It's very cool that there are so many good budget lenses, makes it a lot easier to get into photography for newbies :D

@trudy__decamperfloggers Thankyou :)

I bought for my Nikon Z6 III the Viltrox 14 mm and I am very glad with this lens. I can't wait to use this lens during our camper trip visiting lots of small towns. By the way nice black-and-white pictures.

@ewenbell exactly 👍Have a nice day, Ewen!

@fedivideo@fedi.video That's an interesting point you make, and perhaps speaks to the increasing complexity of cameras. With all the new features, we need new ways to control them. The menus get massive, the buttons start to multiply, and the core function of the camera itself becomes obscured.

@herrgismo :) It's a lovely little moment aint it! Very glad someone else enjoyed that.

LOL, at the end he turned around. How cute... :)

p.s. Basically I'm saying, specs alone aren't as important as one might think they are!

Not exactly shopping for new camera, but when replacing my old camera the new one was better in every specification, but it just didn't feel as intuitive as the (nominally worse) older camera. The older one had everything through buttons and dials, the newer one involved some degree of touchscreen, and fiddling with non-physical on-screen buttons felt like it broke my concentration on the subject. I found myself going back to the old camera even though it was worse in low light etc because the physical button-and-dial interface was just quicker and easier.

@miclgael Thankyou Michael :) I started work on the next one last night but my brain was empty!

the zine is gorgeous, btw.

@ewenbell U r welcome!

@herrgismo Thankyou!

Thanks, Ewen! Very nice Video!

@deerbard@mstdn.io :) I feel you! Wanting to get everything just right and avoid making a misstep.

@ewenbellNot that I don't appreciate all the other aspects of these photos, but it just striked me how many strong compositions I saw in a short time. It reflects a true mastery. It's so hard to find such a balanced scene. Also your videos made me think a little of maybe searching for some new tool after years. Refreshing my interest in photography maybe. Although I know how much a pain will be the search. I've got this inconvenient need to search all the informations before I decide 😅

@deerbard@mstdn.io Thanks so much! I appreciate that you appreciate the compositions :)

@ewenbell Finally watched it. Every single shot with a good, interesting composition. With such a wide lense. Amazing job.

I'm pretty happy with RawTherapee so far, but Darktable is also a good option. Although I'm just a hobbyist which probably skews my opinion, where you're a pro in this field.

@madsenandersc@peertube.dk Yes fair call on that! And yes I'll be in this mono phase for a while to come!I did shoot some food shots in colour and could have used those, but then it felt weird to suddenly step into colour without having an entire section in colour. And the food shots weren't great, so I just didn't show them.

Impressive little lens. At that price I could be tempted to replace my ageing 50 mm f/1.8 Nikkor in F-mount on my Z6II, just to have something a bit more compact than the 50 mmm + FTZ converter. One small niggle - I would really have liked to see a couple of images in color in order to see whatever chromatic aberrations the lens suffers from wide open. Ah well. When you have a monochromatic phase, you have a monochromatic phase - that is what it is. :)

I shoot wide open (when possible) because I believe that's when the lens are "full". That's when the optics are fully engaged, light across all available surface of the glass. Colors saturation at highest. Sharpness is a different characteristic, perhaps a less natural one to glass.

@hannesw I will never forget when I quit Adobe and they slugged me a bunch if money. They thought they were clever to extract a hundred bucks from me. But instead they made sure I never go back to their brand.

PewDiePie, a name many on YouTube will be familiar with, moved to Linux and gimp, not because the are better, but because they are good enough and he became increasingly frustrated to have to see advertisement on an operating system he paid for. Having to pay an unsubscribe fee when leaving Adobe also seemed to not have been sitting well with him.

@k0e3@peertube.wtf Oh my goodness! This is just the nicest thing I could have seen today, thank you for taking the time to drop a note. I'm so glad these photos spoke to you :)