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What exactly do you normally shoot? I figured you are doing travel/wildlife photos.

I was having a good time looking at building details that generally aren't visible from street level. It was fun to see how many tall buildings have gargoyles, for example. Or that some random skyscraper has a basketball hoop on the roof. LM, the specs on the Z-mount 800/6.3 look like exactly...

It's on par (a little below, actually) with the 3070, yes. That's still A LOT of graphics card. It's absurd enough that it wasn't a part I felt the need to upgrade once I got it. After doing a little bit of digging on that Matrix Awakens demo, there is apparently a single thread in Unreal...

There's a compiled version of the Matrix Awakens Unreal 5 engine demo floating around now. I got a copy of it from a Mega link and tried it out. It looks absolutely amazing, but I can't seem to do better than 35 - 45 fps @ 4k with RTX 2080. It might be interesting to come back in six months...

Eye/Body detection AF is ironically the thing that was actually working correctly. It's when I switched to one of the single point, zone or plane AF modes that I'd lose control. The controls on my R6 are set up so AF-ON switches to whichever Eye AF mode I have set and AE Lock focuses for...

Very few modern file formats aren't compressed as part of the standard in the first place. You might as well enable FS level file compression for the oddball exceptions, but almost no one is storing plain text or uncompressed TIFFs in quantities that will result in much savings.

Canon wants me to send in my R6. I downgraded the firmware to 1.4 instead. My issue went away. I suppose that if it returns after the next major firmware revision, I will ship it back, but it's definitely a disappointment. From my back and forth with Canon, it doesn't seem to be a common issue...

Probably 10 and 11, but also Linux!

Intel released its first Alchemist GPUs today. Today's products are for mobile devices only and appear to benchmark at about double the speed of the current Intel IGP, but this is also the weakest part in the lineup. I do think it's good news that a new discrete GPU has entered the market, and...

We are talking about a general purpose CPU benchmark in this case. The M1 Ultra doesn't quite live up to an Alder Lake i9 on single core scores or a Threadripper 3990X for multicore but it's somewhere close-ish for both. One of the nice things about having large numbers of cores is the ability...

Tasky, a simplified alternative to Tasker.

The Mac Studio does outpace a consumer Alder Lake i7 and is approximately on par with a three year old Threadripper in terms of CPU performance, but is absolutely smoked by the new fastest Threadripper Pro. The biggest guys have approximately 3x(!) the multicore performance and seem comparable...

My subjects generally aren't sitting still and posing nicely, LM. Especially if they've had some drinks, or if they're dancing. Especially especially if they're dancing. I spend most of my time in FV mode, which I think is new to the RF-mount Canons. I'd rather stay in that and alternate...

I have AF-On engaging Eye AF and * set to select focus mode. If I'm using anything other than Eye-AF, after a few pictures (~20 - 50), the camera parks the focus point on the bottom left (single point) or left-hand side (wide focus) of the focus area. The fix seems to be to switch the camera on...

The higher refresh rates do make the phones seem more responsive. I turn off animations and other sorts of effects for the general Android OS, but I do notice when I'm scrolling a long web page or watching a video or something.

Unless I'm using Eye-AF, my focal point moves to the lower left-hand corner after some period of time. I can reset it, but it takes about 10 seconds each time. Eye-AF seems fine, but I'm have a sort of Chosen Family gathering this weekend, and I'm taking a lot of group photos and wide shots...

The A-series are really nice devices that have largely been very successful and reliable. They're "one step down" from flagship specs, so for example they have 90Hz screens instead of 120Hz, and use 700-series Snapdragon SoCs. You're getting specs that are probably on par with a 2 year old...

AMD has next gen Ryzen in the pipe. There are leaks but nothing official yet.

Ok so I tried the update and NOW my R6 is acting up. It created a problem I wasn't having at all on 1.5. Goddammitsomuch. It's easy enough to deal with but up to now, I've never had to.

Sure, but plenty of people also don't want to deal with having RAM and storage that can't be changed. I wouldn't want to be limited to Thunderbolt for every single thing I want to do.

AMD is releasing some budget Ryzen 5000s now, based on Zen 2 and Zen 3, and just added firmware updates to allow Ryzen 5000 CPUs to run on older but socket-compatible budget boards with A320 and B350 chipsets. MSRP is right in line with previous generations. This is good news for anyone who...

Since we're not in any way on topic right now, from what I've been seeing, it looks like the power draw on next-generation nVidia cards is going to be 400 - 600W with at least a provision for 800(!) watt single cards. That's mind boggling. Apparently nVidia and AMD have traded places as far as...

It's individual ICs soldered to the board if it's anything like the M1 iMac I opened up. They're serious about it not being upgradeable.

That was the driver for my choice to go to Threadripper instead of a consumer desktop platform. I'm not sure if there are any plans for another generation of Not-Pro Threadrippers going forward, unfortunately.

I've read some rumblings that PCIe Gen 5 might run nVME on two lanes instead of four, simply because the bandwidth will be there to support it. That would definitely make desktop consumer platforms a lot more appealing again.

Macs these days are the proverbial car with the hood welded shut. Yes, having no modularity means they can do whatever they want for RAM and CPU interconnects, which is the real power the M1 seems to have, but it's going to be so much e-waste in five years when 16GB will be a laughable amount of...

Games running on Linux have gotten a LOT better but something that annoys the crap out of me are games where the base product is available but none of the extras get released for it. Battletech for example doesn't have some of the DLCs it should. Turns out the game runs fine in emulation anyway...

It's hard for me to throw stones given that I'm sitting in front of a very expensive desktop as it is, but this is a system that has been continuously upgraded for over four years. I never put more than about $2000 into it at any point in time. $8k is about what my annual rent costs me.

On a related note, having just digested the M1 Pro/Ultra stuff that was just released, it's a goddamned shame that it's going to be tied to something that only has Thunderbolt ports (PCIe 4x equivalent) for expansion and IO and no capacity for RAM or internal storage upgrades.

I might be willing to look at a bigger GPU if there's some evidence that something is a big enough upgrade. If for example I can triple FP32 performance by moving to a Lovelace-series card for some reasonable (i.e. under $1000; the RTX A6000 does that but it is about $4k right now) amount of...

It's starting to seem like 2.5" SATA SSDs are becoming a thing of the past. I have a bunch of server systems out in the world that don't have u.2 backplanes and still have a couple years of life in them. Intel D3-S4510s, which were released in 2018, are kind of my product of last resort...

I have a bunch of Sabrent 2.5" USB enclosures for general purpose backup drives and I've used SSK nVMe enclosures for faster stuff. I can't say I've seen many disconnects.

Some day there will be a Batman who can turn his head.

Backblaze posted its reliability data for its SSDs today. It's on Slashdot, but maybe some of you don't check that all the time. The short version is that the drives that they have a decent statistical sample have failure rates around 1%/year, but there are two drives that look pathetic because...

I finally tried Gigapixed. I printed a 4x upsampled photo (~21k pixels x 14.5k) on a 32x24 sheet. The denoise + sharpen + upsample did make a hard line from the backlighting on my subject's arm and cheek. I could've masked that and fixed it, but it's barely noticeable even on the large print. A...

LM is clearly a CIA Operative. ;) My folks moved their entire home by themselves at age 66 and 67, including an antique 10' grand piano that's probably worth a decent chunk of what a home is worth as it is. And there were stairs involved. My dad still does all the upkeep on the exterior of...

I have access to the local "big" venue in my area, thanks to a friend of a friend, but only from the control booth, which is at the back and top of the space. That means I can record the venue sound, but 200mm isn't great for video from the space I can access. I also have some ambition of trying...

If I remember right, Tannin dumped the R for an RP. Maybe he's moved on from there? The Canon 100 - 400 II is ~$1500ish as a secondhand lens and $2300 new. The Sigma and Tamron options are about $800 new. That seems wildly different in price, although I understand that things might be a bit...

I'm tempted to go next-gen, but I'm not sold on the Alder Lake approach. It's still more CPU cores, but AMD is offering higher efficiency on a smaller number of cores. I'm a bit stuck, since Intel doesn't have great support for AMD on professional systems and I'm really not comfortable with the...

Remodeling projects and yard upkeep are the best reasons not to own a home in my opinion. Every time it snows, I'm thankful I'm not the one out dealing with it at 5 in the morning.

Moving is the worst. When my roommate moved in, I was the only person willing or able to help her. She's barely 5 feet tall and weighs just a touch over 100lbs, so I wound up filling a moving van more or less by myself. I live in a third floor apartment. It was an unpleasant sort of time. She...

The photo-related tools LM uses almost never support Linux. Some can probably be used with emulation, but they're going to be niche applications that probably won't be well tested. Apple also demands an Apple ID to obtain software updates from its App Store, and there are some other minor...

Hey I only have 24 cores, and it was less about getting the huge number of cores as getting 88 PCIe lanes. I'm getting better DeNoise and Sharpen from the ~6 sliders in those products than what I get from Capture One or Luminar, especially given the processing time. DXO might yet be better...

Then it wants you to connect to that domain. Hope you're good at setting up Samba.

I saw that but since I'm not impacted by any current bug that needs fixing, I'm planning to wait for the next revision. I picked up Topaz DenNoise, Sharpen and Gigapixel software after giving each of them a trial run. The workflow with Capture One actually sucks, but I can't argue with how...

With Windows Home or a PC that has Pro installed but not associated with a Domain, it keeps pestering regularly if you aren't on a Microsoft account. That's what I'm anticipating going forward.

It's an email address and a birthday. I always use January 1 1980 for anything I do now. The main problem I have with this is that I set up PCs for A LOT of people and in most cases I don't think the MS Account adds anything but complexity to their experience; it's easy to make Windows save...

I currently share my home with a couple young women around sed's age who would otherwise be homeless. One of them I call my quasi-SO; she's staying at least until she finishes her degree. The other one is just "wintering" here since she normally lives in her car by choice. Getting proof of...

Goddammitsofuckingmuch. Also, if you don't know, you can only have a maximum of 10 PCs attached to your Microsoft account at a time, and a SEPARATE 10 PCs with access to the Windows Store.

Coca-Cola Zero Sugar tastes worse than Tab or Diet Rite and that is a hill I am prepared to die on.