The TPU Darkroom - Digital SLR and Photography Club

[de.das.dude]

Thinking of geting the pixel 8 pro - how's the camera for point and shoot? Seems pretty decent?

Pixels have the best point and shoot across all phones imho.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

Thinking of geting the pixel 8 pro - how's the camera for point and shoot? Seems pretty decent?

I don't have many comparisons as I always used Pixels, but I have no complaints. The low-light performance is ok at best, but I don't know of any phone camera that has better. It has really good image stabilization.

 

[mouks]

Happy new year!

Minolta Rokkor 20/2.8 + Sony A9, unmodified Jpeg

 

[Easy Rhino]

Happy new year!

Minolta Rokkor 20/2.8 + Sony A9, unmodified Jpeg

Wow, what a cool photo. Where is that?

 

[bug]

Wow, what a cool photo. Where is that?

The scene is cool, the image not so much. It's soft/moved/shaken. Says exposure time was 5s, it was either handheld or on a flimsy tripod in windy conditions.
Nitpicking aside, the way the fireworks illuminate all those buildings is awesome.

Personally, I would have underexposed and pulled detail in post.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

The scene is cool, the image not so much. It's soft/moved/shaken. Says exposure time was 5s, it was either handheld or on a flimsy tripod in windy conditions.
Nitpicking aside, the way the fireworks illuminate all those buildings is awesome.

Personally, I would have underexposed and pulled detail in post.

Looks like soft focus, not shaken - to me at least. Hard to focus at night.

 

[Easy Rhino]

The scene is cool, the image not so much. It's soft/moved/shaken. Says exposure time was 5s, it was either handheld or on a flimsy tripod in windy conditions.
Nitpicking aside, the way the fireworks illuminate all those buildings is awesome.

Personally, I would have underexposed and pulled detail in post.

Right, I am more interested in the subject matter which is why i asked where the picture was taken.

 

[mouks]

Wow, what a cool photo. Where is that?

Thanks, the place is called Les Crosets, part of the Portes Du Soleil ski/bike resort

Looks like soft focus, not shaken - to me at least. Hard to focus at night.

I checked the focus with max magnification and as you say that's quite tricky at night but I think it's consistent with the results I got from this lens wide open. Definitely not the sharpest tool in the box but to its credits the lens is 50 years old and ultra wides were not easy to manufacture back then

The scene is cool, the image not so much. It's soft/moved/shaken. Says exposure time was 5s, it was either handheld or on a flimsy tripod in windy conditions.
Nitpicking aside, the way the fireworks illuminate all those buildings is awesome.

Personally, I would have underexposed and pulled detail in post.

It was shot on a big video tripod rated for 12kg (which was a pain to move up there btw, I wish I had my snowmobile) and I used the self timer. So ,although it was windy, I'm sure there was no camera shake. This lens is clearly not the sharpest at wide aperture, especially in the corners, but that was the widest FOV I could get with my gear. I still quite like how this one turned out.

Regarding the exposure, it was tricky to guesstimate as the fireworks all have a different light output and I also wanted the stars to be visible. Admitedly they are quite dim on this Jpeg straight out of the camera, but I guess they could pop more after tweaking the raw file. Unfortunately I have no PP program right now, except Windows Photo Editor... Hopefully I'll soon have Capture One on my PC to properly edit my shots. I tried with less exposure but the overall results look worse to me, at least without extensive PP

The pyrotechnic show was quite underwhelming to be honest, the resort keeps charging more and more for lift tickets and then they cheap out on these stuff... But well, stars and groomers can produce cool light shows too. This was shot with the Rokkor MD 24/2.8, hopefully it will look better and less noisy when I have a chance to edit it in a decent software. These peaks are right on the border between Switzerland and France

 

[bug]

@mouks No worries, some of my favorite photos are technical train wrecks.
Shooting at night, trying to guess when the firework will go off... that's tricky stuff.

As a side note, what throws me completely off is that the only things that are sharp seem to be along that streak/path in the snow, to left of the fireworks-lit buildings. But the buildings themselves are soft.

Edit: Your second image is also a gem. Could have use high-ISO NR tho