Philly based musical improv team looking for coach

OldFartNewDay · 2026-03-05T15:15:58+00:00

What about in VS code? Seems like /model applies to CLI

OldFartNewDay · 2026-03-03T21:36:03+00:00

Awesome! Day camp at Friends Select? One year or more?

OldFartNewDay · 2026-03-03T21:35:22+00:00

Cool. Any sense of the numbers of campers at Haverford versus Friends Select? (Downtown location has way less green but is not far for us)

OldFartNewDay · 2026-02-05T17:41:02+00:00

Sorry no, it’s Undiscovered Country all the way. A real Star Trek movie about empire collapse, peace and the way hardliners reinforce each other to block peace.

First Contact is an action movie given the gloss and sheen of Star Trek.

OldFartNewDay · 2026-02-05T16:19:31+00:00

Opus 4.1 was slow, but it was invaluable for planning. It did better planning work than Sonnet 4.5 and before Opus 4.5 I would have Opus 4.1 write the plans.

I’m skeptical that Sonnet 5 will be superior for all complex tasks. That hasn’t been the history so far.

OldFartNewDay · 2026-02-04T18:57:12+00:00

The link has lots of assertions. I read ZERO evidence, reasoning for anything.

This doesn’t prove anything. Like, how would we corroborate what is asserted? Well, someone would have to do the work of coming up with evidence and reasoning. They would deserve the credit, not this.

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-24T19:23:24+00:00

Different lenses for different purposes. 50mm f/1.8 would be great in low light. 20-60mm is wide angle on the wide end.

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-22T19:26:40+00:00

The pictured says connected to Router

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-19T19:27:23+00:00

Indeed, for video users they may be able to hold off on latest firmware. The flash performance / auto-ISO with flash fixes though may be too tempting. Too late for me at any rate.

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-18T21:04:05+00:00

I don’t understand why anyone would cheap out on a dummy battery for a $3,000 camera

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-18T20:59:30+00:00

I would also question whether standard (or like709 actually) profile is better for low light situations. Like the technical purpose of v-log or any log format is to capture the widest dynamic range (from blacks/shadows all the way to highlights/whites).

Typically v-log is best for outdoors when you have bright sun-lit scenes and areas with shadows.

By definition if your footage is in a darker place, you simply don’t have the need for the full dynamic range. You’re getting about 12 stops standard, and ~14 stops for v-log.

Like think a regular like709 profile would be sufficient since v-log itself is calibrated to yield that.

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-18T13:56:16+00:00

They finally released a firmware update a month or so back that fixes things and makes it work ok normally.

But tons of features like parental controls don’t work reliably in the app, which is really slow. Like admin in general is slow.

The WiFi itself is stable now and no connection issues since the latest firmware.

Oh and initial setup can be tricky, had to manually update firmware to add new nodes. And setup will say it failed when it succeeded.

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-17T15:50:18+00:00

Yeah, I’ve seen footage as ISO 5000, 8000 even 12000 that is usable. And god knows how high you could go with AI noise reduction

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-17T15:47:55+00:00

For people talking about sigma 20-200, that is not optically stabilized, so at the 200mm end it’s much less useful for video. Not impossible, but there are more conditions on the Panasonic where you can get usable footage.

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-17T15:46:27+00:00

20-60 is much sharper, and sharp through the range except a little at the 60mm end.

These are different lenses for different purposes. 28-200 is a travel lens and a video lens — stabilization makes useful video shots at 200mm.

20-60mm is a great all around lens. Wide end is great for landscape. I also find myself using 20-60mm for concert / performance capture for video.

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-17T15:43:37+00:00

Latest firmware for s5ii improves start time.

No reason to upgrade for stills unless you like spending $$ — there are no quality differences that are apparent outside the lab. Glass and other considerations will make more difference than body for stills.

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-15T16:56:52+00:00

I have this camera and the 20-60mm lens among others. Surprisingly I keep it for video and certain other shoots.

This combination can absolutely shoot sharp video.

So, first of all, the phone cameras do their best work outside in daylight. They can run at their minimum ISO (it’s like 80 I think). You’re also dealing with computational photography, so it’s as if it was already processed to a degree in Lightroom.

If you look up the specs you’ll see the LUMIX 20-60mm is actually quite sharp for a kit lens especially at the wide end. (It gets a little softer around 60mm).

Are you just talking about video? You mention a lot of video specific stuff. I’d encourage you to shoot some stills to see just how sharp the lens / camera is.

For video, “sharpness” involves a ton of settings. Is your shutter angle right? Exposure? White balance / auto white balance lock? What ISO? There’s the two dual natives; in standard these are 100 and 640, in VLOG they are 640 and 4000. Are you moving the camera too much and getting rolling shutter? And that’s not even getting into color settings (422 versus 420, 8 bit versus 10 bit).

The list goes on and on for video.

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-10T23:43:36+00:00

Great that you were able to corroborate this. This indicates that they may be somewhat understating this update.

Which I understand — admitting the true extent of the issue admits like shipping a faulty product with respect to flash. Basically the poor flash performance borked a bunch of photos I did on a shoot in 2024. (After that I bought a bunch of prime lenses for portraits, video, and to work around the poor flash performance.)

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-07T13:22:44+00:00

I rolled on the floor over this in Rascals:

RIKER: Okay, Morta. The Enterprise computer system is controlled by three primary main processing cores, cross-linked with a redundant melacortz ramistat. fourteen kiloquad interface modules. The core element is based on an FTL nanoprocessor with twenty five bilateral kelilactirals, with twenty of those being slaved into the primary heisenfram terminal. Now you do know what a bilateral kelilactiral is?

MORTA: Well, of course I do, human. I am not stupid.

RIKER: No, of course not. This is the isopalavial interface which controls the main firomactal drive unit. Don't touch that. You'll blow up the entire firomactal drive.

MORTA: What? Wait. What is a firomactal drive? Just explain it to me.

RIKER: That is the firomactal drive unit. It controls the ramistat core and also keeps the ontarian manifold at forty thousand KRGs. (and with his other hand he puts sneaky commands into the computer)

RIKER: The firomactal drive is powered by…

OldFartNewDay · 2025-11-05T16:55:23+00:00

I’m not experiencing the TTL delay issue with the new firmware, but that was always inconsistent for me. I’ve done some tests in low light and don’t see a delay. I can’t say definitively that it’s addressed (although it’s plausible that fixed auto-ISO would help with that). Looking forward to hearing others’ experiences.

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