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I stopped shooting because someone used my camera to film a sniff video while I wasn't around apparently. Sold it to a black detour that was at the snowed in party as a joke and he paid 400 matrix cash to buy out the same camera they filmed him with lmao.
Gotcha flem hours
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Photography became more and more readily available.
People did it as a hobby for a decade.
The realised they didnt make any money out of it.
They took fewer photos. Posted fewer photos.
I think it still has a place, this board. Its a good place to dump stuff, get it seen, talk about things that piss you off.
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>>4507583
>instagram spams people with images so much that content creators start using captioned video to get more information density
>the masses who consume media start preferring short form video over photos and then become conditioned to it
>photos, even very good ones which most amateurs could never hope to create lose value as media, cannot communicate or get attention with them as once before
>instagram as a platform for photography dies, the one platform where mass consumers in great number were provided to photographers to give amateurs a chance at recognition
>photographers slow to catch on, and facing sunk cost fallacy continue throwing photos on IG to get single digit or even no likes
>photographers finally catch on years late, and just give up or cope "i shoot for me"
>all interest for photography as a hobby online dries up, starting with small niche places like /p/ but even youtube has 10% the engagement on photography content it once had, and reddit is down over 80%
There you go bud.
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>>4507643
>>all interest for photography as a hobby online dries up, starting with small niche places like /p/ but even youtube has 10% the engagement on photography content it once had, and reddit is down over 80%
do you have data for this?
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Performative photographers finally got filtered by living in a post-simulation society. Global cost of living increases pricing out new photographers in ways that hasn't really been seen before. Indian mudflood diaspora to the west making the outdoors less enjoyable and less photogenic. Even if 4chan got new users (it doesn't) the gatekeeping influencer mafia who own wedding "photography" businesses are targeting mindrotted would-be hobbyists with a constant bombardment of information overload to scare them away and make this Fisher Price hobby for retards seem difficult to learn somehow and since they have goldfish attention spans, the psyops stick. Literally no one is doing photographers any favors. I don't think it's just photography though, people generally don't have hobbies anymore and everyone seems to be shambling around in survival mode instead of enjoying life.
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>>4507583
Blame the fujislugs and the staff that enabled them. When you have nannies banning people for making f/64 threads and leaving brandfag circlejerks up that's what you get. Sonyggers too helped sink the place into nothingness. Glowies and perfidious angloids trying to dox people didn't help either. And the mirrorlesscuck to AI prompter pipeline is also real. If you're content with seeing simulacra, some deformed shadows instead of reality, then it only makes sense you'll be content with AI. TCD.
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>>4507583
I recently came back.
Anyway, this is the whole website. But to be /p/ specific, photography is an increasingly insufferable female dominant hobby raising prices for everything.
Even shit analog gear is now priced like new on my local second hand goods site
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>>4507621
Dogposters botted the most hated user poll
>dogfags on /p/
>i need a z8 to photograph my husky! FUJI BAD! FUCK YOU, MICRO FOUR THIRDS!
>Same, but I need a bigger sensor! 8x10 10000000mp dog! Muh medium format! Digislugs BTFO! Half frame is 50mp!
>oh no everyone is mad better erase the evidence of them being mad i win awoooo
>>4507726
It was you and your dogfucking friend who brigaded it. Explicitly.
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>>4507726
Oh my dearest huskyfag why dont you post photos anymore
https://archive.palanq.win/p/thread/4460246/#4460343
https://strawpoll.com/Qrgewx9XQyp/results
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For me, this:
The board culture here was never that great, but you could learn some in the olden days. Nowadays it is just a bunch of brand/meme shit posting, like that cANON in this thread going on about fujislugs and snoyboys. How does that in any way help me with my photography? It doesn't. And I'm soooo fucking done with it. Take photos with whatever you want, who cares? Sadly, just too many.
Sure, stuff like that has always existed, but it feels like every thread goes there nowadays.
And I've never felt safe posting my own pictures here, because well... it's 4chan. Were I to post my pictures I've always felt I could be doxed, or stalked etc. Which is on me.
And well, what little photography talk I need to have nowadays there are much better places to have. Mostly I just shoot pictures instead, learn and develop by doing.
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>>4507760
If it makes you feel any better I've posted a few hundred images over the last few years, some with myself or identifiable areas, some linking to my actual site, and post enough to have a nickname here, and doxxing hasn't been an issue for me yet
Just look at what variety gets posted in RPT, most people don't seem to have a problem with dox either
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>>4507760
>The board culture here was never that great, but you could learn some in the olden days. Nowadays it is just a bunch of brand/meme shit posting, like that cANON in this thread going on about fujislugs and snoyboys. How does that in any way help me with my photography? It doesn't. And I'm soooo fucking done with it. Take photos with whatever you want, who cares? Sadly, just too many.
Whenever I talked technique or pointed out errors constructively, I got fujislugs seething and ignoring the nuggets of truth I was handing out because I dared not be part of their cult.
>And I've never felt safe posting my own pictures here, because well... it's 4chan. Were I to post my pictures I've always felt I could be doxed, or stalked etc. Which is on me.
That's very sensible actually. The cases of doxxing and stalking here are numerous.
>And well, what little photography talk I need to have nowadays there are much better places to have. Mostly I just shoot pictures instead, learn and develop by doing.
Back in the good old days this had some really interesting content but you can thank the usual suspects for supressing anything worth discussing to enable the garbage.
This board used to have rich discussions, but over time the brandfags and dramafags took over. Brand circlejerks became a thing where you'd better praise everything a fujislug made no matter how garbage, because shooting with a Fuji and putting some white borders meant it was to be revered as art. So it went from a place where snapshits were shunned to a quantity over quality disgrace where "nophoto" was deemed an acceptable response to constructive criticism, where the attitude wasn't to learn to do better but to demand those having anything different from praise to give post a photo so that you can make up some bullshit reason to feel better about your snapshit. It's izzat culture, instead of trying to better themselves they try to make their critics look bad to save face.
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>>4507583
There was a core group contributing to the board, then casuals arrived, all of whom are zoomers. Since zoomers are mentally ill and scoff at accumulating knowledge or skills, the board died under a torrent of mental illness and snapshits.
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>>4507871
I'm talking about things like the guys who complain about their terrible image quality while shooting a still subject with the shutter manually set to nanoseconds and a sky-high ISO to compensate for that.
>>4507880
The problem wasn't "isi", in fact isi was one of the more knowledgeable fujislugs.
>>4507889
I have no dog in this fight.
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I grew up and started a family.
This place was great in '08 but its just aged and gotten stale. I learned a lot from other anons here back in the day, now its name calling and gear queering.
I also hate the captchas.
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Some people used to say photography is going to kill art.
Now AI killed art.
And nothing can possibly kill photography because AI can't capture our reality.
So in other words all those faggots who studied art and music or 3D modeling are not needed now, only photographers were not harmed by AI.
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>>4507583
I've been lurking intermittently for about year and a half to learn about photography from other anons with more experience and I have only seen namefaggotry and brand niggerism, biggest culprit being that cANON retard. You can't retain newfags like this.
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>>4509314
I've been trying to effortpost these last years, I made threads about the history of photography, threats about photographers and post photos/give feedback but none of these things really drive engagement here
it seems like anons here prefer the gearfaggotry, namefag drama and nostalgia jerking about how it was better before
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It's demographics. As people get older they tend to "get a life" eventually and have less time to spend here or leave altogether. This affects quality posters moreso than garbage posters.
There's hardly any newfags to replace them (thx ticktock) and those that do come are, on average, of lower quality too due to "internationalization" of the internet.
This drop in quality drives away even more of the quality posters and only garbage people remain eventually
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>>4509346
Same, I put efforts into explanation posts like >>4503010 but nothing, look how poorly the editing threads go for another example
>>4509347
This is it. Most of the normal good people "grew up" and off p, most of the newbies want to put in as little effort as possible and blame everything on gear
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>>4509346
Hello fellow effortposter. Effortposting on /p/ is probably now futile. The board is dead and the bulk of the remaining anons are just gearfaggots with no substance beyond that. Sad, I know. But I've recommended it before and will again, it might be worth taking your effort to a different board that focuses on the sub-topic you're talking about. History board or tech board springs to mind.
I've all but left this place. It's more fun to troll on /g/ and /pol/ then explain diffraction to total noobs or try and convince some poor brainwashed faggot that M43 isn't good etc.
>>4509365
>look how poorly the editing threads go for another example
The fucking point exactly. The editing threads, which by and large are the most useful threads we could have that do not require you to leave your PC, are some of the most neglected because even actually doing some editing at your workstation is too much photography for the average /p/ user. Nobody has any input because nobody actually understands. Nobody cares. It's pathetic. I'd love daily or weekly editing threads because they'd keep me on my toes with post techniques and learning new things, but fuckin hell...
I'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze anymore anons.
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>>4509380
he is justifiably hatful to anyone here
and will gladly run off the last 5 anons remaining
= total victory (it was real in his mind)
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>>4509407
>leave the tech billionaires and latest products ALONE
>stop. fucking. encouraging. people. to. buy. USED. REEEE!
>no one needs a better product than the newest product! trust the youtubers!
>anti-consoomerists are the real consoomerists >:(
its so sad that someone like this is actually a living human and not an AI programmed to defend corporations
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>>4509409
>its so sad that someone like this
I feel the same way about the nophotos like you
Imaging going onto a hobby board to do nothing but whine and complain about products you don't even use (or can afford)
Then attacking people who advocate for using what gear you already have, and that people should probably focus more on their own shooting technique, experiences, and editing, instead of just buying new gear
How do you bridge that logic? That I think most new gear is great, but also most people can do just fine with older gear too? If I was shilling, wouldn't I be trying to get people to buy new products instead of using what they have in better ways?
>stop. fucking. encouraging. people. to. buy. USED. REEEE!
This is literally what I do though, I just also encourage them to learn their gear and try editing too for the best results
Do you remember this thread >>4508439 where I did just that and was met by the actual gearfags?
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>>4509414
You furiously defended some fag’s canon rebel from those evil gearfags who pointed out it’s so poorly priced that OP could have a massive upgrade that would solve his exact problem (excessive noise/lack of shadow information) for less money
>just take the photo closer to noon
>just carry a flash
>bring a tripod next time
>dont you dare upgrade your crappy overpriced camera. that would make me feel even worse about using a $2000 fujifilm to photograph my dog.
Yeah, you’re so good. You’re a real hero in the fight against gearfaggotry. Everyone else is the real gearfag. Now go, go use your $10,000 leica to take another photo of your parents pets, you total non-gearfag. And then come back. /p/ dearly needs your side of the story. We need you to claim that literally every camera is great and no one should ever upgrade not even if they would save money by doing so (because that would mean some cameras are actually subpar and expensive - scam cameras - scameras, if you will). Like,
>Z50s have bad autofocus? Impossible. Post 3 photos that prove you need better autofocus. You need to learn to use your camera.
What would we do without this wisdom that’s clearly unrelated to how you feel about you yourself using over fifteen grand of fujifilm and leica gear to accomplish nada?
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>>4509418
>You furiously defended some fag’s canon rebel from those evil gearfags who pointed out it’s so poorly priced that OP could have a massive upgrade that would solve his exact problem
You mean I said OP should focus on what he can get out of the camera, and gearfags said he should just buy a new one?
>We need you to claim that literally every camera is great and no one should ever upgrade not even if they would save money by doing so
Yes, this sure sounds like an honest recreation of what I've said
You are a very sane and good faith interlocutor and not at all unstable
>over fifteen grand of fujifilm and leica gear to accomplish nada?
I'm probably under 15k nowadays, but the gear paid for itself so its kind of whatever. Weddings can be good money. Are you forgetting my lore that I also worked in camera shops for a decade and got most of my gear at manufacturer discounts too?
What cameras do you use?
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>>4509420
>Hey guys, I’ve found this low end camera does poorly in some situations. Any ideas?
>Wow man that thing goes for a lot for what it does. Here’s some models that are cheaper used but have better-
>Noooo thats GEARFAGGING if you could just buy a cheaper better performing camera why do I shoot leica and fujifilm huh? How about you just dont shoot in those conditions and start using more flash? NEVER realize you bought a bad product because there can be no bad products! If there were, what does that make my five figures worth of fuji and leica, huh?
Yeah /p/ would be a lot more peaceful without you trying to start a fight (despite being some child with a stolen portfolio and a lot of dog photos) every time someone dares point out that not all cameras are good products for all people and some, in fact, are just bad all around and trade expensive tech for cheap marketing to boost profits.
In fact, capitalism means the absolute majority of products are encouraged to be bad in actuality and good in marketing because that makes the most money, and progress is guaranteed to stall while prices (and debt) continue to rise until the next paradigm shift.
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>>4509420
"i shot a wedding" also said huskyfag and cinefag with cropped and thumbnailed non-proof. perhaps they did shoot a couple and quit, and that money offset their ebay fees, or primed their fund for flipping through countless cameras. perhaps you did shoot a couple and quit just to fund the gear train.
im sure you worked at a camera store which is why you really had a new camera every week and aren’t another shopping addicted redditor with no kids, and a room at your parents and a paycheck that is all fun money no bills like literally everyone else who goes through multiple expensive hobby items in a short time period. the camera store was your ebay account and local classifieds. 100%.
do you people not realize how often it looks like you are lying?
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>>4509422
>just buy a better camera! consume! don't think about trying harder with what you have or learning new things that help, just buy!
>also I will never share photos ever, I only want to defend buying new gear, but new gear is also bad too
sounds kind of gearfaggy to me, but idk
>Yeah /p/ would be a lot more peaceful without you
Same to you bud
What positive contributions have you made to this board? Where can I see your effort posts?
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>>4509424
>"i shot a wedding"
I've also shown plenty of work with other clients over the years.
>which is why you really had a new camera every week
Strange considering I haven't purchased a camera in 3 years, and long term I've averaged under 1 camera every 2 years for the last decad, the more you know!
>do you people not realize how often it looks like you are lying?
Not really. Started taking photos +15 years ago, worked at camera shops, bought gear on discount, grew photo business, etc. I'm one of the few here that frequently provides proof and posts photos.
Do you not realize how silly you look?
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>>4509425
If a wrench doesn’t fit a nut, you don’t cope and machine an adapter. You use the correct wrench.
If someone’s $800 canon rebel is disappointing them at high ISO or someone’s $1000 Z50s autofocus is slow, inaccurate, and retarded, someone with thousands and thousands of dollars of fuji (notorious for low image quality and subpar autofocus) and leica (literally zero features for $10k) gear coming to the defense or a literal scamera with a bigger marketing budget than R&D went into it does not hit as the noble pursuit you think it does.
>Dont expect cameras to do that! Learn… to not take photos when you dont have tripods, flashes, or brighter sunlight!
It hits as some moron from reddit projecting his buyers remorse and sunk cost issues onto someone like anon exchanging his more expensive camera that doesn’t perform at their chosen task for a cheaper one that does hurts reddit boy’s feelings.
Some cameras just aren’t good. For some people, sometimes, for everyone. What else in tech is like this? Some laptops just aren’t good. If someone overpaid for a crappy acer would you say they need to learn to overclock, install gentoo, start optimizing useflags, and get into EGPUs or sell it before it depreciates, buy a good machine for less, and learn something useful?
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>>4509428
>just CONSUME MORE GEAR SPEND MONEY BUY BETTER
Very non-grearfaggy of you bb
What camera models do you enjoy using?
>>4509429
>you make a lot of impressive claims
I'm honest, so thank you for thinking I'm impressive
>all you have to show for them
Plus most of the client work I do which I don't share here. Plus all those nice landscapes you've seen. Plus all the pics of friends and family I take
I'd say I have quite a lot to show for it actually, certainly more than you nophoto
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>>4509428
>If someone’s $800 canon rebel is disappointing them at high ISO
Skill issue, while Canon sensors are usually subpar switching to something with more DR won't save your worthless technique. Like that guy taking pics in the Himalaya who couldn't expose to save his life.
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>>4509428
>Some cameras just aren’t good. For some people, sometimes, for everyone. What else in tech is like this? Some laptops just aren’t good. If someone overpaid for a crappy acer would you say they need to learn to overclock, install gentoo, start optimizing useflags, and get into EGPUs or sell it before it depreciates, buy a good machine for less, and learn something useful?
Bad faith argument because the performance gap between cameras is really small and an entry level camera in skilled hands will outperform the highest end one in the hand of someone who is ill advised like the average fujislug is.
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>>4509440
Switching to something that isn’t shit will make good technique significantly more worthwhile. With FF and a very basic IS lens ala 24-120 f4 I have never needed a tripod even at 8pm, IS100 f8 0.5s-1s territory with handheld bracketing to cover extreme highlights and all the controls to do this at my fingertips.
And while that impresses autists I can also just take the fucking picture and move on, even if the single handheld shot is technically only as good from a chart standpoint as a max effort rebel t2i composite, a sane person would understand the massive real life advantage of just being able to take the photo and go, and go home with the same good enoughness of a max effort bracketed panorama from an ewaste camera. All that exposure cope shit isn’t really a useful skill artistically. It’s just tech tricks for chart nerds. Real life asks for taking the photo and going sometimes. A lot of the time. That’s why cameras got better, and stopped getting that much better once they got nikon DSLR levels of good.
Thank god you can always sell your wormji and buy a good camera that just werks, and usually gain some free cash for something that actually matters more than worms. Oh wait this was about an old canon?
There is nothing wrong with upgrading and living life instead of living photoshop tricks. You do not need to spend more money on worse cameras to learn photoshop tricks either. Don’t be stupid. That’s like adopting a dog to lose weight.
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>>4509449
Equivalence is everything, fool.
Put a f/2.8 on the Rebel and shoot the same picture at ISO 100 in 0.25s for the same result. No photoshop tricks.
I already proved a long time ago that you fags can't tell APS-C from FF.
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>>4509446
You’re lying about your dad working at nintendo again.
>>4509447
A bad carpenter blames his tools for his mistakes
A good carpenter uses a nailgun because even if he could drive a nail traditionally, he doesn’t have to refuse to use a nail gun to do so, and it’s just better.
And a really, really bad carpenter buys a $150 boutique 16oz hammer to talk down to nailgun users for lacking the skills he is developing by not being a gearfag, and then hops on hammerforum to interrupt ala this
>Im getting sick of these nails and bought this fancy hammer that’s really just a hammer. its tiring and i dont always feel up to doing the extra work. Whats a good nailgun?
>no! you lack skill! dont buy just learn! i have a $5000 hammer, worked on the white house, and spent 15 years working at a carptentry boutique. dont listen to nailgun shills.
>Heh bud you got proof?
>yeah i made this pine box
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>>4509453
Tripods are the single best purchase to tangibly improve your photography.
Do not care that you have over 9000 stops of ibis. Not the same thing at all.
A good tripod is lightweight and can be setup and taken down quickly and easily.
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>>4509452
>nail gun
A bad carpenter gets a nailgun thinking his horrid technique is why his furniture falls apart, now he copes with his cluelessness by putting more nails hoping for the best. Furniture still falls apart because it wasn't the hammer, it was that he was too unskilled to put the nails where they belong.
Read Ansel Adams and stop being a fool.
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>>4509452
>You’re lying about your dad working at nintendo again.
Believe what you want to believe. Here's when I got my X-Pro2 almost 10 years ago.
What camera(s) do you use?
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>>4509450
>f2.8 is equivalently f8
Very wrong.
>doesnt even know stopping down more gets better small aperture results less corrected, more portable and portrait friendly optics
Even ken knows of the FX advantage.
And APS-C needs ISO 50 to = FF ISO 100. And very deep pixel wells or other tech trick like dual gain readout, for color depth. And a more corrected lens to stop down enough to clear all aberrations without hitting up against diffraction softening which happens one fstop earlier (same aperture diameter).
A lumix g9ii can come close to FF in select situations but FF can also blow past it leaving people like you leaning on theoretical scenarios with rules
>no cheating
>did you just use iso 100
>thats against the rules
>actually just learn to stack shots and average out noise
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>>4509457
>f2.8 is equivalently f8
lol what
f/2.8 on APS-C is equivalent to f/4 on FF
>doesnt even know stopping down more gets better small aperture results less corrected, more portable and portrait friendly optics
>And APS-C needs ISO 50 to = FF ISO 100. And very deep pixel wells or other tech trick like dual gain readout, for color depth. And a more corrected lens to stop down enough to clear all aberrations without hitting up against diffraction softening which happens one fstop earlier (same aperture diameter).
>buzzwords buzzwords buzzwords
Anon, the absolute aperture of two equivalent APS-C and FF lenses is the same.
I already accounted for the ISO with the exposure time.
Diffraction is grossly overstated.
The FF can beat the MFT at base ISO nearly wide open and that's about it. But who wants some razor-thin DoF? Are you Toneh Northrup?
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>>4509454
Tripods are for doing tripod things.
Not coping with inadequate sensors.
The way to cope with an inadequate low end canon is to realize its market value is identical to or in excess of a superior camera.
Not all cameras are good. A good camera won’t fix your mistakes, but it will expand what you can do when you’re not making them and make it significantly less involved to do basic things. Save tripods for epic swirly 5s exposure landscapes instead of approximating ISO 100 in photoshop while arguing about how no one should ever replace some ewaste.
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>>4509460
>Literally all this proves is that like many children, your summer job was at best buy.
What would be sufficient evidence for you?
Have you even proved you own a camera, or take photos yet?
>>4509457
> FF can also blow past it leaving people like you leaning on theoretical scenarios
What a good opportunity for you to share some photos that could only have been achieved on your FF, you could sure show us up
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>>4509462
>Not coping with inadequate sensors.
You realize you're coping having poor shooting technique by appealing to "buy a better camera" right? Getting a bigger sensor because you're too lazy for a tripod is cope.
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>>4509461
Literal nonsense.
The equivalence thing has been done to death. It needs rules to work as a gotcha, and FF can effortlessly cheat them. It’s why crop didn’t take over. It’s why medium format still exists and is creeping downmarket. Equivalence… just doesn’t matter.
>sometimes my kind of shitty camera photo would match your nicer camera in these two metrics
Yeah I’m happy for you but there’s test shots and then there’s photography, and sometimes people just don’t want to have to put in max effort with the ideal lens to match what a camera that actually costs less can do in a single shot with the kit zoom.
Because taking photos and nerding out in photoshop are really two different hobbies.
You’re talking to someone who still uses 16mp micro four thirds, but also uses 30mp full frame, medium format film, and occasionally borrows something fancier. I am well aware of what cameras do.
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>>4509468
>The equivalence thing has been done to death. It needs rules to work as a gotcha, and FF can effortlessly cheat them. It’s why crop didn’t take over.
On the contrary, you need to look for edge cases that are mostly irrelevant exceptions to find a gotcha.
>It’s why medium format still exists and is creeping downmarket. Equivalence… just doesn’t matter.
Crop medium format is a meme and gets mogged by FF simply because of what the ecosystem is like. Save for some niche uses it's not advantageous over FF and once again, some uppity fag (hasselblyat) got mogged by a 6D on this same board.
It simply got cheaper to make and has halo effect so it's easier to market to gearfags.
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>>4509465
>you couldnt possibly think nailguns are worth it unless you can’t swing a hammer!
That’s quite a conclusion to draw from
>if you dont always have the time to do it manually, which you don’t, just use the more convenient tool. it won’t fix your mistakes but it will make them less relevant when you’re rushing and make doing it right even more worth it. I see you spent a lot on your hammer. Come on dude, its just a hammer. You could sell that and afford both a hammer and a nail gun.
And then the fag with the boutique hickory handled vintage nail hammer says
>NOOOOOO! You have to use limited equipment to learn!
Which instantly outs him as the strict definition of a gear-fag
The focus is the equipment and expertise at using equipment, just getting shit done is an afterthought.
If someone isn’t happy with their mediocre camera that costs as much as a good one, fuck “operator skills”, just get a camera that doesn’t need autistic effort to achieve standard image quality, live your life, and learn photoshop tricks because you want to be better, not because your phone looks better if you dont and it makes you regret using a camera that runs like it’s 2008.
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>>4509468
>Because taking photos and nerding out in photoshop are really two different hobbies.
It's the same hobby, just casually vs enthusiast engagement
For a casual nophoto, surprised do see such strong opinions
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>>4509472
It's not that you can't swing a hammer. Anyone can swing a hammer. It's that you have no idea of what a nail is used for. You're like that kid who can't even play Smoke on the Water and blames his Strat for being unable to play Hangar 18 competently so he goes and buys a Jackson King V hoping it will work this time.
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>>4509471
I didn’t know literally every photo with more mp than crop, more aperture wiggle room, a lower ISO, etc is an edge case. ISO 100 is the default from 8am to 8pm. Maybe you lack skill?
Again I use a 16mp mft milc, 30mp ff dslr, 6x7 film, and occasionally temporarily use mirrorless from r5 to gfx100s from the worlds best long term rental site (ebay). You compared a rebel to a dated canon 1d. We do not have the same perspective.
I think cameras are like tools. Use the one that works now. Worry about getting the best out of it later.
You think cameras are like pokemon, and if you don’t get the gym badge by maxing out what you have you can’t handle the better one.
It’s very sad because good cameras aren’t expensive. They’re cheaper.
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>>4509477
A used D750 currently costs less than the latest iphone SE and is significantly better
Maybe when you start out skill some crop coper will “equivalently” take a similar photo every now and then by putting in more effort (oh no, you shot f8 iso 3200, you lose!), but once you have skill it’s just better every time.
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>>4509476
>ISO 100 is the default from 8am to 8pm
I'd rather raise the ISO than make my photos have the depth of a puddle to hide their dishonesty but I'm more into photography than specshitting like a soulless mirrorlesscuck.
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>>4509476
>the gym badge by maxing out what you have you can’t handle the better one.
Do you also think painters should start out on the finest canvases and paints? Programmers should start out on the beefiest computers? Drivers should start on the highest performance cars?
Interesting perspective
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>>4509479
But a phone is easy to use right now and I don't need to do anything but press a button. It has superior af as well, and then AI does the rest for me. Arent phones mirrorless cameras and therefore superior? Yeah.
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>>4509480
>he has to open the aperture to shoot at iso 100
>he can’t utilize composition and distance to make aperture less relevant either
You lack skill and have never used a camera from 8am to 8pm.
>>4509481
Do you think a $500 FF DSLR is the finest and a $2000 fuji is beginner kit? I’m glad you hate beginners!
I think people should buy once, cry once, and get as much performance and resale value in what they start out with because the only thing worse than failing photography, is trying and failing photography with a brand new low end crop sensor canon kit that ran over a thousand that nobody else wants to buy for more than half of what they paid. After getting frustrated having to learn an actual art in addition to your favorite topics, photoshop tricks, tripod tips, and equivalence. And photography loses another one!
The best way to learn all of these is to just use a good camera you can afford, and then when you get made fun of, seize victory by taking your cheap d610 or whatever to a level a lesser camera simply isn’t reaching, and laugh because most of the time the photos look better and have more editing attitude anyways unless it’s a high ISO, stopped down close focus photo of a dogs nose (your usual!)
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>>4509485
All the fastest lenses for action photography are cheap used canon EF zooms, and FF usually either has a higher sampling rate or deeper photon wells
Equivalence then is just
>oh no the very blurry background is marginally more blurry fool frame sucks
And the FF user is going to develop more skill just to take a dump on your equivalence obsession
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>>4509486
>everyone I don't like is cANON
Meds.
>Sure, and the reason you can’t stand nicer cameras is because you can’t afford them.
I don't think they're "nicer" at all, higher price doesn't equal nicer. When someone seeks advice on how to improve their output, "upgrade your body" regardless of what they have shouldn't be the default answer unless the body is obviously the reason.
>>4509487
ISO 100 isn't a good choice for fast action.
Once again you prove you're full of shit.
>>4509488
The sequitur is very obvious, if you are shooting ISO 100 all day and not wide open then you're doing long exposures. You'd know this if you did any photography rather than come to /p/ to do low effort trolling when you know nothing about the subject.
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>>4509489
>but you said the easiest carpentry is the best so I had AI 3d print me a dildo
>>4509490
It sounds like you lack both skill and intellect. Equivalence loses out for action because FF has better lenses for it, but lets be real no one cares how high quality your dog park photos are so forget that entirely. Equivalence is made irrelevant by megapixel count/pixel quality differences. Equivalence is irrelevant if longer exposures are on the table. Equivalence is irrelevant if you have the skill to get enough DOF with a wider aperture. Equivalence is irrelevant if the DOF is different but no one cares that the blurry background is more or less blurry. Equivalence is irrelevant if there’s a lot of light. Equivalence needs a top tier crop lens to go against a dated, pedestrian lens for FF to get the same aberrations to DOF ratio. Equivalence just isn’t very relevant.
I’m gad your cheap camera can be 90% as good 10% of the time especially if you spent twice as much but please be realistic. It’s really just a cheaper way to take okay-ish photos of critters.
And it would be a lot cooler and more enjoyable and convenient if it were at least decent crop shit like a 90d instead of overpriced junk like a fuji (fair price <$800 for an xt5) or a rebel 800d (fair price $150)
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>>4509498
It’s because sports photography is so boring almost no one does it for fun, so their boss buys their gear or they make it a tax writeoff and they use the best instead of engaging in minmax cope.
Equivalence isn’t even real. It’s just a tool for explaining that fstop isn’t apparent aperture size and photon shot noise changes with cropping. It leaves a lot of very real things out (including those that make some better crops look better than some shittier FFs and the 2x cropped z8 look better than the full res om1) because 10 varied points of technical minutiae don’t make an interesting beginner-oriented blog post.
Only beginners even care about the sketchy theory called “equivalence”.
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>>4509611
cANON contributes nothing except nitpicking about specs and being nostalgic about the great past of /pee/
The only namefag that is worth the attention is Sugar, because even though most of his photos suck, he’s sincere about photography and posts photos more often then all of the namefags (except mirror maybe)
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>>4509691
Little did you know they'd embrace it like the fags they are lol. I hope the Sony is a DSLR, from DSLT onwards they're dishonest machines.
>>4509719
Equivalence posting is actually anti-nipticking. It frees you from most specs. Past /p/ understood snapshits are worse than not attaching an image (for calling them photos would insult photos) and people were willing to learn rather than to get validation to consoom.
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>>4509900
Equivalence posting is dishonest gearfaggoty with a tenuous connection to photographic reality and how cameras actually work. If you ever had a point every professional would have switched to a lumix G9II overnight.
I recommend you get a job and a modern full frame camera instead of a 1ds from goodwill, so you no longer feel a need to cope and deliver /p/ the experience of playing chess with a pigeon. Digital camera sensor tech is a relatively complex subject that has often left you confused and responding only to parts of posts that you understand, which isn’t much.
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Captcha is what's killing this site.
It took me almost 5 minutes to make a post. Verify email, solve 14 captchas, literally 14 of them, and after 7 it sends the email link and you have to do the other 7. That's fucking ridiculous.
You're talking about an audience with the attention span of a gnat who can't be assed to throw their piss jugs away in their room and you want them to jump through all those fucking hoops just to call someone a nigger.
Autism and severe crippling soul-crushing depression are the only reasons I'm here anymore, I don't fit in anywhere else and I hate social media and what it has done to society. I never imagined a place darker than 4chan but Zogbook is giving it a run for its shekels.
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>>4509938
The new captcha is literally easy questions from a culture fair IQ test almost exactly like the ones given to kids to figure out who is special needs. It makes it frustrating to impossible for IQs too far under 100 to post. It’s even timed like all real IQ tests are. If you have problems with it beyond visual scanning fatigue and accidental inputs you need to see a neurologist.
>>4510040
I want him to stay, but adopt a more uncompromising stance. /p/ reminds me of /mu/s guitar thread. It almost died because it was taken over by endless arguments between people who lived the reality that better gear like tube amps and american made guitars were better and beginners who seethed that all of that was a waste of money and their modded squier and amp sim sounded the same. Unwinnable because reality and experience can’t defeat delusional poorfag cope. Demands to post playing never helped because when people post OC to keep a foot in a gear argument, the OC is guaranteed to be hated and more likely to be low quality.
They saved themselves by collectively deciding to brutally mock all coping poorfags. If anyone mentioned their cheap gear or spoke ill of gibson and tubes, they just called them an idiot until they shut up and left. Miraculously as soon as /gg/ stopped tolerating poorfags everyone posted playing again because all of the people with nicer guitars were also the ones who actually played guitar, and the few cheap gear people who knew how to play were more productive without fighting an unwinnable battle against gibson’s superior tone.
Now for the revelation: cANON and cinefag are both copers who got kicked out of /gg/.
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>>4509938
these all seem true. for something like a photo thread, captcha becomes a very tedious barrier to poting the content the board is about
regarding tripfags and flame wars, you can blame the instigators but half of the blame also has to go to those who engage. literally 20 years ago, forum dwellers found out that to maintain hygiene of an online space, you have to refrain from feeding the trolls. b8 disicipline here and boardwide is at an all time low. idk what it is, but current users just can't seem to resist the dumbest bait imaginable. furthermore, probably more of an effort should have been made on the part of old-timers to inoculate newcomers against the worst regulars. for something like a 2-year span, p wasn't really usable unless you had cinefag and cANON filtered, but newcomers aren't going to know how to do this. something simple like an infographic on how to filter posts probably would have gone a long way
>>4509658
rip. those were fun. i started shooting more film and less digital fuji, and almost all of the other main posters left altogether
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Well photography booming during the covid lockdowns makes sense.
Going outside and taking pictures was one of the few things you could do to get out of the house.
When the lockdowns ended, people went back to their old hobbies.
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>>4510080
Photography is too niche for your little plan, if you want to create your circlejerk start a mumble server or a shitcord or whatever, pushing people away from an almost dead board is going to finish it off entirely
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>>4510080
Square pe/gg/er detected LOL.
With solid body electric guitars the body "quality" can affect sustain but not much else. The tone comes from the pickups, the geometry, and most importantly what's downstream (amp, pedals, etc). Valve amps are quite nice and while digital processing has come a long way and can in some cases manage to sound indistinguishable from tubes, it takes some serious sound engineering skill (or good presets) to do so. Given the choice between an AxeFX and a tube amp I'd pick the latter. Eddie Van Halen famously played a guitar hacked together from spare parts and it sounded great.
Gibson has made absurd claims and only retards eat it up. Want to sound great? Use this polish!
It goes without saying that the real equivalent of /gg/ poorfags is fujislugs pretending that their "film sims" in any way appear to be the films they pretend to emulate.
>this boss katana sounds exactly like a mesa boogie
>this fuji x-pro3 takes pictures just like Kodachrome!
The irony is that a Les Paul copy is closer to the real deal than a Fuji "rangefinder style" Leica knockoff.
Just like valves and transistors, digisluggery falls apart when saturation is reached. Whereas film and tubes blow out gracefully, solid state clips.
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>>4510080
>It almost died because it was taken over by endless arguments between people who lived the reality
I'd be down with this, except most of the people arguing don't take photos or even own a camera to begin with
It's nophotos coping vs poorfags
It's also interesting that as one of the more experienced people here, who does photos in reality, I have such strongly different opinions, like the comment I replied to initially is fairly retarded for anyone that actually shoots for a living, if you can get on board calling those people out too, I'm down!
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>>4509902
Equivalence is one of the many reasons professionals pick FF for most tasks. You go to a chess match and think it's checkers, that's how out of your element you are. What's the equivalent of an 11-24mm f/4L lens for APS-C? It's basically unobtanium. It'd be 9-15mm. In general FF has more variety in quality wides and you can easily rent them as needed.
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>>4509902
Additionally, for portrait work most clients are tasteless retards who want more toneh. And no format offers more toneh than FF does unless you stop digislugging and do like doghair. But clients also won't pay enough and you want some quality assurance nowadays, with digislugging almost foolproof. So to tonehmaxx you get FF and call it a day.
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>>4510172
Still photography remains relevant, posting for likes on Instagram was always pointless. Mindless gearchasing even more so.
Sure, some billboards and signs were replaced with screens in the meatspace. But overall, still photography is still everywhere, and I'm not only talking about art galleries or cafe decoration here. Look around, open your eyes and see.
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>>4510164
Thank you for proving >>4510080 right.
You are here because you almost killed /gg/ on /mu/ and are starting the exact same shit that ruined /gg/ here.
I can not believe an apparent schizo namefag drama theory turned out to be 100% correct for once.
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
>im not successful or talented but i have a lot of theories about why good gear that successful and talented people use isnt better and is actually worse and they all make sense in my head
Go be poor somewhere else faggot.
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>>4510209
>R5II
Cutting edge professional equipment that makes bean soup poorfags seethe
>Fuji X100VI
The second finest EDC camera after leica, also makes poorfags seethe.
>Sony A7RVI
Like all sony cameras, a top tier marvel of engineering that makes poorfags seethe.
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>>4510207
I didn't say any of that and I don't see how keyboard would kill guitar, they complement each other. It's like saying "the military and getting a PhD is dead, become an airplane pilot or go into politics instead" as if they're mutually exclusive or something. It's a stupid non-sequitur.
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>>4510222
>I’m not that exact poorfag cope gearfag that got kicked out of /mu/, I’m just one of the many /gg/ NPCs that are very similar to them
This is not the win you think it is
Can’t believe you set out to ruin /p/ with the exact same seethe you normally reserved for superior Gibsons. Have you thought of complaining about your indian rivals on /pol/ instead? You’d have more fun.
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>>4510214
>marvel
You got that one right, capeshit pleb. Söyny is a marvelfag brand.
>>4510209
They all lack implicit photographic integrity so it's a hard pass for me. It's all fake.
>>4510224
I actually like Gibsons, what I don't like is bullshit like "tone polish" or the many bullshit qualities that the illiterate assign to them out of ignorance.
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>>4510300
There’s a lot of us here for some reason
I sort of remember pant5uit (or another guy) was an amateur shoegaze artist, some guy with a gibson SG and sienna burst am pro strat was a fujichad, and the loathesome huscuck had a mesa/booger bedroom metal amp
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>>4507583
i rarely post anymore because the meta for talking and starting threads on anything thats even slightly fast is to be as hostile and purposely obtuse as possible otherwise youre talking to the ether most of the time. Shits just tiring.
/v/ is one where its becoming literally unusable if you try to do anything that might even resemble an effortpost and certain topics cant be talked about without summoning schizos that spam the thread relentlessly with low effort inane faggotry rendering the whole thing moot.
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i left when IG became more practical for sharing because /p/ users had accounts but so did my friends, too bad it's been garbage for years now.
at some point i also just stopped taking as many photos because i had shot almost every location in my local area, so i really only get my camera out for trips now.
>>4510759
birding is a pleasant hobby
but also yes the captcha and timer make posting annoying, its easier to just lurk
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>>4510874
You can just look up pics of birds on google THOUGH
>>4510876
birding may be a fun hobby (to you), but pictures of birds are fuckin boringe
All the pictures on here that could have literally been taken by anybody of literally mostly nothing, could have been taken by anybody
That's boringe
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>>4507583
Photography is a dead hobby. Everyone has a shitty phone camera with them everywhere they go and has a camera roll filled with 15,000 snapshits. Even I fall prey to leaving my camera at home sometimes and just using my phone even though technically it's dogshit and just compensates in post by doing faux-HDR and decent color processing.
>>4509483
>superior af
Phone af sucks dick for anything but taking pictures of people, it uses the huge DOF phones have as a crutch.
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