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SaitoH

SaitoH

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Jaded Photographer said:
After hearing people say the 180-600 isn't as good as the Sony 200-600 those look pretty fucking good.
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I mean, It may not be, but I don't think the difference is enough that when you take real world shots; I'm very happy with it.

My girlfriend has the Sony lens and I can't tell the difference, but I think the Sony lens is the current gold standard.
 
Jaded Photographer

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SaitoH said:
I mean, It may not be, but I don't think the difference is enough that when you take real world shots; I'm very happy with it.

My girlfriend has the Sony lens and I can't tell the difference, but I think the Sony lens is the current gold standard.
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So basically it's close enough to the point where it doesn't matter and you would only care if you look at MTF charts.
 
Jaded Photographer

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Went to Snug Harbor in Staten Island with the Fuji XH2:
XH028299 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028695 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028011 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028044 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028079 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028333 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028424 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028484 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028740 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028823 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028844 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028904 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
 
ShapeGSX

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Jaded Photographer said:
Went to Snug Harbor in Staten Island with the Fuji XH2:
XH028299 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028695 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028011 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028044 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028079 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028333 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028424 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028484 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028740 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028823 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028844 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
XH028904 by Marcus Beasley, on Flickr
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These are great. It's hard to pick the right aperture for flower photography, but you nailed it.
 
ShapeGSX

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A few more from New York as I work my way through my photos.

Most taken with the 70-200 GMII.

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ShapeGSX

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I attempted my first moon alignment last night. I only have a 200mm lens, so I couldn't be too far away from my target. I was across the street and down the block from Union Station in Worcester, MA for this, on top of a parking garage.

It was impossible to get a single shot that exposed both the moon and the building properly so I bracketed the shot and made an HDR photo in Lightroom. I stopped down to f13 to get everything in focus. In hindsight that was probably overkill. But I had a tripod so I could expose for a second or more. But I did have to crop out the waving flags.

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Xyber

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Some stuff from my recent Tokyo trip. :)

DSC03140 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
DSC03241 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
DSC05532 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr

DSC05804-Enhanced-SR-Edit by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
DSC00880 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
DSC01289 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
DSC01806 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
DSC02208 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
DSC02162 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
DSC02232 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
DSC04415 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
DSC05042-Till SSD-3 by Johnny Arvidsson, on Flickr
 
Xyber

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grmlin said:
Awesome series Xyber
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Thanks. Really fun city to take photos in as a beginner. Just so many cool looking locations that it feels like I barely have to try and I can still get som great shots that I'm proud of.
Heading back but to Okinawa in November for another 2,5 weeks, hope I can get some nice shots there as well. Thinking of buying myself something like the Sony 24-240mm for that trip since a 75mm prime is what I top out at right now and that wasn't always enough for what I wanted for some shots.
 
Garrison

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Great pictures there Xyber !

Some of the pics here really made me get the itch to try out photography again. I'm going on my first trip to New York City with my son soon for a couple of days, so I decided what the heck and bought a camera for the trip. I'm a complete beginner and my trip is towards the end of the month and I will try my best to do some street photography and video and see what happens. If anyone has really good beginner photography YT videos they want to share with me or just overall tips for Photography in New York City please share.

I decided on getting the Canon EOS R50 creators kit. I only ever had a Sony A6000 for a VERY limited time. Originally I was just going to use my phone (Galaxy Z Fold 5) my Tablet (Galaxy note 9+) if need be and was thinking of getting a insta360 Acepro and a gimball for my phone, that was my idea but I opted to get the R50 instead of the action cam for both video and photo.
I'd still like to get an action cam soon because I like to Kayak and bike ride during the year at home in Florida. I will get out there around town here as much as possible to shoot pics around town before I get out there.
 
Cyborg009

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Garrison said:
Great pictures there Xyber !

Some of the pics here really made me get the itch to try out photography again. I'm going on my first trip to New York City with my son soon for a couple of days, so I decided what the heck and bought a camera for the trip. I'm a complete beginner and my trip is towards the end of the month and I will try my best to do some street photography and video and see what happens. If anyone has really good beginner photography YT videos they want to share with me or just overall tips for Photography in New York City please share.

I decided on getting the Canon EOS R50 creators kit. I only ever had a Sony A6000 for a VERY limited time. Originally I was just going to use my phone (Galaxy Z Fold 5) my Tablet (Galaxy note 9+) if need be and was thinking of getting a insta360 Acepro and a gimball for my phone, that was my idea but I opted to get the R50 instead of the action cam for both video and photo.
I'd still like to get an action cam soon because I like to Kayak and bike ride during the year at home in Florida. I will get out there around town here as much as possible to shoot pics around town before I get out there.
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Try this thread since it's much more active https://www.resetera.com/threads/camera-equipment-ot-photon-capturing-comparison-club.1451/page-168
 
Galaxea

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Stalker by Tony Frattle, on Flickr

Oh, one more from the other day. I accidentally shot this in Jpeg so it limited my color grading quite a bit and actually turned out more blue than I wanted. I was in a lazy mood so I just went with it.
 
Galaxea

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Garrison said:
Very nice shoots you took there! Had to double take when I first looked at it to realize it was toys on the one with the storm trooper.
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Thanks! Both of those were shot using the used Nikkor 55mm macro lens I grabbed last week. I adapted it to my canon so I can have full manual to practice more stop motion but it also seems to be an amazing toy photography lens. I love my laowa 90mm macro but I really want to put more environment into my scenes for toy photos.
 
Garrison

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Galaxea said:
Thanks! Both of those were shot using the used Nikkor 55mm macro lens I grabbed last week. I adapted it to my canon so I can have full manual to practice more stop motion but it also seems to be an amazing toy photography lens. I love my laowa 90mm macro but I really want to put more environment into my scenes for toy photos.
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My son has been collecting Legos since 5 and he is 17 now and he has so much Legos at home to do really fun Lego photography if we want but my son isn't much into shooting pics =/. Looks like your lens works perfect for what you want. I really liked the colors and lighting on both pictures.
 
ShapeGSX

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The Walking Dead: Dead City production descended on my city of Worcester, MA this past week and I have been in my glory! I grabbed some of the best shots of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) out of anyone in the area thanks to the 70-200 GMII. 😂 The person who aged his gloves reached out to me to thank me for taking the photos and then shared my post of the photos. Truthfully, they are cropped in a ton, but the sharpness of the lens made it unnoticeable for social media. I felt like paparazzi with the big white lens. I was also the ONLY person there with a real camera.

But it wasn't all celebrities. Dead City is set in Manhattan, so they brought in a freaking SUBWAY station. And you could just take any photos you wanted. All the cars from the show were lined up on the street with the perfect background mural behind them. When do you get to see a NYC taxi in Worcester? Like I said, I was in my glory.

There are more photos here:

And the full complement of photos is on my Facebook profile:
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They're shooting inside Union Station (the moon photo I posted recently is of Union Station) today, and I'm honestly relieved that I won't be able to take any photos. It has been a busy week...of my own doing.

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And this is one of my favorites, inside the New York Post truck.
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ShapeGSX

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I took these in Spencer, Massachusetts last night. It was such an incredible experience. I was almost driven to tears to see it. Just unbelievable.

All photos taken at ISO 3200, 0.8s f/1.8 with a Viltrox 16mm lens on my Sony A7IV.

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I also got a timelapse (longer one coming on YouTube Proper later):

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zer4tafRBgc
 
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