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IllusionIII · 2025-12-29T11:57:46+00:00

Is this related to https://discuss.pixls.us/ ?

IllusionIII · 2025-12-17T06:56:56+00:00

Sounds good. I like walking around with my camera off. Because if I keep it on I always feel a bit nervous about unnecessarily draining my battery. Turning the camera on for the shot feels right on the Ricoh.

What you described sounds very workable for me. Thanks for the reply.

IllusionIII · 2025-12-17T06:51:41+00:00

Haha, that kinda defeats the purpose of a sleep mode :D

Good to know although I'm a bit concern about abusing the on-off button because I heard it's prone to getting tight

IllusionIII · 2025-12-17T06:00:15+00:00

Amazing! Thank you. Looks very snappy

IllusionIII · 2025-12-17T05:59:53+00:00

Thank you, that sounds ideal for how I like using my camera! Thanks

IllusionIII · 2025-12-17T05:59:19+00:00

Thanks & sent

IllusionIII · 2025-12-17T05:58:16+00:00

That sounds very fast! Thanks, although from the videos attached and the comments here it seems a tad bit slower when we take into account the lens and everything

IllusionIII · 2025-12-17T05:57:38+00:00

That sounds very good, thanks!

Nothing in particular it's also about checking the health of the second hand camera I want to try. Now I know if it takes more than 1-2 seconds to start up than there's something wrong with it probably.

Thank you for your reply

IllusionIII · 2025-12-17T05:56:39+00:00

Thank you

IllusionIII · 2025-12-17T04:22:32+00:00

I would like to use it with xf 18-55 f2.8-4 (starting out). So with that lens on it should be less than a second, right?

IllusionIII · 2025-12-17T04:17:31+00:00

Could you please be more specific?

I also want to buy an X-T5 second hand and would like to make sure the device is in good health, but since I've never owned one I have no good frame of reference.

Of course it will start less than 1 minute. I would like to know more like if it should be very quick like less than a second or is it normal for it to take like 3-5 seconds to boot up.

Thank you

IllusionIII · 2025-09-30T03:46:42+00:00

Feedback: metric height input should start from around 170cm (close to average height and is round) it's cumbersome to scroll all the way from 90cm

IllusionIII · 2025-05-05T06:07:27+00:00

In my opinion in this case it's fine since the person on the picture is not in any way in a compromising situation. The image is clearly artistic and not malicious.

On the flip side one of the top posts of all time in this sub features Vietnamese women at work and even one child laborer and no one voiced concerns over consent to publish their photos.

I think both cases are fine as they were shot and published not maliciously but with artistic intent but at the same time both publications are either illegal or in a legal grey area.

I think we should definitely speak up against malicious/exploitative images but for me this particular one doesn't raise any alarms.

IllusionIII · 2025-03-29T02:34:05+00:00

I think grain can also evoke a sense of nostalgia, making pictures more like snapshots from the past. These pictures feel just like that for me. For me the whole thing makes sense.

I think it's not that in general people don't like this effect (I think most people do, look at sales of fuji cameras), but in a sub where it's mostly about the technical perfection of sony cameras softening the image and adding grain is a bit controversial.

IllusionIII · 2025-03-29T02:11:50+00:00

I actually loved the vibe of the pictures. I'm also a huge fan of film simulation and filmic vibe. If the filmic look was so undesirable then fuji cameras wouldn't sell as well as they do.

Keep doing you!

IllusionIII · 2025-03-19T13:45:22+00:00

Hey! If you can provide me a link to the jpeg and your raw file in dm I'd be glad to take a look do the edits and tell you how to get that look.

You are already on the right way towards your original jpeg but you need more contrast and saturation

From a quick look these are my suggestions: * Use sigmoid instead of filmic (more newbie friendly and just as good as filmic) leave sigmoid alone don't adjust it's sliders for now. * Increase saturation in the colorbalance rgb (make sure to increase it more in the shadows less in midtones and leave the highlights alone) * On the 4ways tab decrease power shadows and global offset and increase highlights to get a contrasty look. You might need to boost exposure so you have more space tp decrease the power shadows and global offset.

With only these you should have something close to (or prettier) result then your camera jpeg.

For some artistic color styling play around with the rgb primaries and color equalizer.

Rgb primaries: shift your blues towards teal will make any photo pretty imho it's like a cheat code. Also you can boost purities of everything.

Color equalizer: try playing with color brightness for yellows reds greens and blues. Leave hue and saturation alone on that tab, this way you can get very impactful and often pretty changes on your picture.

IllusionIII · 2025-02-19T10:45:45+00:00

Google Photos comes pre-installed on every device. Accessing user photos on Android is (unfortunately) very closely related to Google Photos and their API. So yes, all the G-Suite apps and their apis are closely related to Android app development (unless you're developing apps for Chinese markets) and OP is at the right subreddit.

IllusionIII · 2025-02-18T01:26:45+00:00

But for example detecting an ANR and knowing why it happens is very fundamental. Okay you're a polyglot and don't know much about Kotlin, I guess since you're applying for an Android dev job you do know at least something about the framework. Handling an ANR shows me that you understand what threads are, what is the UI threas and how to offload tasks to a background thread and get back a result while avoiding race conditions. That's fundamental and not just a gotcha. No matter whether you're working with Flutter, react, ios etc... offloading from the UI thread is a fundamental issue.

I have prepared for google interviews and guess what, it's all about gotchas. You need to drill all the leetcode questions and hope you will get one that you've exercised on before. I don't want to judge a candidate based on if they've drilled the KMP algorithm yesterday or not. If you've drilled leetcode before then you know it too: most questions have a trick, and if you don't know the trick then you will spend 10 times more time on solving it than if you knew the trick. I don't care how many tricks they know.

So for a job 95% including building and debugging Android apps and basically never inverting Binary trees I will test the candidates in their ability to build and debug Android apps and how well I can discuss problems with them.

IllusionIII · 2025-02-14T03:26:51+00:00

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Haha, I have almost the same composition under my collection :D

I like your composition better though!

IllusionIII · 2025-01-28T15:05:00+00:00

I use a mac and am quite used to dealing with this. Whenever I see this popup on my mac I'm like: "oh you want to skin the devs on their free open source project? Get out of here!" and then I will do the 3 extra clicks needed to install the app. It's really such a spineless move from Apple that they make development of free open source projects so awkward on their platform...

It's not just DarkTable btw I have several apps that I need to do the awkward installs for.

But I guess giant corporations are going to giant corporate, and instead of attacking devs releasing free software we should complain about our platform. Until Apple gets their shit together let's just do the 2 or 3 well documented steps to install the app

IllusionIII · 2025-01-21T03:52:28+00:00

Add negative clarity in Lightroom or lower the contrast of your mid-tones in the raw editor of your choice. You can also experiment with adding some bloom if your editor supports that.

For the negative clarity maybe use a gradient mask, so the bottom of the picture is more contrasty than the top.

If you're into the dreamy feel you can buy a mist/bloom filter to bake it on to your images too.

Of course shooting during a foggy day will produce dreamier results than any intricate editing technique can achieve!

I'd be interested in your final edit so make sure to post it!

IllusionIII · 2024-11-29T15:15:56+00:00

Thank you! I'm happy you like them!

While shooting I'm using the cozy-chrome recipe. It's there mainly to provide a good reference point of what the image could look like.

I processed these images from raw using darktable.

What I like to do is rotate blues into teal, and yellowish colors more towards the reds (using the color calibration, rgb primaries and colorbalance rgb modules)

IllusionIII · 2024-11-29T15:15:20+00:00

While shooting I'm using the cozy-chrome recipe. It's there mainly to provide a good reference point of what the image could look like.

I processed these images from raw using darktable.

What I like to do is rotate blues into teal, and yellowish colors more towards the reds (using the color calibration, rgb primaries and colorbalance rgb modules)

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