The TPU Darkroom - Digital SLR and Photography Club

[Space Lynx]

@Aquinus - you're probably right about hanging on to my current set-up for now. Went to a 'Safari' Park near me. I'm sure it's tiny compared to most places, but it has an enormous eagle there. The Stellar Sea Eagle. Caught on R7 and RF100-500mm.

324mm actual (518mm equiv) 1/1000s ISO 1000 f7.1
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Heavyiest eagle in the world.
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did the park give an explanation what the talon wrap thingy is? like why are its talons handcuffed, i don't understand.

regardless, beautiful picture!!!!

 

[the54thvoid]

did the park give an explanation what the talon wrap thingy is? like why are its talons handcuffed, i don't understand.

regardless, beautiful picture!!!!

It's a captive bird of prey. They fly them. The leather straps are to secure it when it lands on the handlers gauntlet. These birds are allowed to fly free - and they come back. Not wild.

 

[Aquinus]

@Aquinus - you're probably right about hanging on to my current set-up for now. Went to a 'Safari' Park near me. I'm sure it's tiny compared to most places, but it has an enormous eagle there. The Stellar Sea Eagle. Caught on R7 and RF100-500mm.

324mm actual (518mm equiv) 1/1000s ISO 1000 f7.1
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Heavyiest eagle in the world.
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Yeah and that's with a crop sensor no less which goes to show how awesome the optics are on the 100-500mm. Like I've said before, I would love to have that lens.

 

[the54thvoid]

Had to go a walk in the rain to escape the leaking attic roof. Took the R7 and my rarely used 16mm (25mm equiv) lens. I wish I lived somewhere with beautiful scenery. Instead, I have Glasgow.

Both shots under the M74 across the River Clyde.

 

[KrazyT]

You've made good street photo, it's harder than beautiful landscape sceneries to me.
I've still have good memories of Glasgow

 

[Mussels]

heaps of missed content later due to email notifications bugging out, time to dump some photos too high res for TPU anyway

Sony ZV-E10 camera and a DJI Spark drone (with fixed wifi range, works 500m away now, not 15m. Stock DJI software was trash and effectively chinese spyware.


All criticism will be ignored, I've been having fun.

I'm in this photo, as well as several hot women in their early 30's in bikinis. Good luck spotting em.

Blame Futurama for this one

ITX rig is black on black on black with a little white, so it was a great 'tough' test to get detail from without the grain effect my phone does

This was the fine macro focus adjustment test - getting his face in focus while the rest isnt.
Far easier to get everything in focus or a random part, but if i want attention drawn to one specific thing this is how to achieve it.

 

[de.das.dude]

works 500m away now,

I'm in this photo,

as well as several hot women in their early 30's in bikinis

that 500m range is coming in handy i see

 

[KrazyT]

Sony ZV-E10 camera and a DJI Spark drone

Never fear for your camera if the drone fails ?

 

[de.das.dude]

Some pretty wildflowers overlooking a steep drop. fake bokeh samsung s22 lol.

 

[Mussels]

Never fear for your camera if the drone fails ?

Drone has it's own camera, it just uses a very similar one to the camera itself
It's a 4K sensor downscaled to 1080p for higher framerates/better motion handling


Handheld with the camera in 100FPS, 100Mb

Slow Motion Waterfall (1080p 100FPS)

www.youtube.com

 

[Aquinus]

16mm

Have you done any astro with that lens? I've heard that the comatic distortion isn't very good wide open and that without lens corrections the spherical aberrations are pretty pronounced, plus the typical vignetting with wide angle Canon lenses. Have any opinions? I'd love to add a fast wide-angle to my kit, but only if it's worth the cost.

To stay in line with photos, this is a juvenile cedar waxwing. I continue to be amazed by adobe's scaler. This is scaled down to a width of 2048px from the native 26-ish Megapixels from the camera without any post processing. This is out of Lightroom with LR's lens profiles against the RAWs out of my camera. Lens corrections in-body are still enabled on this one, but I've since dropped all in-body corrections. I want the unadulterated images. Some of them impact the RAWs and I don't want that.

 

[the54thvoid]

Where I live there's an excess of light pollution. That, and we get a lot of cloud. Astrophotography isn't something I can really do without travelling.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

Where I live there's an excess of light pollution. That, and we get a lot of cloud. Astrophotography isn't something I can really do without travelling.

In a similar way for my backyard, but there are plenty of out of the way spots nearby fortunately.

Y'all remind me to take some pictures once the colors change here.

 

[Aquinus]

In a similar way for my backyard, but there are plenty of out of the way spots nearby fortunately.

Y'all remind me to take some pictures once the colors change here.

Trees are already changing colors here in NH. Maybe I'll go for a walk later and snap some shots before all of the leaves fall.

Where I live there's an excess of light pollution. That, and we get a lot of cloud. Astrophotography isn't something I can really do without travelling.

The town I live in has a lot of light pollution, however it doesn't take much to get away from it.

 

[Mussels]

Fixed up uncles PC, with some of my spare parts.

He had my old old 3570K w/ 16GB DDR3 2400


Now he's got a ryzen 3700x (45W eco mode)
32GB DDR4 3200 (@3133, board has issues with cold boots at 3200 for no known reason)
AX370 Gaming 5
Dark rock slim 120mm (30c idle, 45c load)
2x RX580 in Crossfire (65c/58c)

And of course, I took photos of it.

He's partially blind after a stroke, games at 1440p 60 and has the OG vive for VR, so without donations like this he can't get upgrades and was stuck with what he had.

 

[KrazyT]

Not topic revelant ... but ... are the ram sticks on the good position ?
It should be something like A | B | A1 | B1 with A & A1 the same sticks (and ofc B & B1) ?

1st photo is nice, it looks like an ad

 

[Mussels]

Not topic revelant ... but ... are the ram sticks on the good position ?
It should be something like A | B | A1 | B1 with A & A1 the same sticks (and ofc B & B1) ?

1st photo is nice, it looks like an ad

Yes, intentionally like that. Otherwise the RGB wasn't next to each other. The RGB modules would partially block the fan, which i wanted to avoid.
Custom timings on both kits and modded SPD/XMP so they're identical makes it a non-issue.

 

[Aquinus]

Fixed up uncles PC, with some of my spare parts.

He had my old old 3570K w/ 16GB DDR3 2400


Now he's got a ryzen 3700x (45W eco mode)
32GB DDR4 3200 (@3133, board has issues with cold boots at 3200 for no known reason)
AX370 Gaming 5
Dark rock slim 120mm (30c idle, 45c load)
2x RX580 in Crossfire (65c/58c)

And of course, I took photos of it.

He's partially blind after a stroke, games at 1440p 60 and has the OG vive for VR, so without donations like this he can't get upgrades and was stuck with what he had.
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That's not a bird!
Allow me to course correct with a Downy Woodpecker I saw out my window.

Lots of birds are migrating through because it's gonna get real cold before you know. No lens corrections, no edits, just a crop from the raw at 1/1000s and ISO 6400.

 

[Mussels]

Bird n a turd

Bird with the brain of a turd

Wet turd Bird

Goverment spy drone

 

[Nuckles56]

Bird n a turd
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Bird with the brain of a turd
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Wet turd Bird
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Goverment spy drone
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Don't call my favorite red rumps government spy drones, that's the mynahs

 

[Aquinus]

All I can say is, wow. An RF mount 200-800mm for under $2000 USD is amazing.

https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/rf200-800mm-f6-3-9-is-usm

 

[NoiseBox]

Throw me into the mix here please. I use a mix of all manner of gear, this is a latest purchase:

It's interesting to go back to using something like this, nothing quick happens with it, and film/development costs are...dire, especially when you goof up and make a double exposure.

 

[the54thvoid]

Let me hold that smile for you for 30 seconds.

 

[abysal]

Some quality time @ 16mm.

https://flic.kr/p/2piyt6P
https://flic.kr/p/2piz6ki
https://flic.kr/p/2piz7S6
https://flic.kr/p/2pgB6ZL
https://flic.kr/p/2pgB6Zk

 

[abysal]

Throw me into the mix here please. I use a mix of all manner of gear, this is a latest purchase:
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It's interesting to go back to using something like this, nothing quick happens with it, and film/development costs are...dire, especially when you goof up and make a double exposure.

That's some major film resolution power!

My favorite film cameras that I own are the Minolta x-700, Nikon N80 and Canon ELAN7. I mostly shoot expired film, some of it used to be fresh when I purchased it, but I'm very slow.

Here's my ELAN 7. I like this one the best, mainly because I have an extended battery grip for it that takes 4x AA batteries, making supplying power "normal" and easy.

https://flic.kr/p/2phqjwH
https://flic.kr/p/2phixGG
https://flic.kr/p/2phiy4J