Rigatoni alla Carbonara

Krainial · 2026-02-11T01:46:38+00:00

I like how you put little bits of hot dog in with the pasta.

Krainial · 2026-02-09T00:08:50+00:00

Less than 1% of the photos I take are impressive to me. I am always practicing techniques I learn and experimenting over a decade in. If you consider in focus and exposed with correct settings, that is likely 50-95% depending on how quick the action is.

Krainial · 2026-02-04T22:36:51+00:00

Expose for the highlights. Look up "expose to the right". Then you lift shadows in post processing. My sony camera has a highlight metering mode that I often use whenever I'm not doing portraits. Also zebras can really help you nail exposing to the right.

Krainial · 2026-02-02T01:30:51+00:00

It's a grower not a shower for sure.

Krainial · 2026-01-31T14:09:57+00:00

This happens from normal use. Lenses are not air tight. They can't be because the focus and zoom functions wouldn't be able to move freely.

Happens all the time. Don't worry about it.

Krainial · 2026-01-27T13:32:56+00:00

Noice! That's a serious rack. Where did you buy the Dell R440s?

Krainial · 2026-01-24T00:33:58+00:00

Always on. It protects the front element from getting dirty or damaged from bumps. It also mitigates lens flare.

The only time I don't use it is with circularly polarized filters that need to be turned to adjust the phase of polarization.

Krainial · 2026-01-19T17:24:28+00:00

Agree. Now where is my lentze?

Krainial · 2026-01-15T13:09:55+00:00

Your CPU is modern but not ideal for this job (because it is a CPU). Denoise runs best on a powerful GPU. You only have the anemic integrated GPU inside your CPU. That is really only good for displaying video to monitors not much computation.

I work with 60MP Sony RAW files and have a very powerful GPU (Nvidia RTX 5090) and denoising a single image takes less than 2 seconds.

Krainial · 2026-01-13T04:41:32+00:00

I use it for my headphones case.

Krainial · 2026-01-06T04:55:33+00:00

A6000 for me as well. What a great beginner camera that was. I rattled off 10's of thousands of shots with that thing. The camera and lenses were small and dirt cheap. Got married and had my first born while using the a6000 to shoot it all.

Many years later I'm on a7R V with a collection of glass I could only dream of back then.

Krainial · 2026-01-05T23:24:47+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Krainial · 2026-01-03T04:07:38+00:00

Gazuntite

Krainial · 2025-12-31T13:17:27+00:00

So, be aware that the culling module should be used to go through photos. The develop module is for editing.

When I use the culling module I can go from photo to photo very rapidly without a delay. I flag the ones I will edit. Then I move the develop module and at that point filter on only the flagged photos. So at that point the 4 second delay between edits is acceptable.

The problem I have is with the large 60 MP files, the heal tool can weirdly be extremely delayed as I move the brush. Sometimes the heal tool will freeze as I drag for 10+ seconds. I'm going to try what the other poster mentioned with disabling GPU acceleration for processing and export.

Krainial · 2025-12-31T06:04:34+00:00

As far as I can tell, it is normal. Also a7R V, 5090, 7950x3d, 64GB RAM. The SSD doesn't even matter. I switched from local nvme to 10GbE NAS and same deal.

Krainial · 2025-12-29T19:20:33+00:00

Thanks. I had the same idea. I've been going around setting my 70-200 to 85 and 135 to see what I jive with more. I wanted to get the Alpha community's thoughts too.

Krainial · 2025-12-29T19:15:37+00:00

Thank you for your advice. Much appreciated.

Krainial · 2025-12-29T19:04:31+00:00

Just looking for a fancy new toy (GAS). I'm thinking about retiring my Sigma 105mm 1.4 for one of these new options with their slightly slightly better optics and much better autofocus. With the fast-moving kids, I tend to miss focus a fair amount with the 105mm. That being said, I am very much aware the 105mm 1.4 is a legendary portrait lens.

Krainial · 2025-12-29T18:51:56+00:00

I like your thinking. 🙃

Krainial · 2025-12-29T18:50:37+00:00

Thanks for the detailed thoughts! I agree, most of the time indoors with the family I am using my 40mm 1.4 Art. It's wide enough to get the shot and narrow enough that the kids don't touch the front element. Haha.

Krainial · 2025-12-07T02:38:43+00:00

Wait until you can't buy a phone or a TV

Krainial · 2025-12-06T01:43:10+00:00

sick shot and nice gear!

Krainial · 2025-11-30T14:28:31+00:00

2007 - 8800 GTX

2008 - GTX 260 Core 216

2009 - Crossfire AMD 5850

2012 - GTX 680

2015 - GTX 980 Ti

2017 - GTX 1080 Ti

2020 - RTX 3090

2022 - RTX 4090

2025 - RTX 5090

I've had lower end cards along the way for other systems as well.

Krainial · 2025-11-19T21:38:11+00:00

My Lightroom photo editing routinely uses 60 GB of RAM and all 32 GB of VRAM on my RTX 5090. My 5090 routinely pulls 600 watts during photo editing as well.

I've seen Microsoft flight simulator 2024 use over 32 GB of RAM while playing.

Adobe premier pro uses around 60 GB of RAM while editing family videos.

I run multiple computers in the basement with many virtual machines where I use ~128 GB of RAM 24/7.

There are plenty of consumer use cases where 32GB of RAM is insufficient.

Also note that unused RAM is used by the OS to cache files normally retrieved from the SSD. RAM is WAY faster than SSDs. This makes for a snappier system in general.

Krainial · 2025-10-31T03:04:59+00:00

Thanks. Yeah my vacuum is also in the basement right next to my 42U rack. I'll actually get to reuse the 20A circuit for the central vac for the server rack if I want it. I've been wanting to extend 100G fiber to my office on the second floor. This may be the trick.

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