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by slantyyz 6y ago
Nikon's first mirrorless cameras were announced in 2011, so around the same time as Fuji's X-Pro1. While a lot of people mocked the Nikon 1 series (because of their strange form factors and handling), they were the only mirrorless
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by slantyyz 6y ago
IIRC, Canon's 1" sensor cameras use Sony sensors too. Don't know if their smaller sensor cameras are home made or not though.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> I have owned two of their micro 4/3 DSLR cameras I thought all of their 4/3 cameras were DSLRs and all of their micro 4/3 cameras were mirrorless?
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by slantyyz 6y ago
That attitude shows up in any domain where one can feel like they belong in the top tier of "knowledge". You could just as well be talking about preferences in operating systems, barbecue sauce, coffee, diets or web frameworks.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Have you considered the 9-18 for traveling? I have an equivalent lens for my Nikon J5 (so I'm in no rush to pick up the 9-18 - or I should say -was- in no rush prior to the Oly announcement), and it's the lens I use the most durin
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I used to prefer focals in the 40-60 normal range (ff equiv), but the 45/1.8 was the first lens I bought after making the switch to M43, and it's still my favorite lens to this day.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
If you're not a pro, there's no reason why you still can't switch. Size does matter in terms of whether you bring your gear with you or leave them at home. Panasonic is still making cameras. All of the M43 cameras since aroun
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> Seems like "any Cannon" is the only sensible answer. Why? Most cameras made after 2014 are more than adequate for most non-pro hobbyists. A recent vintage Olympus or Panasonic M43 camera is still pretty competent, and assumin
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by slantyyz 6y ago
IIRC, Kodak and a couple of Chinese mfgs (Mi and I believe Yong Nuo has announced an M43 in a smartphone like form factor) also produced some bodies and lenses in the past decade, although I wouldn't put them in same class as Oly or Pa
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by slantyyz 6y ago
But a lot of people who self-identify as being serious about photography will stigmatize you for the gear you're using.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I have to think it's going to be tiny, cool (as in temperature) and use a fraction of the electricity that the latest Mac Pro does. As for the pro software that currently requires a physical dongle for DRM, I'm guessing those vend
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I have to wonder if Apple even needs to worry about TB on the Apple Silicon computers moving forward. Now that they're going down the path towards controlling everything in their computer hardware, I can see Apple creating a new propri
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> presumably the CPU was being limited in software anyway Would this be in the OS or the bios (or whatever they call it on a Mac)? If it's the former, I wonder if the test would have been more interesting if the MBA was running a di
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I don't think there can be a universally accepted answer to this, as there are so many different user priorities for laptops. Having said that, I think the top requirement for most laptops is that "it's gotta run what I need
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> The problem is that I'm guessing Apple wants to move to their own ARM not for more compute, but more power efficiency. I'm guessing the switch is for those reasons, plus a more important one (my opinion only), control. If the
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Anecdata, but my experience with powerline networking in a house with relatively new wiring was that wifi performs better and more reliably.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Not a fan of the rumored platform switch, but I tend to think the vast majority of Apple's Mac users, who aren't power users/techies, care more about the Apple hardware quality/design and OS than the CPU platform that Ma
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Wasn't Intel saber-rattling about patent lawsuits when Microsoft announced that Windows for ARM would run some x86 apps via emulation? [1] While I don't know what became of that, I can see Microsoft working out a deal with Intel b
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I owned an early 2011 15" MBP with a discrete AMD Radeon GPU which had very well known serious manufacturing defects. I didn't realize Apple had any 2011 model year Macs that used nVidia GPUs.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I people like a David (in this case, HH) vs. Goliath story and wants to root for the so-called little guy. I tend to think Spotify is too big for the media and other pundits to consider to be the little guy.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> Except that the physical copy of the game is still gatekept by Microsoft or Sony. And Nintendo. I don't follow consoles these days, but the gatekeeping by region that console makers used to do (even if I understand the reasons beh
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Windows has issues with HiDPI once you have multiple screens with different densities, and it's not just with legacy apps. In any case, Windows is just using a scaling feature. But when you scale, you are losing workspace in exchange f
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by slantyyz 6y ago
That's not the way Windows works though. Can't speak for Linux desktops.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> What changed? Why is the transition from 110 PPI to 220 PPI being handled differently than the one from 50 PPI to 110 PPI? Well that is a user setting, and I tend to think the first retina iPhone is what started the trend. Also, at cer
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by slantyyz 6y ago
That's an interesting idea. I should look into that when I eventually upgrade. A stubborn part of me left the monitors in landscape because I occasionally play games, but I end up never doing that on my desktop. Because I prefer to use
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I think it's a complicated topic. IMO, there are two key criteria for monitors. Real estate and pixel density, and in some cases, you can't get both affordably. I have had 15" laptops with 4K displays for some time now. I lov
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> my beef is with Atwood's opinion (and similar opinions) that you must use a three monitor setup It's weird to me to specify the number of monitors given how they come in a vast range of shapes and sizes. For example, my dream
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I have found DisplayFusion and now PowerToys' FancyZones to be indispensable on Windows desktops with a ton of real estate.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
So I'm a little nuts in that I run 2 x 27" 4K monitors side by side with no scaling. 27" is about the smallest I can tolerate 1:1 pixel sizes. Since aging has forced me into wearing reading glasses, I wear single vision compu
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by slantyyz 6y ago
If it's so perfect, why is it so underrated? "What a portable Mac should be" is going to mean different things to different people. My perfect portable Mac (based on what's available) would be a 16" MBP, because I c

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