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The original reason I bought a 35/1.8 lens was for videoconferencing/training sessions. I don't have a 100% dedicated space for doing it at home, and I wanted a relatively narrow field of view so I didn't have to clean too much of my office (which, as one might imagine, looks like a computer...

I see. It's fair to say that more or less none of the stills-first crowd like Leica or Hasselblad have a lens ecosystem that lives up to your needs either.

It gives Nikon credibility in cine cameras that it otherwise did not have before and possibly the patents it needs to stop using Sony for all its sensors. Basically, it can be a full camera company again. TV and movie production might not like losing an option on their side of things, but Arri...

Apparently, Nikon is buy Red. Maybe it'll finally start making sensors again.

I make more money from editing video than anything else that's directly camera-related. My copy of Resolve Studio is paid for and I haven't really wanted anything else to go with it from the software side of things. I'm using kind of a lot of my side hustle money for a trip to Puerto Rico or...

Copilot is the AI dingus that's supposed to replace Cortana, I guess. I don't know what people do with it. I've gotten Google's thing (used to be Bard but now it's Gemini) to summarize long youtube videos. It does a decent job of that. I suppose all the AI things can handle that though.

It sounds like the R5ii is going to be as much of a meh upgrade for current R5 owners as the R6ii was for R6 owners. Maybe the new SoC will be amazing, but is it worth $3500 - whatever the resale value on an R5 is? Who needs a mechanical shutter, right? I don't really like software phoning home...

Capture One still has the option to buy perpetual licenses, unlike some giant evil imaging empires. They're $300 with discounts if you upgrade frequently. I let Topaz expire. Whatever improvements there have been in the last year definitely haven't added up to $100 worth of added value to me...

Has anyone used Microsoft Copilot for even one single thing ever?

I flip the screen out so I can use my left thumb for focus point selection. That makes more sense for me as a left handed person anyway. Every camera has too much shit on the right hand side anyway. The rest of that isn't a huge deal for me personally.

I still have a hard time with the distinction between the R6ii and the R8 as it is. Is a second card slot worth $500? Maybe there's an improved sensor on the way, but I feel like those tricks need to start at the R5 line.

The A5x don't have flagship Qualcomm SoCs, nor quite as much RAM. I can't directly compare the battery life myself. I usually end a day at 50 - 60% battery life, though I seldom let it drop below 30%. I don't see any way to adjust the display colors except that there's an adaptive mode that...

Pretty sure they still used a mirrorless camera for it. :P They kind of glossed over the central fact of the problem, which is that the drone only had enough battery to keep that pace for three minutes, barely enough time to run that lap. They said they dropped the weight of the drone by 10%...

There are people complaining that specifically the Vivid mode isn't as vivid as it was on the S23 models. and some people think the battery life isn't any better. Coming from an S20 with an old battery, I can't say. I just wish I had an SD slot. The A5x phones are never going to be the...

I can't believe there's such a thing as an independent GPU repair specialist, but here's this guy on Youtube explaining the realities of having a fat ass RTX 4090 in horizontal mounting. Watching a couple of his videos, I have serious respect for a guy willing to de-solder and re-mount a...

Dutch team builds an FPV drone faster than an F1 car for very special track footage. Prepare for tons of Red Bull Product Placement.

In act 2 of Tosca, Floria Tosca stabs Baron Scarpia to death after he makes it clear that he will only free her lover from prison in exchange for her virtue. She then breaks out one of the most iconic arias in all of opera, which in English is "I have lived for art, I have lived for love." It...

Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore...

I was entirely outside the nice, warm car. My partner was both driving her little car around and posing with/on the car. She's quite taken with it. We've had a very strange winter. All of December was over 50F. January was mostly 20s and 30s. This month, the temperature spread has been from 0F -...

It does have heated and cooled seats. A Mini Cooper is surprisingly affordable and practical for someone who spends a lot of time driving into the north side of Chicago. She's quite taken with it, and at $25k fully loaded it was cheaper than the Civic she looked at. I'm using an Altson...

Remember that I'm shooting people, sometimes in motion, rather than wildlife (I suspect they will often move faster than humans do), which is a different set of needs. If I leave the R7 purely in human subject detection and eye AF, that by itself will get me enough keepers to say it's...

To my way of thinking, the A7rV, Nikon Z8 and Canon R5 are all hitting around the same US$4000 ballpark with strong hybrid features. Sony has the clear winner if you're really looking for that high resolution sensor and seems to be the better choice for video AF when compared to Canon and Nikon...

45MP is plenty of resolution if you ask me, but Canon not having anything better in mirrorless is a little sad given what Sony has on offer. This is a dead simple and cheap tool for field backups. It could be further enhanced with an m.2 daughterboard, but an Rpi like that is a little bigger...

My reasoning for getting proper tri-mode HBAs is that commonplace 2.5" SATA/SAS SSDs definitely top out at 4TB. I can still get 1DWD drives, which I see as a goal of any server drive life cycle. I don't particularly care about the PCIe data transfer rate (is it over 500MB/sec? Then it's fast...

At a guess, there are more QLC NAND m.2 OEMs are probably looking at their offerings as most appealing to consumers, just as HDD vendors mostly market and sell SMR drives at the consumer level.

Kingston offers a 2 DIMM 96GB DDR5 6000 CAS 32 with EXPO support, part number KF560C32RSK2-96. Crucial has a 2 DIMM 48GB DDR5 6000 kit, but not a 96GB kit. G. Skill and most of the other big players seem to have EXPO RAM with DDR5 5600. I will admit that I don't know why the 12 / 24 / 48 /...

I'd take it. Those Broadcom controllers also top out at 12Gbps, which which is clearly less than ideal for a PCIe gen 4 drive anyway.

I thought I saw support for u.3 in the product brief. It's easy enough to check that, but even u.2 opens up the option to get higher density and endurance drives than consumer stuff. As for 3D printing, I have access to a maker space. A zillion years ago, I knew how to use CAD well enough to...

One of the models I work with just pays me to edit video rather than do camera work. Her husband has an MFA in Cinematography. I've been on a shoot with the two of them and I really did learn a lot, but mostly I learned that $25k in Godox gear and enough batteries fixes everything. Canonrumors...

I'm starting to see 16-port Broadcom 9400-based cards on Ebay for under $200. These are the Tri-mode devices that can handle U.2/U.3/EDSFF disks in addition to SATA and SAS. I'm terrible at 3D modeling but it seems like I could print a 1U external enclosure out of ABS (~100°C heat resistance)...

I was looking at this article, trying to tell if something like Filmic Pro can turn on LOG video output on my new phone, but it accidentally has a really good explanation of the distinction between 8 and 10 bit Chroma sampling and SDR/HDR content.

A zillion years ago, I remember that I had a customer that was transitioning off traditional (HPUX) workstation systems to Windows 2000. We tried four or five commercial NFS implementations before we found one that more or less worked. Everything we tried did something weird/dumb at least some...

Another year, another Backblaze data dump. 10 and 12GB drives seem to be problem children. 16TB seems to be a reliability sweet spot.

Server and workstation hardware prices typically fall off a cliff about four years after they're released. X399 + 1950X + 128GB RAM combos are selling for ~$800 on ebay now. Hopefully we see the same trend for Ampere. (edit: typed in the wrong old CPU. Derp).

Since Windows is creating the problem here, perhaps you could use something like rsync between the two VMs involved and let Windows access it through SMB that way? Is this the only pain point in current operations?

It's like voting. One side is moderately incoherent and can't get its act together enough to get anything worthwhile accomplished. The other side thinks prison camps are dreamy and loves words like "Ethnostate."

Apple Silicon is its own thing. Most of its architectural benefit comes from everything being on the SoC, with no expansion at all aside from Thunderbolt and USB. Ampere is an nVidia graphics chip, yes, but there's also a company called Ampere, which makes ARM products for the datacenter. Even...

Does it have to run under NFS? Could you access the same thing from SMB?

Ampere (ARM64) isn't exactly cheap right now, but it will be in a couple years. The motherboard feature set is both serious and pretty dreamy; 4x16 PCIe 4.0 lanes, 8 single channel DDR4 DIMM slots, 4x SlimSAS, 2xOculink, 2xNVMe, 2x 10Gb. The whole thing can be passively cooled , too. I think...

Most of what I'm looking for with is more related to production than equipment. I can't afford a full set of $2500 lenses and I know that; I typically don't worry about what's going on with that side of things. Potato Jet for example is Hollywood adjacent enough that a lot of his content is...

Under what context does the task run? Is it a task triggered by login with your user account login. There are some stupid tricks you can play, like having it run in the "on startup" trigger off the Administrator login (that won't map a drive for you but it will trigger without your login)...

The cards themselves are passively cooled. They aren't even as warm as 10GbaseT.

I know 4x SFP28 cards exist but I sort of stopped looking at anything once I saw how dead cheap the 40Gb cards are. I take it that your goal is to sort of make your own switch? I am also aware that one QSFP+ to 4x10Gb SFP+ cables exist, although I don't immediately know what equipment supports...

I'm not aware of any 4x QSFP+ Mellanox cards. Many of the ones you can find will be dual port. With three dual port cards, everybody can have a dedicated path to the other high speed hosts, if that's something you need. 40Gb switches can ALSO be found for reasonable amounts of money but are...

This is more of a general interest post but here's Youtube Camera Guy Potato Jet watching an Oscar-winning cinematographer produce video using an iPhone 15. If you don't wanna watch it, the short version is that if you have professional lighting and production design, the camera itself is almost...

This isn't entirely relevant to your issue but the Sergei Strelec Boot Media you can find on MajorGeeks.com includes a tool that will re-write a Windows EFI partition and another to edit Boot entries on Windows if for example you wind up wanting to revert back from using Grub as your primary...

A tool I use when I run across systems with update issues is WSUSOffline. You can run it and dump all the updates for whatever combination of OS, platform and architecture(s) you like. I keep the files on a flash drive. Since the files then execute locally, I typically run in to fewer issues and...

I suspect that many people do not know the power of Mellanox ConnectX adapters. Here's the deal: Mellanox adapters are readily available on Ebay and other marketplaces. They come in lots of different models, but in most cases, 3rd generation cards can be bought in pairs for around $60. These...

We have very different perspectives on that matter for certain.

In recent history, porn drove the creation and adoption of video streaming and E-commerce and it is one of the first ways that any communication, storage or artistic medium is used. The only person I know who has one of those funky 5.2mm stereo lenses uses it to make money via Manyvids.com...