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Would absolutely love them both Hugh! I would like to have a real variety of cameras and lenses available for the participants to explore and play with! Sort of like the United Nations of photography!In that case, I have a Panasonic DMC-G1 body with charger and 2 spare batteries. A lot of my recent photos shared on here from Flickr were taken with this camera until I recently graduated to G5 / G6.
It's old and still has great IQ, but I'm afraid you will need a Micro 4/3 lens for it as I have already sold some off, or I can include a M42 / m4/3 adapter if you can use manual lenses such as a Takumar. I believe it has focus magnification when using manual lenses.
I also have a Fujian 35mm f/1.7 lens (70mm equivalent) complete with adapter; it's OK but more of a fun lens with it's swirly bokeh.
If this is acceptable let me know.
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Hugh
As AFB said, that's extremely reasonable!£17.70 for 1.4kg package standard airmail, or just under £11 economy.
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Will shoot you a PM.
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Would absolutely love them both Hugh! I would like to have a real variety of cameras and lenses available for the participants to explore and play with! Sort of like the United Nations of photography!
As AFB said, that's extremely reasonable!
Will shoot you a PM.
Thanks for your generosity!
Mate, I paid £17.75 to send a tripod to Sussex this week!!! so this is good.
Either you waz ripped off or it's going via Oz, as that's exactly what I've just paid to send the G1
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Might be expensive if it's over sized. Up to 30kg I can send anywhere in the UK for £6 through work.
if you're after a tripod setup at all for teaching them some long exposure stuff down the line (light painting would be fun for them), I've got a 3 legged thing gathering dust ever since I bought my gitzo. Also have an L bracket and lens mount for it as well.
£6 go get it anywhere in UK. You looking to offload that old M9 to make way for something new?It would still cost me £17 to get it to you to then send for £6...
HELL NO!!!!!
The only way that that or its twin will leave me is when prised from my cold dead hands mate....
It would replace one of my others.... but not one of the CCD things of beautiy...
Would absolutely love a second tripod, with whatever gadgets you have for it! I've got a couple of ball-heads with arca-swiss plate mounts, so all the cameras can fit on them, just need to grab a few more plates, but that's no biggie. One participant has only got the use of one hand, so for her it's imperative to be using a tripod at all times. I'd love for the group to be playing with long exposure photography.
A PM is on its way, and I promise it's not Turnbull.
An update on this little venture.
I've now sourced all eight cameras thanks to the generosity of others and my own purchases, with sixteen lenses between them all. A mix of M43's and DSLR's, so as to accomodate everyones needs.
There are four weekly Mindful Photography groups starting in a couple of weeks time.
I'd just really like to thank those that helped me get this going. Unfortunately the NGO I was working with, whom I no longer partner with, wouldn't let me use any of the participants images to send as prints and cards to the donors, regardless of all of the participants saying they wanted to do it. It was a bureaucratic nightmare I just didn't need, so I went elsewhere, where there has been no obstruction or excessive bureaucracy to establishing groups.
So as a thanks to those that helped me to get this going, I'll send you a free download of my ebook on Mindful Photography, which is well over 400 pages in length (and should be finished in the next week or so) and a card or print from the participants of the new groups.
I've now sourced all eight cameras thanks to the generosity of others and my own purchases, with sixteen lenses between them all. A mix of M43's and DSLR's, so as to accomodate everyones needs.
There are four weekly Mindful Photography groups starting in a couple of weeks time.
I'd just really like to thank those that helped me get this going. Unfortunately the NGO I was working with, whom I no longer partner with, wouldn't let me use any of the participants images to send as prints and cards to the donors, regardless of all of the participants saying they wanted to do it. It was a bureaucratic nightmare I just didn't need, so I went elsewhere, where there has been no obstruction or excessive bureaucracy to establishing groups.
So as a thanks to those that helped me to get this going, I'll send you a free download of my ebook on Mindful Photography, which is well over 400 pages in length (and should be finished in the next week or so) and a card or print from the participants of the new groups.
Well done for all your hard work. I'm sure the group is enjoying the sessions.
Excellent work Alex; you must be so pleased with how it's turned out.
Keep it up, and good luck with the book
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Hugh
Hey Alexander.Of.Oz...congrats on your hard work! I am a hobbyist photographer. Do you have a link to the book...I might be interested in it. Thanks!
Thanks, AFB. The previous groups loved it. The new ones are about to start in a couple of weeks time.
Thanks, Hugh. I'm really chuffed at the results and how well it's been received. I think that the assistance from all over the globe is the thing that has blown me away the most, for a simple little local cause. The G1 now has a twin, with a shiny silver 14-42mm lens!Excellent work Alex; you must be so pleased with how it's turned out.
Keep it up, and good luck with the book
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Hugh
It is indeed, Ken!
Thanks! There is a download link to an excerpt from the book available here. I'm not linking to the iBooks excerpt version any more because every time I export it from iBooks Author, it ends up with stupidly cut off letters in random sections, even though everything is well within the safe print zones! Apple Help can't work out why it's occurring. As a result, I have had to redo the entire thing from scratch, so the full book will have a slightly different appearance to the PDF excerpt.
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Thanks for your offer, but we have all we need now, I have the eight I set out to gather, in combination with three lenses each (which I'm still sourcing), it's going to be three backpacks full for me to take to each session! And I don't drive due to severe anxieties! It's probably for the best that I don't have a panic attack whilst behind the wheel.
Just thought that I'd let those who are interested have an update on these programmes.
The groups had their first sessions for this year, and there's another tomorrow morning. There were quite a few that didn't attend, so no groups were full, but there are plenty of folks on the reserve lists, so next week should have better attendances. The Saturday group may not continue, there's only 3 people interested, and I suspect it's possibly because it's being held at a church and people think there's a religious aspect to it, because the church didn't like me using the term "Mindful" in the title so it's rebranded as something different. Time will tell what happens with that one. Last week I went out with 1 participant and this week there should be 3. I'll keep running it and hope we get more through word of mouth from other participants in the other groups.
This time around, my hands are not tied by any NGO's, so I have been able to create private Flickr and Facebook groups for all of the participants to be able to share their images, ask questions and have a chat together.
I am editing 4 of my own choice of each of the participants images that I particularly enjoyed, and am posting them to a private group for all the participants, where they can also add more from each week if they want to. I am also editing 3 of the participants choices of images for inclusion into their 20 page photo-book that they receive each term. I give the participants all of their images at the beginning of the next weeks session, transferring them onto USB sticks. These have been run through a one-size-fits all import filter, similar to what is done in-camera when you save as jpegs.
The 4 images that I select as highlights each week for all the participants are viewable on Flickr to the public via a photo stream (and in folders for each of the groups). I am adding to this each week.
They can be seen at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156125231@N07/
I thought it would be good for those who donated to this cause to actually get to see some of the images, and the participants loved the idea! There is nothing identifiable about sharing them through my Flickr account.
Hope you enjoy them! There are only 2 participants so far that have ever used controllable cameras before, so I think they are doing really well for their first session!
The groups had their first sessions for this year, and there's another tomorrow morning. There were quite a few that didn't attend, so no groups were full, but there are plenty of folks on the reserve lists, so next week should have better attendances. The Saturday group may not continue, there's only 3 people interested, and I suspect it's possibly because it's being held at a church and people think there's a religious aspect to it, because the church didn't like me using the term "Mindful" in the title so it's rebranded as something different. Time will tell what happens with that one. Last week I went out with 1 participant and this week there should be 3. I'll keep running it and hope we get more through word of mouth from other participants in the other groups.
This time around, my hands are not tied by any NGO's, so I have been able to create private Flickr and Facebook groups for all of the participants to be able to share their images, ask questions and have a chat together.
I am editing 4 of my own choice of each of the participants images that I particularly enjoyed, and am posting them to a private group for all the participants, where they can also add more from each week if they want to. I am also editing 3 of the participants choices of images for inclusion into their 20 page photo-book that they receive each term. I give the participants all of their images at the beginning of the next weeks session, transferring them onto USB sticks. These have been run through a one-size-fits all import filter, similar to what is done in-camera when you save as jpegs.
The 4 images that I select as highlights each week for all the participants are viewable on Flickr to the public via a photo stream (and in folders for each of the groups). I am adding to this each week.
They can be seen at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156125231@N07/
I thought it would be good for those who donated to this cause to actually get to see some of the images, and the participants loved the idea! There is nothing identifiable about sharing them through my Flickr account.
Hope you enjoy them! There are only 2 participants so far that have ever used controllable cameras before, so I think they are doing really well for their first session!
Great images there. Looks like some of them have an aptitude for it...
Absolutely! There's a few that have a cool eye for the quirky image and one lady who hasn't picked up a camera since the 80's when she was studying a Diploma of Photography but gave it up to have her kids, using large format cameras for studio, product, landscape, architectural and fashion images! She's taken to it like a duck to water and has a very refined eye. She loves that she doesn't have to lug about a huge camera and think about rises, tilt or shifts to the various parts of a large format camera. She picked up back button focus really quickly, now I just need her to use a camera that has image stabilisation, because I notice that a few of her images are blurry, like the Koala one.