The Photography Thread

izzikio_rage

izzikio_rage

Technomancer
what is the standard price for a helios lens ... is the $59 that these people are charging for it justified? or should we be looking it ebay and all?
[MENTION=120687]Raziel[/MENTION]: are you based in india? (in other words, is 0 shipping charge the reason that you are buying so many lenses )

Also, is this a good macro lens? Are there other good lenses in the m42 mount? That will allow me to use this adapter even better
 
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Raziel

Raziel

Journeyman
$59 is fine I think. From what I have seen the usual prices range from Rs 2500 to 4000.

Yes I'm from Kerala. ;) It's not because of shipping charge but it became a hobby to try different lenses and find out how it renders the scene. Moreover they are inexpensive and well built than a lot of new plastic lenses.

Helios is a portrait lens, but can do some macro with an extension tube. Yes there are a lot of M42 lenses but Helios is something with a lot of character than many other lenses. You can google 'M42 lenses' and find many.
 
kaz

kaz

right here
Few pics from my recent visit to Nandi Hills and Bannerghatta National Park..

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*farm1.staticflickr.com/660/22828575979_01ea964d1a_b.jpgLion

*farm6.staticflickr.com/5691/22569495633_03c92ae0eb_b.jpgLion

*farm1.staticflickr.com/777/23196513995_91f6bea5e4_b.jpgDeer
 
kaz

kaz

right here
Thanks :) [MENTION=39722]sujoyp[/MENTION] All animals were in open only..In that lion pic there was only a lion/lioness behind which was kept inside that cage.. But, for some reason the elephants were chained inside the electric fence.
 
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Siddhartht

Void
[MENTION=121890]kaz[/MENTION], nice pictures.
The lion ones are kind of out of focus and blurred ? They would have been great if subject was sharp.
 
nac

nac

Aspiring Novelist
I like the elephant shot and the second lion shot.

When you think there is not enough light, don't mind about grains and push iso higher and shoot. If that's not enough, under expose and fix them later in PP. The second lion would be much better if it's sharp.
 
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Siddhartht

Void
kaz said:
Thanks..Yes, it was cloudy that day and I was shooting hand held at low shutter speed while zoomed in :(
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Low shutter speeds....they are not that bad. I usually have my shutter set to 1/100 or 1/80. Maybe the in lens stabilization on Nikon lenses is not as good as Sony?
*flic.kr/p/yKuHFG ->> Took this image at 1/80, ISO at 100 on a cloudy day.

One thing you can do to increase the sharpness in case of blurred up images is to resize the image and make it smaller, photoshop will sharpen it during the process.
I tried something like that with -> *flic.kr/p/yLRBmf , the result..was not that great, with a shutter speed of 1/4 while waking, but still it is a little bit usable, maybe more if I bleach, but you get the idea.
 
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Cyanide

Broken In
nac said:
I like the elephant shot and the second lion shot.

When you think there is not enough light, don't mind about grains and push iso higher and shoot. If that's not enough, under expose and fix them later in PP. The second lion would be much better if it's sharp.
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Siddhartht said:
Low shutter speeds....they are not that bad. I usually have my shutter set to 1/100 or 1/80. Maybe the in lens stabilization on Nikon lenses is not as good as Sony?....
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Thank you for the suggestions!!
[MENTION=121890]kaz[/MENTION]: nice pics! and thanks for introducing me to this park.


Some pics I clicked last month
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Flickr link
 
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Gen.Libeb

Padawan
The last one is cool. Also like the pic with cars.

Here's one with not enough shutter speed.

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Road by Gen Libeb, on Flickr
 
nac

nac

Aspiring Novelist
Cyanide said:
Some pics I clicked last month
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Nice fall colours.

Bridge shot - Long exposure coupled with super wide aperture for landscape, it doesn't work. Even if you did use tripod, it would end up getting soft images or were you trying something with that setting?

And finally, please pick a small size when sharing. It's taking too much time to load, 640px long edge would be suffice. If anyone wants bigger resolution, they'll get it from your flickr page. Something like this...

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Gen.Libeb said:
Here's one with not enough shutter speed.
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But okay, I think. Looks nice in b/w.

Do I see slight tilt?

Did anyone notice the car seat looked like a scary paper bag mask figure?
 
sujoyp

sujoyp

Grand Master
[MENTION=125148]Cyanide[/MENTION] beautiful pics..very colorful...just size is too big :D

btw i am looking for someone in mumbai who could accompany me to sewri for flemingoes photography..its inside mumbai only...thousands of flemingoes come every year.
 
nac

nac

Aspiring Novelist
^ Mumbai Photo meet is on the way. It's been very long since the last meet. All the best guys... Wish I am in Mumbai for this :)
 
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