ShowUsYourCamera

You love your cameras, don't you? Tag this account with tales of devotion, or expose the flaws in that terrible piece of kit. GAS victims welcome. By @ozalba.

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Got a camera and want to wax lyrical about it? Use #ShowUsYourCamera for a retweet.

A video would be great (doesn't have to show you), or just some still images. Tell us what's great - or terrible about your cameras, lenses, tripods, whatever.

And please: only your own photos.

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@ZDP189 Well, it's sounds like something I've never heard of before.

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Yup, I have a few Bluesky invite codes waiting to be used.

[Dan K @ZDP189]

RT or QT if you also have codes for the photography community.

Reply with a request if you need one.

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@TVZaraJ Mmmm... leftovers 😋

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@Photo_Poll The answer is also clouded with the increase in www usage, and later, social media and smartphones, alongside the uptake of digital.

Digital might have allowed a general improvement in technical quality, but whether aesthetic quality (however you define that in this context): 🤷‍♂️

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@Photo_Poll My gut feel is: no, although with the ability to instantly review what you've just taken, there ought to be some increase in the number of good exposures released to public view. However, that would also require critical assessment of one's own work, which isn't always the case.

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@winterrosephoto Excellent. Memories of seeing Portillo lose in 1997.

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@ZDP189 Would be great if that photo ended up on the cover of Time, as Con of The Year.

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@Givemeabiscuit I was a late starter, with a 1040 STfm, when my work was selling off old stuff. Still hanker after it.

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@windsorknot Just stick with the dress Stuart tartan, and you'll be safe enough. https://t.co/fnVueitkRE

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@42thedentist @ozalba @elland_in @ShittyChallenge @TEMLIGHTIMAGES I'm sure the EF could take at least a .22 😆

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@elland_in @42thedentist @ShittyChallenge @TEMLIGHTIMAGES Pah! I grew up with this solid beast, and later used an F4 on occasion. A walk in the park.

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@DrMarsRover @ZDP189 I know of what you speak. I wish I were better at marketing, in particular, but needing to be creative on demand is why I veered off into applied photography.

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@ZDP189 I've done it twice: photographer '80-'95; astronomer 2010 to date. The photography position was effectively lab-based, in a v. specialised facility, but we had to be all-rounders*. In each position, imposter syndrome was/is a joy.

* Like all-baseballers, but more British, innit?

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@johnfphotos @ZDP189 I became aware of Brexit around the end of 2015, and wondered who this person was, that was causing so much discussion. I'd started drawing a UK pension earlier that year, and saw a marvellous rise in value against AUD, then the Brexit crash. Been gibbering about ever since.

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@screamathewall MF

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@Palaeoboy @ozalba @windsorknot @ZDP189 I will acknowledge concern for working artists, who may lose work to the new technology, but there's nothing new in that. My old mate who slogged for years to build his photo lab business, saw in evaporate in no time after the rise of the minilabs. Plus ça change.

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@ZDP189 Then I started dabbling with it to see if I could produce illustrations for a book I wrote some years ago - an Aussie version of The Meaning of Liff - and I think it's very suited to that sort of comic image, flaws and all.

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@ZDP189 My next attempts were more interesting: "Pastel drawing / watercolour painting of snowflakes falling gently over an English village landscape, with a thatched cottage and a smoking chimney", and may even tempt me to make them into Christmas cards, which I haven't sent for years.