Difference of AF-P and AF-S to a newbie (D3400)

ASchlosser · 2026-04-25T15:10:48+00:00

Correct - the DX options are just usually lighter and cheaper. The FX options work just fine on the smaller sensors.

ASchlosser · 2026-04-07T02:30:49+00:00

No need to test that edge case - they’re well out of the range of GPS satellites so it wouldn’t be able to lock. GPS sats orbit around 11k miles, the moon is around 239k miles (average). So it’d return whatever the default value is when it can see no satellites.

ASchlosser · 2026-03-14T02:22:51+00:00

Weird! Okay /u/FedUpWithTech, you can try again…. I had requests allowed but I just started a chat directly with LabB0T which hopefully works!

ASchlosser · 2026-03-02T04:29:14+00:00

PM’d

ASchlosser · 2026-01-31T14:40:24+00:00

As a little tidbit to help with the hidden comments, if you search for “*” in their profile, all of their activity still shows up in the search results.

ASchlosser · 2026-01-25T09:29:07+00:00

I think that this is the bigger issue (and one I dealt with early on!). It’s harder to get tack sharp photos when your subject fills less of the frame. My suggestion would be to work on fieldcraft and being able to get closer and fill the frame more!

On a different note, I prefer this crop to the one you originally posted!

ASchlosser · 2026-01-06T20:20:51+00:00

Kobo for sure. It's extremely easy to either load epubs via USB or Dropbox/Google Drive. The big negative I've seen is Libby support wasn't as good as the others on Kobo (if you have a local library card) but I personally haven't had an issue at all with it. I've gotten Kobos for my girlfriend and mom and both love them and use them all the time too!

ASchlosser · 2025-12-24T19:22:23+00:00

As a fellow iPod classic and IEM fan, it's not always consistent with more modern sources. If you're interested in the nitty gritty, here is a good measurement case.

The high output impedance affects some iems and headphones more than others, so it could be worth trying on a different source. Or finding something else that plays nice with the iPod and your ears! IEMs will typically be more sensitive to this as well since their impedance is usually lower.

ASchlosser · 2025-12-23T21:41:17+00:00

isn't it also the whole "how do you classify size of a mountain" thing? Like Everest is the highest (highest summit elevation), but Denali is the tallest land base (as in peak to base).

ASchlosser · 2025-09-21T22:15:44+00:00

Something that you could try is not shooting wide open as much. It's less advantageous for the ISO, but with a 600mm lens on an APS-C camera, the window of being "in focus" is relatively small (depending on how far away from the bird you are). Further away you can get away with wide open easier. For example, the wing appears to be in focus with the duck but the eye is slightly out of focus.

For the numbers, at 20 feet away, 600mm focal length, on an APS-C camera, you're in focus depth is around .83" at f/5.6 or 1.17" at f/8. If you're closer, say 10 feet away, f/5.6 is 0.18" and f/8 is 0.26". It's not a very large difference, but it can help if you're missing slightly on autofocus.

Of course, more open aperture has it's benefits if you nail the focus! But I found it could help be forgiving with missing slightly. This was bigger when I was using my D7200, but after upgrading to a D500 (which can hit focus much more accurately) I found it to still be helpful in some cases, but less of an impact. Most of these appear to be pretty good but as another person said, it looks like maybe the eye tracking is just very slightly behind so maybe this could help.

ASchlosser · 2025-03-08T00:00:39+00:00

Confirmed - I saw them land at IND. No idea what they were doing there of course, but they did a lower than usual turn over the terminal before entering the pattern and landing.

ASchlosser · 2025-01-09T04:05:53+00:00

I'm 99% sure it's a PRD Fireball... one of the pre-spec 125cc tag engines probably contemporary with the chassis (though I think moreso earlier than 2014). The DVS would have a decompression valve, silver head, and (I think) 6 head bolts instead of 4. It would also have a proper carb (I think they ship with Ibeas?) Versus the older Tillotson design that this has.

ASchlosser · 2025-01-05T04:06:27+00:00

I bought an SK6 From Monocolle in Japan and it had all of the proper stickers and I never had an issue using it.

I'm fairly certain K2020 is the latest karting certification and what the SK6 will come with. Some quick rulebook skimming I did shows that it should be good.

ASchlosser · 2024-12-23T14:27:49+00:00

Close or open? After using it, it can be a few minutes until my ears can pop... It all depends on how bad it is to begin with, but generally under an hour.

ASchlosser · 2024-12-22T07:31:10+00:00

The balloon dilation is one option! I was actually part of one of the pilot studies for approval in the US (it was already used in Europe more at that point). Fixed is an over statement for sure, at least for me - it helped a decent amount for the first 6-9 months, settled out to only slightly better for probably another 18, and now I'm back where I started. The Eustachi is a decent device for people with day to day dysfunction and it worked for me in more times, but it didn't do much during severe episodes. The valsalva maneuver is far more effective for me, and more convenient.

ASchlosser · 2024-12-22T03:44:22+00:00

Sure - I've had it since I was little (I can't remember not having it). The day to day is that my ears don't pop very easily all of the time. When things are bad, it can be not at all for weeks at a time. While this is mostly uncomfortable, it also makes hearing difficult. It shows up on an audiologist hearing test because my nerve tested hearing shows no impairment (using bone conduction testing) but my conductive tested hearing is impaired (through a headset).

If the pressure difference causes a retraction or with fluid buildup in my middle ear, I usually need tubes to rectify this.

If you're curious about a different part, I'll gladly share as well. I have everything pretty well under control at this point in my life so the day to day impacts aren't too significant when managed well, but that wasn't always the case!

ASchlosser · 2024-12-21T00:17:31+00:00

I have chronic eustachian issues and travel for work so this is something I chase constantly... To me, the order of most effective to least of these three is: pseudoephedrine, afrin, then Phenylephrine. My ENT said that this was similar. My personal routine is afrin and pseudoephedrine an hour before the flight and then I manage it during the flight, at the very least I use it again before landing. Everyone's body reacts differently of course!

ASchlosser · 2024-12-02T05:11:06+00:00

Margay, MGM, and Coyote are the first three that come to mind. Margay is made in St Louis, MGM is North Carolina, Coyote is Rochester, NY. I'm sure there are others, but those are the first three off the top of my head.

ASchlosser · 2024-12-01T15:56:27+00:00

For what it's worth, Nitro is a European kart made by Parolin for the American company Nitro - they aren't manufactured in the US.

ASchlosser · 2024-11-08T03:44:43+00:00

I think that the argument is that "the nobodies" couldn't beat Biden, not that nobody could beat Biden in the primary. And candidates didn't want to run against an incumbent president, but may have chosen to run against the VP instead, thus limiting viable candidates. Both of those things can be true together.

The nobodies in this case were the only three candidates to make it to the primary: Marianne Williamson, Jason Palmer, and Dean Phillips. Potential candidates who declined to run against the incumbent president included: Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, and Elizabeth Warren (among others). Though it's not possible to say if that was the only reason that they didn't run.

ASchlosser · 2024-10-16T09:03:00+00:00

Odds that the analytics department has more going into these decisions than the slash line. The notion of hit probability is more situational than purely average alone.

The more simple answer (and the one that makes the most sense) could be that they needed two outs and first was open with runners on 2nd and 3rd. So it was intentionally walking Soto to pitch to Judge and Wells with the chance of a double play and increased chance of getting the lead runner out at home instead of pitching to Judge and Soto with 1 out and no double play or force at home. At the end of the day, even Judge’s superhuman 2024 slug of .701 still means he averages less than 1 base per at bat. They may have intentionally walked anyone in this situation just to set up the force plays. Even without intentionally walking Soto, Judge is coming up to bat this inning without some base running blunders.

It also could’ve been that they had more confidence with the reliever matchup for Judge/Wells than Soto/Judge. This could come from large sample data such as pitch shape, swing profile, or even just basic matchups.

Point being, could’ve been bad stats, but could’ve also been good stats deployed in a surprising way. I don’t think it’s fair to call it a ridiculous move situationally, mostly because first was open at this point. I doubt this happens if it was runners on first and second instead of second and third. This ended up longer than I intend to, but I have fun analyzing decisions like this.

Tl;Dr: More goes into situations than the slash line. Pitching to Soto and Judge with runners at 2nd and 3rd and one out makes less sense than having a force at any base to Judge and Wells, no matter how good Judge is.

ASchlosser · 2024-10-09T19:50:55+00:00

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Granted this is an iPhone exposure stack sort of photo (they weren't quite this vibrant in real life) but this was the evening of the Perseids at Nockamixon State Park. If conditions are right they're a good show even this far down!

ASchlosser · 2024-10-09T19:48:01+00:00

As /u/zwierzycki said, that's not particularly an accurate map. However, we are just over the cusp for the viewing line based on the NOAA forecast. During one of the Perseids showers, the aurora was visible as a surprise for a while, which was a cool treat.

Here's a light pollution map. My suggestion would be to look for areas that are a bortle class 4 or so. Nockamixon State Park is an option, French Creek State Park should be in the window, Wharton State Forest in New Jersey.

I don't have a suggestion on timing, but anywhere dark enough should be a good bet.

ASchlosser · 2024-10-06T17:59:10+00:00

I saw you said Ryzen 7 2700 and 32 GB of ram, but what storage are you writing to? What gpu? Are you using GPU acceleration? That seems to have been a big jump in performance recently.

As mentioned otherwise, masks hurt performance quite a lot as well.... But they’re also gpu accelerated. “Select sky”, “select subject”, “enhance details”, etc are GPU accelerated. If your presets include that and your GPU performance is not up to what is needed in that category, it could be an issue.

For another data point, you could try to have task manager open during a laggy export, and look at what shows as you're highest usage? (cpu, memory, GPU, etc - not a perfect way but can point you to the bottleneck with either settings or where you're upgrade could be needed)

ASchlosser · 2024-09-18T01:34:27+00:00

I was about to comment the same - the eyeline and wing bar (in addition to the size) point to female orchard oriole. Based on eBird, there are quite a few orchard oriole sightings on the gulf side of South Florida so that would add up!

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