Mika Y.

One counterpoint I'd like to make is that besides business entities, there's an active hobbyist community training or finetuning custom AI image generation models to scratch whatever kind of itch ...

Was the camera working OK when you last used it in 2020? If it was, there's a very good chance that it's still fine and doesn't need repairs. Last year, I gave away a Canon 20D that was probably ...

Is there ultimately much of a philosophical difference between creating from scratch a piece of software and creating some kind of physical filter or something similar affecting the light reaching ...

Well, you can design your own algorithms for achieving the exact look you're going for and implement them yourself instead of relying on existing "kind of like what I had in mind but not quite" ...

My experience with R7 and the basic adapter is that all EF lenses I've used work perfectly. I haven't noticed any image quality penalty either (the adapter doesn't have any optical elements, so ...

Ah, you mean as an animation rather than as a still. I guess GIFs can be still useful for that if something like ping-pong effect where the animation continues to go endlessly back and forth is ...

I'm not sure what you mean by the same effect?

I'd guess they are primarily focusing on supporting formats that are commonly used as a source or destination in context of photography. And it's been quite a while since GIF was popular in that ...

My reply to OP might have been a bit of tongue in cheek :) For what it's worth, I use autofocus most of the time.

The truth is, I am a long-time DSLR user who has mostly been a mirrorless camera for the last year, but I have also had a few strictly manual focus lenses such as Samyang 135mm f/2 for ...

I think autofocus can become a crutch and cause one's skills to atrophy or never develop in the first place.

That was not meant to be any kind of combative argument, more in the spirit of that in practice both manufacturers produce pretty stable CPUs by most people's criteria (this desktop is also on ...

Just checked my main desktop for the sake of curiosity, since it does have a first generation Ryzen and a NVidia GPU. Seems to be 38 days since last boot due to some security update actually ...

I bought one in late 2002 and used it happily until 2004. Back in the day it was a pretty decent compact, and I kept using it occasionally even after I purchased my first DSLR. The last time I ...

I don't know if being in 30's is young or not, but that's when I used a touchscreen keyboard for the first time and while a far cry on the experience with a mechanical keyboard, I found it quite ...

Well, it's only been available for less than a year in the first place, so it's not really surprising that people are not selling them yet due to upgrading/switching to something else.

If you want to use your existing Canon lenses, you can also do that with Canon mirrorless R series bodies and an adapter. Speaking as someone who purchased a R7 in late 2022, I can say from ...

Familiar experience. Back in the day I used to use Bibble and it was quite decent. But after becoming ASP development became glacial and eventually I gave up hope and moved on.

As someone who already has several extra USB chargers and Micro, Mini and USB-C cables that I don't really need due to getting them with smartphones and other appliances, I wouldn't mind not ...

Is it really so hard to just rotate the camera to whatever orientation you feel it's appropriate for a given scene? During the couple of decades I've used digital cameras, doing that has honestly ...