100% with you on places like Culver’s. At McDonald’s new price point I would rather go somewhere slightly more expensive and get better food and/or experience.
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1·1 day agoI see. Do you have an interest in birds outside photography? If yes, I hope you’re still able to get out there and enjoy them, even if you’re not doing it with a camera. If not, do you see yourself getting interested in a different subject? I’ve been chasing bees and flowers as the opportunity arises and I could see that being a pretty good outlet.
Clearly you’ve never heard of a horse drawn carriage ;)
Nice work, glad you liked the results!
This is a pretty cool scene, did you use your drone for the shot again?
I had a D40 and D5300 before my current crop of gear. I totally agree with you on the complete lack of budget options these days.
The Fuji X-T50 and X-S20 are both over $1200 with a lens. Sony’s ZV-E10 is $700 without a lens and you can get the A-6100 with a 16-50 and 55-210 for $1100.
If I was a kid in college looking for my first camera I might just pass on buying one right now :( Thankfully the used market hasn’t lost its mind too much.
Photography? Good. Lots of opportunities to take photos of the kiddos with the fresh snow.
Sharing photos on the fediverse? Not as good. Time is very limited and by the time the kids are asleep I am off doing other things and/or vegging. I do want to try to help nurture the community, but the OC I want to post deserves a little commentary and… yeah, time is tight :(
For me at least, photography is a secondary activity that I do during the “real” activity - going for a walk, getting outside, etc. Photography does provide a secondary motivation to doing that activity.
8·2 days agoBest documented, supported, and repairable commerically available printer - absolutely.
Something like a Voron probably qualifies as even more open, since all the designs are freely available and the parts are off the shelf, but you’re going to need to be able to troubleshoot yourself or rely on forums for help.
For that budget you’re going to be looking at used gear.
Do you have any weight/size limits?
Will you be photographing nature predominantly during the day, or will you also be taking a lot of photos at night?
When you say nature, do you mean landscape/scenery and/or wildlife?
The answers to these questions will greatly help with giving you a good suggestion.
3·3 days agoI completely get the eat the rich mentality. At the same time, it really doesn’t make sense to rebuild some of these places. We’re all paying for it one way or another.
/a rub living in a flyover state that’s very boring from a climate change perspective, at least so far.
41·3 days agoIf it snows “bad enough” this is very common. The roads are going to be hard to drive on, which leads to more accidents and just puts first responders in jeopardy. The day before a big snow the grocery stores are usually slammed.
3·4 days agoIt’s almost like the saying “the grass is greener” is a reoccurring human phenomenon, lol.
I personally like the idea of many instances, but it would be great if there were a way of doing something about communities that are attempting to fill the same niche. For example, there are 3-4 small-mid sized photography communities with very similar rules and moderation styles. Maybe the mods could agree to form an alliance and somehow federate posts and comments across the community? If something goes sideways they could always break off the community level federation.
“Go to college” can be good advice. It really depends where you go to school (in state University vs private or out of state for costs) and what you major in (growing fields, salaries of people with that major, etc). Unfortunately, many of us didn’t get any advice on the second bit.
That was similar to my experience. If your parents weren’t providing coaching for what constituted a “good” school or what might be a “good” major you were basically playing roulette.
Jokes on them, not even the state school wanted me because I was such a slacker in highschool. Working a dead end job, waking up after a year, and enrolling in community college was the best thing that could have happened to me.
In the case of at least one school, the state was also cutting back funding.
I would love for this chart to have two extra lines: the cost of tuition and an inflation adjusted cost of tuition. Without those numbers this chart could simply be “the school spent more while getting constant state funding and made the difference up with tuition”. That wasn’t actually the case here, but the chart doesn’t make it obvious.
Websites must use a properly configured robot.txt file with tags specifically telling OpenAI’s bot, GPTBot, to leave the site alone. (OpenAI also has a couple of other bots, ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot, that have their own tags, according to its information page on its crawlers.)
This sounded weird, so I poked around some. It looks like sites can choose to block all bots and then explicitly allow some (eg Google/Bing). If you want to be choosy as an admin, you’re going to have to put some work in. That sucks. It’s almost like bots need to be typed for something like ‘AI’, ‘search’, ‘archival’, etc…
They ran poll for what to do about the sex scenes. The choices were: a post for every line even if the line repeats, a post per unique line, and skip them all together.
Nice shot!
You mean I should actually post all the things I’ve been meaning to post?! I’ll make an attempt tonight after work to get one up.
The side that works for you is the correct side!
My camera usually stays at home during the week, but if I go anywhere with the family it’s out of its bag. Photo opportunities quickly come and go, so I want quick access. Pre-kids, my gear was either in a bag or getting used. Now, I’m a lot more comfortable leaving the bag behind and only bringing the camera.
If you’re on a budget, I would offer two suggestions:
I have no real feedback on the R50 one way or the other. I’ve never used the camera.
For nocturnal and people, you’re probably going to want a “fast” lens. This is measured as a ratio of focal length to physical aperture diameter and is called a f-stop. The number is 1/x, so smaller numbers = bigger ratio.
Generally speaking, the fastest lenses are fixed focal length primes. Not zooms. For an everyday lens, a 35mm or 50mm is going to be a decent choice. On a crop sensor, divide these by 1.5 thanks to the crop factor. The actual focal length you land on will depend on how wide you want to get and how far from your subject you’ll be able to get.
There are some “fastish” zooms available, but they aren’t as fast/sharp as primes and are usually bigger/pricier.
As for macro, a cheap way of doing that is by adding something like a Raynox DCR-250 to your lens or using an extension tube. You can buy a dedicated macro lens, but IMO unless you’re going to be doing a ton of macro or the lens happens to be a focal length you will use for non-macro work I would go the diopter/extension tube route.
Seat of pants suggestion? A Nikon D7x00 series camera. They have a built in focus motor, so you can use any Nikon F-moint autofocus lens. Combine that with a Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G or a Sigma 30mm f/1.4 DC HSM ART and you’ll be off and running.