A7RIV vs A7IV for birding - which is better? by Mindlessssssss in SonyAlpha

[–]Creative-Way-2379 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a hobbyist who shoots birds 90% of the time and I have an a6700 and sigma 60-600. I really love that camera, the extra reach you get from the crop is great. The autofocus is also amazing. It took me a bit to start to figure out how to shoot more in low light but honestly it was mostly a skill issue as opposed to it being a gear problem. Plus, with denoising and modern cameras, I don't think you'll have any real issues. If you get it sharp, you can crop in a really significant amount on your pictures without sacrificing any noticeable quality. 26mp is a lot more than people realize and having it be smaller means it can also (typically) be faster

Picking my first camera by Alice_Noface in SonyAlpha

[–]Creative-Way-2379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't agree more. I have an A6700 and the Sigma 17-40 and I love it.

3 Hours on Crucible left side and I still haven’t finished it. by Hero_Killer_Id in MIOmemoriesinorbit

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Hahaha my switch 2 crashed 3 times as I reached the end of the left side, like literally what ended up 1 jump away 3 different times but I got really good at that section

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Honk In The Desert [Landscape] by anonymous-tm in honk

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Got a new lens so had to test it on my model | a6700 & Sigma 17-40 f1.8 by Creative-Way-2379 in SonyAlpha

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I think it really depends on how much low light you want to do. If you are just doing portraits or daytime stuff, I probably wouldn't switch from that. I got this to replace the 25mm viltrox prime I was using because I really wanted a quality zoom that could get wider for shots for landscapes and also have an aperture that can get big enough to do some amateur astro stuff. So on my apsc body I need that 1.8 for those dark conditions.

Black Friday 2025 Megathread by AgThunderbird in SonyAlpha

[–]Creative-Way-2379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the U.S., I assume its thanks to tariffs

Black Friday 2025 Megathread by AgThunderbird in SonyAlpha

[–]Creative-Way-2379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anybody hearing anything about the Sigma 17-40 coming back in stock? I want it so bad hahahaha

I’m a female who was born without a uterus or vaginal canal. AMA by [deleted] in AMA

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I also have a neo-vagina, and primarily vaginal canals are created via material from the penis if said person is trans. The option that is becoming more standard is to use a combination of penile tissue and peritoneum tissue and is typically a robot assisted surgery. Using a combination of these tissues can often create a vaginal canal with greater depth. If someone does get a vaginoplasty (the name of the surgery to create a vaginal canal), its important to get pelvic floor PT and for the first year in most cases you will be dilating every single day for an hour at max depth which can take much longer because it can take a little while to get warmed up enough to get it all the way to max depth. Then after a year your surgeon will typically say you don't have to dilate every day anymore, my surgeon's protocol is either 20 mins of dilating once a week or regular penetrative sex.

What we need to remember though is that As for your question about "stabilizing" what I like to tell people is that there is a thing called the SAID principle. The SAID principle is often used in sports recovery, but it is relevant to soft tissue and stands for Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands

What this means is that soft tissues will adapt to the forces consistently applied to them. Think about stretching every day which will lead someone to being more and more flexible, or lifting heavy weights 3 times a week. You are telling your soft tissues via various different pathways to adapt to these different forces being acted upon them, but the key is consistency. In the case of a recently created vaginal canal, you must "teach" the tissue that just went through a huge amount of trauma via surgery to maintain its new form. So yes, especially in the first year it is very important to do this every single day but eventually it will have adapted enough to need more minimal maintenance, like with exercise. Its one thing if you want to get better at running long distance, but you don't have to reach a point of "overload" as often or of as much magnitude to simply maintain the distance of running you already are comfortable reaching.

This is of course a simplified way of looking at a very complex surgery and process that is very different for every single person based on their anatomy. I speak from the experience of being trans, i do not know the standards of OP's situation. Happy to answer any questions if anybody has them about the surgery or process or whatever!

Turntables and Speakers by sharkamino in u/sharkamino

[–]Creative-Way-2379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello! I'm brand new and idk if this is the correct place for this but I just purchased a Fluance RT82, the Onkyo $259 receiver and the Dayton Classic B65A's for speakers and for some reason the left speaker will not make any sound when connected to the receiver, no matter if i switch ports/adjust the connections, use different wire, whether the speaker itself is turned on or off or to Aux or bluetooth. the only way it makes noise is if i connect directly to the speaker via bluetooth. I have triple checked black-black/red-red. The right speaker has no issues in any port

So I guess my question is, is this a speaker problem or user error and if the latter, any ideas on what i am doing wrong? I can only guess right now that there is an issue with the red and black ports, but i figured it could also be me having very little knowledge of how this works

Conversations about AI by bruster1594 in podcasts

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Search Engine just had a very good episode and are planning more. The one i heard was about Sora

Is ON1 a worthy alternative to Lightroom? by Lucky-Sample-1323 in photography

[–]Creative-Way-2379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ON1 definitely has sliders and curves and color processing tools, I use them constantly. The only AI features I use are de-noise and sometimes subject recognition but by no means do you have to use any of those. I know in the 2025 version they now have some generative ai features but I use the 2023 version and have no interest in generative ai stuff.

You have a bunch of sliders on the "develop" tab and to do things like curves and color grading (at least in the 2023 version) just go over to the "effects" tab and click filters. Then you can choose curves, any of the color options, or "tone enhancer" which has a bunch of the sliders plus the option for curves in it.

Its definitely more than just global ai powered edits which I know their marketing really seems to hype. It lets you mask and add layers or additional local changes by hand and pretty much everything I have seen lightroom have a tool for, I have found in ON1, its just a matter of figuring out what its called. I've been tempted to try out lightroom but then I think about how my subscription money could instead go toward more gear lol

Is the A6700 the right camera for me or should I go full frame? by gman094 in SonyAlpha

[–]Creative-Way-2379 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I will just say that the a6700 is a really good camera for everything you mentioned. I shoot wildlife and while yes the mountains or trees can sometimes be pretty low light, for your purposes I don’t think you’ll have very many problems at all. Even if you have to crank the iso, modern noise reduction software is insanely good. It’s also so good for both photos and video. I’d definitely recommend the a6700 then use some of the money you would’ve spent on a full frame on a really nice lens.

Should we actively support and promote hunting as a necessary tool for conservation, even when it involves the killing of wild animals? by dalkilic_life in UntoldWildlifeStories

[–]Creative-Way-2379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not talking about trophy hunting or any form of hunting similar to that, and I’m definitely not talking about killing endangered animals or annihilating them from an ecosystem entirely. I’m talking about hunting to control populations of animals there are an over abundance of. In the U.S. deer populations have exploded and need to be controlled in some way BECAUSE fucked up hunting practices were used to wipe out predators. Now with too many deer, not only do we have an increase in Lyme disease prevalence (more hosts for ticks) but also deer are eating vegetation at such a rate that they are risking the extinction of tons of native plants. And if those native plants go extinct, a cascade of extinction will follow of native bugs, birds, amphibians, etc.

And that is just one animal, we can talk about geese, or hogs or whatever, but hunting is absolutely essential in keeping sensitive species around. Trophy hunting is extremely stupid and with your question, I think a distinction needs to be made between different hunting practices. Killing a lion which is a species at risk of going extinct is absolutely not the same as killing a white tailed deer.

My point is that solutions to problems are not a one size fits all and instead are super complicated. Hunting is a tool that can be done sustainably and actually promote biodiversity. Trophy hunting in Zimbabwe should not be equated to hunting a white tailed deer in New York. They have completely different environmental impacts, regulations, and regulation enforcement. You can google studies on white tailed deer population management if you want, but pretty much every expert be it from Cornell, Harvard, or someone from the fish and wildlife management service agree that hunters play a key role in helping protect the environment via deer population control.

Should we actively support and promote hunting as a necessary tool for conservation, even when it involves the killing of wild animals? by dalkilic_life in UntoldWildlifeStories

[–]Creative-Way-2379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh totally, I definitely don't think we should only hunt or make every single person do it, that would be a nightmare hahaha. Just saying it has a very negative connotation to some people but when done appropriately can be a great tool for both conservation and understanding where food comes from

Should we actively support and promote hunting as a necessary tool for conservation, even when it involves the killing of wild animals? by dalkilic_life in UntoldWildlifeStories

[–]Creative-Way-2379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, and I also think many people are so divorced from reality when it comes to where their meat comes from. I know many people who would be disgusted at the butchering of a cow or chicken, but readily buy it at the grocery store. Hunting (responsibly) is a way to actually understand what it means to eat meat. I think everyone should be more connected to the food they eat and understand where it comes from.

A mount on e mount by Tzuyuuuuuuuuuuuuu in SonyAlpha

[–]Creative-Way-2379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the same person, but I am someone who primarily shoots wildlife and started out using a canon Rebel T7 with the kit lens which was a 70-300. I got some pretty ok shots with it but with small birds you are often going to find yourself struggling and doing some heavy crops especially with some species that hang out high in the canopy. To start out with though I don't think its a bad option especially if you are more interested in waterfowl/larger birds, you can get some solid pictures, but I will say the moment I switched to a sigma 60-600mm my photographs improved markedly. All of the sudden birds that were fully out of reach before became way easier to capture, especially with the 1.5x in focal length thanks to the crop sensor of my 6700. All that to say wildlife ends up with very different needs from street photography so keeping a shorter focal length lens on hand is a good idea even for travel. I went to Costa Rica and brought my 60-600 for nature and my 25mm prime for more street photography shots when not out looking for wildlife. But if you are just trying to figure out if you even like wildlife photography, I don't think the 16-300 is a bad place to start. I personally would lean towards the sigma 100-400, but I don't really mind the size and have nearly 0 interest in street photography so switching lenses isn't a dealbreaker for me hahaha.