RE: Gippsland Water Dragon: Physignathus lesueurii howittii
Yeah that was a dream that died because of all the time it consumes :( Sometimes I dust off Cinema 4D and have a crack but only if I'm feeling especially motivated.
Yes I agree my D3300 is basic but I love it. I have to work around its technical constraints that might not be there with a more expensive system.
Oh yeah digital large format is a thing the Sinar company produces digital backs for larger format cameras but as you can imagine they're expensive to say the least. https://sinar.swiss/en
I really would like to get a good travel system that's light and doesn't have too many extra lens - like maybe a portrait and a wide lens would be enough for me.
PS The Philosophy of the Image debate is now live :) Check it out and let me know what you think. I started really general just to get the ball rolling: https://steemit.com/philosophy/@deterrencepolicy/a-great-debate-the-philosophy-of-the-image
Time, the omnipresent constraint in life ;-).
I think it's great to work within the constraints of what you have. Buying your way to the top is easy. Anyone can simply pay for all the equipment to take the best images, but it takes talent to make use of what you have. I believe digitalrevtv on Youtube had a series where they took professional photographers and gave them rubbish to work with and the result was often quite incredible.
I wonder how much digital large format would cost? It must be hundreds of thousands, simply judging by what medium format digital costs.
For travel, I often like to take some really simple stuff, often even just a basic kit lens with a wide zoom range. If I want more varied equipment the most I'll take is 28mm, 50mm and either 80-200 or 135mm. To me those four lenses cover almost everything one would want to photograph. Since the Fuji XT-10 has about a 1.5x crop factor I'll often just take the 28mm and 50mm (when going purely digital) giving me a 42 and 75mm equivalent, which leaves very little to be desired.
I resteemed your philosophy post and will be writing my response soon.
I'm really enjoying how this conversation has been progressing. A really fruitful exchange!
I think the skills of the artist shine through regardless of the medium used to focus their vision.
I'm not sure of the price but I wouldn't be surprised if you were right! Their system might not compare to say Hasselblad's medium format in terms of pixels but the quality would be competitive and plus their's is a bellows system in the large format style so it would be quite different than the SLR. I'm inexperienced with these cameras and would love to find some working photographers who use them.
If I have some money to throw around I would love a Red video camera system to attach to a drone and do lovely aerials like the new opening shot on Lynch's Twin Peaks.
Yeah one of those expensive lens that do 20-70 or something would be fantastic for traveling along with a rangefinder. I tried my friend's Leica and was impressed once I switched it to manual. 0.3m minimum focus distance is awesome even if you cannot change the lens.
Awesome stuff thanks for that! I should have wrote that in the rules as well :) Definitely! I hope our words have inspired others :)