Photography Thread?

All MR2's are worthy of having their own thread in the showroom. Its not for showcars only.
But yeah, feel free to make a photography thread, I know theres lots of us with cameras that wouldn't mind putting some stuff up there.

photo taken on my old sony cybershot c905 with auto setting... (its actually my mobile phone hehe 8.1mp)

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1499/dsc00723ho.jpg

now im using a LUMIX FS42, so my photos should be better.
im not overly into photography (like enought to buy a DSLR), but a lot of my friends are, so its starting to rub off.

Heres one I took last weekend at the Mercedes Benz concours, its a 190SL, such a beautiful car.

This was my fav car there though, the 190SL's big brother, the mighty 300SL, at one time I do believe it was the fastest car in the world. Now easily worth over $1million.

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Originally posted by mr_ken

photo taken on my old sony cybershot c905 with auto setting... (its actually my mobile phone hehe 8.1mp)

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1499/dsc00723ho.jpg

now im using a LUMIX FS42, so my photos should be better.
im not overly into photography (like enought to buy a DSLR), but a lot of my friends are, so its starting to rub off.

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Hehe is that your gf in the passenger's seat?
Here's one I took last night:

I was at Akuna Bay and wanted to take some pics with my crappy Sony camera. I was focusing purely on S mode.
I had f-stop 2.2, exposure of 1.6secs and iso 64.
Oh and nothing else but a car park light.

Yeah, just looking at the top now, S9500. It's only be 9 mega pixel, oh well. I was told 10, but that's what you get for not checking.

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Originally posted by DVST8R

Who cares, megapixels aren't the be all and end all of cameras.

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Certainly, there are many factors to be considered, but that said...

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Unless you're printing out poster sized pics, it really doesn't matter.

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Or if you're cropping to get a narrower effective field of view to simulate a longer lens because your longest lens still isn't quite long enough. The same principle applies to macro photography.

By way of explanation a 15MP camera has ~1.4x as many pixels in each dimension as an 8MP camera, so if you go from an 8MP camera to a 15MP camera, both with the same sized sensor of course, you're effectively getting a 1.4x teleconverter for free if you choose to crop the 15MP image to match the old 8MP camera.

As you say it's not the be all and end all, but all other things being equal, I would much rather have more megapixels than less.

Anyway my comment regarding the Fuji Finepix had nothing to do with pixels.


Edit: Keeping it in the family... sort of. From this year's Bathurst 12hr:

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Originally posted by boozed

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Unless you're printing out poster sized pics, it really doesn't matter.

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Or if you're cropping to get a narrower effective field of view to simulate a longer lens because your longest lens still isn't quite long enough. The same principle applies to macro photography.

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Buy a longer lens then [:p][:p]