Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone,

In my opinion, DVinfo has the best digital filmmaking forums in the world. I am just beginning to venture in the Photography world. I was wondering if you can please recommend me what would be the DVinfo equivalent in the Photography world.

Could you please recommend me such forum/s?

Thanks very much!!

Ben Tolosa

PS: I posted this here, because I own a Canon 7D.

Photography community, including forums, reviews, and galleries from Photo.net (http://www.photo.net) is definitely one of the best and most popular
Steve

fredmiranda.com has a good forum... but they don't let you sign up with a free email account like Gmail or Hotmail, which pisses me off as I haven't had a "normal" email account in 10 years so can't access it.

Dylan, your reputation precedes you. They made that email rule just because they knew you wouldn't have a "real" email account.
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Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone,

In my opinion, DVinfo has the best digital filmmaking forums in the world. I am just beginning to venture in the Photography world. I was wondering if you can please recommend me what would be the DVinfo equivalent in the Photography world.

Could you please recommend me such forum/s?

Thanks very much!!

Ben Tolosa

PS: I posted this here, because I own a Canon 7D.

Try looking at Digital Cameras: Digital Photography Review, News, Reviews, Forums, FAQ (http://dpreview.com/)

I have found them to be pretty good.

dylan, your reputation precedes you. They made that email rule just because they knew you wouldn't have a "real" email account.
;-)~

lol... Probably. :)

Photography community, including forums, reviews, and galleries from Photo.net (http://www.photo.net) is definitely one of the best and most popular
Steve

fredmiranda.com has a good forum... but they don't let you sign up with a free email account like Gmail or Hotmail, which pisses me off as I haven't had a "normal" email account in 10 years so can't access it.

Dylan, your reputation precedes you. They made that email rule just because they knew you wouldn't have a "real" email account.
;-)~

Try looking at Digital Cameras: Digital Photography Review, News, Reviews, Forums, FAQ (http://dpreview.com/)

I have found them to be pretty good.



I checked those websites out and was there for a couple of hours. Very interesting. I also found these 2 to be very popular and very interesting:

The Photo Forum - Photography Discussion Forum (http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/)

And...

Canon Digital Photography Forums - Powered by vBulletin (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/index.php)

Again, thanks very much it was really very helpful!! ^_^

You all have a wonderful weekend!!

Ben Tolosa

PS fredmiranda has a very helpful review on the Canon 24mm f/1.4L II with opinions of several owners and was very helpful to me to put it in My 2011 WishList since in have a 7D (1.6crop).

I'm lucky enough to shoot for a living (5dii and 7d) so if theres anything I can help with feel free to ask :) The 7d is a legendary camera. I bought it expecting mediocre quality and was blown away. I just love the fact that it is so stupidly responsive. Its possible to be shooting a couple getting married, zoom in to shoot a candid moment and back out to shooting the couple all within a second and have all the shots on focus.

My advice is to put your thick skin on!

The atmosphere here at DVinfo is like no other. I wish this was true for the photography forums I visit.

There is a pretty cut throat attitude at times and nit picking of details that I still have not been able to get used to.

I shoot video & still and this is the place I like the best for learning. Although there is plenty to be learned on a site like DPreview.

Try luminous landscape - it's a good site for high-end cameras, including medium format and large format cameras.

+++ 1 for Fred Miranda. The buy and sell is great with a seller feedback rating.

Fred Miranda is great for tech and buy/sell. I think Pixtus has more of the same DVInfo-style atmosphere, though this place certainly is unique in that regard.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the mods on Pixtus, so I guess I'm biased.

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EDIT: Holy thread bump... I just noticed the datestamp. Oops.

Talk Photography (http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/index.php)

its a UK site, its the same forum set up as DVinfo and there are some very talented photographers there.

Andy.

Well, your original post is now 2 years old, but here is another website for you
Digital Photography Review (http://www.dpreview.com/)

It offers some pretty hard-core reviews of gear, and an always lively forums

There are so many now. We even have a local to NZ forum:

Photography forum and chat - D-Photo / Hellophoto (http://www.hellophoto.co.nz/)

In the beginning IIRC there was DPreview, but that became unusable because of the dire signal to noise ratio. More recently, Amazon took a controlling interest in the site, and it is way better nowadays. I rarely use the forums, but visit the news page at least once a day.

Digital Photography Review (http://www.dpreview.com/)

Lots of good sites listed above. The flickr groups are OK because there are literally thousands of them, and you can home in on exactly the one that interests you. The Canon DSLR group is quite good because of the high posting rate: (if you happen tpbe a Canon shooter)

Flickr: Canon DSLR User Group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/canondslr/)

One with good content and advice is Photo Camel

PhotoCamel - Your Friendly Photography Forum (http://photocamel.com/forum/)

For Adobe apps, you can do no better than the specific Adobe forum for your app of interest. Incredible level of knowledge in those forums, but as they include Adobe engineers like Chris Cox, and technical book writers like Jeff Schewe, you'd have to expect that. Jeff also appears on the Luminous Landscape, which is one of the best respected of such sites.

Adobe Community: Home (http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa?view=overview)

Bob Gailbraith was a top site, but I think he is too busy working to run the site nowadays.

Not a forum, but Joe McNally's blog is good value, as he is such a clever photographer. Same thing with David Hobby's Strobist blog. Not so sure about the flickr group though.