Fotozones Recreational Photography Hub

Minolta 50mm f/1.7 AF Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, Monday at 00:05

A 50mm lens is a pretty standard, yet generally high quality optic for a camera system. This Minolta 50mm f/1.7 was made for the film era and we will look and see if it can still be a contender in the digital world!

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Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D Review - Retro Fun!

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 10 March

Going back in time, let’s hear a tale of a fateful potential purchase. It was 2005, I was looking to finally ready to go from shooting film to shooting digital.

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Breaking Into Shooting Property Video

Dallas posted an entry in My Life In Photography, 5 March

Recently I have been getting a fair number of requests to not only shoot the stills for a real estate listing, but to also offer video. I have shied away from offering this service because my knowledge of video is minimal.

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Another Ancient Mac Resurrected

Dallas posted an entry in On Equipment, 17 February

This week I finally got around to upgrading the 13 year old Mac Mini that Ann Shelbourne brought over from B&H for me on our first trip to Sabi Sabi.

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The pre-focus place into the autofocus era

danielm posted a topic in Other, 10 February

In still photography or simply in photography, doing prefocus has been a technique that many of us have adopted to make sure that the subject or part of it that will be sharp and detailed.

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The Grand Old Dame On Musgrave

Dallas posted an entry in My Life In Photography, 5 February

If you have lived in Durban for any length of time you will know that Musgrave Road is in one of its oldest residential neighbourhoods.

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In the crack

crowecg posted a topic in Best Of Fotozones, 10 January

As I was flicking through some recent pictures, I realised there was a bit of theme with these shots...

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Shooting Straight

Dallas posted an entry in My Life In Photography, 2 January

The reality of being a professional photographer is that (for me at least) the opportunities to enjoy taking photos for yourself become somewhat limited in number.

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Storm coming

atpaula posted a topic in Best Of Fotozones, 1 January

My first shots of the year.

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Advices from the past for a better future (in photography)

danielm posted a topic in Off Topic, 14 December, 2022

Being fascinated by photography and its process has been always profoundly inlaid into my life since my youngest years.

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The Fujifilm X-E4: The simplicity that could be complex without the complexes!

danielm posted a topic in Fujifilm, 7 December, 2022

This is a second time that I give a try to the Fujifilm X-E4 model although the first essay didn't last very long (few days at the most).

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"Scanning" Negs - Sigma sd Quattro-H vs Fuji X-T5 in pixel-shift mode.

Alan7140 posted a topic in Best Of Fotozones, 27 November, 2022

This is just the beginning of a journey, but here's a much reduced size comparison between photographing a 6x6 neg with a Sigma sd Quattro H camera and Sigma 70mm f/2.8 Macro lens...

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The 10 Year Old Wunderkind

Dallas posted an entry in On Equipment, 28 November, 2022

In 2012 I bought two different, but amazing pieces of equipment. One of them was the original Olympus E-M5 camera. The other was an Apple MacBook Pro 13”.

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Before the OM-1: The Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III breifly summarized by Daniel M

danielm posted a topic in Micro Four Thirds, 25 October, 2022

Before OM System has taken over the ownership of the photographic gear division of the Olympus company, many products have been release during their name(Olympus) into the last few years at the control of it.

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45(mm) Higher Love! The Olympus M.Zuiko 45mm F1.8 Premium

danielm posted a topic in Micro Four Thirds, 5 October, 2022

My love of the 45mm focal length into the Micro Four Third (MFT) image sensor format is not new (and may have begun with the Leica Summicron 90mm F2.8 into the 35mm film format not so long ago…!).

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Photographing Larger Products

Dallas posted an entry in My Life In Photography, 12 September, 2022

Since an early age I have been obsessed with arranging furniture and objects in rooms. It brings out the creative spark in me, so having this large home studio where almost everything is on wheels really let’s me express that creativity in ways I couldn’t have imagined.

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Photography Website Revamp

Dallas posted an entry in My Life In Photography, 21 August, 2022

I have mostly stopped getting inquiries for new business since moving house. It's kind of distressing and difficult to put a finger on because it could be a number of things that are in play.

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Another skyline

crowecg posted a topic in Best Of Fotozones, 31 July, 2022

Had a bit of spare time waiting to pick up one of my kids, so grabbed a few pictures - I'd just missed sunset, but there was still lots of colour in the sky.

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Upper Florentine World Heritage Area Tasmania.

Alan7140 posted a topic in Analog Photography, 26 July, 2022

After several years' break I ventured into the old growth forest that was listed as a World Heritage Area in 2014 after an eight year campaign by diverse members of the public who had sought to save it from the logging industry.

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Laowa 10mm f/4 Cookie

crowecg posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 24 July, 2022

An interesting new lens announced this week - Laowa 10mm f/4 Cookie. Very compact, very wide and apparently very little distortion.

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My Cloud Backup Solution

Dallas posted an entry in In My Professional Opinion, 5 July, 2022

I can't remember who recommended them but I have ended up subscribing to Backblaze for my backups, since Time Machine is not compatible with my multiple external drives...

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It's Winter in Tasmania again

Alan7140 posted a topic in Analog Photography, 1 July, 2022

A small window of conditions I'd usually expect here in winter presented a couple of days ago after months of lousy weather and light, and while I failed to find anything new to photograph on a short drive, on my way home I drove past a scene ...

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Phinda 2022

GrahamWelland posted a topic in Fotozones Safaris, 26 June, 2022

A challenging safari given the terrain and foliage growth but definitely the place to go for cheetahs if that's your thing vs Kruger.

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The good “kompromises” or how to be clever not follower!

danielm posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 15 June, 2022

I have often the impression that people are now buying (digital) photographic gear not for themselves but for others…

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Rail Yard

crowecg posted a topic in Other, 6 June, 2022

Some more from the weekend walk about. After wandering around Docklands for a bit I headed up onto the La Trobe Street bridge wondering what the view would be like.