The TPU Darkroom - Digital SLR and Photography Club

Iceni · Aug 16, 2011

Got to love the 50mm F1.7 minolta prime. That and the 28mm F2.0 are the only 2 lenses i need.

How do you find the autofocus on the A300? I have the A450 and i have to watch it like a hawk as it seems to love focusing on anything with a straight edge. It's a royal PITA if i have a subject set forward of something like a wall.

mlee49 · Aug 16, 2011

Anyone familiar with Lightroom? Here's some video's on basic workflow if anyone's interested:

http://froknowsphoto.com/lightroom-workflow-basics-importing-photos-part-2/

freaksavior · Aug 16, 2011

mlee49 said:
Anyone familiar with Lightroom? Here's some video's on basic workflow if anyone's interested:

http://froknowsphoto.com/lightroom-workflow-basics-importing-photos-part-2/

My ex girlfriends mom loved ps light room. I've used it a few times, tis a great program.

burtram · Aug 16, 2011

Iceni said:
Got to love the 50mm F1.7 minolta prime. That and the 28mm F2.0 are the only 2 lenses i need.

How do you find the autofocus on the A300? I have the A450 and i have to watch it like a hawk as it seems to love focusing on anything with a straight edge. It's a royal PITA if i have a subject set forward of something like a wall.

The auto focus overall is okay, it does try and focus on seemingly random things sometimes, but i usually set which region to focus on and i can get it to focus on what i want.

What i really want now, is one of the newer alphas so i can shoot video, and still be able to use the lenses i already have.

mlee49 said:
Anyone familiar with Lightroom? Here's some video's on basic workflow if anyone's interested:

http://froknowsphoto.com/lightroom-w...photos-part-2/

I use it for most of my color/tone corrections before i bring it into photoshop and crop/resize etc. It's a great replacement for the app that came with my camera. Only real reason i switched, the app i had doesn't work in a 64-bit environment at all, it made my computer lockup as soon as it would launch; so as soon as i unstialled it, everything was fine again.

HammerON · Aug 18, 2011

Awesome

mlee49 · Aug 18, 2011

Nice shots Gary, I like the one with the old windmill in the center with all the new ones surrounding.

(FIH) The Don · Aug 21, 2011

HammerON · Aug 21, 2011

Nice shots man :toast:

freaksavior · Aug 21, 2011

More iphone pics. I should carry my dslr with me more.

And after I had two shots of tequila and three of these I was done. Hugging my beer.

Iphone doesn't take the best photos but I really like the first photo.

DanishDevil · Aug 22, 2011

Looks really similar to my little sister's old bearded dragon, cool!

repman244 · Aug 23, 2011

I usually don't upload my pictures, but decided to do a few.

HammerON · Aug 24, 2011

repman244 said:
I usually don't upload my pictures, but decided to do a few.

[url]http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/516/dsc5843xh.jpg[/URL]

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Awesome

DanishDevil · Aug 24, 2011

Stars are extremely hard to take good pictures of, nice job!

repman244 · Aug 25, 2011

@garyinhere The 4th picture is really nice, good job!

One of my older ones:

DanishDevil · Aug 25, 2011

Get one like that of a spider, and we can get rid of Wile E on TPU for good

repman244 · Aug 25, 2011

t_ski · Aug 25, 2011

Subbed so I can check these out later and post some pics of mine

garyinhere said:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6071/6054431184_c00af45744_b.jpg

Gary, do you have a hi-res version of this one?

garyinhere · Aug 25, 2011

t_ski said:
Gary, do you have a hi-res version of this one?

Sure do. It's in Tiff or RAW though. PM me your email or a file upload service and I'll send it to you. :toast:

Flicker lowers all of my file sizes the original is 46" x 10" and would nice on print.

t_ski · Aug 25, 2011

I was thinking a 5760x1080 wallpaper

PM incoming... :toast:

(FIH) The Don · Aug 25, 2011

freaksavior · Aug 26, 2011

Caught the little guy in my room rummaging through my things. Pulled out my soldering iron

His smile/laugh

And BKR7E pulled after almost 8k miles.

Wile E · Aug 27, 2011

DanishDevil said:
Get one like that of a spider, and we can get rid of Wile E on TPU for good

repman244 said:
http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/128/dsc1900.jpg

I hate you both.

Soylent Joe · Aug 27, 2011

Can anyone give me some contenders for the best video camera under $1500? Looking mainly for quality. A nice DSLR with video could work, I know that's what a lot of the pro youtubers use (Epic Meal Time), but I'd like something a little easier to shoot with.

freaksavior · Aug 27, 2011

Soylent Joe said:
Can anyone give me some contenders for the best video camera under $1500? Looking mainly for quality. A nice DSLR with video could work, I know that's what a lot of the pro youtubers use (Epic Meal Time), but I'd like something a little easier to shoot with.

My opinion? Cameras should do what they were meant for. Still photography or videography not both.

(FIH) The Don · Aug 27, 2011

canon 550D?

think it does FHD with good quality

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