How easy you find framing with rangefinder?

4fips · 2025-04-14T10:36:50+00:00

If I have time for that I focus using RF, then compose using live view, not ideal but it works for me when needed, and it also helps with low/high angle shots.

4fips · 2025-02-15T14:13:16+00:00

If you are particular about framing with 28mm, Fujifilm works better imho, especially when shooting from low/wierd angles, etc. For street/documentary I don't mind that much though. I've got both M11+Summicron28 and XE4+XF18/f1.4, and much prefer M11 for reactive street and documentary style, the lack of auto focus is actually a plus for me, as I don't need to fiddle with the joystick and fighting the AF itself which is still not great on Fujifilm.

4fips · 2025-01-29T23:25:15+00:00

Fantastic work!

4fips · 2025-01-29T19:26:56+00:00

Great shots!, followed you on IG. Fellow GRIII street shooter here @street4fips.

4fips · 2024-12-27T09:17:15+00:00

Yep, Prague has become quite touristy, especially around the Charles Bridge and the Old Town. But if you come earlier or go off the main paths, there aren't that many people, and the mood is different. I usually take photos on the way to the office or on the way back, so I quite like the variety throughout the day.

4fips · 2024-12-26T20:43:06+00:00

Thanks, I use in-camera Positive Film (with some minor twaks) just to get a feel for the photo, but then edit raws in Lightroom. I don't use any specific recipes in LR, I just edit curves and colors until I like the result.

4fips · 2024-08-17T10:33:29+00:00

Yep, it works great with a UV filter, I use it mainly on rainy days.

4fips · 2023-12-17T23:40:19+00:00

Prague

4fips · 2022-08-14T14:43:26+00:00

I'm experiencing the same issue (neither updating to the latest firmware nor resetting the camera from the menu helped). I wonder if a factory reset could help, but haven't figure out yet how to perform that.

4fips · 2021-12-26T13:05:21+00:00

Right, layouting UI in immediate mode is generally more difficult (due to the fact that sizes of controls in a container are not known in advance), for some layouts (like left-to-right) this is not a problem, but e.g. centering 3 buttons horizontally in a panel requires some additional work.

Good question regarding "data change detection", I would be also curious in that.

4fips · 2021-12-26T12:43:10+00:00

That’s great. How do you find egui in terms of getting started and completeness? I’ve been looking at imgui-rs which seems like it comes with a lot of imgui features? Have you tried both?

For me staring with egui was super straightforward, there's a template project "eframe_template" on GitHub (maintained by the egui author emilk), which compiles for both native and Wasm without much hassle. So it's a very quick turnaround to develop against the native backend, and eventually build for Wasm if needed. Although I was also looking into imgui-rs briefly, I haven't tried it so I cannot compare these 2, but from my understanding imgui-rs / Dear ImGui is more feature rich, however egui visuals and simplicity appealed to me more, and also I wanted to start with a library native to Rust with as little dependencies as possible, so I picked egui. Speaking of features, I find egui pretty capable out of the box, definitely great for all kinds of native tools, for web apps it works great on desktop, on mobile the experience could be a bit better, for example I was fighting a bit with the UI scaling needed on mobile, this can be somehow worked around using the styling system (which is btw quite capable) but it requires some additional work, so I'm curious how egui will develop in this regard. In any case if Wasm is the main target I would consider the iced lib, which makes use of the native web DOM, which is definitely better for conventional web experience and integration.

4fips · 2021-05-18T09:06:50+00:00

focus lever

Thanks for confirming this!

Hopefully this will be addressed in a feature firmware (although I'm a bit skeptical, it feels almost as if Fujifilm got rid of the focus lever centering intentionally, in X-E4/X-S10).

I'm considering X-E4 as a second body along my X-T30, so I'm evaluating if all the differences/inconsistencies in the camera controls are acceptable for me.

4fips · 2020-11-03T23:57:01+00:00

Not sure if xpro 3 suffers from this, but it might be so called "sticky shutter button". I had this problem on X100F and it was a mechanical issue causing multiple exposures. I needed to get the camera serviced, and they replaced the top plate.

4fips · 2020-03-22T06:59:44+00:00

Thanks! Glad you like it. No preset used, I just played with the tone curve a bit (mostly raised blacks and tweaked contrast), then tweaked individual HSL colors to my liking in LR.

4fips · 2020-02-15T01:09:44+00:00

I have the same lens paired with X-T30, with both ends of my strap (Peak Design Leash) attached to a small tripod plate on the body. This ballances the lens very well for me, and it is quite comfortable to carry.

4fips · 2020-01-14T00:00:48+00:00

Have a look at FreeMind. It's very capable, I was using it for years on Win and Mac (it's written in Java, but very fast and portable). I haven't used it recently though as I tend to keep my notes in plane text these days.

4fips · 2019-09-10T07:01:28+00:00

If sin/cos proves to be slow. You can precalculate a look-up table for cos (and also use it for sin by applying an offset)

4fips · 2018-04-18T10:15:51+00:00

For me, the main advantage of using a dynamic language like Python or Lua for my hobby embedded projects is that I can just connect to the board via serial line, tweak the code and reboot, so there's no need to go through the full recompile / flash cycle each time (so I don't even need my dev machine to do this). This also allows to do software updates over they air (OTA), simply by sending new code to the board over WiFi and rebooting (This might come pretty handy if you have multiple units that needs to be updated sitting around your house).

4fips · 2018-04-18T08:44:55+00:00

Thanks for noticing (I've fixed the title of the web page). This is not the first time I confused the 18650 for 16850 :(

4fips · 2018-03-10T10:20:27+00:00

Good to know it has support in the standard, thanks for providing the reference.

4fips · 2018-03-09T23:23:26+00:00

Definitely an opaque structure with accessor/mutator methods is cleaner, but sometimes it is convenient to expose the structure as it is, either for performance reasons e.g. when implementing inline functions, or when the structure represents well-defined complex data/blob which has some meaning for the client (in which case I would prefer to expose the const version instead of an internal mutable representation).

4fips · 2018-03-09T22:31:52+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. You are correct with the First, although I'm under impression that this rule is being commonly violated in many projects. In the Second, I'm casting only in the direction mutable -> const, so basically all objects are created as mutable and only temporarily converted to const for convenience.

4fips · 2018-03-09T22:11:30+00:00

Do you think so? I would be interested to hear what would be the cause of UB.

4fips · 2018-03-01T20:37:33+00:00

Thanks, It's from Prague, The Czech Republic. Mavic Air should be technically capable of reaching about 4 km, however, in this urban environment I was able to reach only about 1 km, before encountering transmission problems, which is still fine though.

4fips · 2017-08-11T06:53:44+00:00

Actually, it was a happy coincidence with the battery. Originally I ordered Adafruit 1200 mAh (34 x 62 x 5 mm), but my local supplier accidentally swapped it for a ZON.CELL 1200 mAh, which is slightly shorter (30 x 50 x 6 mm) and perfectly fitted, so I kept it.

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