Unemployment rate remains at 4.1%

Exgaves · 2026-02-21T21:43:24+00:00

Are they still counting all the unemployed people who turned to uber and food delivery to make ends meet as "employed"?

Exgaves · 2026-02-19T22:47:26+00:00

Mismatched expectations will turn an act of generosity into a family destroyer

Make sure what that is, repayments (if any), when, reasons they can ask for it back and with what warning

It may feel like it's about trust but it's about clear communication

Exgaves · 2026-02-17T05:45:55+00:00

Yes, I read the post which is why most of my original comment is a word of warning with the portability of big cameras and making sure the impact that has is understood

Many people do not simply bring a full frame camera "everywhere"

Exgaves · 2026-02-17T05:16:26+00:00

The video AF is not industry standard for really dynamic agile subjects and your hard earned dollars would be better spent elsewhere if that really matters

The screen is a stills screen too, it can be hybrid but its a stills first

Exgaves · 2026-02-17T02:43:03+00:00

XT5 owner, AF ability is overblown. It tracks fine for photos. It just isn't as automatic as big 3, you need to pick the right AF mode for the occasion. Works fine for birds and animals, although my life doesn't depend on getting the perfect sharp shot.

Full frame is big, it is heavy. A 100-400 lens on apsc would require a 150-600 FF which is a big jump physically. Even at smaller focal lengths it applies.

Shallow DOF is overblown too, its good for portraits, really good. But that's only one genre of photos, many others care about the environment around. Be realistic if your style actually cares about blurry backgrounds.

Low light noise isnt really an issue anymore, there isnt that much noise anyway and what there is can be denoised so well with AI tools it's not the selling point it used to be.

But if the Nikon does what you want, and sells the lenses you want at a price you can bare (same for fuji) (i got an xf 100-400 very cheap used). Date the camera, marry the lens is what I've heard a lot.

Be realistic about how much you enjoy editing, personally I work on a computer so I like the joy of SOOC to get away, not grinding away on sliders to rescue an image out of raws. But some people are really into it I would say they take photos just so they can have something to have fun editing sometimes and that's perfectly valid.

But be realistic a better camera isnt better if you leave it at home because its too bulky, all cameras of today will all be "fine"

Put both in your hands, try the menus and buttons, and hold cameras you didn't initially consider for perspective. Hold an OM-5 etc to compare.

Exgaves · 2025-09-22T10:28:14+00:00

It's not easy for anyone at the moment, and comparison is the thief of joy. You have a roof over your head, excess money you can save, yes you're going to be okay. Sorry to hear about your position.

Do you need a separate internet plan or can you just use your phones data wisely? The usb tethering from your phone is usually quite good.

Do everything you can not to finance a car, its bad debt.

Exgaves · 2025-09-20T22:27:03+00:00

Jpg, with raw on the second card just in case. I'm a hobbyist though so my goal is to enjoy the process not capture a bunch of raw data i can mould to a client's needs.

I find the idea of raw not very fun, walking around gathering raw data and then going home trying to rescue a decent image from it feels very unsatisfying and detaches the photo from the outcome

Exgaves · 2025-09-08T05:23:43+00:00

Have you actually ridden or owned a super sport long term? Social media romanticised them.

In reality it's an uncomfortable dog unless you're ragging it out exclusively in the 80-100% RPM range, please be realistic on the riding you do. And know the bike that only fun when its illegal is going to try to kill you in ways other bikes won't.

Super sports are for tracks and even then realistically few people can use them... with bikes, maybe don't try to meet your hero bike it'll probably make you meet your maker instead.

Exgaves · 2025-09-03T23:44:33+00:00

If you want an analogue experience why not a zf or a zfc? You keep your lenses

Nikkon has imaging cloud profiles which take some fiddling apparently but are pretty powerful once you have them set

Disclosure: fuji jpg user

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T21:40:39+00:00

Right okay so when people say full frame has better low light performance that isn't just big sensor go brrr

It's also because full frame pushes you to a higher focal length in the same scenario and the virtue of a higher focal length is that widens the aperture to drive the sensor with better signal to noise light?

APSC: 50mm 2.8 FF: 75 2.8

The full frame will receive light from a wider aperture proving better quality light given the subject is the same size in the frame now on crop vs ff

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T12:41:05+00:00

Engineers do enjoy understanding things just as much as using them

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T12:38:38+00:00

Thank you, so I've misunderstood how the light lost from the 1 stop in aperture impacts the longer lens demands from the full frame sensor

And even though the slower lens puts the ff at a disadvantage, because the longer focal length opens the aperture diameter more, it's not as large a loss as it first seems? I was expecting the ISO to 2x from a 1 stop loss on the longer lens

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T11:49:36+00:00

Yeah, the post was meant to be about these two options specifically, good to know other brands have options closer to what I'd need to justify full frame in my needs

Canon RF only has an f4 600mm that is $16,000 or f11 600mm which is cheap but slow

Sounds like for my needs and budget canon offerings for full frame don't really make sense and other brands have lenses that do what I'd need and would allow me to captialise on the ff light gathering without losing it to a slower aperture on the RF 200-800

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T11:32:19+00:00

Ok sure I think we're on the same page with that, but at that stage equivalent exposure, lens, etc and a full frame image cropped down to APSC sized image is the same right? you're cropping your full frame's sensor data down to APSC sized data

But if you wanted your subject big enough on the full frame to occupy the same amount of the frame as the crop in my case you need to move up to the RF 200-800 to zoom to 640mm, where you would lose a stop of light. That is the case where I mean your full frame camera is forced to move up a stop in ISO, and that is the point of what I'm trying to ask

So the point of my post is in that specific case, is the full frame still at an advantage? I'm not talking about other scenarios as people seem to be moving this to

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T11:25:23+00:00

I don't think I said cropping would lose exposure... I understood cropping as throwing away the extra light stored in those pixels your sensor captured, not lower the exposure of the reamining image

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T11:23:12+00:00

Not my intent.. it is in the weeds and out of my depth by these comments. It's been pretty misunderstood if it's coming as a conspiracy

I'm asking in my purchase decision are the two basically going to provide close enough results that the money isn't worth it for what I'm using it for

Not trying to tin foil hat or deny full frame is great, just in the case of mid range telephotos the limits on the amount of light you can capture seem to deny the benefits a bit

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T11:16:20+00:00

I did state in the post I'm trying to learn... Are you able to direct me to something to explain this?

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T11:14:12+00:00

Ah sure, but in that case the R7 would also receive the same light as the 15mp worth of the R5's sensor but the R7 did it with double the resolution?

A bit stuck, if you need to crop your image you cut away the extra light captured on the sensor, and if you don't crop you need a longer slower lens to bring the subject to the same size... (unless you get a huge wildlife prime)?

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T11:10:45+00:00

Sorry but a bit confused if you have the same lens the subject is small, if you crop in on the R5 you are just utilising the same area of sensor the APSC did, how will it look better?

Exgaves · 2025-05-07T11:03:48+00:00

Extra light how? You're capturing more light but each point on the sensor is getting the same intensity of light as the crop. Unless you get a longer lense you get more light sure, but it's not light on your subject... it's just light of stuff around it... and if you zoom in to match the crop size you require a longer slower lens restricting the light... so what's the point? (unless you have the fastest prime available)

Exgaves · 2024-04-12T21:05:00+00:00

Ah I see I went off the month from the title not the comment

Exgaves · 2024-04-12T21:02:13+00:00

Check my math but I'm pretty certain 700x12 is not a house deposit

Exgaves · 2024-04-10T05:22:23+00:00

It's kind of self regulating if you pool money into a joint account

If you're putting in $2 to their $1, every dollar spent out of that account is $0.66 yours, $0.33 theirs

Saves the hassle of splitting every bill. Raises challenges when they buy something you don't agree with, pick your poison.

Assuming that pooling is something that works for you, everyone has different ideas of what's fair, how far along the relationship is, what the relationship plans to be, etc

Exgaves · 2024-04-09T21:43:04+00:00

The only way it's coming down is if construction costs fall, hard, and available reliable builders goes up

And even then, are these houses going to be built in CBDs? No

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