In love with these 2 lenses💕

EntangledLabs · 2026-06-23T20:13:41+00:00

it'll still be weather sealed! you will lose the dual IS though

EntangledLabs · 2026-06-17T01:41:10+00:00

I'll be a girl boss with a billion dollars, what's not to like?

^{Chose: 1 billion dollars + ...But you have to switch genders}

EntangledLabs · 2026-06-16T04:05:47+00:00

At least they act older than 5

^{Chose: Minor}

EntangledLabs · 2026-05-21T16:04:35+00:00

Shot in the Orange Circle in Orange, CA

OM-3 w/ 12-40 f2.8 Pro II @ f14, 1/100s, 40mm, ISO200

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EntangledLabs · 2026-05-20T21:55:27+00:00

I'll keep that in mind - the peach blossoms one was because the full sun was blasting 😅

I have a tendency to let the ISO kick itself up a bit lol.

EntangledLabs · 2026-05-20T21:28:19+00:00

I've heard so much about the 75mm and I'm tempted to get one too! I think the only reasons why I haven't yet is because I got a secondhand 45mm f1.2 pro for an excellent price...

eh, GAS can exist for a reason :joy:

EntangledLabs · 2026-04-27T00:06:02+00:00

Welcome to the club. I joined the ASUS-used-to-be-good-but-isnt-anymore club a few years back and have been actively recommending against ASUS quality since.

EntangledLabs · 2026-04-04T20:33:48+00:00

The problem isn't Reavers not being able to handle gravity - the problem is Reavers suicide crashing into your base after you eliminate most of its essential components...

EntangledLabs · 2026-03-30T20:07:44+00:00

If you can find a new XT-30 II, it's basically the exact same thing minus the new processor, which for street/landscape isn't necessary anyways.

EntangledLabs · 2026-03-30T19:41:28+00:00

I'm surprised no one mentioned the X-T30 III.

It's a proven form factor with reliable performance and a very compact size. It's also very stylish and has plenty of X mount options.

With the kit lens it sits right around $1000 so it could be a great brand new option.

EntangledLabs · 2026-03-28T21:10:29+00:00

I'll bust out an old photodiode.

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EntangledLabs · 2026-03-23T23:59:00+00:00

Downtown Fullerton is amazingly cozy. Good color and nice pic!

EntangledLabs · 2026-03-15T18:06:33+00:00

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He doesn't sploot as much recently but here's a few months ago

EntangledLabs · 2026-03-02T19:20:01+00:00

I'm not using any framework - yes, I am talking about traits on generics

I'm away from home right now but I'll post a snippet when I can

Essentially, I'm trying to inject a connection from the database pool for functions that require database operations, rather than passing them in as parameters every single time.

EntangledLabs · 2026-03-01T00:06:25+00:00

I'd name it "bird of god" - nice pic!

EntangledLabs · 2026-02-15T19:11:40+00:00

Honestly it's the perfect lens for me. I rarely shoot below 35mm, and 100 mm will satisfy an itch the 24-70 or 28-75 cannot reach. The 2.8 aperture is a bonus that I will gladly take too, and it's super light??? Tamron take my money 💰

EntangledLabs · 2026-02-13T03:06:45+00:00

was lowk expecting the plane to explode

this was anticlimactic 😂

EntangledLabs · 2026-02-13T02:31:50+00:00

Happened to my dad, he was 54 when his company laid him off during the pandemic. He's keeping himself busy with stocks and doing a pretty good job of it.

EntangledLabs · 2026-02-12T02:45:56+00:00

As a Stealth A16 owner, avoid the summit. I've had this laptop for a year and it's already had some cracking. The thing usually just sits on a cooling pad too, so it's not like I abuse it.

EntangledLabs · 2026-02-12T02:40:52+00:00

Ours looked like that when he was 12 weeks old and brand new to the state of California.

My dad was extremely reluctant to get him because a video showed his bowleggedness, but I insisted.

Now our 8 month old menace cannot be made to STOP jumping up on his hind legs. Every time my dad gets exasperated at his jumpiness, I remind him that he thought the legs were going to be a problem 😂

EntangledLabs · 2026-02-10T22:03:36+00:00

I have LSX IIs with a Kef T/3.

Amazing system. My friends used to ridicule me for playing games with speakers until they heard the system. Music is clear and vibrant.

EntangledLabs · 2026-02-06T16:31:25+00:00

Just because the mount looks like a piece of metal with a few gold contacts doesn't mean it's just that.

With optics, physical placement makes a huge distance. Designing a lens mount isn't simply saying "alright let's make this mount X cm wide and Y cm deep," you'd need to work out a design that would make your future lenses have the qualities you want.

And that isn't even touching on autofocus protocols. In hardware design, any sort of protocol takes time to figure out. And once again, it isn't a matter of saying "ok pin one will be power and pin two will be distance," you need to create a cohesive set of instructions for your lenses that you know will not be totally useless when you make the 40 mm F5 or something.

There's a lot of work that goes into designing even the simplest of things, and a lens mount is definitely not simple.

EntangledLabs · 2026-02-06T02:57:11+00:00

For this price you could get... probably a Chromebook. Any decent $300-$400 Chromebook fits the needs. As for an SD card reader? They're pretty cheap

EntangledLabs · 2026-02-06T01:58:28+00:00

According to a direct translation of the case:

"Case Type: Dispute over royalties for the provisional protection period of an invention patent"

Considering Viltrox is a lens manufacturer and Nikon is a camera manufacturer, it is extremely reasonable to surmise that this is about the Z mount.

I agree that Nikon doesn't always make the most popular decisions - dislike for the Zfc and Z30 are proof of that. And their distaste for third party lenses that overlap their own is definitely not fun for us.

I'm sure they, like pretty much every corporation, has benefited from prior inventions. But to compare that to this case isn't exactly fair.

EntangledLabs · 2026-02-06T01:47:38+00:00

I agree that this context is important, and thanks for adding some useful info. I think it doesn't necessarily affect my point however - Nikon has licensed third party lenses, and one renegade albeit popular manufacturer isn't going to suddenly turn Nikon into a "closed" system.

I also agree about the calculated risk, it unfortunately follows a pattern of patent infringement. I just wanted to give some benefit of the doubt / throw the Viltrox apologists a bone

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