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Interesting. I have found Darktable to be quite fast on some rather mundane laptops (8-core Zen 2, 4-core low-power Ice Lake). I'm only using it on a 24MP camera, so people with megapixel-monsters...
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Right -- nor should they. Point is, it's simple to do write verification if you want to, and it's simple to automate it. And while not every photographer needs to know command-line tools, it's...
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cp * ~/Photos/somewhere/ md5sum * > checksums md5sum ~/Photos/somewhere > checksums-2 diff checksums checksums-2
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I don't think there's anything wrong with Nikon being "late" to mirrorless. They are a very conservative company, and they made excellent DSLR's: the D6, D500, D850, D7500, and so on are all superb...
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There are lots of them in use, though. At the local eagle nest there's me with my D500, someone with her D7500, a guy with a D850, another D500...
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Hogan says some very positive things about Nikon's engineering. When he criticizes them, it's messaging and marketing, not the cameras and lenses. A few quotes: "Once we early adopters verified...
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The 300PF is a magnificent lens.
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Thank you for your service as a FOSS developer!
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Looks like a great option for people who want a bit longer than the 300mm but shorter/faster than the 500mm. Nikon long prime shooters are spoiled for choice: 300 f/4 400 f/4.5 500 f/5.6 800...
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I waited for ~6 months to get a 500PF (and this was quite a while after release, too.) This is a good thing to some degree for Nikon. Having lots and lots of people who want to buy your products...
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Yeah, I'm not keen about the logos. The ergonomics on the old DSLR's were fantastic -- my D500 is basically perfect. I'm less keen on the Z6 (which I use), but I've taken a look at the Z9 and it...
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I was the pianist at a friend's wedding last year. The photographer was a local high school photography teacher, and I saw she had a 28-70 f/2. I held some strobes for her for an outdoor setup...
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Nikon is also *out there*. My town is a hotspot for birdwatching in the winter -- we have a bunch of eagles that show up. There are Canon, Sony, and occasionally Fuji and m4/3 cameras represented,...
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There are also F-mount lenses that work fine and can be adapted if you really need one of these options.
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How is that lens for astrophotography? I am using an adapted Sigma 14/1.8 and am less than impressed with some of the optical issues (serious field curvature) for astro work.
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Per https://campus.murraystate.edu/faculty/tderting/anatomyatlas/salee_shaw/hawktunics.html a hawk's fovea has a million cones per square millimeter of retina. That corresponds to each cone being 1...
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Also, smartphones spend their days in people's pockets, and if they're in the places where interesting photos get made, they're probably sweaty and a bit scratched. I treat my Sigma 14/1.8 a lot...
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So, I have a Z6. It was a workhorse for online teaching and got used in a chalk-dust-heavy environment for a year. (My priority was the students rather than keeping the camera squeaky clean.) Now ...
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These aren't nuclear reactors; they are radioisotope thermal generators. They are indeed reliable -- they power things from Voyager 1 and 2 to some old pacemakers (and those pacemakers work...
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Interesting question! I was shooting with the camera braced on something at 1/2 second (difficult with a 700mm!) because I left my tripod at work. But the "rule of 600" says that the slowest...
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