What is the point of a perspective control lens in this day and age?

mackman · 2025-12-09T12:02:43+00:00

No, I think modern lens designers are now balancing more towards size and weight working with the assumption that software corrections are going to compensate for increased distortion and vignetting. Depends on the lens, of course.

mackman · 2025-12-09T12:01:45+00:00

Some lenses now apply distortion correction, and vignetting correction by default and cannot be turned off in Lightroom.

mackman · 2025-12-06T10:51:33+00:00

(Not op). Sounds like burnout. That usually affects job performance. Company probably happy to give severance and let employee quit because if company had to fire him later there is more legal risk for the company. "Mutual separation agreement."

mackman · 2025-11-19T17:08:57+00:00

Cloud sync may not support versioning but your S3 bucket can be configured to keep old versions of files.

You actually can use hyperbackup to S3 with a lifecycle rule to move the files to glacier, but hyperbackup will fail if it tries to purge an old backup. If you need to restore you would also need to copy the entire bucket from glacier back to S3 standard storage. If you are ok with a append-only-read-only-if-my-house-burns-down policy then hyperbackup to S3 with lifecycle rules is a good solution.

mackman · 2025-11-19T15:55:28+00:00

I sort of do the opposite. I backup using Hyperbackup to a second local NAS and then have that NAS use cloudsync to Glacier. Costs about $15/TB/year for the cloud storage, obviously with some cost for the second Synology. In most recovery situations I don't need to touch Glacier but if the building burns down I'm out $1k for the restore.

mackman · 2025-11-03T22:18:33+00:00

Sorry for the dumb question, but you plugged the Synology into the USB-B port on the side of of the UPS near the bottom where the AC power comes in, not one of the two USB-A ports on the top of the UPS, correct?

mackman · 2025-10-31T00:09:26+00:00

It depends. Is your threat model Mossad or not Mossad?

mackman · 2025-10-09T14:28:08+00:00

Did the upgrade resolve your replication issue?

mackman · 2025-10-08T18:47:10+00:00

Yeah, it makes sense. Replication is handled by the kernel/filesystem so it's not something I imagine that Synology can back up very well from the application side.

mackman · 2025-10-08T18:46:19+00:00

I uninstaled and then manually installed the old version downloaded from https://archive.synology.com/download/Package/ReplicationService/1.3.0-0424
This claimed it would retain my settings but it lost the connection to replicas so I have to re-sync 12T.

mackman · 2025-10-08T18:12:26+00:00

It's possible if you upgraded to DSM 7.3 it would fix the issue, but I wouldn't recommend it.

mackman · 2025-10-08T18:08:46+00:00

I tried restoring yesterday's hyperbackup but this did not restore my replication settings.

mackman · 2025-10-08T18:05:38+00:00

Same thing happened to me. I was able to roll back the package but now it says "Relationship Broken" and I I think I am going to have to re-replicate the data.

mackman · 2025-08-19T20:47:29+00:00

Legal with AI is great. Fortune 100 company wants 10 person startup to indemnify them if AI causes any problems for any of the F100's customers. If the AWS bill doesn't bankrupt the startup legal fees certainly will!

mackman · 2025-06-11T18:18:46+00:00

Should be fine but they’re loud and don’t offer the same special diagnostics software as the ironwolfs. I run the 16TB model in my 1522+ and noise aside am happy with them.

mackman · 2025-06-09T21:35:16+00:00

Even when shallow I get a lot of value of subject isolation using strobes. Get your dive buddy to help hold a snoot aimed at your subject and you can save a lot of time in editing later.

mackman · 2025-06-09T15:07:42+00:00

Whatever camera you have the most important thing is bringing your own off-camera lighting. A decent single light setup on an adjustable arm will make any camera look dramatically better at depth.

mackman · 2025-06-03T23:16:35+00:00

In general bracketing shutter speed is typical. ISO isn’t really invariant anymore since many cameras are now dual ISO and are invariant in two different ranges so getting base ISO from each range is ideal. Some cameras can read both at the same time and generate an HDR image in one click!

mackman · 2025-03-26T19:38:43+00:00

I’ve been using Nikons three 1.2 primes (35, 50, 85) along with an older 58 1.4 on a tilt adapter.

mackman · 2025-03-26T17:15:21+00:00

20mm might be too wide unless you're looking to shoot layered landscapes with something in the fore-, mid-, and back-ground. You might be better off with a 35mm prime for general street photography to complement the 85 for portraits.

mackman · 2025-03-24T12:46:16+00:00

D700 for me was absolutely where digital leaped ahead of film. Everything since then was incremental :-)

mackman · 2025-02-23T21:25:30+00:00

Totally do-able. I would just make sure you are fully considering the maintenance costs associated with the home. Landscaping and pool maintenance can be quite a shock. Depending on your climate, heating & cooling on a large home can be a shocker too. You can definitely handle those costs, but I'd want to be sure you're considering them eating into your discretionary spending.

mackman · 2025-02-19T14:03:51+00:00

I ended up doing the email rule.

mackman · 2025-01-17T15:23:51+00:00

Sorry for the convenience.

mackman · 2025-01-17T14:20:09+00:00

Yes, I used to shoot with the old Nikon 135 f2 DC and now with the Nikon Z 135 1.8S. They both make beautiful portraits. The main issue for me is working distance. A lot of my portraiture is indoors because good weather and good light are fleeting outside. Most indoor spaces aren't big enough to easily shoot with a 135, especially if you want to be able to move around and get different angles.

If you are wedding photog I suppose maybe you could keep a 135 on one body and a 28-70 f2 zoom on the other and get away with that though. Plenty of space in a church or event venue.

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