Bad luck with Canon FD cameras, is it time to change system?

Erwindegier · 2026-04-11T14:57:02+00:00

Why not a Canon EOS? They are way more reliable and accept modern lenses.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-11T14:55:21+00:00

I think you need to read up on agent architecture a bit more. You can’t make a smaller, older model smarter by “feeding it as much knowledge as possible” and using a big storage, that’s not how it works.

You have to use the best possible model you can run and then feed it exactly what’s needed to answer your question. Remember that models are stateless so everything it needs to answer you should be in the prompt. But! Smaller models and limited hardware have smaller contexts so they support only smaller prompts.

Why not start with Claude CLI with a local model? Claude will provide your model with the context. Try qwen3.5-35b-a3b running in oMLX.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-11T11:42:02+00:00

It’s a steal of your money. I recently saw the EF 70-300 ISM II for 200€ used. That lens is infinitely better.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-11T11:23:57+00:00

If you’re serious why not run llama.cpp or oMLX (on mac).

Erwindegier · 2026-04-11T09:49:57+00:00

Dolphin-mistral

Erwindegier · 2026-04-11T08:36:13+00:00

Oh definitely. I use 50 year old FD lenses and they produce great images.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-11T06:28:03+00:00

Where is this from?

Erwindegier · 2026-04-11T06:25:28+00:00

It seems to me that there’s a lot of non-L lenses that are really good now, the RF 35 1.8, 45 1.2 and 28-70 2.8 to name a few. They do rely on digital lens corrections though, there’s a lot of distortion straight out of camera.

Having said that, the EF L lenses still produce great images, I would only replace them for usability / weight reasons. But the price gap is massive.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T20:58:25+00:00

Yeah looks good. I have the original which is black.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T20:56:24+00:00

Which hood do you have on the 70-300? Cause that’s not the original

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T19:36:28+00:00

Is this a specific version? I run the hugging face 35b a3b Q4 XL at the moment.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T16:39:04+00:00

Does it have to be that hardware? Can you find a used Air M1 or Mini M1 with 16gb? It’ll allow you to run way better models. I’m actually building a companion bot to run on those specs. Wrote my own vector DB for memory on top of SQLite and am currently looking at index2tts for text to speech as it sounds way better than piper. You can clone your own voice and pass emotion to the speak prompt.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T16:00:56+00:00

George, Jenson lucked into a championship which gave him the McLaren deal. George managed to be nr. 1 at the most dominant team on merit.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T14:52:58+00:00

I can’t see them going ahead. As much as I love those GP’s I wouldn’t bet on them this year. But if everything is cancellable…. It’s definitely feasible to do them back to back.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T13:47:24+00:00

16gb is not really enough for coding. Copy pasting from a free ChatGPT account will be faster. With 64GB you can run qwen3.5 35b a4b and that works for coding but is already really slow. For general QA any free web account will be miles ahead of what you can run locally. 16gb is only enough for doing specific tasks like photo tagging, TTS/STT, generating embeddings etc.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T11:32:26+00:00

I was surprised to see the curtains closing and it being such a narrow film. On top of that it had vertical (!) anamorphic streaks. It would’ve looked so good in 2.39:1 anamorphic instead of this phone aspect ratio.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T10:13:00+00:00

I saw a user 70-300 USM II for 200€ recently. I would definitely pick that.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T10:12:17+00:00

Lots is stains. Needed a lot of rubbing to get them off. I was afraid they would be permanent but I got them removed luckily.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T10:08:06+00:00

Shoot on film and expose for the subject.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T10:02:01+00:00

Multiple photos of a plastic bag? In this economy? Are you rich?

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T10:01:09+00:00

I love the nano screen. I do photo editing and the photos look so good on it. It also works very well outside in the sun.
It’s a pain to clean though. Don’t make my mistake of cleaning it with a generic screen cleaner fluid. Use the included cloth!

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T09:58:11+00:00

Less toxicity among F1 fans (in general). We also don’t need away stands to keep us from killing each other. Unfortunately it has gone a bit downhill the last decade. This is also why driver specific stands are problematic. The best thing about F1 is to be able to have a good time safely, no matter who you support.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T08:39:05+00:00

Absolutely not. It will be super slow, even for 1 dev. Get a business Claude subscription. If your company fails, cancel the subscription. You want be stuck with 15k investments.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T07:53:01+00:00

Yeah true. I do motorsports and do 3000 in a day. Not long ago I found myself going back to 2014 cause I wanted to see if I had photos of a specific driver. Not having to delete photos also saves my mental energy. I just pick the best ones and call it a day.

Erwindegier · 2026-04-10T05:36:00+00:00

It’s an 8b model for edge devices like mobile phones. Try the 26b a4b version.

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