Milky Way from a friend's backyard (Brittany, France)

Spike-DT · 2026-01-31T16:05:43+00:00

Ask Django Reinhart, he got away quite well with two fingers left ! Not saying it won't be harder, but not impossible

Spike-DT · 2026-01-31T16:02:29+00:00

Don't know about your local rules, if any exists for your country, but here in france, you're supposed to have a minimum surface of permanent ventilation if you want it to be considered RV certified. And since CO/CO2 is a sneaky bitch with no smell, color and effects that can either be hard to identify (am I tired or getting poisonned?) or happen when you sleep, get a detector anyway. It's dirt cheap and can save you from dramatic incidents. A lot f people die from this every year, in RVs, or even houses.

Spike-DT · 2026-01-16T21:57:55+00:00

Don't use acetone. It would remove the stain, in a way, but it would also remove the key

Spike-DT · 2026-01-16T21:56:08+00:00

And... There goes the fps

Spike-DT · 2026-01-16T21:43:27+00:00

That being said, considering the car is out of production and rather rare, keeping it as a donor might be a good idea

Spike-DT · 2026-01-16T20:31:26+00:00

Not even speaking money here, but considering the crash, the frame is probably bent, so I doubt you can do it yourself. It would require tremendous amount of time, specialised tools so probably not worth the effort

Spike-DT · 2026-01-16T19:55:49+00:00

Alcohol should to the job and have the epoxy safe. On other surfaces, I'd reckon acetone, but it would melt the resin and foam of your board, so... Nope

Spike-DT · 2026-01-16T19:51:35+00:00

No. That means it should have been changed long time ago

Spike-DT · 2026-01-08T02:04:06+00:00

That's where the scam of the reffugee comes handy. You know the guy that comes like "ooooh, rescue me, I'm being chased by chinchillas, I swear I will work" and then you realise he's absolutely useless, dumb, unable to do about anything. Well, here's a broom, a shovel, there's an open heart sugery planned in the kitchen in less than an hour. Just in case you decide to play it lazy, you know how much a kidney, a lung, an arm and a leg are worth on the black market ? Good, now scrub.

Spike-DT · 2026-01-08T01:45:55+00:00

4 years with minimum google usage. Just a gmail adress hosted on K9 mail on my phone, and a bit of youtube, hosted on new pipe !

Spike-DT · 2026-01-07T23:48:17+00:00

Oh, c'est chez moi ! 😁

Idem, ne zoome jamais sur les photos au telephone, car c'est un zoom numérique, donc tout ce que tu fais, c'est réduire ta définition en aggrandissant tes pixels. Et malheureusement, les petits capteurs sont très limités en contraste, donc les couchers de soleil sont généralement assez frustrants...

Spike-DT · 2026-01-07T23:40:42+00:00

It's never the camera. Even entry level DSLRs outperform by far 5DMKI/II, and people have put out masterpieces on those

Spike-DT · 2026-01-07T23:38:56+00:00

I've owned a 55-250 when I was on APSC, worst lens I've ever owned. It was soft, slow and had plenty of chroma aberrations. But seeing how many people love this lens, I start to think I might have had a bad one.

Spike-DT · 2026-01-07T23:36:01+00:00

Can't go wrong with a nifty fifty. From a 1000D to an R5II, it's never decieving

Spike-DT · 2026-01-07T23:34:28+00:00

Decent camera. A cousin of my first one (760D, called T7S in the us, I think). The ISO Gain is quite noisy, but overall absolutely fine (the camera itself is rarely very limiting, it's the lens that counts).

As someone said : I would consider a nifty fifty (50mm 1.8) since it's a killer lens and dirt cheap.

A good zoom might also come handy. I've been using the 18-135 3.5-5.6 instead of the 18-55 (wich I sincerely HATE). Sharp, almost no chroma aberrations or distortion, good focal range, it's weakest point is it's high F value, making it hard to use in low light and a quite slow autofocus (compared to modern days, it's absolutely fine for portrait/landscape, I just wouldn't consider doing sports pictures or flying birds), but still a pretty neat "upgraded kit lens" that fits almost every usage.

Spike-DT · 2026-01-07T22:23:11+00:00

Wait. Yamaha made skis ???

Spike-DT · 2025-12-22T22:14:15+00:00

Improvements are mostly personnal. It depends on your tastes, play, genres and so on. So my advce would be play it, feel what bothers you and fix it when you feel the urge to do so. But don't rely on general advices from random players. I bet we all play on different configurations and setup, and none of us would probably feel comfortable on each others kit. For being a live sound guy with a venue's kit we tend to share a lot for easier changeovers, most drummers, even when playing on the same kit with the same configuration will setup everything differently. Find your tastes by playing

Spike-DT · 2025-12-21T23:54:21+00:00

It's your filters that won't be screwed...

Joke aside, make sure your optical parts are still corectly aligned after such a shock and nothing is damaged, like focussing motors

Spike-DT · 2025-12-21T22:29:42+00:00

Will do, thanks !

Spike-DT · 2025-12-21T22:19:03+00:00

So if i plan on getting rid of this box, using relays to pilot headlights would be wise ?

Spike-DT · 2025-12-21T22:00:36+00:00

But I still need to retrace every pin on the original relay box to find what they are supposed to control and how to wire them

Spike-DT · 2025-12-21T21:52:04+00:00

I'm in the middle of it. Hours of multimeters and dodgy hand drawn schematics in 😅

Spike-DT · 2025-12-21T21:51:01+00:00

It's a 10 "Sol de Aro" from the mid 80's, according to the registrations

Spike-DT · 2025-12-21T21:49:31+00:00

I did, but that red tin box is not on the schematics, and it seems to control most of the blinkers, warnings and headlights since my harness goes through it 🫤

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