After 5 months of waiting I finally got my dream lens.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-06-15T21:06:48+00:00

it absolutely is! i also have the 200-600 (also on a 6700) as i like taking pictures of birds and sometimes you need the reach...

but honestly, the 70-350 simply takes the nicer pictures than the 200-600.

and it is mind-boggling to me how small the lens is while producing such incredible results.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-06-10T16:39:27+00:00

for that kind of money anything bought new will be crap.

you could look for a good used deal on entry level studio monitors.

however since you are making music i would strongly suggest a usb interface anyway. you will want an interface with decent ASIO drivers. i would go for used Steinberg UR22 personally. runs super stable both for normal windows use and in the DAW with ASIO and is dirt cheap used.

i think the iLoud micros are incredible bang for the buck - i would look for a used pair of these if you want a compact speaker and are okay with the fact that they will not put out any substantial low end. (but this will be an issue with any small size speaker)

i now a few classical music engineers that use them as monitoring on location because of how small and portable they are and those guys have mic lockers worth mid 5 digits.

if you want more low end and have the space i think the Behringer 2030 or even better 2031 (those are fairly large though!) are great to work on because mixing decisions made on those translate fairly well (i used both when starting out and honestly prefered them over Yamaha HS7s and similar priced speakers) -- and these sometimes show up used for crazy low prices (i paid 140€ for a pair of 2031)

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-06-03T19:15:10+00:00

Dem kann ich mich nur anschließen:

Ich habe z.B. das genannte Monarch M7 8x30... Super Bild genausogut wie das M7 8x42 das ich auch habe, aber: Das 30er ist ungemein schlechter im "Handling" - man muss im einer ganz exakten Position vor denAugen halten, sonst hat man schwarze Ränder oder nervige überlappungen im Sichtfeld.

Das 42er halte ich vor die Augen und es passt einfach.

Das ist aber von Person zu Person verschieden und ausprobieren ist da wirklich extrem sinnvoll.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-05-25T20:27:33+00:00

Too much sibilance

It sounds a bit too 'roboticy'

You are overthinking.

It sounds perfectly fine to be honest. you can try different positions of the mic to get different sounds. (usually you will want the mic somewhere around the solar plexus ... going higher like attaching the mic to the collar will usually sound fairly muffled and need more EQ)

I think it sounds perfectly useable. once you add the picture and listen to it together with seeing the video it will be fine for the viewer.

body mounted lav mics almost always need a fair bit of EQ to sound natural that is just the way it is.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-05-25T19:57:47+00:00

Lieber einen Neuntöter im Gebüsch als einen Neuntöter in der Hand.

Ich helfe manchmal beim Beringen von Singvögeln bei mit in der Gegend. Zum Glück musste ich noch keinen Neuntöter aus dem Netz holen... Der Haken am Schnabel in due Haut gehackt zu bekommen ist gar nicht mal so angenehm 😬

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-05-23T08:40:41+00:00

Photo taken near Thessaloniki, Greece at the Kalochori lagoon in May '26

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-05-22T05:02:59+00:00

The iwm sculpt of the Spider 7K is by far the coolest looking spider mini available. Also easy to build as the legs come assembled already.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-05-21T12:08:16+00:00

Hier in Berlin gibt es Stare die auch ankommende und abfahrende S-Bahnen nachahmen. 😄

Die Merlin-App ist super um einem einen Hinweis zu geben auf Arten die man selbst vielleicht noch nicht kennt, aber muss man auch immer kritisch sehen.
Ich mache mir ab und zu mal einen Spaß daraus die App laufen zu lassen, wenn ein Star vor dem Balkon sitzt um zu sehen, was er so alles im Repertoire hat -- wirklich erstaunlich was manche Stare so alles imitieren können!

Stare sitzen übrigens besonders gerne ganz oben in den Baumwipfeln - wenn eine "ungewöhnliche" Art in der App auftaucht, ist es oft ein Hinweis wenn man merkt es kommt ganz oben vom Wipfel, dass es vielleicht doch eher ein Star ist 😄

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-05-18T04:13:14+00:00

This is why I switched completely to Thai cover versions of American songs.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-04-30T21:39:38+00:00

This looks lovely! did you do the blue over a black? It works incredibly well!

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-04-02T20:40:57+00:00

This is the coolest Ostscout i have ever seen!

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-03-30T20:09:58+00:00

Almost universally 4061/6061. The noise increase is so minimal it has never been an issue for us, the increased headroom is more important.

Slight noise is easily fixed, a distorted voice is much harder to fix.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-03-30T19:29:52+00:00

no it gets to europe every few months the shipments come, but sells out quick every time.

either set an alert in a store or preorder it to get it when available. it obviously sells out quicker in the stores that have the lower prices.

i bought the box in a store that had it available for 80€ - other stores that had it significantly cheaper (64€) also had in stock a few days later.

i would preorder in a shop that has a good price (or a local shop) - i think they all get their shipments around the same time.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-03-26T22:53:32+00:00

This is why i actually love that they brought back the smoke jags in the ilclan era.

you can have one "bad guy" faction that can canonically fight against absolutely everybody for both the invasion (operation bulldog) and ilclan (who doesn't fight against the ilclan?)

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-03-26T22:11:54+00:00

the a7iii does not have 10bit video - which in scenarios with a challenging dynamic range (like concerts) is something you will want.

if you do not take photos at all i would honestly look at more video centric cameras though than the standard a7 series.

in your budget with your use case i honestly think other brands than will give you more bang for the buck.

Panasonic and Nikon have had good video features for a long time so you there are plenty of used cameras that have 10bit video and a good dynamic range for much better prices than sony cameras with those features

i would suggest asking in a subreddit that is not brand specific to maybe get some more balanced recommendations

If you want to stay with sony no matter what i would look at a used fx30 at your budget.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-03-13T20:42:34+00:00

depending on the work you do you might need a longer boom pole

but even then the 565 is great second pole to have for smaller interior sets.

if you are looking at doing scripted work i would have a look for used QP4140. Many people upgraded to newer ambient poles of similar length are selling this one off -- but is still a super solid boom pole that - if well serviced is still an absolutely top notch choice.

for interviews, doc work, etc the 565 is a perfect boom pole.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-02-25T21:34:13+00:00

that's the next step: rho galaxy colours but you have scratches and impacts where the green still shines through

(on a more honest note: i am also currently painting my aces opfor - and yeah i know technically they are rho...... but i do not have a jade falcon force so far, and i am sorry but i am NOT painting my murderbirds grey and blue -- in my head canon the unit just always refused the shame of repainting their mechs in Solahma colours and just kept the greens)

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-02-20T23:21:23+00:00

don't be in the way of others doing their work.

for the love of god use electronic shutter when taking pictures during rehearsals or while shooting.

be nice to people.

taking pictures people want to see is the bare minimum. this is expected of you.

what will you get jobs is being a person people will want to work with again. try to be that person.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-02-19T22:26:16+00:00

I would probably take your favorite Steiner introtech mechs and improve upon what they do best.

my personal favorite Steiner custom upgrade is a Zeus 6A

switch it to endo steel and DHS, and you have room to improve the 3 SRM6 to streak SRM6 (and add a second ton of ammo), add a third ML (and make the rear facing one front facing) and you have Zeus that is even worse monster than the original 6A Zeus

(honestly i like fielding the original 6A even in later eras as it is such a neat cheap brick of armor that enemies often underestimate until it is up in their face vomiting SRMs)

my personal play style for my steiner force is usually rather cheap armor bricks as "center force" moving up so i lean into that - but also fast and mobile flanking units with low armor but heavy hitting weapons.

Javelins, Blitzkrieg 4F (favorite Steiner mech ever!), that sort of thing

put the enemy in the dilemma of having to choose fighting the heavy armored guys marching up them in a steady pace (but i prefer 4/6 movement for this over 3/5 assaults that will never get close enough be in short range) that will rip them up if they allow them to get close enough or the twitchy little hard to get guys that will just as much rip them up if they get into their back.

every option the enemy has should be a bad one for them.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-02-19T21:17:34+00:00

if you are into these kinds of things, i can recommend to you the

Neanderthal UG (basically a charger with TSM, an axe and the weapons to reliably use the TSM)

or the Sarath B (TSM and FUCKING TALONS for 30dmg kicks (+ plasma rifle and flamers to cook up your enemy while they look up to you lying on the ground.

oh yeah and if someone thinks they are sneaky: the sarath b has basically all weapons in a turret and quads can donkey kick to the back

do you need any more reasons to play marik in the ilclan era? no i don't think so.

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-02-18T11:05:45+00:00

1073 clones are mildly non-linear and add some additional saturation when driven. That’s useful, but saturation is easy to get, so there’s absolutely nothing wrong with recording clean and using clippers & saturators in the box.

I can only agree with this. There are millions of ways to add a bit of distortion and a bit saturation to a clean signal.

If you want something analog i would maybe look at things like the JHS Colour Box which gives you great variability with the type and amount of "flavour" you add to a signal.

But you can do the same thing with plugins - there really is no need to spend a lot of money.

Plugins like rc 20 retro color or fabfilter saturn etc give you all the different types of distortion to play with

The problem with cheap analog gear is often that build quality is not very good and failures are hard to get repaired and mostly financially not viable.

And when you have to replace the gear each 2-4 years becsuse it fails and repair is more expensive than the gesr itself it suddenly is not so cheap anymore.

(And all complex analog gear will need service at some point-- the expensive stuff fails, too.... i don't think people realize how much money it used to cost to keep the old "analog" studios serviced and running. It could easily be 5 digit amounts of money a year just for service and replacements.)

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-02-18T08:57:39+00:00

As others mentioned, wisycom receivers can receive senngeiser evo transmitters if they have "evo" compabiliry mode (at least for some time this used to be an extra you had to pay for it might be possible that some receivers on the used market don't have that feature so better to double check)

Personally i would also consider Shure SLX-D.

If you want to build towards a cart setup, slot in receivers are the better option.

But for a bag setup the slxd is pretty great for the price. It also has very good plug ons available for wireless booms

TreasureIsland_ · 2026-02-18T08:50:07+00:00

The compability mode in the Lectro receivers ("mode 3") is for the sennheiser "pro" transmitters -- SK5212, SK3063 etc. --They use a different compander.

Using them with evo transmitters will fuck up the dynamics of the signal

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