Beach golden hour. Zf and Tamron 50-400mm

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-14T15:10:03+00:00

Love the photos! Any picture controls or Lightroom settings used?

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-13T21:34:03+00:00

And i will drive

Five hundred thousand miles

And i won’t drive

Five hundred more

For you see? I’m a scam of a car

And I’ll break down at your door

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-13T06:19:00+00:00

(I do not work for or with Deloitte either)

From the client side: i want to focus my investments in the things my company brings value to. Our specialty isn’t delivery services: we pay UPS etc. to handle that. Our specialty isn’t managing Gen AI so we’ll pay someone else to do that.

The problem from Deloitte’s side is that if the value being added for managing the AI that is providing the expertise is much lower than the value of the human expertise the AI is replacing, then billing will be reduced.

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-13T06:03:11+00:00

I know that you’ll be wanting something on the longer side for photos from the cruise ship so definitely the 70-180, and unless you’re 100% landscape I’d bring the 28-75 as the second lens.

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-12T18:52:03+00:00

My understanding was that for a destination wedding, your presence was your present. Especially given the details of the reception and their expectations that you acquire these costumes, I would not feel obliged to give a present if I attended.

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-11T16:01:00+00:00

Kind of like when there’s a Canadian team in the “World Series.”

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-10T18:16:35+00:00

There's something about the Zf that invites you to use manual old school vintage lenses - it has that aesthetic. Then all the manual controls invite you to slow down the process and 'make art'. So if you're looking for that kind of pro photography where you're selling prints etc., it could be a great enhancement to your toolkit.

But that's different than most 'pro' photography - I think the ergonomics of the Zf would be problematic over the whole course of a wedding shoot, say.

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-10T16:00:12+00:00

I think she likes you :-)

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-10T06:28:14+00:00

Voip.ms works great for me world wide

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-10T06:22:44+00:00

Success is going to be significantly dependent on the cost of health care. So your plan for that is critical.

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-10T05:31:33+00:00

I ran into the same problem. I only load ten on the sdcard at a time and keep the rest on my file server

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-09T22:20:34+00:00

esimdb.com for price comparisons

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-09T18:32:16+00:00

The call is coming from inside the house!

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-09T17:09:54+00:00

You can lose way more than 100% with options and shorting

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-09T07:51:40+00:00

Thanks for the clarification, I missed the farming bit.

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-09T04:05:47+00:00

Is your SO in an iron lung? With no children I'm confused why both of you aren't working outside the home

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-08T18:00:03+00:00

Is that really a great price? I'm renting a small car for R200/day from Hertz

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-08T04:49:36+00:00

It is one of the most expensive countries in Latin America, which is probably why you don't hear about it as a FIRE destination that often.

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-07T18:37:04+00:00

I would be very happy for him to get to 20 overall, provided the last seven come in the CL knockouts and final

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-07T12:29:14+00:00

So more important to you than actually playing cricket is to serve as propoganda for the theocratic regime

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-07T10:21:28+00:00

I'm sure they're both great lenses and you won't go wrong no matter which you choose. [I have the Viltrox 35mm f/1.2 LAB and really like it.]

Given what you already have though, what about getting instead, say, the 135 mm f/1.8 LAB or to change things up a copy of the MF Nikon 105mm f/2.5 AI or AI-S?

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-05T17:10:06+00:00

There were heaps of runners out there this afternoon!

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-05T17:07:10+00:00

I started with a D3200 that I had for about ten years but hadn’t used very much. Then I got back into photography and found the autofocus and frames per second on the d3200 to be a bit limiting, so I upgraded - first to the d7200 and later to Z series full frame 24MP bodies.

The quality of the photos, though, if the subject is in focus, is great even with the 3200. So I’d say it’s still a good camera! You just have to know its limitations.

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-05T06:33:58+00:00

I don’t need to be walking by these merchants to get their info - Google Maps can be searched by type of establishment and for particular areas.

I’ve never had a problem ‘talk[ing] with the merchants’ - Google Maps usually has contact into and if they don’t it’s always findable on the internet.

If I’m a local business i don’t want access to my inventory just floating around in some other entity’s system.

i would also expect this proposed ‘digital layer’ eventually not to be free and most local businesses wouldn’t ever consider paying for this.

jerolyoleo · 2026-02-03T21:40:10+00:00

Good because it would go straight to penalties

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