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I have the Samyang/Phoenix/Rokinon 800mm mirror lens, it is insanely hard to focus. The bundled x2 converter affects focus distance and is m49 mount, so it doesn’t play nice with others.
At 2560mm equivalent with sensor cropping it’s like a donkey boner; very long, gets a lot of attention, but usually only fun for the one using it and ultimately not very useful.
I don’t know how much of that also is true of the 500mm.

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This is for pervs. You’ll notice it’s on a Nikon as well.
Those binoculars look awesome. It had “3D” on there, so I have assume they are in stereo.

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When do you find out if she likes them?

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Do souvenirs have to be touristy things? Like, I try to find a rock I can legally take back home from places I go.

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That is crazy.

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some of the “top” G+ photographers are merely meh in my opinion, but have thousands of followers because they are young, attractive, and female.

I don’t think we’ve been considering our audience enough. The question everyone on the internet must ask, “Why would I look at this instead of porn?”
Clearly we should be doing porn. Now, we know the audience likes U-Man‘s kids…

*runs out of the thread*

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Aluminum heat sink on tin can with 1.25″ prime focus astro-mount (Will a cookie Monster tin work, Mofo?

I was joking because that seemed like a 50 hour project the guy on the linked site was asking hundreds of dollars for.

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and I want someone to come along and show me I am wrong!

You’re wrong!
The non-porn internet is about learning and fun. Yes, the internet cool kids have moved to reddit, but reddit still suck at photography. I mean, look at http://www.reddit.com/r/photoclass
I say the future is in being fun a place to learn. And yeah, that means busting out and making farktography.net more than a forum. Which is totally doable. I suck at photography but I’d be willing to do a proof of concept.

But first and foremost, the fun. Again, going beyond the contests, I think we ought to have a forum based photography display, in a non-contest format. Contests have deadlines, and that’s limiting. I think people could really get into themed wackiness. We’re enough to create critical mass for certain things, like photos of “girly socks living better than entry level programmers” or “buildings being assholes to sidewalks” or whatever. There are other ways to give context and an audience to photography on the internet than contests. I think people would look at a gallery of girly socks living better than entry level programmers.

There was a joint fark/reddit party in Chicago this weekend. Fark, being a teenager, has a much more established presence in the real world than reddit, and the redditors that showed up liked it. I’m sure Drew wouldn’t mind if farktography threads got posted to reddit. Reddit likes linking to things.

Primarily I think this is a matter of acceptable participation and disappointing spectatorship, er, um… spectation? Giving the internets what it wants while continuing to give content creators what they want. What do we want anyway?

SHUT UP I TOTALLY ENTERED A CONTEST THIS YEAR SO I AM TECHNICALLY STILL PARTICIPATING!

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Can you do this in under 2 hours?

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It might be worth the effort for video.

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I and occasionally like to dress as Marilyn Monroe.

/NTTATWT

You mean you’re not a girl?

Girls don’t have facial hair like that. Just women, sexy sexy women.

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It’d be nice if everyone just moved to debit cards. I bet a sock full of debit cards is easier on the face than pennies.

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I’m glad for you, really, but you’ve benefited enough from our collective wishes of good luck. We’ve documented our powers, it’s time to be fair about this.
Let’s start wishing linquine good luck in finding large diamonds in his backyard or couch cushions. When he has those, we move to the next. Deal?

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Really amazing.

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http://www.tccamerarepair.com will give you an estimate via e-mail, which is nice. I only know one guy who’s used them, but he had them fix up a lens that fell into and sat in mud for a while. He was happy.

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