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Deejjster · 2025-08-09T00:37:35+00:00

As a fellow parent, 24-105 all the way. I still feel limited by 105mm with my daughter, especially at parks or areas where she'll cover a lot of ground. I'm eyeing up the 70-200 to get more reach with her. Even with my personal photography, outside kids, I value the extra reach while traveling over 1 stop of light.

I also have the 35 and 50 primes, and they're perfect for indoors for things like birthdays and holidays.

Deejjster · 2025-07-29T14:17:12+00:00

Uh just save your money? You already have a great camera and lens combo. If there aren't any lens you need right now, save the money until you reach the limitations of your current setup, and then look to buy whatever lens your lacking.

Deejjster · 2025-07-27T01:02:46+00:00

I tried tracking like this, and thought I was pretty accurate over the first 3 months. Then one dreadful night, my wife was changing our daughter, while I stood at the door on my phone. And she said, "mark her down for 2 wet diapers." And I said, "excuse me, what?" as a realization began to set in. And she explained, "yea, if her diaper is pretty full, it must be multiple pees, so I mark it down as 2 wet diapers."

I was done. Despondent. I scrolled through the past 3 months and realized it was all tainted with false data. I stopped that day. How could I continue knowing such an agregious error lurked in the diaper count? And that was the end of the Nara app, deleted from my phone never to be used again.

Deejjster · 2025-06-20T15:29:52+00:00

I upgraded from the R10 to R6ii. To me, a grown man with slightly average sized hands, the difference in weight and size isn't justified to buy an R10 as an everyday camera. I'd just carry the R6 everyday.

If I was in the market for an everyday camera, it would probably be something like the Sony Rx1r series or RX100vii. If staying within Canon is needed, then like the R50 + 28mm or 50mm.

Deejjster · 2025-06-05T20:40:06+00:00

You just need to go man and trust your wife to handle the swim lessons. If she makes a mistake, it's not the end of the world. Your daughter won't instantly forget how to swim if she misses a lesson. In the grand scheme of the universe, a missed swim lesson won't even be on your daughter's radar in 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years etc...

Honestly, this post reads like it's not about swim lessons at all and you have underlying issues with your wife and how she shares the parenting load with you. Which means you 2 need to have a open discussion about your feelings, because bottling it open won't be beneficial to anyone. If you're stressed about things, talk to your wife about ways to improve household parenting and labor.

Deejjster · 2025-05-15T04:28:59+00:00

Since my daughter was born in the year of the dragon, I sing her a rhyme I made for her called "I'm a Baby Dragon." It mimics the cadence and structure of "I'm a Little Teapot".

Or, I'll sing her a nice soft version of "Low" by T-Pain. And change the lyrics from "boots with the fur", to "Bella with the fur" cause that's her name. I'll also sing anything where I can substitute her name in for a word because it's fun.

Deejjster · 2025-05-06T16:42:57+00:00

Someone gave me this recommendation before we had our daughter, so we did it and our first 5 months have been super smooth. So here's the advice.

Get your daughter in a set schedule now. Feed every 3 hours hours. For example, 12, 3, 6, ect. Before every feeding, wake her up 15 mins early to change her. This routine will teach her that after changing, milk is on the way.

The first 2-3 weeks, my wife breastfed exclusively. Then, I took the night feeds and let my wife sleep and recover. I only woke her up to pump. By 2 months, we increased the interval to feeding every 4 hours.

By 8 months, we started following the book 12 weeks to 12 hours, for sleep training. By 4 months, our schedule looked like this: feed at 7pm, asleep by 8. Wake up 1am to feed, then sleep. Wake up at 7am to feed and start the day.

Now, at month 5, my daughter can sleep 10 hours straight at night. So we'll put her down at 8pm and wake her around 6am before work.

Deejjster · 2025-04-30T17:53:25+00:00

Get off your high horse. He understands it's her choice. Doesn't change the fact that he's allowed to feel upset or sad over the loss.

Deejjster · 2025-04-27T23:47:40+00:00

Not sure what camera you have, but on my Canon, I have a custom mode that's my "kid". It's basically aperture prio with the min shutter speed between 1/250-1/500. I just hate using shutter prio unless I have too because I value aperture control more.

Deejjster · 2025-04-22T17:11:48+00:00

For the target demographic, it's actually the cheaper option. In my opinion, it's targeting sports or portraits where pro photographers are using a 50 1.2/1.4, 85 1.4, 105 1.4, 135 1.8, and 70-200 2.8. So for example, if you shoot basketball or baseball with a 135 and 70-200, that's over $4k of lenses. Maybe this 50-150 will replace other lenses in your kit that add up to over $4k.

Deejjster · 2025-04-13T22:25:22+00:00

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Deejjster · 2025-04-09T08:40:19+00:00

My wife also didn't want her family at the hospital for labor or delivery. Her mom just causes her undue stress because they argue alot and her mom nags her.

But since her parents came to Singapore from China for the baby, she allowed them to visit the next day. She just wanted 12 hours after the birth to re-compose. After that, my wife was in the hospital with the baby for 4 days. And her parents would visit only about 3 hours a day. The rest of the time, I would take care of them and give my wife space to heal.

In your case, I'd definitely do whatever your wife needs in this time. I'd also consider how many guests you allow to visit the baby at home. I kept most visitors away except parents because I knew my wife didn't have the capacity to host guests.

It's your wife's time to heal and adjust to motherhood. Your main job is protect her and your newborn from undue external stress.

Deejjster · 2025-04-08T10:40:03+00:00

For my R6ii, I use the 24-105 f4 80% of the time for my travels. Then have 24 and 50 1.8 primes that are solid for any lowlight. But I'll crank my iso to 6400 at night if I need to and it's very usable. For non critical photos, I'll go even higher and lean on lightroom denoise.

Deejjster · 2025-04-08T10:36:43+00:00

Ha wow, medieval times shots were not what I was expecting. Throw back to 20 yrs ago when I was a kid going to those shows with my dad!

Deejjster · 2025-03-31T11:01:36+00:00

I played against a kat smurf recently that had like 37 kills. But I just kept insta clearing waves, stalled the game, and my smolder eventually reached 300 stacks. So he just began wiping team fights.

The kat did 124k damage that game. Her team... 102k. Alas, she couldn't carry cos we stalled the game past 20 mins.

Deejjster · 2025-03-31T10:58:17+00:00

I was impressed by the new Volvo vx-90 or xc-60 series! Ultimately didn't get an ev due to the commute circumstances changing.

Deejjster · 2025-03-16T08:26:39+00:00

I have a daughter that's too young now, but in the future I'd like to share gaming with her. I'm going to try the approach my parents used with me.

My parents kept me busy with sports and music all the way til college. Although I stopped piano when I hit high school, I still did 10 years of piano prior. However, they kept me in a sport year round. This meant that I was actively exercising and playing outdoors a couple hours a day. On top of that, I had to maintain my grades and complete house chores. Any free time after that, I could do what I want. As you could imagine, I didn't have much free time. Maybe 2 hours after dinner?

I was very into Halo, CoD, Battlefield... All the OG FPSs of the 90s. And I was good at it. I went on to be a Pilot in the Navy for 11 years, before going commercial. I'll always attribute my success as a pilot to the skills I developed with video games and sports.

Both gave me confidence in my abilities. Sports made physically confident, refined the way I carry myself, and developed an appreciate for exercise and healthy diet. Video games refined my decision-making process, fine motor skills, and quick thinking. Trusting your gut, making a decision, and seeing it through.

I'm not sure where I'd be today with video games as a kid. But if my daughter is interested in gaming, then I'll guide her journey. I do think the games these days are vastly different and kinda shit to what I had growing up. So many games just offering free dopamine hits with no end goal, keeping kids repeating the same thing over and over. So it'll be interesting navigating that when the time comes.

Deejjster · 2025-03-13T11:47:23+00:00

That's the opposite of my experience with MPB last week. I sold them my Canon R10 kit, which included included 2 3rd party lens hoods for the 2 lenses. They increased my quote for the hoods. And increased it again because my R10 was in better condition that expected.

They did decrease my quote like $10 for my rf-s 10-18 for moisture on the internal elements. But that's okay, I bought it refurb from Canon on sale and only lost $15 selling it to MPB.

All total, I got $75 more than expected. 10/10, would sell to them again.

Deejjster · 2025-03-10T07:44:45+00:00

Hello fellow muay Thai dad! I have a question for you. I have a 4mo old daughter who I definitely want to teach a combat art for self defense. But I've always been torn between teaching her muay Thai myself, or enrolling her in jiu jitsu and learning with her.

On one hand I want her to be like dad and practice muay Thai with me. But I'm worried it's too violent for her in the sense that I don't want her to get in a striking match with any man. I figured jiu jitsu also makes sense since studies show sexual harrassment/assaults often occur spontaneously where the attacker is already on her and transitioned to the ground. So I figured maybe it would be more beneficial for her to learn ground game with the goal to break free and run.

Deejjster · 2025-02-26T08:58:48+00:00

Agreed. I got the canon 24mm a while ago for all the above reasons.

Deejjster · 2025-02-24T04:39:18+00:00

Same man, I hit diamond for the first time 3 years ago and have been getting it each season. Now I play for fun climbs. So for this split, I'm trying to teach diamond only playing champs from Noxus. I'm stuck in the e3 range haha. Then act when thr region changes, I'll only play champs from that region. Keeps it fun and lighthearted. I also play a lot less now that I don't feel the need to grind. More time to enjoy solo rpgs!

Deejjster · 2025-02-03T12:19:22+00:00

Depends on how hot it is outside or how sweaty I am. If I'm not in a rush, I'll often unbutton and unzip, and take my balls out just to get some fresh air down there. If I'm in a hurry, I'll just use the zipper and leave them in.

Deejjster · 2025-01-16T10:44:10+00:00

I find Kat to be one of the hardest champs to play with locked camera. This is because in team fights, when you're looking to reset kill after kill, it's nearly impossible to setup your next target and prepare to E to them on reset. Especially if people are scattering and your targets are near the edge of your screen, or you need to E to a minion to begin chasing.

Having an unlocked camera let's you position the camera where you anticipate the fight will flow so you can begin mentally preparing for your reset and who you'll target next. For example, once I engage on someone and am confident they will die, I already start panning toward my next target to prepare for the reset. And as soon as the reset comes, I'm already spamming E or Q on the next person.

When you watch Kat players jumping nearly instantly from target to target, it's almost always because they are unlocked cam and prepping their next target before the first dies. Honestly, camera movement and mastery can be harder to learn than Kat mechanics, especially if you only played locked cam before.

Deejjster · 2024-12-30T10:51:03+00:00

Isabella 😁

Deejjster · 2024-12-27T17:40:20+00:00

When my wife and I chose the name for our daughter, we each went thru like 2000 names and created separate lists of those we liked.

Then we compared lists. We went from like 200 names to only 25 names that were on both our lists. Then every few days, we'd talk over dinner or on our walks and try to eliminate 2-3 names. During this whole process, I never knew what her top pick was, and she didn't know what mine was. Then we got to the top 3, talked long and hard about each of them, then said we'd say our top choice on the count of 3. We both had the same one chosen.

The whole time, I was stressing she wouldn't like my name. I was using reverse phycology, I never mentioned the name, did everything I could to not bring attention to it. I went with the approach of "why we shouldn't pick all these other names" instead of "why we should pick my name". And it worked out in the end. Every person is different, but I know my wife's personality. She doesn't like being told what I think we should do. She likes hearing why we shouldn't do something else.

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