sluggy_warrior

It's easier said than done. If the goal is that simple, the computer/camera would be able to nail it every single time :-) When your subject is in front of a backlight, the backlight fills the ...

AutoISO only kicks in when there's not enough light for the selected Aperture and SS. So let's assume that we're in a low light situation. Yes, the EC dial will change ISO first to meet the minimum ...

hah, I guess EC stands for Exposure Compensation. However, the EC dial started back in film day where ISO is fixed in the film. Thus, the EC dial back then only adjusts SS and A, it didn't affect ISO.

The camera uses various metering methods (spot, matrix, center-weighted, ...) to calculate the exposure. Depending on the method selected and the scene, there will be clippings most of the time ...

The "area" is relative, I think, could be sensor area or pixel area. If a sensor is bigger but has higher resolution, its pixel is still of similar size/pitch relative to the smaller sensor at ...

The X-T20 without a grip, is mostly perfect for small lenses (short prime, 18-55). Bigger lenses such as 18-135, 50-140, ... definitely needs a grip. With the grip, it's almost the same size as ...

Another typical scenario: stage lighting. Spotlights are much brighter than the rest of the stage, requires compressing the DR in almost every theater shots. I capped AutoISO at 800 to avoid ...

A very rough attempt at visualizing ... RAW is 14-bit, or 16384 possible brightness levels per pixel. By raising the ISO, the camera shifts the brightness level up, and thus clips the data on the ...

another take forgoing the busy foreground/sand using a different LUT with Velvia applied, 16:9 can be a nice wallpaper :-) The wide angle and colors remind me of the game Muramasa

The chargers are smart enough to measure the current and voltage of the battery via two pins (+ and -), this method is well-proven since rechargeable AA. The T terminal is usually connected to a ...

trying out the new sigmoid module in darktable ... not a fan of tone-mapping and don't have an artist in me anyway :-) mild version with sigmoid, tone equalizer, color balance, local contrast pushi ...

It's much easier and cheaper to replace a screen protector than the screen itself. I'm a fan of Murphy's law :-), I always apply a screen protector on the first day I get a device. I bought a bunch ...

I wonder if that's the same for all Fuji chargers, or just the X-T4/X-T5. The Wasabi USB charger for my X-T2/X-T20 would split the available power to two batteries. If I plug into a regular 5V 1A ...

If you're off the grid, e.g. charging from USB power banks on trip, any charger with an LCD screen will waste those precious juice on the LCD screen itself. On top of that, fancy features like ...

Even if the Samsung USB source sends more than 2A, it's up to the FX1 charger to decide how much to use to charge the battery, so no worries about the FX1 sending too much current into the battery. ...

Agreed that the manual is pretty good, and that's all specific to the X-T5. Anything not in the manual typically can be learned with most cameras. Although, reading manual is not everyone's ...

Since you're too lazy to search, and I happen to remember seeing the other thread ... :-) https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4682916 The X-T5 has quite small buffer. Depending on your usage, ...

nind-denoise was trained on the noise patterns generated by Markesteijn demosaiced images, thus, it would work best with a plainly demosaiced output at normalized/regular brightness. Any ...

For downsampling, I found Lanczos + unsharp is really good at bringing out details, e.g.: /usr/bin/convert "infile.jpg" -filter Lanczos -resize 725x -unsharp 1.5x1+0.4+0.02 -quality 90 "outfile.jpg" ...

Yes, Geeqie is my default viewer, also for culling (using keys 1-5 to mark, then Ctrl-1/5 to select). Super super fast! darktable is of course my main RAW processor. Although its built-in profiled ...