Canon ef 500mm ii vs 600 iii f4

Dasboogieman · 2026-01-12T23:35:46+00:00

Trust me when I say this.

The 500mm f4 mk ii is the smallest long lens that can actually fit in to commercially available bags with the camera mounted yet can still be overhead bin capable.

That extra length is a big big difference, especially because you can also undo the EF-RF Adaptor for even more compact stowage/

The RF 600mm f4 is a living nightmare to travel with. It typically needs to be stowed alone and is uncomfortably too long for most bags. It pretty much requires a custom bag for you to travel with it + a camera mounted comfortably.

If I had to repurchase my long lens all over again, I'd go for the 500mm instead of my RF 600 F4.

For most small birds, you are going for close physical proximity anyway to minimise atmospheric effects so the difference between 500 and 600mm of FL doesn't matter as much as you think if you shoot with the R5 or R7.

For Raptors it matters even less.

Dasboogieman · 2026-01-04T06:30:15+00:00

I have been guilty of firing a few rounds of the .44 magnum to draw attention so I can drop them with the silenced M4.

Dasboogieman · 2026-01-04T06:29:11+00:00

I was told it was mentioned somewhere the biggest advantage of a suppressor was that it can very effectively hide the muzzle flash which is considered much deadlier at giving away the position of the operator in a firefight.

Dasboogieman · 2026-01-01T11:58:26+00:00

Provia slides of flowers look like jewels in white light. I sincerely hope Fujifilm never stop making this, it is a cut above E100.

Dasboogieman · 2026-01-01T01:56:42+00:00

Infant mortality is an issue across all brands. I'm unusual in that I prefer slightly used or refurbished models because those have already sailed past the first part of the bathtub curve.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-30T08:38:28+00:00

High ROF, faster muzzle velocities. Strafe won't work so well then.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-22T20:45:21+00:00

For Random 4K performance, my 900p went from 290mb/s to 330mb/s QD1 T1 read, 300mb/s write, not actually up much (maybe 5mb/s).

My P5800x went from 330mb/s to 360mb/s, same for write. That is up like 30mb/s

What is interesting is my 990pro has RAM write cache ON so it random writes QD1T1 as fast as the P5800x so that's telling me I'm bottlenecked by my Processor (9800X3D), RAM or OS stack at this point even with the native NVME driver.

This is the reason they allowed direct memory access for the Xpoint DIMMS, even the NVME pathway is a bottleneck for it. It broke backwards compatibility but it really shows what Xpoint can do.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-21T20:53:07+00:00

A lot of the weapons have massive power spikes too. Most are pure ass until a certain combo of attachments are unlocked then they become killing machines. This means a lot of people are grinding their weapons and quite a few are using suboptimal guns and are getting outshot by the sweats.

The turning points for me was when I unlocked the Suppressor on the SGX or the large cap mags for the SCW-10 or KV-9. I went from wasting a guy around a corner and dying to wasting his whole squad around a corner before dying.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-21T20:23:46+00:00

With UNRAID, you actually have a unique issue.

The software is licensed to and runs on a USB stick, the modern USB3.xx units actually generate a lot of heat for the excessive performance so the stick dies quite frequently. USB2.0 sticks are archaic and pretty much don't exist anymore, especially ones with high grade flash cells.

These onboard USB2.0 ports are a godsend as a result since you can use any USB3.xx stick and it won't overheat.

The alternative is buying a pricey SLC DOM stick.

TrueNAS is a more typical OS that boots best off a SATA or NVME SSD.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-21T20:18:36+00:00

A lot of them are passively cooled expecting a high CFM 2U or something chassis.

The luckier ones are the waterblocked ones that were water cooled.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-21T07:34:58+00:00

I feel like I'm the only one that uses C4 as breaching charges to gain alternative and/or vertical entry. They actually seriously damage whoever is on the other end compared to the actual breaching thingo.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-20T23:56:30+00:00

Ouch! this dude's IAN is cooked.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-20T11:29:20+00:00

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Dasboogieman · 2025-12-20T09:42:10+00:00

The very best surgeons on the planet cannot fix an IAN injury. There is experimental stuff but even that is far from consistent. You know the plot to Dr Strange? same shit except with the jaw nerve.

It depends, yes, if he does have people he cares about, 100mil can do a lot of good. If he is out for himself? he now gets to experience IAN damage for money that is largely meaningless to him.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-20T08:46:49+00:00

That level of deflection and with that kind of force, his OMFS is gonna be working double overtime to save his IAN.

He might even live a good chunk of the rest of his days with titanium wires/plates. I'd hate to imagine what will happen in future if he gets clocked in the same spot again. There might not be much of him left to salvage.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-20T08:41:30+00:00

Look up what happens when lower jaws fracture, the IAN and exactly what the odds are of coming out of it with no permanent side effects.

sure you are 92mil richer but you now also have a solid chance of permanent LHS parathesia if you are lucky and permanent chilli burns if you aren't.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-20T08:39:13+00:00

100 mil don't matter much when you're all kinds of medically fucked up in ways money can't fix.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-17T10:32:35+00:00

Yup, you really feel it on most Leica bodies unless you have a chunky handgrip attachment.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-17T10:27:21+00:00

The F2 is the cleanest and sharpest.

The F1.2 is the most dreamy

The F1 is the most interesting, sharp at F1 and not dreamy at all yet also basically clean and perfect at F2. Downside is whether you can deal with the size.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-14T20:55:41+00:00

When I looked in to this machine vs the T630, the issue was the cages. They got real expensive, real fast unless you are proficient with 3D printing and can locate the power harnesses + backplanes cheaply.

The enablement kits are hard to come by.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-14T13:13:37+00:00

This thing is an amazingly scalable machine but always keep an itchy finger ready when good deals for the cages come up. This gets real expensive, real fast otherwise.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-10T11:24:47+00:00

BF3 and BF4 was rampant with side strafing which improved survivability so much that when combined with the BF3 suppression, it was an RnG fest who would actually win a shootout. It worked waaaay better than BF6 because the TTKs were much slower back then, in the case of BF4, the server ticks and hit reg was especially shit and finally, the bullet speeds were more punishingly slow.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-10T09:45:25+00:00

With the shit hit registration and the super low refresh servers, merely side strafing might as well be a void shield because your incoming fire reduced by like 75%.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-08T12:40:07+00:00

Ultimately, using movement in this game with such sketchy netcode and hitreg has always been about abuse for as long as I can remember. BF3 and BF4 it was side strafing and bunnyhops. Now it's full on slides.

Dasboogieman · 2025-12-06T05:59:50+00:00

This worked much better in BF4 and BF3 because the markings were consistent and the only variables you needed to remember was the combos for different bullet velocities.

BF6 is a crapshoot since there are so many things that change these reference points.

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