I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it

(thelibre.news)

85 points | by ndr 3 days ago

8 comments

  • PaulHoule 3 days ago
    This lens

    https://7artisans.store/products/50mm-f1-05

    is a fantastic wide aperture lens which is commercially available, affordable and a great value. Personally I tend to get bored if I am walking around with a 50mm lens but with that lens, the challenge of manual focus, the ability to take photos with hardly any light, and the ability to take dreamy photos like people have never seen I have so much fun. They make it for all the major camera brands.

    Overall I am impressed with Chinese lens manufacturers who make other lenses like

    https://www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-9mm-f-5-6-ff-rl/

    which again are a great value and let me take pictures you haven't seen before.

    https://mastodon.social/@UP8/tagged/9mm

    • zimpenfish 47 minutes ago
      I've got the 7A 35mm f/1.2 in M43 which is pretty nice for a walkaround lens.

      I'd probably opt for the 50mm f/1.2 since it's 1/3 the price of the f/1.05 (£90 vs £260 for the M43 mount) if I didn't already have double-digit number of 50s in PK mount that I use with an adapter (and they're surprisingly good for 30-50 year old lenses.)

      (I've got a 7A 10mm f/3.5 that I've not really got around to using much but now the UK is heading into Fake Summer, there's more light to make it useful.)

    • fennecfoxy 1 hour ago
      Manual focus I keep for film, I feel like it's a part of the process.

      But I do wish my Sony 50 was a little less noisy/slow. Suppose I should pick up the GM version at some point.

  • thenthenthen 1 hour ago
    I think next-level would be a hypercentric lens that can see around / behind objects as build buy Applied Science: https://youtu.be/iJ4yL6kaV1A?si=QG7YfeXkOqzoK46O
  • foldr 4 minutes ago
    > And, the combination of wide-angle-view and super-high-aperture would literally require light to pass through the metal of the camera in order to reach the sensor:

    This isn’t necessarily true when using a retrofocus wideangle design (as most modern ultrawide lenses do).

  • NooneAtAll3 1 hour ago
    what if I want the opposite effect?

    I hate blur, how do I remove all of it?

    • a012 9 minutes ago
      Shoot at f/64
    • dbspin 50 minutes ago
      Shoot at a higher fstop with a sensor with a high native ISO, like 12,800.
      • adzm 46 minutes ago
        The trade off is so much noise
    • CarVac 35 minutes ago
      Focus stacking.
    • 4gotunameagain 59 minutes ago
      pinhole camera and an insane amount of light.

      Or, multiple exposures and HDR.

      • nimbleal 47 minutes ago
        Not sure how multiple exposures helps?

        Smaller sensor, tighter aperture. So yes, more light or a more sensitive sensor.

  • IshKebab 35 minutes ago
    > Now, here's the kicker:

    Come on now.

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