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blackhole89

Posted on 10-31-10 04:23 AM

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So my old trusty point-and-shoot camera (won at an informatics competition back when I still was at school) fell on concrete tiling a couple of days ago, which caused the display to break and added to the degree of already-present defects to induce a state of effective unusability. (For reference, this, and all but the oldest two on there, have been shot with it and are probably what I would consider the best specimens from that time.)

Feeling like this might be the right time to step up, I went out and spent some £480 on a Micro 4/3 camera, later proceeding to obtain a Minolta 50mm f/1.7 lens with an appropriate adapter since the kit lens wasn't particularly fast (being essentially an obsolete piece of technology, all of that only amounted to roughly £60 in total). The complete system can be seen here, shot blindly from the remains of the old camera.

Here are some pictures I took around Cambridge to depict the present autumniness of the place and test the new camera.

Any thoughts or own experiences with no-longer-entirely-amateurish camera systems you would like to share?

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Posted on 10-31-10 06:31 PM

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That's some pretty nice looking work there. The macro of the yellow berries is actually the desktop background on my computer now.
As far as personal experience goes, the only digital camera in my house is about nine or so years old now. It was purchased when they were cutting edge, and is now worth about eighty bucks...

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Posted on 11-01-10 12:21 AM

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The photos look great. I had a camera like that at one point, but lost it on a vacation.
I used to love taking photos with it.

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I'm not really an artistically-minded person like blacky, but I can't help but wonder: where exactly is the direction in these photos? I mean nature's nice and all, but what exactly is the overlying coherence or redeeming grace that distinguishes this autumn foliage collection from y'know--any other amateurish collection that people toss up on the Internet with an expensive camera (along with a level of technical expertise of course which I won't discount)?

In short: how is this art?

KP9000

Posted on 11-01-10 03:13 PM

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For one: Look at it, you nitwit.

It's beautiful. Far better than any picture I can take. This takes talent to recognize what makes a good picture, and blacky here does.

Second: If he really claimed it was art, he'd put it in the art forum instead of here. The point is, he's talking about his old and busted and the new hotness.

But yeah, I really did enjoy those pics bh. I kinda wanna photoshop them somehow and make one of them my wallpaper.

As for my own experiences: I only have this everyday digital camera... it's like 8MP and the CCD's at least okay... Lens is run-of-the-mill, too. Kind of kills my previous 5MP camera with it's shitty graininess.

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Posted by KP9000
For one: Look at it, you nitwit. It's beautiful. Far better than any picture I can take. This takes talent to recognize what makes a good picture, and blacky here does.

Second: If he really claimed it was art, he'd put it in the art forum instead of here. The point is, he's talking about his old and busted and the new hotness.

But yeah, I really did enjoy those pics bh. I kinda wanna photoshop them somehow and make one of them my wallpaper.

As for my own experiences: I only have this everyday digital camera... it's like 8MP and the CCD's at least okay... Lens is run-of-the-mill, too. Kind of kills my previous 5MP camera with it's shitty graininess.

I dunno it just feels like it doesn't scream autumn as much as Oxbridge and by that I mean stodgy, pretentious architecture. I can't really feel any emotion or blacky-ness in these photos, nor does it transfix my senses or make my heart waver--even the framing and locations honestly feel sort of arbitrary like some uber-well-taken googlemaps shots. I think blacky's older shots just seem a lot more inspired, so I was disappointed. ;__;

Now to be honest I haven't seen seasons change in years, but I want to see just one picture which really captures the essence of blacky's autumnniess. Winter just makes for a more poignant scene so I will wait for some Michaelmas pics.

The camera seems like a nice compromise between the bulky, expensive DSLRs and the "okay" cameraphone level of quality, plus it seems pretty durable and nostalgic looking.

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