Hipsters and hasselblads

[Sirius Glass]

Today
Him - WOW is this a Rolex?
Me -of course it’s a ROLEX! The best!
View attachment 260216

A rare example of a frosty Rolex!

 

[Sirius Glass]

People on here make fun of the chimpers. I've done it myself.

I will tell you though when taking a photograph of a large group of people I used to take a lot of shots and hope for the best. It seems like someone always moves or closes their eyes at the click of the shutter. Having a digital camera tethered to a laptop sure helps. You can chimp until you get a good photo of everyone in the group.

But good photographers know when they got a good photograph. They do not have to look.

As I have posted before, I just cannot get the hang of chimpin'.

 

[Pieter12]

People on here make fun of the chimpers. I've done it myself.

I will tell you though when taking a photograph of a large group of people I used to take a lot of shots and hope for the best. It seems like someone always moves or closes their eyes at the click of the shutter. Having a digital camera tethered to a laptop sure helps. You can chimp until you get a good photo of everyone in the group.

Boy is this off-topic. But, if you're shooting a group with digital and on a tripod, it is not very difficult to replace the worst offenders from different shots to make a winner.

 

[Alan Gales]

Boy is this off-topic. But, if you're shooting a group with digital and on a tripod, it is not very difficult to replace the worst offenders from different shots to make a winner.

Well, we were talking about chimping......

It may not be difficult but I don't have photoshop. Besides, I like to get everything right in camera like when I shoot film.

 

[Alan Gales]

But good photographers know when they got a good photograph. They do not have to look.

Obviously you haven't tried to photograph my step-daughter. She can't be still and blinks constantly. Put her in a group of people and you have to keep an eye on her more than you do any small children in the shot.

 

[Toasty]

Speaking of Hasselblads, one time I was out shooting my beautiful 501C and I had someone ask me if it was a Kodak Brownie... Ouch.

I'm in my early thirties, I got back into film about five years ago and shoot about 90% on film, I've got a permanent darkroom set up, prefer to buy music on vinyl and all my vehicles have manual transmissions. Does that make me a hipster? I don't own any flat brim hats though so I think I don't have to be lumped in with them.

 

[jerrybro]

Speaking of Hasselblads, one time I was out shooting my beautiful 501C and I had someone ask me if it was a Kodak Brownie... Ouch.

I'm in my early thirties, I got back into film about five years ago and shoot about 90% on film, I've got a permanent darkroom set up, prefer to buy music on vinyl and all my vehicles have manual transmissions. Does that make me a hipster? I don't own any flat brim hats though so I think I don't have to be lumped in with them.

Ok, but no skinny jeans!

 

[Huss]

Speaking of Hasselblads, one time I was out shooting my beautiful 501C and I had someone ask me if it was a Kodak Brownie... Ouch.

I'm in my early thirties, I got back into film about five years ago and shoot about 90% on film, I've got a permanent darkroom set up, prefer to buy music on vinyl and all my vehicles have manual transmissions. Does that make me a hipster? I don't own any flat brim hats though so I think I don't have to be lumped in with them.

Waxed mustache?

 

[Toasty]

Haha, definitely no skinny jeans or waxed moustaches here.

 

[Huss]

Haha, definitely no skinny jeans or waxed moustaches here.

Fixie bike? Waist coat? Wallet chain? Drink PBR?

 

[Toasty]

Fixie bike? Waist coat? Wallet chain? Drink PBR?

No fixies, wallet chains or waist coats, just a regular road bike. PBR is okay for a cheap beer to drink during the summer, it's not my first choice.

 

[removed account4]

People on here make fun of the chimpers. I've done it myself

funny thing is people have been chimping since before polaroids were invented and after that when auto winders were made. I always laugh when the analog mafia goes off on chimpers when they probably chimped before it was called chimping ... friend from college's dad was some sort of well known nat geo photographer or something .. who said he had to take 10s of thousands of images to get 1 that was published and if you gave a chimp a camera they would probably be able to take the same photo ... unlike Shakespeare it wouldn't take 1million of them.

Speaking of Hasselblads, one time I was out shooting my beautiful 501C and I had someone ask me if it was a Kodak Brownie... Ouch.

I'm in my early thirties, I got back into film about five years ago and shoot about 90% on film, I've got a permanent darkroom set up, prefer to buy music on vinyl and all my vehicles have manual transmissions. Does that make me a hipster? I don't own any flat brim hats though so I think I don't have to be lumped in with them.

manual transmissions and vinyl ?
im writing this by telegraph on a penny farthing

PBR isn't bad. I'd rather be drinking a 'gansett ......

 

[Pieter12]

funny thing is people have been chimping since before polaroids were invented and after that when auto winders were made. I always laugh when the analog mafia goes off on chimpers when they probably chimped before it was called chimping ... friend from college's dad was some sort of well known nat geo photographer or something .. who said he had to take 10s of thousands of images to get 1 that was published and if you gave a chimp a camera they would probably be able to take the same photo ... unlike Shakespeare it wouldn't take 1million of them.



manual transmissions and vinyl ?
im writing this by telegraph on a penny farthing

PBR isn't bad. I'd rather be drinking a 'gansett ......

You got me, how do you chimp with a film camera?

 

[removed account4]

You got me, how do you chimp with a film camera?

spray and pray

 

[Pieter12]

spray and pray

? Not my understanding of the term "chimping." Besides, unless you have a 250-exposure back on a motorized camera, spray and pray doesn't exactly apply to shooting film.

 

[Sirius Glass]

funny thing is people have been chimping since before polaroids were invented and after that when auto winders were made. I always laugh when the analog mafia goes off on chimpers when they probably chimped before it was called chimping ... friend from college's dad was some sort of well known nat geo photographer or something .. who said he had to take 10s of thousands of images to get 1 that was published and if you gave a chimp a camera they would probably be able to take the same photo ... unlike Shakespeare it wouldn't take 1million of them.



manual transmissions and vinyl ?
im writing this by telegraph on a penny farthing

PBR isn't bad. I'd rather be drinking a 'gansett ......

You got me, how do you chimp with a film camera?

spray and pray

? Not my understanding of the term "chimping." Besides, unless you have a 250-exposure back on a motorized camera, spray and pray doesn't exactly apply to shooting film.

That is not chimpin'. That is poor technique.

 

[itsdoable]

spray and pray

? Not my understanding of the term "chimping." Besides, unless you have a 250-exposure back on a motorized camera, spray and pray doesn't exactly apply to shooting film.

For those of use old enough to remember, the term "spray and pray" was around at the start of motor drives on film cameras...

But it's not chimpin'. That's "ooh -ooh -ooh!"

 

[removed account4]

? Not my understanding of the term "chimping." Besides, unless you have a 250-exposure back on a motorized camera, spray and pray doesn't exactly apply to shooting film.

IDK I've seen many film users since I was a tike, put a motor back on their camera and shoot 36 exposures in about 10 seconds .. and I've seen those giant backs that hold like 100 feet of film, so. ..

That is not chimpin'. That is poor technique.

maybe?
not really sure what good technique is, and if they are enjoying themselves, getting the exposures they want not sure what the problem is.
at least they aren't spelling thine behest with an a. ...

 

[Huss]

Spray and pray is actually what digi shooters do who don't have time to chimp.
I actually know peeps who use those Red movie cams, film a brief sequence, then go in and pick out the best single frame for a still image.

 

[Cholentpot]

You got me, how do you chimp with a film camera?

Ground glass?

 

[Pieter12]

Ground glass?

Nice try, but chimping is the act of inspecting a shot on the display of a digital camera immediately after it is made (the shot not the camera) and making faces and oohs and aahs. Some people use it to refer to just the act of checking every exposure as it is made.

 

[Arthurwg]

I thought a Chimp was a kind of monkey.

 

[madNbad]

Spray and pray is actually what digi shooters do who don't have time to chimp.
I actually know peeps who use those Red movie cams, film a brief sequence, then go in and pick out the best single frame for a still image.

Is that what Adams meant by "previsualization"?

 

[removed account4]

Nice try, but chimping is the act of inspecting a shot on the display of a digital camera immediately after it is made (the shot not the camera) and making faces and oohs and aahs. Some people use it to refer to just the act of checking every exposure as it is made.

this idea of calling someone a one of our primate cousins because they look at what they shot to see if it was worth keeping is kind of funny. its something chemical photography users wished they could do from the beginnings, its something people who process their film with UV goggles or a green safelight or who use ortho-esque film do every time they process film; its the proof shot those of us who shot polaroid before exposing the big sheet of film did often .. and now because everyone can do it with their digital cameras its bad, because they took photographs that probably looked good (maybe even as good as some pro might have taken). the whole thing is really kind of laughable . I guess developing film by inspection ( and saying ooo ahhh because you nailed the exposure and are excited )... is bad too--- . LOL.

Is that what Adams meant by "previsualization"?

yes, it is.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Nice try, but chimping is the act of inspecting a shot on the display of a digital camera immediately after it is made (the shot not the camera) and making faces and oohs and aahs. Some people use it to refer to just the act of checking every exposure as it is made.

And the Hasselblad 503 CX does not show the image after the exposure because the mirror is up, so I have never been able to chimp and have never had the need. I know when I have gotten the photograph.