Digital photography

It's pretty disgusting. But I don't know how much sympathy I have for anyone mug enough to buy one of the 'new' Hassies.

The old medium format ones are lovely. Rena Effendi uses one a lot and reckons the fact you're looking down into it makes it a lot less threatening way to take portraits. And a mate of mine used to have an Xpan which was also a wonderful camera.

I'm no apple fanboy, but you're not really giving the full picture.

For example, go to the Dell site and configure a Precision 7510 to a similar spec to the top level MPB (£1999) and you get a price of £1850 - that's with some weird 30% special offer.

The benefit of the MBP is that they are still portable, they run reliably well and fast ( I'm currently working on a 4.7GB Illustration in PS on a 2013 MBP - no lag at all, even when scrolling through RAW files)

You can build a Windows based laptop to perform well, and possibly better performing with CAD/3D but it'll be a lot less portable and it will still be expensive.

Nice windows machines are Lenovo ThinkPads - very well made and thought out machines with good customisations available. XEON chips, massive GPUs etc. But it'll cost about £3-4k for the top end machine.

I totally agree with the whole looking down thing. a slr with a long lens gets a bit snipery.
I think there is an Xpan in the photography shop in teddington. it's been there for about a year. So nice!

Thanks man, seems to be going down well on Instagram too.

Couple from the last few weeks

Used a filter to accentuate the light through the clouds. Might be a bit much for some. Lake District last easter.

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Lighting storm inside a cloud over the Med this summer. I didn't know it was possible and I don't expect to ever see one again.

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Northern France, "Devils Windmill"

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Really cool shot!

Gironde salt farming.

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Thanks, just got lucky that time.

Oyster farming.

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London birds give attitude.

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And in the spirit of this thread, my dog.

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Like that salt farming one!
Do you use tumblr / flickr?

I've just got a method together for posting on here! (hence the outburst) I think I tried to sort out a flickr account once but just ended up looking at other peoples.

For the salt farming one a friend of mine flew me round that area in a 2 seater. Sadly we couldn't use the type where the windows open that day so all the pics are a bit unsharp.

This is the original of the salt farming. The colours are washed out by the perspex plane windows.

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What kind of filter?

Good thought, i'll check it out tonight

Analog Efex Pro 2 - Classic Camera.

that is awesome

That's very cool. Got this one by chance in the middle of the night somewhere between KL and London

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Anyone interested in a Nikon D600 and D800? Currently putting the details and pics together, ads will be up later on this week. ;-)

Any excuse to post this, while we're on the topic...

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