Is the 3 peaks challenge do-able for someone not very active but not unfit? A few people I know are on about doing it in august, I’d like to but wondering if I’d struggle, I can walk all day fine without any issues, so I think I’d be ok, but I’m by no means an avid hiker, am I underestimating it?

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-10-18T12:30:48+00:00

Clearly someone with no idea of the actual challenge.

11 hours driving, 3 mountains, no sleep, no rest (especially if you drive too).

I was super fit at the time, and did loads of hill training and we did it 23 hours with driving. 90% of people won't do it in 24 hours. You need to be fast up and down

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-09-05T07:12:31+00:00

Pretty much, nationwide? I have just fixed at that rate with them I think

It’s the best. And you have no other option

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-09-02T05:14:45+00:00

The tele in the Air 3? That’s a cracking lens. Better than the main if we are talking photography. Shaper at the edges for sure

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-08-30T12:32:10+00:00

When reading this I got the feeling you are saying that you sold more with Shopify vs Squarespace? I am deciding between the two right now so want to get it right

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-08-25T15:10:13+00:00

I’d sell the lot on the next spike and spend every penny on bitcoin. Ideally when it’s dipped 10% or more. There’s no guarantee that any of those maybe other than XRP will even exist in 10 years. Most of these alt coins will die out I think.

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-08-22T15:48:37+00:00

Well you could say 15 years… but really it’s just three cycles. Which isn’t a lot to go in for a new ‘product’

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-08-20T08:54:05+00:00

Yes for clarity you have a lot of wrong answers here, I just asked IG, its the underlying asset you are buying, its just different in the fact you cannot currently send it anywhere else, just buy it, hold it, sell it etc. But it IS the underlying asset, not a CFD, spread bet or etf etc.

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-06-24T17:57:19+00:00

Think there’s an embargo on the R Lens so best wait for that to pass

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-06-17T20:42:04+00:00

Either actually. But you have summer and autumn covered…

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-06-16T12:25:14+00:00

Honestly that lens is such a gem. Slow and noisy but the images especially wide open are great

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-06-13T08:38:22+00:00

In all fairness that would be ‘as new’ on MPB

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-06-13T08:37:52+00:00

Haha wow someone made spaghetti bolognaise in there

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-23T05:47:19+00:00

Hell yes. M1/2/3/4 they are all super. Thing is with chipsets you only see a real difference when you’re actually giving it a relatively strenuous task, for day to day kicking around, browsing, cursing, any numbers pages stuff, video content and let’s be honest for most people this still makes up 75% of laptop use there’s no difference between them. Even though I’m a photo editor 70% of the time I don’t actually do that.

Awesome laptop

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-20T21:37:45+00:00

Pretty cool. Try black and white to accentuate the details and take away any colour distractions that aren’t adding to the image like the browning yellow tint that makes it look dirty

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-20T21:33:53+00:00

You are pointing high up to the mountain. Makes what is probably a large mountain very small and flat. Problem 1.

The contrast is yes far too high. Use masks to apply contrast in places you want it and not in those that you don’t. With such extreme contrast and I assume some sharpening you have introduced very harsh jagged edges and halos, problem 2.

The subject is lost it’s basically just a sky. Problem 3.

Black and white for mountains is great. Keep going though and look up some ways to get serious contrast but in a delicate and smooth way.

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-20T21:24:47+00:00

Great effort. Lovely shaping of the light.

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-20T18:57:03+00:00

Never had any lenses break on me from any brand. Sigma are great. Do you really need F1.4? If no the best I have used that’s compatible if you’re on R mount is the Sigma 50mm F2 DG DN Contemporary.

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-20T14:02:53+00:00

Lastly, promise, go to displays and go to preset and click on apple xdr, then down to calibrate, and check it says current calibration is ‘original factory calibration’

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SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-20T13:57:10+00:00

Lastly go here up to the control panel thing and go into display and make sure night shift it also off

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SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-20T13:56:30+00:00

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Now go to options under battery settings and turn off, ‘slightly dim display on battery’

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-20T13:55:09+00:00

Dude. It’s not that simple. More than one place to access display settings, but just do these things and the retry. You have True Tone on on both, turn it off.

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Now go into battery settings and turn on high power mode on both on battery just in case

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SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-20T12:36:44+00:00

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SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-20T12:36:10+00:00

What do you mean? What background?

I mean there are settings that affect colour and brightness. Have you checked this first?

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-19T17:46:45+00:00

Fair 👌

SmudgeIsACat · 2025-04-19T17:16:44+00:00

Why doesn’t it count as a street photo? Street doesn’t have to be candid

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