>lurk /p/
>all I care about is gear and specs and feel nothing is good enough
>stop lurking
>actually go out and shoot
>have fun and realise basically anything is fine
Gear really is a meme

it might be but my autistic brain simply can't let go. for example im in the process of buying my first 1000+ dollarinho camera, and was settling for one until i read how theres another one which is actually better yada yada, and now even though the first one would be plenty good for me, i cant accept settling for less. neverending cycle of shit

>>4440708
there is no perfect camera
get the one you settled for

>>4440708
Trying to get the best value product is not unique to photography. Not too dissimillar to buying a car where a lot of people don't give the slightest fuck and buy a Corolla, and others are tossing up between different styles of cup holder because they know they'll be using it for 5+ years.

>>4440708
Unironically just buy a 4x5 and get the pixel peeping out of your system before commiting to a system

>>4440699 (OP)
Post building corners

Gear matters if your photos matter. Sounds like yours dont.

>>4440708
Most of it here is flat out lies

Normal people buy a7iii, a7c
Richies and spec spergs buy z5ii, a7iv, r6ii, a7cii
Money wasting hipsters with big egos and little taste buy digital fake film cameras
Weird alt right contrarians who secretly support legalizing bestiality buy dslrs
People who dont know how to win at facebook marketplace or have been ruined by /p/ brand wars buy canon r8/rp

>>4440714
Filmlet cope, real men are starting minimum with 8x10

>>4440714
Or rent a gfx100 or hasselblad x2d for a few days, or if you want to waste a lot of money rent a 200MP phase one.

Even if you can buy a whole ass camera and Sheet film with the same money renting costs it is too much of a commitment for most people to actually capture and extract the full gigapixel you can get from sheet film. They don't even have IBIS for crying out loud.

>>4440719
This.

>>4440699 (OP)
Go work at a camera shop for a few months and get it all out of your system

>>4440719
>This guy's imagination: Oh, anon, your film camera is soooo big. What' a dog like me to do when a stud like you takes her picture?
>reality: SON, ARE YOU TAKIN A PICTURE OF THE DAMN DOG AGAIN? I THOUGHT I TOLD YA TO HIRE A HOOKER
>NO PA
>CHICKEN SHIT NEEDS SCOOPED UP AGAIN
>YES PA (i promise i will contact print you, my love)

>>4440723
IBIS is a crutch.

anything over 1600iso and a 5mp ccd is sperg.
Which is not to say bad, just not strictly necessary

>>4440729
>IBIS is a crutch
Avoiding carrying a boomer 3-stick is not a crutch, it's called not giving girls the ick. My phone can shoot at 1/4 bruv.
>anything over 1600iso and a 5mp ccd is sperg.
Cant look at your photos on a mac huh? Maybe you're the sperg if you only need to look at pics on your android or thinkpad

>>4440732
what time is it in india buddy?

>>4440737
I am from moscow, actually.

>>4440739
and you manage to find applefags even there, what a time to be alive

>>4440728
You know your post is from your own imagination, right?

You don't need to scoop chicken shit if you're doing pastured birds correctly btw. You just haul feed and collect eggs unless you're moving their coop.

>>4440699 (OP)
Gear is fun. It is OK to be a gear enjoyer.

>>4440739
Privet comrade

>>4440732
Tripods and large camera filter all the bitches you don't want to have in a long term relationship.

Large cameras on tripods = wife material
small "stylish" cameras = pump and dump

>>4440741
Anon knows his chickens?

>>4440740
Even though putin fined them bigtime for extremist LGBTQ propaganda meant to lower birthrate and spread sickness, they still make the best computer.

Linux is half baked, has too much fragmentation, and no support for standard professional programs outside of software development. You can sadly not be a good digital photographer with linux. Forget darktable, and rawtherapee, the photos will look like shit and you can barely do anything. Gimp? Worse than pirated photoshop in WINE. Even the display server has 3 options, 1 from 1970 and 2 that are broken.
Windows is buggy and hard to take control back from microsoft. When W10 IOT LTSB is dead so will windows. Capture one runs very slowly and sometimes crashes.

Macs sell you a computer running real UNIX, and once you disable SIP you can rip out any components you want and disable all of the tracking and remote control. SIP is useless if you don't run random closed source programs and fall for "social engineering attacks" ("sar install virus.exe to receive bitcoin -raj"). Capture one runs faster on mac, photoshop runs faster on mac, due to superior UNIX architecture. is good. Also firewire adapters if you ever try old medium format.

>>4440747
Yes.

>>4440748
ok. im just a retard using windows not to pay adobe jews.
also jokes aside, 5mp is too low of a number, i admit, but the ibis ive only really felt using long lenses

>>4440719
8x10 is a meme
Poor choice of films, you are forced to use Foma shit. Lenses with such a large image circle are mostly very old and poor design with poor MTF characteristics so the film itself will outresolve the lens by far.
4x5 is golden standard for large photography
much larger choice of films
much larger choice of high quality lenses
high quality 4x5 film stock grain is so fine that 8x10 will never be needed in reality

>>4440750
Ibis is a game changer if you’re not foreverially a 28mm street snapper

>>4440751
This is actually sort of true. The only thing 8x10 has over 4x5 is contact printing, really. 8x10 contact prints have a finer look than enlarged 4x5, but it's not by that much.
Ilford makes delta 100 and fp4+ in 8x10 and kodak still has a couple color and b&w films in 8x10. I think you can even get some fujifilm 8x10 if you're willing to pay like 20-35 dollars a sheet for them...

The mtf chart shit is crazy silly tho. You would need to print enormous prints to notice any difference. Even my 1850s rapid rectilinear lens perform extremely well and produces lovely looking contact prints.

>>4440751
He uses 8x10 because he had to many skill issues with getting everything clean and in focus with an enlarger, so he has to contact print

>>4440752
i would say 90% of my camera time is on either a 50 or a 70 200, and and yet i wouldnt call it game changing, but if you do videos i guess that changes things

>>4440754
You are aware that your cope only serves as my amusement, right?
I enjoy the workflow of contact printing better than enlarging. I have a leitz focomat v35 that I have made amazing looking prints with and a beseler 45v-xl with color head that I am going to build a RA-4 capable darkroom around.

>Everytime you see your camera mentioned here it's negative
I still like using it

>>4440759
It is all cope from the vocal minority. I can't really send people my contact prints to actually see what all the fuss is about.

The scans of an 8x10 are nearly 1GB and those barely do them any justice when compared with a good contact print...

>>4440715
>if your photos aren't making you money then they don't matter
American post

>>4440755
>huh? ibis? but you need 1/1000 for sharp nipples in ur creepshots kiddo, bring a tripod fer landscapes like its 1948
Boomer post

Wedding photographers dont need ibis either but id rather shoot for fun first than center every decision around shooting fat mexicans at parties for beer money

>>4440708
but you will never own a Hasselblad so what is the point

>>4440708
Impressing /p/: Buy a hasselblad h3d 39 II and use it to take pictures of your cat
Enjoying life for yourself: Get a sony a7c/a7cii or a7iii/a7iv, a smallish prime or two, and a zoom to cover the lenses you'd rarely use

>>4440717
z5ii is a hell of a camera for 1699$

>>4440786
Its really a shame nikon hasn't fixed the fucking focus algo on the z6ii, or they could have their a7iii moment a few years late

Even a slight improvement+open aperture focusing would allow it to equal or beat the equivalent snoy

Is Nikon 24-120 f/4 S jack of all trades master of none? A good choice for my only lens (for the foreseeable future)?

>>4440816
The 24-70 f4 has slightly nicer color rendition and is sharper at f11-f16

Do you NEED 120 and 0.5x macro?

>>4440816
if you know what type of focus lengths you like maybe you should get a prime instead. I have the 24-70 just because I came from a crop sensor and I wanted to get comfortable with shit wider than 70.

you could get the 40mm and 85mm for the same price

>>4440699 (OP)
>be me
>doing the most shooting i've done to date, mostly film
>developing at home, enlarging my own prints
>having the most fun i've had in years
>gotten some of my favourite shots of all time
>haven't posted a single image on /p/ in like 2 years
It's not just gear that's a meme, it's /p/. This board is trash, like the rest of the boards. It hasn't been a photography board for 7 years now, just another imageboard.