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Post by amanajoe on Oct 14, 2019 11:51:41 GMT -5
My wife is looking for new hobbies and asked a question about photography, which she used to enjoy when the kids were young. Nothing serious, just taking pictures out and about the neighborhood and surrounding valley. She asked me about it and of course, I've never had a visual art bone in my body. But I know some folks that do. So any recommendations for good digital SLR type rigs for a non-professional hobbyist? Not real pricey, but versatile and quality. I have a kit of canon stuff I'd let you have cheap. Buy her an updated body and i can make you a deal on (if I'm remembering right) a 50mm f1.8, an 85mm portrait lens and a zoom all canon. I'll have to look through my stuff. Also a high quality back pack bag. The body is an older eos, so that wouldn't be worth taking, just buy her one of the T7i bodies already mentioned.
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Post by millring on Oct 14, 2019 12:11:08 GMT -5
Stumbled across this gem the other day: This is so awesome. Thanks. My mind is racing. 1. I've always noted that there are (at least) two distinct kinds of potters in the world -- the the distinction sort of relates to the Toolbox Fallacy (Phallicy): I remember visiting my friend, Tom. He was transitioning from porcelain to stoneware. He had been burned out and was trying to find a way to go on. Anyway, he STILL wasn't making any pots. He was testing clay bodies. He had over 200 test tiles of various combinations of stoneware, fire clay, ball clay, kaolin -- the stuff that makes up all clay bodies. And he was still going to be doing more testing. I couldn't fathom it. I'm impatient. I want to get down to the making. Immediately. Give me a bag of clay. If it doesn't work, I'll find out in the doing. Tom is what I've come to think of as a tool maker. He rarely starts into anything without figuring the most successful path from the beginning. And I suspect that toolmakers are right. Sort of. They are the engineers. It's not fair to overly generalize, but the tool makers are less concerned with aesthetics and more concerned with productivity. The upside is that generally productivity leads to innovation and improvement. The downside is that it locks productivity into the molds it builds. And it has to be more pensive at the onset because it realizes that "locking in". It better be good/right because I'm setting myself up to make a million of 'em. The other guy is what I am. I dive in. I manipulate. If I don't like this, I try that. And if I like this, I make more of this in a manner that will eventually lead to that. It's inevitable. I don't have a tool. I didn't break the mold. I never made one. So, there's the Toolbox fallacy. There are tool makers who just take a hell of a lot longer to get off the dime. And there's the me who dive in, make mistakes and hope the next one isn't fatal.
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Post by aquaduct on Oct 14, 2019 12:21:24 GMT -5
My wife is looking for new hobbies and asked a question about photography, which she used to enjoy when the kids were young. Nothing serious, just taking pictures out and about the neighborhood and surrounding valley. She asked me about it and of course, I've never had a visual art bone in my body. But I know some folks that do. So any recommendations for good digital SLR type rigs for a non-professional hobbyist? Not real pricey, but versatile and quality. I have a kit of canon stuff I'd let you have cheap. Buy her an updated body and i can make you a deal on (if I'm remembering right) a 50mm f1.8, an 85mm portrait lens and a zoom all canon. I'll have to look through my stuff. Also a high quality back pack bag. The body is an older eos, so that wouldn't be worth taking, just buy her one of the T7i bodies already mentioned. That would be awesome. PM me details and I'll run it past her.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 14, 2019 12:39:08 GMT -5
Ha, ha, ha.
In my first house, I decided to build the kitchen cabinets myself from particleboard and 2 1/4" T&G oak flooring. I took 2 weeks off from work to build them. - And 5 years later I finished. Never took a cabinet maker's class. Took one 8 week evening woodworking class (once a week) at the local high school shop. I bought a radial arm saw and justified it by the $ I'd save on cabinetry.
Came out pretty cool. (Though my wife was kinda unhappy about it for most of the 5 years.)
I'm a wood butcher.
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Post by amanajoe on Oct 14, 2019 12:42:21 GMT -5
I have a kit of canon stuff I'd let you have cheap. Buy her an updated body and i can make you a deal on (if I'm remembering right) a 50mm f1.8, an 85mm portrait lens and a zoom all canon. I'll have to look through my stuff. Also a high quality back pack bag. The body is an older eos, so that wouldn't be worth taking, just buy her one of the T7i bodies already mentioned. That would be awesome. PM me details and I'll run it past her. I'll go through everything when I get home.
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Post by jdd2 on Oct 15, 2019 2:39:17 GMT -5
Yes Larry is right, a nice DSLR will save files in RAW status. Maybe you guys need more GAS? Or hang out a little with some younger folks? Check out Halide (and its sister app) for the iphone (back to 6/6s?). And there are similar apps for android. RAW files* are possible on either platform, and have been for quite a while. This is not something that the dslr world has a monopoly on.... *and HEIC, at least for halide
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Post by lar on Oct 15, 2019 8:09:14 GMT -5
Yes Larry is right, a nice DSLR will save files in RAW status. Maybe you guys need more GAS? Or hang out a little with some younger folks? Check out Halide (and its sister app) for the iphone (back to 6/6s?). And there are similar apps for android. RAW files* are possible on either platform, and have been for quite a while. This is not something that the dslr world has a monopoly on.... *and HEIC, at least for halide You know what you're doing here don't you? You're forcing me to go to my Samsung phone manual to find out how to take photos in RAW. We're guys. We're not supposed to have to look at the instructions.
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Post by lar on Oct 15, 2019 8:11:32 GMT -5
On further review it appears that this RAW thing requires an app. I don't do apps. I barely do smart phones and have been dragged kicking and screaming into texting (ugh!).
Give me my DSLR for photos. That's what it's made for and that's what it does without needing apps.
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Post by Chesapeake on Oct 15, 2019 9:30:47 GMT -5
My wife is looking for new hobbies and asked a question about photography, which she used to enjoy when the kids were young. Nothing serious, just taking pictures out and about the neighborhood and surrounding valley. She asked me about it and of course, I've never had a visual art bone in my body. But I know some folks that do. So any recommendations for good digital SLR type rigs for a non-professional hobbyist? Not real pricey, but versatile and quality. I have a kit of canon stuff I'd let you have cheap. Buy her an updated body and i can make you a deal on (if I'm remembering right) a 50mm f1.8, an 85mm portrait lens and a zoom all canon. I'll have to look through my stuff. Also a high quality back pack bag. The body is an older eos, so that wouldn't be worth taking, just buy her one of the T7i bodies already mentioned. That sounds like an excellent set of lenses.
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Post by amanajoe on Oct 15, 2019 11:22:22 GMT -5
I have a kit of canon stuff I'd let you have cheap. Buy her an updated body and i can make you a deal on (if I'm remembering right) a 50mm f1.8, an 85mm portrait lens and a zoom all canon. I'll have to look through my stuff. Also a high quality back pack bag. The body is an older eos, so that wouldn't be worth taking, just buy her one of the T7i bodies already mentioned. That sounds like an excellent set of lenses. I inventoried: Canon 50mm f1.8 AF with lens hood Canon 85mm f1.8 AF Ultrasonic with lens hood Canon 28 - 80mm F3.5-5.6 AF Ultrasonic Canon 75 - 300mm F4-5.6 AF Ultrasonic
Turns out I had more than I thought. These make a really good combination for the average photog. The 85 is really the perfect portrait lens and gives pleasing dimensions to the face when used right.
The 28-80 and 75-300 are the standard kit lenses although some new kits include image stabilization, which I find annoying really. And the 50 is the prime lens for just about anything including great close ups on plants, etc.
My body is my old EOS Rebel XT with the accompanying battery grip to add more run time and make the body more substantial in the hand. Yes the world has moved on from the DigicII processor and the average cell phone has the same amount of pixels these days, but it always took beautiful pictures (and still does).
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Post by Chesapeake on Oct 15, 2019 15:19:45 GMT -5
That's a heck of a lens set. Those focal lengths should handle about anything.
The only reason I could see for updating the camera body would be to take advantage of advances in ISO speeds and autofocus.
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Post by amanajoe on Oct 15, 2019 16:57:07 GMT -5
That's a heck of a lens set. Those focal lengths should handle about anything. The only reason I could see for updating the camera body would be to take advantage of advances in ISO speeds and autofocus. That and to get off of the Compactflash and onto something cheaper like SD or microSD. Also, so many people are using them as video cameras these days, that is something the older cameras like this one don't do.
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