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Gear thread

If you have questions about a new camera, what lenses to buy and anything related to gear or wondering about getting into photography, post it in this thread.
Do not attempt to make a new thread for your new Rabal, broken glass and being new. You have been warned!
I repeat, ANYTHING GEAR RELATED goes in here!

And don't forget, be polite!

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show me your first camera

>Really want to become photographer, journalism or sports
>Look into getting bachelors degree
>Get very excited, never been happier in my life
>Read http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/go-pro.htm
>never been more depressed

:(

/p/, i have this rollei and i changed the screen for a mamiya RZ67 one. now its improved as fuck, but i think it has problems with focusing marking. if you put the weel on infinite it is almost infinite but kinda soft, if you dial back it a little bit it gets sharper, ie. true infinite. how to calibrate this?

hey guys.
I'm trying black and white.
what do you think?

How do you network, /p/?

I have a website that I shitpost my photos on occasionally (it's useful to have a url to give out when someone wants to see you work), but I'm thinking of starting a flickr. It'd be nice to have a place other than /p/ to look at other people's photos and get some feedback.

Is flickr the way to go, or is there a better site?

I have a maybe stupid question.
I bought my first boom (Avenger D600), and I cannot control the inclination. I mount the strobe with a 28inch beauty dish and it rotates on the spigot to face downwards.
I know it's because of the weight. Without modifiers it stays in place.
Is there a solution to use it with my beautydish?
(pic is the boom but not mine)

I absolutely hate image noise. Mostly chromatic noise, but also luminance noise. Even on film. It drives me crazy that my 1.5x crop factor Nikon sensor produces as much noise as it does shooting RAW. Even if what you see on a screen is like 298% as big as the default print size assigned to the image by the camera, I want my images crystal fucking clear at that level.

Is it autism? Is noise in, say, situations where the so-called "gritty" look is not usual (like pic related) okay? If yes to both, can you slap it out of me, especially with photos that disprove my view that image noise is never, ever, EVER welcome?

So with winter and child weather fast approaching, how do you shoot outdoors?

I've been reading a lot of conflicting articles, some day keep the camera close to you/in your jacket at all times to keep it warm, bit others say to leave it in the cold as your body heat week just create moisture.

So what is the proper handling ways?