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SSteezle
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This thread's to share what you're most stoked about in the photo/film world. I know people are busy and have a lot of ideas that they want to pursue, and just haven't quite had the time yet to make it happen. Hopefully posting some things you want to film will help you to create some time to get it done.

To start things off--

- I just got back in touch with a friend that four wheels and is so sick at it. I already have a perfect song picked out and have been picturing the shots I'll get for the last day. Can't wait to start filming.

- Finally picked up a sandisk extreme pro 32gb 95mb/s SD card for my t2i and no longer have to worry about "filming has stopped automatically", makes me feel so much more confident when filming important things

- Just purchased a 3tb hard drive, so all my shits backed up!

share your giddyness
Jun 27 2012 9:15AM
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Laurent.
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I should actually do that for shits and giggles. But I imagine it to be way to soft.


Quoting TijmenDal$:
And Lawrence: screw you. Seriously. I don't know where those thrift-shops of yours are, but in Amsterdam I've never found anything worthwhile...

I can't help it that I have a thrift shop good buy rader. But I'm not always lucky, one of my shops sold a Complete Cambo setup a week ago to a guy who wanted to use it in his home as a piece of design..
Mar 15 2014 3:10PM
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PacificRimJob
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Dude, who cares about soft! f1.2 ZOOM!

Mar 15 2014 4:08PM
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TijmenDal
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So there's more than one? I thought you had this one crazy thrift-shop somewhere in the country-side. Nothing in Amsterdam itself right?
Mar 15 2014 5:30PM
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Laurent.
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The one in the countryside has been the provider of 95% of my camera acquisitions. Mostly because they know jack shit about camera's apart from the two Hasselblad's which they priced at 5K each. (Not even joking.)

I occasionally visit the Amsterdam thriftshops when I'm near but they are shit since they get raided four times a day and the camera's that remain are either broken or priced way too high.
Mar 15 2014 5:58PM
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*DUMBCAN*
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That's some solid thrift shop advice.
Mar 15 2014 8:11PM
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Laurent.
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Want to stroke my front element?

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Mar 15 2014 8:47PM
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PacificRimJob
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Picked up this for 35 at the thrift shop this morning$

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came with the OG 50 f1.8 Pre-D AF lens.

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Mar 16 2014 2:05PM
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Laurent.
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Have I inspired you? :)

Looks pretty 80"s, that boxy aesthetic.
Mar 16 2014 2:27PM
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Balto
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the 80's was a dark time for camera design
Mar 16 2014 2:33PM
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Laurent.
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You mean awesome:

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Mar 16 2014 3:05PM
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PacificRimJob
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I was thrift shopping long before you started posting ridic finds (remember when I found a Nikon FE with a 28 AIs and a 50 AI for 20$?)

But yeah, screw you, Thomas, the 80's was fucking awesome for industrial design. the 90's is when shit went south.




Mar 16 2014 3:14PM
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Balto
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Owning 2 of those, no, you can't even mount the rokkor 58 1.2

At least the M6 came out, but even that went to zinc instead of brass so I must scoff at it
Mar 16 2014 3:16PM
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PacificRimJob
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But you can mount one of these sexy beasts on it!

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Mar 16 2014 3:20PM
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Balto
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Minolta could never compete with Leica's teles

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Mar 16 2014 3:24PM
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PacificRimJob
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Doesn't matter, still gang.
Mar 16 2014 4:08PM
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lIllI
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*90's
Mar 16 2014 4:48PM
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Balto
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83-90's, there were some gems here and there, but so many bad plasticy designs with terrible AF
Mar 16 2014 4:51PM
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PacificRimJob
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Also, the 80's produced some pretty looking cameras like the Nikon F3, FA, Olympus OM3, Pentax LX, Contax S2, Olympus XA series, Contax T-series, etc etc etc.
Mar 16 2014 4:59PM
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Laurent.
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Let's not forgot the coolest of them all, which I incidentally own:

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Mar 16 2014 5:04PM
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Balto
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if you had to change bulbs on the flash it would be 100 times cooler
Mar 16 2014 5:07PM
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No.Quarter
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A RZ67 body is in the mail with my name on it. Going to build my setup over the summer. Yaaay
Mar 17 2014 12:35AM
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1337
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Dat 110mm tho

Been spending my weekend playing with a 1dx and 200-400mm 4L IS USM 1.4x tele, yeah....
Mar 17 2014 12:36AM
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No.Quarter
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Mmmnnn, tasty

There was one on KEH quite recently, but I didn't know I would be getting the RZ and now it's gone :(

Also why does the 50mm ULD have to be so damn expensive! I love 28mm on my full frame cameras, but the cheaper 50mm non-ULD has shit reviews.
Mar 17 2014 12:42AM
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Balto
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get the W not the non W, all RZ W lenses are better better then anything you have ever used. You are not shooting anything that warrants the cost of ULD's. Also I hope you have a decent backpack, and no I don't mean dakine.
Mar 17 2014 1:53AM
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not stoke, but does anybody have any tips on where to get color film developed? I have access to a darkroom to do black and white but not color, and there's nowhere anywhere near me to go and get film developed. the local Rite-Aid could send my film out to one of their developing locations, but I'm not sure I trust them.
Mar 17 2014 8:29AM
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PacificRimJob
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I've actually had real good experience with Rite Aid to be honest.


Mar 17 2014 9:53AM
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Laurent.
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C-41 is a standardised process, they have a giant machine and chuck in your roll, little can go wrong there.
Mar 17 2014 2:20PM
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Laurent.
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What in the hell happened here?

It's not even a light leak, but the entire right side of this one image is just a sea of black, I'm dumbfounded.

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Mar 17 2014 6:06PM
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1337
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what camera is it? potential shutter curtain issue?
Mar 17 2014 6:47PM
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Laurent.
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Minolta X-300, there's one other shot on the roll that also has the exact same issue (complete with a light leak), if it was the shutter I would have surely seen it in other frames...
Mar 17 2014 6:53PM
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Balto
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2 frames is planty
Mar 17 2014 7:15PM
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Laurent.
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Noooooooooo!

Ah well at least I have five other X-300's. But I really should have a more reliable film camera.
Mar 17 2014 7:29PM
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Balto
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Mar 17 2014 7:35PM
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PacificRimJob
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The X300 is meh.

shoot on a SRT if you're going with Minolta. Maybe an X700.
Mar 17 2014 7:44PM
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Laurent.
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My X-700 has a broken capacitor, I still need to fix it. The X-300 really just is an X-700 without the beeps and exp. compensation.

And @ Balto, I'll get a Leica again one day but now I'm thinking about a brick, the most Advanced brick Nikon ever made (Hold the F6, no interchangeable prism that actually no one ever used=no real F.)

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Mar 17 2014 7:48PM
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JuliusJ
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On ebay, those are legitimately going for close to what I paid for my D3 haha...
Mar 17 2014 8:48PM
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PacificRimJob
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Personally, I'm a big fan of my F80 and even the F100 over the F5...

I'd only buy that if I wanted to blow through film like it was free.
Mar 17 2014 11:10PM
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Laurent.
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That's pretty much what the add was about, blowing through film:


Mar 18 2014 8:01AM
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PacificRimJob
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"Now you don't have to worry about catching the decisive moment, you just capture the whole moment"

- Kai Wong, Digitalrev (as he rattles off shots with the 1Div)
Mar 18 2014 8:06AM
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jkauffman22
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REALLY jacked on Rode's customer support right now. I ended up getting hit by a rider while glidecam-ing last week and cracked the basket on my Rode Videomic Pro. I figured I'd have to pay some ridiculous amount to get just the basket replaced so I emailed them and they're sending me the required parts that I need...no questions asked! Super good customer service if you ask me.
Mar 20 2014 9:48PM
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PacificRimJob
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Isn't it a 10 yr warranty on them?

I haven't broken anything on mine yet, but I have always been confident from what I've heard of them being super standup as a company.
Mar 21 2014 3:18AM
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Laurent.
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Just shot several rolls at an awesome gig.
Great atmosphere, good music, great bands, girls, beer but the best moment was before it began.
As the other photographers got out their 1Dx's and D4's they scoffed at my film camera's, but ten min. later when they were comparing who had the biggest buffer rating on Raw + Jpeg I was backstage in the dressing room having a smoke and a beer with the bands.

It really pays to know the band. :)
Mar 21 2014 7:29PM
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1337
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Not stoked :(
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Mar 21 2014 8:19PM
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loganimlach
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i finally bought all the equipment to develop film at my house. so freaking excited.
Mar 21 2014 8:31PM
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PacificRimJob
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Wow, what the everloving fuck?

Right when I get my camera, my 85 has decided to fuck up on me!
Mar 22 2014 2:47PM
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cydwhit
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Stoke! My boss had an 11-16 he dropped a couple of years ago and bent the mount on, he took it apart and tried to fix it but ended up giving up on it. I found it in a drawer and asked if I could try to fix it. One phone call and 34$ latter I have an 11-16, much crisper then my 6.5 mm fish
Mar 23 2014 7:06PM
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plorr
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Submitted some shots to Flash Forward Festival in Boston and this one got selected. Stoked to have some work shown in a legit exhibition!

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Mar 24 2014 12:05PM
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TijmenDal
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Nice shot dude!
Mar 24 2014 2:40PM
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1337
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Mar 24 2014 3:02PM
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Laurent.
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Gearslut.
Mar 24 2014 4:28PM
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