Post Your Photos Created 17 years ago2007-08-06 23:50:34 UTC by Archie

Well, this is not exactly a photograph, but I wanted to post here a very simple wallpaper I made in blender:It's 4k.

Well, the camera wasn't in-store even though it should have been [The website listed the product as available in the local store's stock], so I instead just got what was next down on my priority list: HD Camcorder.

The video quality it shoots is quite great for a sub-150$ camera, but unfortunately if I want some good shallow DOF, I'll have to shell out over 600$ for one of the DSLRs they had in stock. I do not have over 600$.Some individual frame-grabs from test videos:It probably doesn't look too great as a individual screengrab due to some slight compression, but at 30 frames per second, the quality is pretty nice.
Plus, it's got 60fps 720p capabilities for some fun slowmotion videos.

I expect you to make some films now, and not post images with that camera. Because if you bought it for that, I have nothing left to say...

Yeah camcorders are not good for photography at all, they have very poor [if at any] manual controls for settings, this one fortunately has a ring on the lens that allows for some relatively precise focus [Being 'normal' and 'macro'] so it's still pretty useful for video.

Also, are you seriously suggesting that I would ever have a camcorder with slow motion capabilities, and WOULDN'T use it? Don't speak such blasphemy!

Also, are you seriously suggesting that I would ever have a camcorder with slow motion capabilities, and WOULDN'T use it?

How did you get that from anything Striker said?
Read before you post.

I was not referring to the slow motion, I was referring to the camcorder as a whole. A camcorder's main function being video I'd have assumed that whoever reads it would come to the conclusion that I was referring to the video, and not the camcorders capability to shoot video and take images. As Striker stated that he hoped that I'd be shooting video and that I shouldn't buy it just for taking images.

Just because I said it has slow motion capabilities does not mean I am suddenly referring to the slow motion capability from that point on. Moreover I would not refer to slow motion capabilities as "It", don't you think it would be odd if i did?

My comprehensive skills are not at fault here, it is either your poor reading of my writing, or my poor wording.

EDIT:When you hold it steady it can take some pretty decent pictures.

The cd one is ok(I like the half-reflection), but I don't like the motorcycle one. It just doesn't look right in contre-jour, and it appears that there's a flare on the lens.

Know what it's used for?And here is the lens equipped to my Kodak Easyshare:Apparently I DO love photography so much that I actually made my own lens. God damnit.

What is that, exactly? Or rather, what was it originally? Because I can tell it now is a macro adapter. And how did you attach it?

It's the lenses from a pair of binoculars I've macgyvered into a usable macro lens suitable for pretty much anything that it can fit over. For attaching you don't really 'attach' it at all, you can tape it to the lens [Not recommended] or just hold it in place, which is a lot more convenient then taping it and removing the tape every shot.

It was never my intention to make a macro lens actually, I made it by accident.

Although, if you saw it [attached] while the Kodak had it's real lens extended, you'd probably think it's a zoom lens attachment and not a macro attachment. A little bit too out of focus for my taste, but that shot was a bitch to get right, so I'm not going to complain.

Looks pretty good. Try different lighting and it can be a good product photography.

Nature is so beautiful.

Nicely surreal!

wow that grasshopper is awesome! Man it looks like an alien species!

Went up on Mount Washington, took a bunch of photos, dont want to resize them all, but here's a few;

Haha the bird is like "are you talking to me?"

Nice photos!

grasshopper

I thought they're called crickets?

I don't know, I always called them grasshoppers, and crickets to me are these;
http://www.vtaide.com/png/cricket.htm

mainly because grasshoppers hop, and crickets chirp.

Hmm, found this photo through my old TWHL folder of photos. I thought it's amuzing enought to post it.

Now, Soup Miner, if you want, I will delete it right away( from imageshack, I mean).
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/676/soupminerworldcraftermu.jpg

Mullets. Makes you exclaim "Evrika!".

It's a knife.

What is this, actual product photography?

Getting better. Needs improvement on lighting though. But it's good. You're getting the idea.

I'm making a Pinhole camera on Monday, I'll take pics of the pics I make with it.

Considering that I have no love for this whatsoever, I'd say no.Also I broke the blade on my knife, son of a bitch!

Quick, look! It's a poorly constructed tripod contraption that keeps your camera steady!Not as situational as a tripod but it works I guess.

Crollo, I appreciate your work and all but... I think you bought a good camera for filming and you're mostly shooting photos with it, which is quite wrong.

Also a good enough tripod is around 35$.

I intend to shoot some more videos but first I have to get off my ass and find something worth shooting instead of small test films.
When school kicks back in would probably be a good time to start, for now all I'm doing is dicking around with the camera because I don't fully know how to use it, what it operates best in. Right now I'm only just getting into the world of video but I've been doing small photography for a good while now so I don't have to 'experiment' beyond the basics because I've already done much of it before already.

Also while it's alright if you feed it good settings and conditions, I'm still finding myself disappointed and annoyed by some of it's letdowns, Full HD 1080p seems to be as Archie stated, upscaled 720p and what's more is that it's cropped down, effectively rendering the pretty decent wide angle lense to a claustrophobic zoomed-in image unless you intend to be at a distance from what you're shooting, and the low lighting is pretty bad, getting noisy and unusable if it get's too dark, but is worked around relatively easily. Overall it's okay for vblogging and some small filmography, but I wouldn't consider it the most ideal camera for filming. I mostly got it because this kind of camcorder would have been great to have with me when I went out to mount Washington, could have shot some good footage there, not so much for actually doing some films or such, but I'm trying to make something soon.

Also on the subject of cropping: I've heard the RED EPIC also follows this bizarre method of shooting 1080p. Why the hell do cameras do this? I would use 1080p but the cropping makes it completely unusable.

EDIT: Actually I've just attempted to upscale 720p footage to 1080p then compared it to 1080p footage and the 1080p footage is in fact a lot sharper then just upscaling. Still, not the most sharp.

Crollo, if a $100 camera happened to be a "most ideal camera for filming", anyone wanting to take it seriously would be just wasting their money on one of these:I'm sure there must be a reason to take this one over the one you have.

Crollo Posts stuff
Pro Photographers post shit contradicting Crollo and making him seem retarded

>Repeat.

Had to do it, Its true, also, my pinhole camera is about done, I'm still deciding on what I want to photograph with it.

Cool! What kind of film do you intend to use?

Crollo Posts
Everyone laughs because they usually are a long paragraph that explains nothing and usually contradicts it self.

I'm not sure stu, But I know we'll be using the black room at school to turn the negatives into positives ourselves.

Fun!

I kind of agree with brendanmint. I'm not against Crollo's long posts, it's a shame fewer and fewer people are able to express themselves properly, but seriously you should learn something from Twitter.

Nobody says you have to summarize your message in 140 characters(if that's the limit from what I remember), but don't go all the way to an A4 essay!

Too much talk, not enough pictures.-- deviantArt

Other guys take photos=meh
Striker takes photos=Pretty good
Boomer takes photos=Fucking Amazing.

First ones my new desktop.

Boomer, do you have a background in photography? As in, is it just a hobby for you, or do you do it for a living, or what? 'Cause your photos are always beautiful.

Thanks for the praise guys, it really helps to feed my ego, but it's just a rather expensive hobby.

The grass photo - amazing!

I forgot I don't have a chair when seeing Boomer's photo with the grass and wanted to sit down.

You're good Boomer.

Some i randomly found on my computer.
And imageshack resized them without me knowing... ugh. sorry they're not full size.

I like the rolling wheel.

Made this in photoshop, and printed it out at staples. up over my toilet in the bathroom.

Photographed today:I discovered I actually have a 16:9 mode resolution on my camera. Unfortunately, it is just cropping the image, subtracting 3 megapixels(from 10mp).

SO. MUCH. DETAIL.

Well, actually wanted to edit my post and post this one too:The thing is... I blew up the detail on the bottom of the cat's eye :(.

I suspect the photography meaning of "blow up" is not what you think it is.

And what does it mean?

That's pretty cool, Unbreakable. And nice cats, Striker.

To blow up something in a photo is to enlarge it.

Beautiful Spider.

NOTE: I took these photos with my digital camera in shitty lighting.

Took these two today after fixing a light leak in my Pinhole camera.
sorry for bad quality, they are pictures of negatives that I shot and processed myself in a dark room.
First one, Blurry, and Dark. Left in the Chemicals to long.Second one, Sexier retake, more stable post I found, and Perfect timing.
I don't know if we'll be learning to make them into positives.I'll take a picture of my Pinhole Camera when I bring it home in a week or two, to show you the piece of shit that took me a week to make. :/