word of:

 

I watched the movie Shampoo for the first time in like 49 years. As I often do, after I watch a movie I read the Wikipedia page about the movie. I found that someone made a blaxploitation movie called Black Shampoo.

Check out the actor playing Maddox. You won’t be disappointed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Shampoo