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Yeah, this time they will use the ultimate newly discovered formula :-) /S https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a28648718/mathematician-solves-old-camera-lens-problem/

Beware that there's been report/measure of the charger consuming too much power itself (measured with a USB power meter): https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2GMPUHRPMYNPV/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_ ...

The fancier the device, the more chance it fails :-) The Wasabi USB charger that came with my Wasabi batteries has been serving my X-T20 without fail the past 3 years: karate tournaments, recitals, ...

Well, it doesn't have to have all the features to be an alternative, right? Otherwise, it'd be a clone instead :-) Their github page explicitly states: "darktable is not a free Adobe® Lightroom® ...

darkable does have cataloging. Both darktable and Lightroom use the free open-source SQLite engine as the DB for cataloging. Both of them support storing in SQLite and sidecar XMP files. "There ...

I recently had to scan a few hundreds of tiny B&W photos of my parents, was able to fit 9-12 of them in one scan but had the same problem of splitting them automatically. Since I don't use ...

Yes, 3.6 is indeed a big step forward. The Summer release was just last week. https://www.darktable.org/2021/07/darktable-3-6/

Wow, the sky is pitch black! There's still a little bit of light at 10pm in Minnesota, and then reflection from the street lights :-( I didn't plan on taking photos of the firework, mostly of the ...

The sample size of your data is too small to conclude anything. For example, my 3yo X-T20 made in China, my 18-55 and 18-135 made in Philippines, my 56/1.2 and 50-140 made in Japan, all are working ...

Thinking outside the box a bit, the 50-140 is excellent for product shots. It's sharp, almost like having multiple primes in one, consistent across the frame. I'd also shoot at longer focal ...

I also took photos mainly of my daughter the past 15 years: birthday parties, karate, sports, ... using the D40, D5100, D5500, and currently X-T20. The D7500 is a generation newer than the D5500, ...

It does help preventing scratch if you're reckless like me :-) I throw my X-T20 into the backpack when I'm in a hurry, sometimes forgetting that I had other things in there (e.g plastic boxes with ...

dang, 2GB is a little bit on the low side for VRAM, but darktable can definitely make good use of it to speed things up. Depending on how old your CPU is, that RX550 could make darktable 5-10 ...

$1,189, no tax, free shipping (I got mine from there, made in Japan). Grey-market though, you'll have to send the lens to them for warranty if anything goes wrong. https://www.e-infin.com/ww/item/2 ...

I used to bend wire hanger to make a frame to slide into the hotshoe and hold a piece of paper/cloth in front of the pop-up flash, but that only works if I'm close to the subject. Stepping back a ...

I didn't even think hard about it, as the risk far outweights the benefit. Even with my X-T20 and good cards, sometimes I got corrupted file in the middle of 1000+ shots, no preview/review after ...

Fuji bodies and lenses are known to be expensive, while SD card is $11 for 64GB , or $20 for 128GB . I guess Canikon users are looking at us scratching their heads, it's like buying 3 nice cars but ...

Just in case you haven't considered all options :-) https://www.darktable.org/ https://petapixel.com/2021/05/24/best-free-photography-editing-apps/ .. it's not the software that's free; it's you ht ...

Nice shots, thanks for sharing another perspective/case. I know it's plenty sharp at 140/2.8, but 50/2.8 is not as good, and it's too much to keep switching aperture when zooming in and out. I did ...

I set AutoISO to max out at 800 (X-T20's dual-gain) to avoid clipping, cranked up brightness about 2-stops in post, so it's equivalent to ISO 3200. Instead of denoising in darktable using ISO3200, ...