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It gets worse They just upped to to 73% of it
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The D750 is a brilliant camera. Solid focusing and amazing low light. The 610 is cheaper and less AF but still decent. Honestly, the D500 or 7200 DX frames are absolute monsters and withing the 1200-2500 range yet take cheaper DX glass vs the 610 and other full frame cameras
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Not a bad thought.
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Starting to get worried about not seeing the Perseids this year due to this smoke cover. Have scouted an area for a full moon shot for months and last night was literally perfect for it but could not see the moon at all due to the smoke. Hoping we get some clear skies soon....
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Sitting here patiently waiting for the Nikon D850 to release....last camera I will ever buy with that name unless they fix their issues. Still better than Canon at the moment that is shoving out cameras that don't compare to models made 5 years ago. Still not a Sony though
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The BC Real Estate Discussion Thread
Warhippy replied to Harvey Spector's topic in Off-Topic General
More than Agriculture, Forestry, Hunting and Fishing combined.....wow. When the US housing bubble peaked those same fees only accounted for 1.5% of the US GDP....in Canada almost 2% http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/real-estate-fees-home-sales-1.4226630 Canada's addiction to real estate goes far beyond our obsession with talking about it. Our economy actually relies more on the fees associated with buying and selling houses than it does on agriculture, fishing, forestry and hunting combined. Real estate commissions, land transfer taxes, legal costs and fees for inspecting and surveying homes make up almost two per cent of Canada's economy. "This is a stunning 1.9 per cent of GDP," said Macquarie analyst David Doyle. "It's really concerning, it's really unhealthy." By comparison, agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting account for 1.6 per cent of GDP, Statistics Canada reports. Doyle points out that the U.S. was relying big time on home ownership transfer fees in 2005, when its real estate market peaked. But even then, those fees made up only about 1.5 per cent of U.S. GDP. Now, years after the U.S. housing market crash, transfer fees make up less than one per cent. In Canada, upcoming data will likely show those fees have already started to fall, as the number of home sales across the country fell in June by the most in seven years. Doyle says Canada's increased reliance on real estate fees can be blamed on years of ultra-low interest rates, worsened during the oil price slump when the Bank of Canada cut rates even further. "I think they felt that the lesser of two evils in that situation was to cut interest rates," Doyle said. But that fix has helped put Canada in another tricky situation, where the economy relies to an unusual extent on home transactions. That could have particularly negative consequences as the central bank begins to raise rates again. "The drag on the economy that's going to flow from [higher rates], I think, will prove to be much more severe than it's been in the past," Doyle said. Renovation spending at risk When people buy and sell fewer homes, there are other spillover effects on the economy. Home renovations, which make up a whopping 2.6 per cent of Canada's economy, could also contract. "If people are not buying homes, they're not doing the renovations," says Capital Economics economist David Madani. Madani says if the recent drop in home sales leads to a drop in prices — as it typically does — current homeowners may also pull back on plans to renovate. 'I think you'll see people cool off' "When prices are going up, people will invest in their new kitchen and bathrooms, because a home is an investment, right? The value is going up, right? Once it starts going down a bit, I think you'll see people cool off on a lot of that stuff," Madani said. Then other businesses such as furniture and home improvement retailers could also suffer. Doyle warns that eventually the entire economy could feel a drag from falling home sales and falling real estate fees. "The economy is just that much more reliant on housing and in particular on these ownership transfer costs," Doyle said. "It's not something that, as an economy, you would look at as a position we want to be in." -
So how about that Juolevi
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The DoF on that railroad shot is exquisite
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That should do the job just fine Just make sure it comes with the correct plate to mount it. I've made that mistake
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You're looking for a gimbal for a dslr or a phone or??
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Resources such as learning tutorials or locations or? I've been using it fairly religiously as my starting point to my work flow for 5 years and am still learning new things all the time. Shoot me an example of what you mean I'll try to help you through it
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It's a pretty black mark on her taste, a black mark indeed around the groinal area of a monkey
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Pretty sure I dated that last one as a younger hippy
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i LOVE street photography, but having a DSLR instead of something like a micro 4/3s or a mirrorless makes it hard due to the size of it.
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Astrophotography is a fun blend of wide open apertures moderately high ISO settings and long exposure of 25 seconds or under to avoid star trails or elongation of stars. Anything longer than 23 seconds depending on lens width leads to movement of stars due to the earths rotation In Penticton I drive up to the Carmi reservoir, it's fairly close only a 15 minute drive up to the highlands to the reservoir. The hardest part of this is Kelowna's light pollution can be a significant mask depending on the ambient light/lunar phase. You don't have to drive far at all honestly, just be away from city lights and looking north to north east
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Someone asked me about why I shoot in RAW vs JPEG. I answered them like this with this before and after I touched up in lightroom Before and After.Why do i shoot in RAW format? Well here is a very quick very laymans layout as to why I shoot RAW instead of JPEGJPEG is the fast food of photo formats. The camera self corrects colours, shadows, highlights and white balance. Your camera takes an image and makes a complete and finished product with what's available in micro seconds. RAW format shooting is like having the RAW ingredients for a meal. You have conplete and total control over everything from colour corrections to white balance allowing you to make proper and vital adjustments where needed. RAW format is literally making a gourmet meal out of what is available. The colours, the shadows the highlights and more are the protein, the starch and the vegetables you create your image out of. At the end of the day you can have a fast food image which is suitable for some. Or you can have a gourmet creation that was put together from your vision. Here is my example of that before and after after shooting in RAW format sized to a 2:1 ratio with some pixelation.
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So what IS everyone's favorite genre or field of shooting? Myself I love astrophotography and the challenge of portraiture and shaping of light. But would kill to get in to more journalistic or sports style endeavors. Which are limited in a town as small as Penticton. But having a camera on any road trip ever is one of the reasons I bought my first body. I realized too late I'd worked across the globe without actually ever taking a single photo of where I'd been. Then after my accident haven't really traveled since. Always have a camera on you
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Shot is a bit noisy because a friend shot it on an older body but shot me the RAW file to develop. But remember, we're right in the heart of Milky way season. Great apps for sky tracking include Dark Skies and Star Tracker. Always try shooting near a new moon or after the moon has set for at least an hour This second image is one of mine shot in the same area 2 months earlier. it is essential to get away from city lights to get those crisp pictures with detail of the milky way or aurora
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Just another sunset in penticton last night on the lake shore
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Yes sir, ever since Phase one took them over in 2015 they've been tinkering with bodies and digital backs for them. Some exciting stuff coming apparently.
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Apparently they've possibly created something new. One of my favorite film bodies
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Film isn't as easy to come across but man they are fun to use. Get ready for an announcement from Mamiya as well if you're in to analog use
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Ohhh you're thinking Pinhole! Ilford will be your friend. They make some of the best paper for this format. There's a few great labs in the city that will be able to do this kind of development for you but (and this is just me) you'll lose any real creative aspect in the film development as they'll develop the image to their specifications as to what the machines tell them to. IIRC this will take ISO 200 or iso 400 which is still pretty easily found. They're a bit tricky to use at first but man they do take some quality images. Thanks by the way, I cull my IG portfolio once a month and don't tend to post much in the way of portraiture. Just seems weird posting pictures of people I don't really know that well
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I've actually worked with people who have used the old 4x4's and colloidal plates and I can tell you it's not something I am interested in getting in to any time soon lol. With medium format the way it is and prices coming down daily one has to udnerstand that a solid 3x3 with a digital back or a medium format or old field camera is a far more economical way to go. Which isn't to say it's not intriguing and producing incredible results, but the amount of time money and such shallow prospect of monetary return make it very unappealing
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You see a lot of people moving back to analog these days or buying digital backs for old rollieflex bodies. It's kinda cool seeing the results