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Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 10:05:00 No.299534 View View Reply Original Report

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post your new gear and other peoples mediocre reactions.
"what? its just a flash!" - SB-900

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Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 10:08:00 No.299537 Report

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I have no photos of my gear. :( I'm so fail. I bow to you, OP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 10:20:00 No.299542 Report

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so Nikon finally made it rotate all the way to the right? no more snapping/breaking it to go 180 degrees

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 10:23:00 No.299545 Report

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/p/ is for poorfags only. Get lost OP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 11:06:00 No.299562 Report

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I love my SB-600, i immediately regretted spending $300 on a flash but once I got using it, god damn is it handy.

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Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 11:09:00 No.299563 Report

Quoted By: >>299564 >>299565 >>299587 >>299600

oh, hai flash

meet my fast lens

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 11:13:00 No.299564 Report

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>>299563

Having a fast lens doesn't mean having an unlit subject is pleasing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 11:14:00 No.299565 Report

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>>299563
F/1.8 is so pedestrian.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 11:41:00 No.299577 Report

Quoted By: >>299579 >>299600

>>299564

it's a wide aperture lens, it's f/1.8, it takes a lot more light than regular lenses. lrn2basic photography

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 11:45:00 No.299579 Report

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>>299577
it's not always just about properly exposing the image, fill flash and creative lighting or incredibly useful techniques

lrn2reading comprehension

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 11:53:00 No.299583 Report

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people people, this is a new gear thread, post up or shut up. creativity thread is that way >>

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 11:54:00 No.299584 Report

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>>299579

creative lighting is another word for not knowing how to use available light

i'm sure you're proud about your "lighting" techniques

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:00:00 No.299587 Report

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>>299563
Because I love having a narrow depth of field if it is dark.
Because I love having blurry pictures because I can't stop the action.
Because...
et. al.

Go learn photography yourself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:01:00 No.299588 Report

Quoted By: >>299593 >>299610

>>299584
you are chaining your creativity. photography is painting with light and you are giving up the power to change and mold that light. why would you do this?

now ambient light photos can be amazing and in some situations they work, but refusing to ever use a flash is amazingly retarded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:06:00 No.299591 Report

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>>299584
because available light is totally always the best solution for the situation

this coming from a sports photographer, I hardly ever use flash on assignment or when I'm out with friends, but to totally discount flash photography is retarded in and of itself, on a grand scale.

I own fast lenses and dream of owning a camera that's noise-free at ISO 6400 but god damnit stop being such a pretentious faggot

and I probably just got the shit trolled out of me

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:07:00 No.299593 Report

Quoted By: >>299598 >>299600

>>299588photography is painting with light

see what i meant with>>299584i'm sure you're proud about your "lighting" techniques

fuck your flickr hipster faggot light painting, if that's creative lighting, i'd rather never be part of it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:09:00 No.299594 Report

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oh, I guess I should sell my monolights, reflectors, softboxes, umbrellas, stands, gels, and on camera flashes cause clearly all it's doing is making me a hipster faggot

thanks for showing me the "light"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:12:00 No.299598 Report

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>>299593
0/10

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Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:14:00 No.299600 Report

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>>299563
>>299577
>>299584
>>299593

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Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:28:00 No.299610 Report

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>>299594
>>299588

any newbie with a light should get over that stage. painting with light so fucking idiotic and played out

it sure is creative when every faggot out there is doing it

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Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:37:00 No.299614 Report

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>>299610

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Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:41:00 No.299617 Report

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i have seen some dumbass shit on /p/ before but this is blowing me away. i can't believe there is an argument about whether flash is useful for taking photos. i can't decide who is dumber
1)the making this fuck stick claim
2)the people getting trolled and fighting with him about it
3)or me for bumping this shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:41:00 No.299618 Report

Quoted By: >>299625

>>299591
>and I probably just got the shit trolled out of me

Yes, I'm 99% sure the guy was trolling to make a point. You hear dumbasses proclaim and get away with what he said, with the exact same sentence construction, except in reverse, all the time. How many times has someone said here that people who don't use flash or don't use it a lot just don't know how to "motivate light" or some such nonsense?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:46:00 No.299623 Report

Quoted By: >>299625

this didnt turn out how i had intended.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:48:00 No.299625 Report

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>>299618
as in saying that flash should be used for every photo ever?

>>299623
/p/ is not the place for informed and civil discussion about photography and the techniques or equipment assosciated with such a hobby/profession.

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Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:50:00 No.299626 Report

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"motivate light"
totally stealing this phrase

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else !L6xabslN96 Mon 24 Nov 2008 13:37:00 No.299659 Report

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>>299584
i tend to agree with this statement. but mebbe it's cuz i'm too poorfag to really see the justification behind all that expensive heavy lighting instead of some light good lenses when i don't have a studio and shoot outside most of the time.

<-- most of the time the "creative lighting" is just too blatant/unnatural and this disturbs me, because it turns people into plastic figurines. but rarely it seems to be done nicely to work with the ambient light rather overwhelm it.

this is good: http://flickr.com/photos/rogvon/655881747/

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 13:54:00 No.299673 Report

Quoted By: >>299697

>>299534
nikon should get themselves a proper design team.

the only thing that doesn't make it look like a children's toy is the black color... hides the shitty curves goddamn that's an ugly flash.

like every other company has nicer looking flashes
and I don't care if it does the job or not, I wouldn't be able to look at that atop of my camera.

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Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 13:59:00 No.299677 Report

Quoted By: >>299684

>> like every other company has nicer looking flashes

lol wut

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 14:02:00 No.299679 Report

Quoted By: >>299701 >>299706

>>299534

what's that thing attached on the 800? is that some elite battery pack or something?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 14:12:00 No.299684 Report

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>>299677
getting blinded before the flash even fires, nice.

Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM

Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM Mon 24 Nov 2008 14:49:00 No.299697 Report

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>>299673
Doesn't really matter since every other company has an inferior flash system.

Well not necessarily inferior, but Nikon CLS is freaking awesome. I would have bought more but i just thought the extra money for dedicated monolights was worth the investment over time.

3 is enough anyway... well 2 since one broke when i dropped it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 15:06:00 No.299698 Report

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>>299697
dropped my 580exII on concrete recently, didn't break, not even a scratch.

Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM

Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM Mon 24 Nov 2008 15:07:00 No.299699 Report

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>>299698

good for you, i dropped my in the ocean.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 15:09:00 No.299700 Report

Quoted By: >>299702

>>299699
time to go fishing then.

Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM

Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM Mon 24 Nov 2008 15:09:00 No.299701 Report

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>>299679

That's the 5th battery case.

Doesn't increase power but does make recycling quicker. from 6-7 to 3-4 seconds

Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM

Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM Mon 24 Nov 2008 15:10:00 No.299702 Report

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>>299700

I did, i dove into that like a dyke into a minge.

Too late though, one day someone will make waterproof electronics..... or not...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 15:27:00 No.299706 Report

Quoted By: >>299801

>>299679
5th battery box

NiMH batteries are 1.2V
4x 1.2 = 4.8 v
5x 1.2 = 6.0v = correct voltage

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 22:53:00 No.299801 Report

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>>299706
the voltage difference isn't a factor.

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Serenar !m827jEgWi. Tue 25 Nov 2008 05:32:00 No.300038 Report

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On topic:

"Cool, I have a Lomo too!"

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sage rage !3I4SJbCh8M Tue 25 Nov 2008 05:39:00 No.300045 Report

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>>299610
Photoshop =/= Creative Lighting

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Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s Tue 25 Nov 2008 05:58:00 No.300055 Report

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body related.

People do wonder why I just got a film camera, but only until i put my headphones back on.

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sage rage !3I4SJbCh8M Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:08:00 No.300061 Report

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>>300055
i don't think /p/ is suprised to see you with another film body... what puzzles me is the toothbrush

$19.99 !OSYhGye6hY

$19.99 !OSYhGye6hY Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:09:00 No.300062 Report

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>>300055
ewww, you brush your teeth at your computer?

$19.99 !OSYhGye6hY

$19.99 !OSYhGye6hY Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:12:00 No.300067 Report

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>>300061
>>300062
hivemind

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Anonymous Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:14:00 No.300070 Report

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>>300038
That's a nice camera.
I had a little go on one when I was in Japan, but was far far outside my price range.
£2500? There's no way to justify it.
Not unless I had considerable M glass. I got the R3a + CV 40/1.4 instead.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:16:00 No.300075 Report

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>>300038
Similar to this..

A200fag: "What's your camera? Oohh, a classic!"

Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s

Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:21:00 No.300084 Report

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>>300061
>>300062
The toothbrush is for cleaning computer components, the ones i use in my mouth are surprisingly kept in my bathroom.

Obviously /p/ isnt surprised to see it (ac i've taken 6 shots so far :3) but everyone else is either puzzled or interested in how they work. Scary number of people my age with no memory of film.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:25:00 No.300091 Report

Quoted By: >>300092 >>300096 >>300097

>>300055
Why do I now overwhelmingly suspect that butterfag is male...

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:26:00 No.300092 Report

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>>300091
because no girls on the internet/4chan?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:29:00 No.300096 Report

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>>300091

why so gullible?

sage rage !3I4SJbCh8M

sage rage !3I4SJbCh8M Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:29:00 No.300097 Report

Quoted By: >>300098

>>300091
I have never considered him anything but male... Relevance to his/her photography or gear? 0/10

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:32:00 No.300098 Report

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>>300097

females are stupid by nature, so it would explain a lot but he obviously doesn't have a vagina

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Nov 2008 02:51:00 No.301352 Report

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>>299534

lol

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Anonymous Thu 27 Nov 2008 03:07:00 No.301367 Report

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>I don't care if it does the job or not, I wouldn't be able to look at that atop of my camera.

Enjoy willingly choosing not to use easily the greatest flash system in the world.

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