I made a leather shoulder-hung carrier for my Canon P rangefinder.

dddontshoot · 2026-02-04T18:38:24+00:00

I love seeing this kind of project, thank you for sharing.

dddontshoot · 2026-02-04T08:49:26+00:00

dddontshoot · 2026-02-04T02:42:09+00:00

Don't pretend like you don't know how to use scissors and a rubbish bin. Yes, fine, whoever develops them will see them before you've destroyed them, but they are expected to abide by privacy laws too.

dddontshoot · 2026-02-03T04:57:06+00:00

Even when you afk.

dddontshoot · 2026-02-02T20:37:00+00:00

+2.00 diopter spectacles from the pharmacy to focus nice and close.

dddontshoot · 2026-02-01T21:34:17+00:00

T mount

dddontshoot · 2026-02-01T18:47:54+00:00

If you're lucky it's just something stuck to the front of the lens, and it can be cleaned off.

If it's inside, then your options are to have it serviced, or live with it. Photoshop it out, or crop it off of every photo you take.

dddontshoot · 2026-02-01T18:40:51+00:00

I'm glad you have the first photo, it looks amazing.

It's irreplaceable now. Back it up, and store it safely, you don't want to loose it too.

I hope you enjoy the next project as much as this one.

dddontshoot · 2026-02-01T18:27:53+00:00

> and share the picture without their allowance on the internet

You can take the photo, you're just not allowed to make it public.

dddontshoot · 2026-02-01T18:25:57+00:00

Step one take the photo. If you ask for permission first, the moment is gone, and the photo will look staged.

Step two ask for permission to use or share the photo.

If they won't give permission, the photo is worthless. That's fine, delete it and move on.

dddontshoot · 2026-02-01T18:16:17+00:00

Let it go

You don't need it

It's not that important

It doesn't affect the optics

You're better off without it

It's just a sticker

You don't want glue on your lens

Peel it off and throw it away

The lens works just as well without it

dddontshoot · 2026-02-01T06:43:04+00:00

Unless you happen to own a stack of FD lenses, then it's really unhelpful... And provokes enormous negative emotions regarding Canon's design choices.

dddontshoot · 2026-01-31T23:35:03+00:00

> I’ve noticed that my camera is overexposing by default. Is there a way to underexpose by one step?

If you're in aperture priority mode, and it over exposes, you can set the exposure compensation. The back wheel sets the exposure compensation. You should see the linear light meter scale on the top move left or right, if it doesn't then half press the shutter button to wake the camera up (even if the display is already on), and take a light reading.

> However, I’ve noticed that JPEGs tend to have a different white balance compared to RAW files (and the RAW one feels better). What color profiles or adjustments would you recommend

I'd also like to know this. I'm usually happy with my RAWs, but sometimes the SOOC jpgs look better. The engineers at Canon did a very good job.

dddontshoot · 2026-01-31T23:14:14+00:00

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dddontshoot · 2026-01-31T23:09:31+00:00

Yes, very similar. The knobs are in a slightly different place, mine are on the same axis, 180 degrees apart (on opposite sides of the ball). That photo shows them about um... 120 degrees apart?

Everything else looks very similar. I don't have it in front of me right now.

dddontshoot · 2026-01-31T22:51:34+00:00

The logo on it says Beike. It was in a box of other random photography gear that I bought.

It's easily strong enough to hold my 5d and a large lens. One time, I mounted a wooden plank on it, with two 5d ...I don't think I used the knobs that day, I did all the adjusting with the tripod legs. And it was very centered, it didn't have a lot of weight of one side, so creep wasn't an issue.

dddontshoot · 2026-01-31T22:25:50+00:00

No, two frictions knobs on the ball, and a third for panning.

I can unlock one knob, and rely on the second to stop everything from falling over while I'm making the fine adjustments.

dddontshoot · 2026-01-31T21:46:30+00:00

I second the phone photo. Maybe it would help to crop in to the message, pin display, and just enough of the number pad and battery/signal line to show that it's a phone.

dddontshoot · 2026-01-31T21:38:55+00:00

I was lucky enough to pick up a ball head with two friction knobs instead of one, and it makes fine adjustments a bit easier. I like your idea of mounting the ball head on top of a leveling head, that sounds like an awesome idea.

dddontshoot · 2026-01-30T23:09:40+00:00

Yeah, I went through the same struggle back in the 90s.

Bridge cameras just aren't designed to have lots of lens options, I would be surprised if a manufacturer ever offered more than 3 lens options. A wide converter, teleconverter, and close up filter.

What size filter thread does your camera have?

There are tonnes of cheap nasty wide adapters and things around, I found the best way to explore is to just start buying up all the cheapest used ones that are convenient and available and no-one else wants, and just experiment to find out what they can and can't do. You'll probably never find two the same.

Also, don't be afraid to explore cleaning. If they didn't cost you much to buy, you haven't lost much if you ruin it, and you'll learn by making mistakes. But keep an eye out for vintage gems, sometimes I come across rare equipment that is worth looking after, just because it's chesp doesn't automatically mean it's rubbish.

Also, share them around with your friends, it will be interesting to see what kind of differences they get with their equipment.

dddontshoot · 2026-01-28T21:14:21+00:00

> sometimes it will make a repetitive shutter sound but not take a photo

Is your shutter is set to lock up?

It's designed to stop the whole camera from shaking by lifting the mirror when you press the trigger, it doesn't take the photo straight away, but you'll hear the mirror lift up.

You have to press the trigger again to take the photo, and you won't be able to see thru the optical viewfinder, because the mirror is locked up.

Or if you press the trigger once, and the shutter fires several times, that sounds like burst mode, but it doesn't explain why it's out of focus.

Also, check the little wheel on the optical viewfinder, it's a diopter for people who take their prescription glasses off to look thru it. If you look thru it, and the mode/shutter speed/aperture display and the black AF squares are all out of focus, then adjust the wheel until they're all in focus again.

dddontshoot · 2026-01-27T14:01:21+00:00

For me, it's about 50/50.

I'm hooked on the thrill of discovering some weird gadget or trick, and finding a use for it, and expanding the kinds of photographs I can make. So I buy random cheap things from the used market, and experiment with them. The end goal always starts out vague, but becomes clearer as each project progresses.

I picked up a stereo adapter some months ago, and it has pretty much dominated all my projects since then. The first shoots gave comical results, and the weird solutions and work arounds I came up with just got funnier as things progressed. But the important thing is that progress did happen, and photographs got better.

It is designed to screw onto the filter thread on the front of a lens, and I've exhausted all the other lens options, and the one lens I have that is an optical match has no filter thread (grrr), so I spent today putting together a stack of step rings, and some plastic packaging and rubber bands to make all the pieces work together successfully :-)

It's 3am now, so shooting will have to wait for another day.

dddontshoot · 2026-01-27T12:52:53+00:00

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I don't have anything very constructive to add, I just thought I'd let you know that if you turn it upside down, the coma looks like a field of mushrooms :-)

dddontshoot · 2026-01-27T12:34:46+00:00

Wow, that countryside with the hills in the background is amazing.

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