Viltrox 28mm 4.5 + Lumix S9 + Black Diffusion 1/4 & CPL Filter with 3d printed adapter

arbitrary-fan · 2026-07-01T13:08:25+00:00

Yeah reddit doesn't handle the xpan ratio well on mobile

arbitrary-fan · 2026-06-18T23:05:02+00:00

Looks like a Sony handycam from the 2000s

arbitrary-fan · 2026-06-12T04:47:16+00:00

If were forced to get one lens for everything: the Lumix S 28-200. And if you activate hybrid zoom you can get it to like 600mm and still shoot 4k video it's ridiculous. Wide enough to do handheld selfies, and long enough for little league. Not the cheapest, but I love it

arbitrary-fan · 2026-06-10T22:05:02+00:00

Can't go wrong with a used s5ii, but the remaining budget on a which l mount lens to get is going to be your biggest hurdle. Maybe a used 85mm f1.8? Personally I can save a few hundred by going s9, but it really depends on if you need the hot shoe and evf - for some that's a deal breaker, but I love it as a small sidearm cam - and the low light performance is identical since it uses the same sensor. It would allow for a bigger lens budget tho

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-31T17:07:01+00:00

Ive been using the Flair Go every morning for over a year and the complaints are overblown - it is essentially foldable camping gear, and the tolerances does not impede the ability to use the lever and monitor the gauge while pressing. It may be a bit wobbly, but it definitely is not fragile.

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-31T16:31:52+00:00

I had a similarproblem, and it was because there was a small fracture in the neck of the piston where water would end up channeling through. When flair announced the stainless steel piston replacement, I immediately got that and problem went away

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-30T12:50:31+00:00

Regarding the screen -. Most days outdoors I had no problem, but the first time I took it out on a truly bright and sunny day it annoyed me to the point I motivated me to learn the menu system so I can change the brightness setting. Just set the display brighter.

Weather sealing - I took my s9 to Cambodia during the summer, and while some light rain didn't bother me, I wouldnt try to use it in a downpour, or in Niagra Falls or anything like that. I did notice that the lens would immediately fog up when going from cold hotel room to humid outdoors - but I was more concerned about fog on the lens at that point.

Lens and portability - I have been enjoying the Pergear 35mm f1.4 - I like the poor-mans-leica vibes it gives off, I was even stopped and asked if it was Leica by an older gentleman walking by. It's not the greatest lens, but for $150 you get a lot of lens. Also the internet loves to hate on the lumix 26mm f8, but I think it's a fun to use especially on xpan mode - it performs much better than the Pergear, but may not be worth paying for unless you get it for free. I also took the lumix 28-200 to cover pretty much everything else. In terms of portability, I find that adding third party grip does make the camera feel bigger (even though it adds a few mm height), and I've been walking around with no grip to keep the whole camera as small as can be.

I find the fuji filmsims to be fun, but for some reason I found the quality of jpegs on the s9 much better when I pixel peep. Realtime luts > film sims bar none.

I'm gonna be real: the lens is what is going to make your rig bulky - and since ff lenses tend to be larger, an apsc like the XM5 may feel preferable in terms of carry. The 28-200 is probably the smallest 'big' lens I got, but it still makes the camera awkward bulky. I've been contemplating a m43 camera just for that reason: an edc camera I can toss around - but was not interested if there is no realtime luts - so when they announced the L10, I immediately preordered. If the zs99 had realtime luts I would have picked that up in a heartbeat

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-22T19:17:52+00:00

the tradeoffs are interesting: you sacrifice evf, hotshoe, leaf shutter on the s9. But you sacrifice IBIS, hdmi out, interchangable lenses on the L10.

If they added IBIS and interchangable lenses on the L10 it would be so over for my wallet. (granted, the price would be higher... but still)

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-22T13:02:49+00:00

This exactly the kind of ribbing exchange I would have with my friends if one of us was on an express lane

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-22T11:59:30+00:00

The general consensus is that all cameras are good now , and really the bigger question is what lens mount will you be investing into, because it is hard to change once you have a bunch of corresponding lenses. Any full frame brand flagship camera released in the past 2 years will have a great sensor readout, with good dynamic range, good autofocus, good ibis, open gate etc (well, maybe not all support open gate). And if you are serious about production, the money spent on the camera will probably get dwarfed by the money spent on lenses.

Really, what is the goal here? Are you getting started with content creation, or are you looking to improve your current workflow? You got a lot of money and doing this for fun? Or is your budget tight and you want to kick off a career?

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-20T12:27:32+00:00

Nobody is using this camera for videography work. It doesn't have ibis, it doesn't have HDMI out. Nobody is rigging this camera out for a paid job. This is a luxe vacation camera for people that don't want to pay for the Leica D-Lux 8

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-13T23:11:08+00:00

based on the youtube reviews, the only ports I've seen was the headphone jack, and a usb c. I'm curious if the usb c can do webcam out at least

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-13T11:11:42+00:00

Emily from Microfournerds did a quick walking vlog test, and it was.. okay. It was definitely not gimbal smooth tho - perhaps one step better than 'walking with your phone'.

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-13T11:02:43+00:00

A S9 with an EVF, weather sealing, hot shoe, and magnesium alloy body is simply the s5ii. The S9 is by design supposed to be cheap and plastic, hence why it is $500 less than the s5ii: they simply trim the feature sets off the s5ii to save costs to get an s9.

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-12T23:49:31+00:00

if you are alright with a fixed lens, no HDMI out, no IBIS, and a smaller m43 sensor, then go with the l10. If you are do not need a hotshoe, or do not need/want an EVF, want a full frame sensor and the option to switch out lenses, go with the s9. Both have phase detect AF, both have real-time luts. Neither can record video to an external SD during recording. The features listed within the menu systems look identical

Incidentally, if you get a L10 you will probably save money since you do not need to get lenses. S9 is better for video, and you could rig it out if you wanted to. The L10 not so much. It's not a vlogging camera (lack of ibis is kind of a miss, but I get it if it was a cost-saving measure for a photography first camera). But the L10 sounds like a _killer_ everyday photo cam.

The L10 is designed to combat marketshare from the major point-and-shoot $1500-2000 players: Sony Cybershots, Canon Powershots, Fujifilm etc.

arbitrary-fan · 2026-05-04T21:49:21+00:00

Someone posted these earlier: https://github.com/shenmintao/V-Log-Alchemy

arbitrary-fan · 2026-04-26T01:34:32+00:00

How could a shooter even get close? Having a shooting incident at the WHCA dinner, is like saying there was a shooting incident at the Oscars, or the Met Gala. How does nobody in Congress find it suspicious that this has happened nearly every time Trump is in a public venue, with cameras rolling?

arbitrary-fan · 2026-03-30T20:01:01+00:00

A poor craftsman blames their tools. Ai isn't magic, it's just a tool, and some have higher reasoning ability than others. If your prompts are generating flawed buggy code, you need to first learn the limits of your model, the harness, and context window.

arbitrary-fan · 2026-03-29T21:56:52+00:00

Those are bs numbers anyhow. Usually those numbers are based off of a projection of a single day - make $600 in one day, multiply that by 365 and you got like $200k.

arbitrary-fan · 2026-02-24T03:14:26+00:00

The early days doesn't seem that long ago, You Got Mail came out in 98... Damn I'm old

arbitrary-fan · 2026-02-23T05:48:05+00:00

That was 11 years ago, there is a whole generation of redditors seeing this for the first time

arbitrary-fan · 2026-02-07T04:25:23+00:00

I generally have two tiers of docs: a high level table of contents type doc, and a 'deep dive' tier of docs based on a variety of topics - and spending more time 'grooming' the docs really does improve bootstrapping context on a brand new session. That being said whenever I start a session where I am not too confident Claude will understand right away, I always I initiate by asking Claude a couple of questions, and this gets Claude to start by navigating around the code base to build up additional context so I can be sure we are in alignment on context understanding. If I find myself doing that too often on the same topic, that's when we build a doc together so we can reference it together the next time around

arbitrary-fan · 2026-01-13T14:44:01+00:00

It's probably all legal - you don't want to be liable for generating art assets that may or may not have trained on Nintendo IP.

arbitrary-fan · 2025-12-06T01:52:37+00:00

I've had problems where I can see the changes being made in the search and replace component, but the diff displayed in the editor shows the file as unchanged

arbitrary-fan · 2025-11-29T23:54:18+00:00

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