Cuprajake Lighting is definitely the most important thing I focus on with photos. Alot can be saved in the edit if you shoot things abit brighter, but its difficult to brighten stuff up without increasing noise!

Heres a Pre & Post edit quick photo I did for instagram this week.

    Ordered a charge which came while I was out today, laptop plugged in

    And

    I mean non of they keys work on the laptop😂

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    Has anyone used a Leica?

    I was considering buying an X100V and keeping the X-T1 as the X100 is just such a great size for daily carry.

    But then I thought, maybe I could sell the two Fuji’s and lenses and get an older Leica M240 and Summicron 35mm.

    It’s a heck of a lot of money though and I’ve never even used a Leica.

      I’m looking at canon’s now 😂

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      Ernie1 Just so happens I have that combo. I was always a fan of rangefinder cameras back in the day before digital took hold. I ended up with a Nikon D300, but slowly got disillusioned with dSLRs, getting the M240 and returning to a rangefinder was a no-brainer for me (after getting approval from SWMBO) and got me far more involved and in love with the whole process of capturing an image. Initially I used Lightroom, but when they moved to subscription only model I moved to Capture One Pro and that was the final “missing piece” in my workflow. Couldn’t be happier with the decision to ditch dSLR for the Leica.

        stevenc66

        Really great to hear thanks! Sounds like your experience is what I’m hoping for. I’ve never chased megapixels and spec sheets so the magic of capturing the image the way we used to with film sounds great.

        As they say the best camera is the one you’ve got with you, and although the X-T isn’t a huge camera, an M-series and Summicron sized glass is a good size for carrying everywhere!

          Ernie1 Exactly. The D300 (with battery grip) was big and heavy and drew too much attention, often unwanted. I used to agonise over taking it with me on long-haul holidays, sometimes taking my Canon G15 instead then wishing I had the D300 after all. No such worries with the M240. It’s a niche camera though, manual focus makes it difficult for “Sports” type photography (although I have used it for that) but for street/urban photography and for documenting travels it’s perfect for me. It definitely made me a better photographer, not having to rely on auto-everything on the Nikon.

          LMSC I never ended up purchasing anything, I tried my best to behave haha!

          That was shot on a Gh4 on a 25mm!

          so i got myself a canon 550d with 6k shutter count and a 50mm f1.8 prime

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            Cuprajake I thought you learned from your coffee equipment purchases already, should have bought EOS 5D Mark IV straight away.

            Only joking 😃

            god i wish,

            always been nikon, but went for a walk yesterday with the hockey team and one of the lads had a canon, was very impressed

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            So the camera came, DPD gently placed it over the fence, in the rain ace Ventura style

            Giphy - Jim Carrey Ups GIF by Ace Ventura

            But all good

            Feels so different to a nikon

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            Test pic with the canon.

            Taken in the same lighting as the pic of the camera above,

            Not 100% sold

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              Cuprajake Not 100% sold

              Why?

              I have also always had Nikons, and recently got a Canon. I have gone a little off photography in recent years, and my wife is now the main photographer. The Nikon was big and heavy, and she wasn’t very happy with the quality anymore. We were mainly using cheap, slow zoom kit lenses. Optics weren’t fantastic, and slow apertures meant poor photos in low light, no great bokeh and this sort of thing. We felt the few simple primes we had were also not cutting it. I ended up getting a mirrorless Canon, but was also not sold on the quality and it doesn’t get used much.

              My feeling is that we might be spoiled by better and better cameras on phones. Software wizardry is replacing amazing old school optics and creating pictures that are pleasing to the eye when watched on a screen (so 99.99% of the time), not to mention the convenience of having the camera in your hand all of the time anyway. Professionals would probably frown and say it is cheating, not worthy etc., but we are not professionals and we don’t care - we just want to point-and-shoot photos that we can enjoy looking at.

              Before getting the Canon I tried to persuade my wife that a better phone is what she would want, not another “real” camera. She wasn’t convinced and we got the mirrorless, but reality is the quality of the photos doesn’t justify the inconvenience. We would need to put in much more effort (and maybe better lenses) to make it worth while.

              So ended up getting my wife a new phone and she is finally happy with the photos. It’s not even a flagship, and the cost was less than half the price of the Canon body with a basic kit zoom lens.

              Well that pic was iso 800 and I don’t think amazing

              It was in good light too.

              So god knows what it will be like day to day

              I hear you on the phone thing

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              I moved from mirrorless to smart phone 3 years ago. It made the reviewing of machines much easier, and did photo and video with ease. Much longer battery life as well.

              What aperture was that shot at @Cuprajake? It looks like your 50mm is fairly fast at 1.8 but I’d expect more separation and bokeh if that was shot wide open.

              If you end up considering another camera, I strongly recommend checking out Fuji. The size/weight of the body and lenses is a game changer compared to the styling of the original larger Canon/Nikon DSLRs.

              There’s the Sony A series too although for stills I much prefer Fuji.

              An X-T3 and 35mm 1.4 can be had for well under a grand and will excel at basically anything. Also has the Fuji JPEG film simulations which are incredibly good.

              I just took these at 35mm 1.4 to show what I mean:

                Wasn’t wide open as I wanted to check the af out

                1/160 f4 iso 800

                The person who bought my Nikon d80, 35mm 1.8 and tamron zoom started a return last night, stating the SD card won’t stay in. Which is wierd as the last sat I took pics and then edited with the card removed a few times….he then went on to ask for a partial refund and to keep the lenses, turns out he’s sells camera bits 🤷 I’ve asked him to send everything back

                But so far had no correspondence!!!

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