#EF lenses

[wingedjewels]

Something there? by Veit Via Flickr: A Greater Yellowlegs scanning its environment from its perch

[nikonstudio]

Transforming the Nikon Z30 into a FF Camera!

The very logic and primary reason of getting a crop body is obviously its light weight and size to many travelers including me. Besides, its almost always cheaper too from the cost perspective.

But what if your objective is to both adapt FF lenses with your crop camera while obtaining an additional stop of light in the process too? What if you manage to sell your older Canon EOS M body and still would like to reuse some of those EF lenses on another Nikon body? What if you are an arse who still demand AF and IS capability from those glasses with the transition and unlocking image stabilization concurrently to a body that does not offer any?

Then you can only do what I did - get the Viltrox EF-Z2 Speed Booster and call it a day. Save you the trouble of hunting for anything else. Period.

Magic? Nah, just some common sense to a USD200 problem.

[kremro]

Stomping! by Veit Via Flickr: An angry male red-winged blackbird is hitting and stomping on a crow in a (successful) attempt to chase it away ✔️

[e1nsamkeit]

⋆★˚  ┊ vigilant ┊ ★⋆˚ 

[winedogs]

Your dogs are beautiful. Can I ask about your camera setup? How do you get such gorgeous action shots?

hey thanks!! the camera setup actually got a very recent upgrade- anything from the last month or so was shot on my canon r6, posts before that were from my 5diii. lenses vary but my current go-to is my 85 1.8 and I’m using my 20mm more on hikes right now for the views. I also just bought a 135 which should get delivered tomorrow and am STOKED to start shooting with that!!!

as for like, settings, I’m usually shooting around 1/1250-1/4000 with the widest aperture the lens can manage and auto iso! focus mode is camera dependent- I had the best luck using single focus points on my 5d, but the animal eye tracking on the r6 is really incredible so that’s my default now. if you’re on the canon mirrorless system, Charlotte Reeves of unleashed education has a great guide to set up double back button focus so you can have both animal eye tracking and single focus points available immediately!

general tips: get as low as possible, shoot in indirect but bright light, and do multiple takes if possible!

[thephoblographer]

No, OM System Isn't the Only Brand That Can Stand Up to Wet Weather

Late last year, we announced new changes to our reviews system. This is on top of all the other testing that we’ve done for years and called on the industry for. As it is, we’re constantly revamping our system of camera reviews. Today, we’re beginning the start of calling out what we believe to be falsehoods in the photography world. And this one has to do with a false statement about wet…

[karingottschalk]

Taking Our Old Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR Out For A Walk With Our Adapted Panagor 28mm F/2.8 Attached

[srbachchan]

DAY 6085

Jalsa, Mumbai Oct 15, 2024 Tue 11:08 pm

EF Carina from Germany Wednesday, 16 October my wishes and affection on this day .. love and wishes .. ❤️

🪔 ,

October 16 .. birthday greetings to Ef Carina from Germany 🇩🇪 .. and Ef Namrata Pandit .. 🙏🏻❤️🚩

the hand that sets the look .. ever working on the effects of the high profile lenses of the Camera , which has the ability to catch and expose ever pore of your skin .. !!!

So ..

One battles with age related profiles and depends on the crew camera to give it a decent enough look for broadcast quality ..

.. the pattern of the day similar to any other .. just several questions keep arising about the veracity of the many unanswered questions that exist about ..

the more we live the more we discover that time is so short to be able to not just digest, but to actively be a participant on what you discover ..

and there is so much, so much , so much more to find out .. to present .. to understand .. one lifetime is never enough .. so we do our best to give it a try , and hope and pray that whatever we may have learnt has been of value and worthy of its dissipation ..

tough ..

but when did we say life was not ..

Amitabh Bachchan

[michaelnordeman]

What type of camera do you shoot with?

Hi there!

My go-to camera, especially during the summer months, is a Canon EOS 80D. I also own a Canon 6D Mark II, which gets more use in winter and on dark, cloudy, or rainy days. For lenses, I’ve long relied on the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM zoom lens for capturing distant subjects and the Canon 100mm f/2.8L Macro lens for close-up details of flowers, plants, and insects. These cameras and lenses have been my trusted companions for years, and I know them as intimately as family. We’ve had our fair share of “discussions” (“Focus already!”, “It’s not too dark!”, “Why can’t you just communicate like a normal camera?!”), but despite their quirks, I love them all the same.

I also have a seldom used wide-angle lens in my kit. Unfortunately, my beloved zoom lens had started to fail—it was beyond repair and needed replacing. While I could still use it, its performance wasn’t what it used to be, and we argued even more frequently. However, I’ve recently purchased a new zoom lens to fill the gap. I haven’t had much time to familiarise myself with it yet, but I’m excited to see how it fits into my photography adventures. Still, I’ll always have a soft spot for my old, battered lens—it’s hard to let go of an old friend.

So there you have it. Have a wonderful day!

[ghw-archive]

Richardson-type glasses with tinted lenses, mid 19th century

[wingedjewels]

Going in for a Sip by Veit Via Flickr: A female Anna's Hummingbird going in for a sip in our backyard

[postoctobrist]

How bad an idea would it be to get a full frame DSLR specifically so I can use the same EF lenses as on my film camera from the 90s?

this would be an excellent idea

[horsetailcurlers2]

as frequently as a get emotional over snow and regina’s relationship and how fraught and complicated a journey it was, lately there’s just something to me about david and regina’s friendship.

like, at one point he hated her more than snow did. he never had that undercurrent of love and the hope that regina could change and get back to the sweet girl who rescued snow off her horse. his hatred of her was never colored by childlike admiration like snow’s was. he pushed to have her executed when snow had doubts. but still somehow, after everything, they come to a place of being pretty close friends. and i know they don’t interact one on one that often but when they do there’s just something so sweet about it.

i think maybe there’s a part of david that reminds regina of daniel and that now on the other side of everything, she’s grateful that snow has that true love and was never forced into an arranged marriage like she was. and i think that david is, like snow and emma, ultimately grateful for the way regina raised henry and that he had a certain safety and security that neither he or snow had growing up in the EF.

and just from like a swan queen lense, i know the ages and relationships are all weird bc of the curse and everything else, but there is just something so Father In Law about his interactions with her in the later seasons lol.

[injaws]

jenna ortega, twenty-three, she/her   ⟡   —   is that ESMERALDA HEROUX i just saw walking around kilmer’s cove? i heard they’re a TOURIST who’s been here for TWO MONTHS. it slipped my mind, since they just tend to hang out at THE LIGHTHOUSE. at face value, they’re said to be INTELLIGENT and RESOURCEFUL, but i don’t know… some people have said they can be quite BLUNT and STANDOFFISH. just don’t get on their bad side, i guess! don’t tell them i told you this, but i’ve heard they DO  believe in all the ghost stories around town. who knows what the future holds for them! 

mention of child abandonment.+ disability (vision)

BASICS:

full name: esmeralda genesis heroux nickname(s): esme, es age: twenty-four gender: cis woman pronouns: she/her sexuality: bisexual biromantic date & place of birth: december 31 in el monte, california occupation: paleontology doctorate candidate & researcher at the tanya b. heady museum faceclaim: jenna ortega piercings: so many. six on each ear, a belly button piercing, and a nose stud traits: reserved, polite, observant, cynical, meticulous, blunt, curious, stoic similar to:  kat stratford (10 things i hate about you), elphaba thropp (wicked), prue halliwell (charmed), gayle weathers (scream), camilla saroyan (bones), monica geller (friends), nancy wheeler (stranger things), beca mitchell (pitch perfect) aesthetics: coffee with an ungodly amount of creamer, humming songs while cooking dinner, going outside at 3 am to look at the stars, accidental 5 hour long naps, an earbud always in one ear, an array of rings on each hand, bitten lips, over the ear headphones notable characteristics: wide, boring eyes, typically shaded by lenses; constant eye bags accompanied lips bitten red; hair hastily chopped at the shoulder with the claim of it being "easier to manage"; chunky soled shoes to make up for the lack of height otherwise; a near-permanent suspicious scowl

BULLET POINTS:

— born as one of two twins. her parents, who didn't know they were having twins, gave her up because they didn't prepare for two children. -- esme, who had been born legally blind, was chosen to be the one given up — was fostered and later adopted by parents aksel and sarah heroux in manhattan, new york. — found her forever home with the two, later coming to have younger siblings of her own (her younger brother aleksei is very close to her heart and practically her best friend) — growing up she was always known as an “old soul” (read: autistic), and on account of both her disability and a personality that favored blunt (but observational) remarks, esme was teased a bit relentlessly — grew to be quite reserved and tightly wound as a defense mechanism, building strong armor in the form of poisonous words and evasiveness (no she will not process any of this please dni) — leant into books, music, film, and poetry to help her escape throughout the years and cherished the time she had with her family (homeschool kid ass energy…) — went to columbia to get her bachelor's in geology, and stayed to begin her doctorate program in paleontology — special interest in dinosaurs and yes it is ridiculously serious — applied to work at a research site in scotland (where dinosaurs actually effing existed), got sent to kilmer instead. not happy about it, only staying because she thinks the museum is actually quite cool — currently maybe getting a bit too curious about finding out what the fuck is happening in town/its history … maybe she should watch where she steps :O 

HEADCANONS:

— wears special glasses that correct the little vision she had – can now see pretty much 20/20 with them on, hates them and sometimes doesn't wear them — when not wearing their glasses usually uses a form of echolocation through little tongue clicks or snaps and wears sunglasses to cover her eyes (has very fun shapes i must say) — autistic special interest is dinosaurs. sleeps to dinosaur jungle asmr. please do not engage unless you want to have your ear talked off. ---  baby loves to cook. always trying new recipes & loves to host dinner parties. she did many a cooking classes as a kid. she also danced for a while, but uses it now more as stress relief than anything else. — always tired. 9/10 if she isn’t replying it’s because she’s sleeping. insane concealer budget — loves film and movies and thinking way too deep into them. her letterboxd goes crazy. that being said, their standards are questionable — big fan of animal crossing. terraforming beast. her sims house goes crazy — she has a black leopard gecko named honey, a black cat named milagro, and an array of fish, including a small leopard catshark named buddy. — collects bugs in amber as well as other small fossils — maximalist and has a bajillion stuffed animals — favorite season is winter — always wearing chunky boots — always cold — wicked sweet tooth — rides a motorcycle (her dad hates it she keeps giving him a heart attack) — never found without her cherry cola flavored vape <3

WANTED CONNECTIONS:

guh. check back l8r.

[the-man-in-the-wind]

I’ve been asked to explain my kit and my workflow by @savage-daughter-of-nikitie.

I use either a Canon 80D, Canon 5D Mk IV or a Sony A7Riv with a sigma MC-11 mount converter. I also have a Canon 300D and a Canon 70D from both of which I have removed the internal infrared filter, so that I can shoot in the Infrared.

I have a number of tripods and LED light panels which I sometimes use, but for most general things I prefer to use natural light with perhaps a small reflector.

Lens-wise, my aviation photography is done using either a Sigma 60-600mm f/4.5-6.3 OS DG Sports or a Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L MkI.

For other general photography such as landscapes and when I do portraits, (which I don’t post here). I have a range of lenses but my favourites are:

* Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8l USM

* Canon 50mm f/1.8

* Lensbaby Velvet 56mm f/1.6

* Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 (this won’t fit on the Sony / MC-11 combo)

For macro photography I generally use either a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM macro or, very occasionally, a Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x Macro with a lot of light and a macro rail.

I occasionally use a Newer variable ND e.g to slow flowing water and I have various intervalometers, and all of the Pluto Trigger and Dripper kit for water droplets or complex triggering.

I also use my phone camera more and more and then achieve effects in Lightroom, Photoshop or Topaz AI

My workflow varies depending upon the type of photography. By way of an example, for the flower studies my workflow is:

1. Photos were taken on a variety of kit, mainly my phone.

2. Import into Lightroom

3. Square crop the flower and rotate to get the best light/symmetry/arrangement.

4. Use Lightroom’s Subject Mask to initially mask the flower and refine using brush addition/subtraction

5. Duplicate and invert the mask to effectively mask the background

6. Set exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks and saturation to zero. This removes the background allowing the flower to stand alone but gives me the option to recover the background should I wish to later.

7. At this point any issues with masking become very noticeable so I will often refine both flower and background masks once more.

8. Return to the flower mask and set the exposure, contrast, white balance, response curves, saturation and sharpness as required, to make the flower pop.

9. I often apply radial masks to even the exposure or highlight the inner or outer sections at this point.

10. Use the heal tools to remove pollen specs, imperfections or other issues. Lightroom’s content aware AI healing is extremely good these days.

11. I then catalogue, add metadata, and export to a number of private and public storage and distribution services.

I have two projects I want to start as we move into winter, life permitting.

Firstly, I want to try to do some star trails. Near where I live there is a park on an escarpment running east west, with a couple of stone crosses that can be photographed from the south with the Polaris (the North Star, which is the centre or rotation in the night sky) just above the top of one of them.

I also want to play more with my 70D and do some more IR photography. This makes warmer parts of the scene brighter and cooler darker and can lead to some eerie effects. I have a long standing desire to visit a certain chateau in France and photograph it in IR.

This is probably way more than you were asking for and I’m not sure is this is what you wanted to know, but I hope it helps.

[sohushygrayness]

Upgrading My Camera Gear

A few days before the end of the year, I used AI for perhaps the final time to suggest me some equipment to purchase along with what I already have for my camera set up. To recap:

I have a Canon EOS 2000D body and I have 3 lenses to go with it:

Canon 18-55mm

Canon 40mm

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM Black Lens

Now, I'd asked ChatGPT to generate me a list of things that I could get to go with it and here's where I got confused. 

It's all about lighting

One of the suggestions was to buy an external flash. However, one look at Amazon these days is enough to stress you out with information overload. Amazon once upon a time had a great App design, but now I see so many sponsored products that it's a struggle to know what's genuine. Almost immediately I stumble upon the brand Godox which (Seems to be) is considered the industry best in this respect. 

Then I go browsing for reflectors. Again, the suggestion from a few threads I've read seem to suggest the Neewer 5 in 1 which works well for my needs and Amazon sell a stand that would hold the reflectors which I think is a great idea. 

Further Confusion

A friend of mine then suggests to me about soft boxes. They weren’t on my list (which is another reason why speaking to a person is better than speaking to an AI). If I’ve understood it, then he’s explained it well.

A soft box helps to project the line, e.g, if you use an external flash, then the soft box projects the light in the shape of the box. A reflector then reflects the light based on the colour of the reflector and plus the angle. 

Obvious Conclusion

What I take from all of this is that there will never be a single correct answer here. Instead, it’s about what I want to shoot and what I want to achieve.

Outside Sources

I look to YouTube to try and get the concepts explained to me. The first one I watch highlights how working with a softbox helps to create different light environments.

However, this soft box has the lights built into the device which makes me wonder: why am I buying an external flash?

Then, YouTube recommends this video which is helpful for a myriad of reasons. The main one being that both use refractors, but both handle soft-box lighting in 2 separate ways.

Late night shopping

I have a general rule of thumb. If I don’t understand why I don’t need something, I don’t buy it and that’s the case today. I understand why you would need reflectors but the situation with flash/soft boxes still eludes me. So, with that in mind, I spend a bit of time looking at lenses.

Here is where I think I understand. They have 2 lenses which I like:

Canon EF 50mm

Canon EF-S 10-18mm

One is better for portrait photography, whereas the other is a wide angle lens. 

Am I wasting time and effort here?

It occurs to me that whilst I’m spending a lot of time thinking about the means of getting better quality photos into the camera, I should also give some consideration to the editing process of photos.

I go back to a process map that I created a while ago to review my editing stages during my process.

Signs from the universe

On Thursday morning, I load up YouTube and get 3 videos recommended to me which seem to be what I’m looking for:

Immediately after watching this, I realise I’ve been focusing too much on what I don’t have, rather than what I do have. I then move onto the next video

Almost immediately, the creator talks about using a wide shot. This aligns nicely with my intuition. My gut feeling was telling me that I needed to get a wide lens, but I was umming and arring. I also like this second creator, mind you, I like them both. So, I subscribe. Lastly, I get so inspired watching this 3rd video that I pause half way through as my mind is made up.

While I’m walking, I have a ponder about cinematic story telling. You often hear about the 3 acts and this seems to be a general rule of thumb for these videos structures. When I have an idea for a cinematic video, I'll need to practice on writing and building a 3 act structure to tell the story.

While I’m out shopping, the 2nd hand store near me sells the 50mm but not a wide angle lens. Onwards to another shop.

Plot twist

Eventually, I reach the shop I need, but plot twist, they don’t have any lenses whatsoever in stock. Disappointing but it forces me to recalculate. I could use the 18-55 for establishing shots, the 40 for medium shots and then use the 50mm for a close up. So, I head back to the 2nd hand store to buy the 50mm lens.

A Pleasant Surprise

While I’m in the store, I see the 50mm but then I also see a Canon EF-S 10-22mm! Okay now we’re cooking with gas. I’m able to pick up the 50mm and the 10-22mm. 

But Wait, there’s more

I notice on the shelf that there is an external flash! Is it compatible with my camera? It is! So, after heading to the supermarket and buying food for the family, I head back to pick it up. I have never used an external flash before so this is a first for me. All that remains now is to test the quality and see what I think.