I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it (thelibre.news)

86 points by ndr 4 days ago

14 comments:

by PaulHoule 4 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

by zimpenfish an hour 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.)

by fennecfoxy 2 hours 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.

by thenthenthen 2 hours 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

by foldr 11 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).

by NooneAtAll3 an hour ago

what if I want the opposite effect?

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

by a012 16 minutes ago

Shoot at f/64

by dbspin an hour ago

Shoot at a higher fstop with a sensor with a high native ISO, like 12,800.

by adzm an hour ago

The trade off is so much noise

by CarVac 42 minutes ago

Focus stacking.

by 4gotunameagain an hour ago

pinhole camera and an insane amount of light.

Or, multiple exposures and HDR.

by nimbleal an hour ago

Not sure how multiple exposures helps?

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

by SoMomentary 29 minutes ago

They must mean by creating a composite image with multiple in focus areas? Otherwise I agree, I can't see anyway that multiple exposures would help, at least from some light reading on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_exposure

by IshKebab 42 minutes ago

> Now, here's the kicker:

Come on now.

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