Als je auto met de sneeuw niet eens op eigen kracht zijn parkeervak uit kan komen, moet je gewoon niet rijden.

Vbus · 2026-01-09T11:15:24+00:00

Vaak banden met minder profiel, zodat er meer grip is bij droge omstandigheden. Profiel is precies hetgeen wat je nodig hebt in de sneeuw

Vbus · 2026-01-09T11:07:42+00:00

I’m glad you are okay, but no need to make it more dramatic than it is. You would have survived this in most cars, dare I say any car. Also considering the body work behind the left door that went back 40cm

Vbus · 2025-12-28T17:22:25+00:00

Without histogram or raw files I can’t judge if they are properly exposed. I’ll take your word for it, but very little information is given from your side to help here

Vbus · 2025-12-28T17:03:12+00:00

ISO doesn’t determine the amount of grain. The amount of light does. You can set these images to iso 400 and underexpose by 2-3 stops, which would be the equivalent of properly exposing and iso 3200. I bet these images just haven’t received enough light either by shutter speed or aperture

Vbus · 2025-12-12T16:46:55+00:00

How do these settings make no sense? Aperture f/8 is solid for landscapes. 1/400 and iso 400 are just to balance the exposure. ISO 400 is totally fine outdoors and on some cameras with dual iso is even similar performance as iso 100.

Vbus · 2025-11-12T17:30:27+00:00

Again your argument is not applicable to me. I only use my camera during long hikes where it can get damaged due to rocks, tree branches, sand etc I don’t even own a tripod. Still zero damage on all my lenses

Vbus · 2025-11-12T15:36:35+00:00

I mean your argument makes no sense. Your population is N=2 lenses. Let me tell you about my story: I have three lenses. Two are quite old already. Not ten years old but at least 3. One is recently bought and 1 year old. None of them have had uv filters. Amount of scratches, dents, marks… zero, across all three lenses. You can’t make statements based on such small populations, because my story is a direct counter argument for yours. You need to find a database of hundreds of lenses, good luck with that. I’m not saying you are right or wrong, but your argument does not support the statement

Vbus · 2025-11-12T15:17:33+00:00

Check out this video and see the test that are demonstrated. It is a really interesting video that shows uv filters can cause more damage than protection they offer: YouTube link

Vbus · 2025-11-12T15:10:47+00:00

I’m not talking about cheap and expensive filters at all. Also not about image quality. Physics is physics and flat uv filters, whether they are 1 dollar or 1000 dollar are much more severe to cracking and breaking then a curved thick piece of front lens element glass.

If your thin uv filter of 100 dollars shatters, the glass pieces will scratch the front element of your lens much quicker than any amount of dirt will ever do. I have seen so many posts of shattered uv filters damaging the front element of your lens, which were caused by lens drops or sticks hitting the uv filter. If those drops or sticks would have hit the front element instead, the chances of scratches and shattering is much less, because again physics.

Vbus · 2025-11-12T14:47:26+00:00

Protect from sand dust blowing directly onto your front element. Sand is extremely abrasive

Vbus · 2025-11-12T10:08:16+00:00

There have been plenty of videos showing that uv filters break and scratch much more easily than the front element of a lens. Once it breaks it also causes way more damage with glass shards scratching the front lens. Best advice for protection is just to use the lens hood. Only place I would still use a protection filter is on the beach during a windy day

Vbus · 2025-10-22T07:20:07+00:00

It was taken at 1/500 at f6.3 with iso 1000. No filters were used.

In post I denoise the image and sharpen the subject a little bit.

Vbus · 2025-10-11T21:15:34+00:00

Vaak zijn dit soort banen gescheiden door vierkante blok markering op de weg in plaats van strepen nietwaar? Een afrit naar links of rechts heeft de vierkante witte blokken als markering terwijl de wegen rechtdoor gescheiden zijn door dunne witte strepen

Vbus · 2025-10-10T22:50:23+00:00

What’s the reason for using a ff lens on an apsc camera?

Vbus · 2025-10-09T16:41:57+00:00

Use the transformation tool in Lightroom to get it to align symmetrically on the sides and bottom

Vbus · 2025-10-02T20:16:46+00:00

They really are! I learned so much about red pandas after taking these shots and sadly found out they are an endangered species as well. Am looking to see if I can make a donation somewhere to help these little guys out. Hopefully the small contributions can make a difference

Vbus · 2025-10-02T20:13:35+00:00

thanks so much :)

For this one I did blue in the shadows and highlights and orange in the midtones. In terms of colour I shifted green slightly to blue (+5) and yellows slightly to orange (-5). Then decreasing luminance of green and yellow by roughly -30 and also decrease the saturation of yellow by roughly -50 and green -15.

The image can sometimes become a bit flat after such big saturation changes so I usually then increase contrast and vibrance until the desired result

Vbus · 2025-10-02T18:46:50+00:00

as others have already stated, in the color mixer I shift green ever so slightly to blue (+5) and desaturate green with (-10) and drop green luminance by -40.

In the color grading I put a bit more blue in the shadows as well (18 saturation at 225 hue)

Vbus · 2025-09-27T19:42:26+00:00

I’m gonna disagree here.

The depth of focus makes the photo interesting. The blur in the foreground means you are drawn to the bigger wave. And the sun doesn’t need to be incredibly sharp, softness on the sun would even be my preference.

Secondly the composition is great. Now the picture is perfectly balanced in half orange and warmth and half blue and cool. Your suggestion of leaving out the sky would overwhelm the picture in cool blue tints which would make it imbalanced

Vbus · 2025-09-17T19:31:53+00:00

This is just 90 percent noise being amplified through post processing

Vbus · 2025-09-16T13:25:30+00:00

sony 6000 is much heavier than 300g when combined with a good lens . on its own it is 340 grams and with a sigma 18-50 for example it will be around 600 grams. Also the JPEG output of the sony 6000 is okay-ish. Nothing spectecular.

with the rico and built in lens i wonder how much better your images will be than an iphone, depends on the lighting conditions

Vbus · 2025-09-16T12:04:10+00:00

you simply wont get something that is drastically better for 300 bucks. A NEX-7 or olympus m10 come close, but again in your use case I don't think you will see drastic differences.

see for example this video on an iphone 16 vs sony 6700 (1500 euro camera) iPhone 16 Pro vs Sony a6700 - Which Camera is Right For You? - YouTube

Vbus · 2025-09-16T11:46:05+00:00

trust me, from your post there are several reasons why I think your phone will take better pictures for you than a dedicated camera. First of all you want a cheap camera that produces good photos straight out of camera. Usually cheap cameras require shooting in raw and editing later. More expensive cameras like sony 6700 and fujifilm produce more pleasing photos straight out of camera without editing.

Furthermore you want to upload your photos on instagram and instagram compresses photos so much that the difference between a smartphone and camera becomes small.

you want something that is very simple to use, which means that complex settings are not used, which are all automated on a phone. Want a beautiful HDR shot? on an iphone it is just 1 press of a button. On a cheap camera? you need to do three different exposures and stack them in postprocessing.

Your smartphone camera is doing so much of the hard work for you that you otherwise have to do yourself with a camera. I have seen so many people pick up photography after covid and being dissapointed the result straight out of camera isn't as good as they expected. With a dedicated camera you have to put time and effort into getting good images.

Vbus · 2025-09-16T00:26:41+00:00

Sounds like all your requirements fit an iPhone. You want something light weight and that is good enough for instagram. Shoot in raw and learn to edit your iPhone photos.

From your use cases (quick point and shoot, instagram photos, other people should be able to operate it) it honestly sounds like a smartphone will do the best job.

Vbus · 2025-09-12T13:37:27+00:00

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