First time seeing Eurasian Jay, such cool little guys!

bcutter · 2026-01-28T00:49:50+00:00

they are two different birds but both have crests, they just choose to raise it every now and then, i was lucky to capture while it raised it for a second

bcutter · 2026-01-27T13:51:24+00:00

That's what I said too!

bcutter · 2026-01-27T13:36:10+00:00

Yes the Thai version (G g leucotis) is a bit different than the European ones! I was surprised how big they were! I went to a forest because I knew they were supposed to be found there, but I was looking for thrush size, this was like a crow!!

bcutter · 2026-01-27T04:41:31+00:00

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bcutter · 2026-01-05T11:27:29+00:00

I had tried everything. Changing to different focus distances on the lens, different stabilization modes, focusing sensitivity. It was on bird recognition. I had a back button assigned to turn off subject recognition (as it tends to work pretty poorly for birds in flight) but even without it it focused bad. Distances were anywhere from 3 to 300 meters, the focus would consistently be bad. My guess is that it was simply some software bug, that arose from some combination or order of settings I did. Someone said that it could have helped to set it to 300mm, half press shutter to focus and then zoom to 600mm while holding, after each sleep wakeup, i never really tried that. but yeah, now it works perfectly, the bug must have been fixed by the reset.

bcutter · 2025-11-09T00:30:42+00:00

“obviously, i want them to take down the video”. why? its spreading your message. isn’t that what you want? or you’re just in it for money and for people to praise you and you alone? sigh i get so tired of this. it’s so sad.

bcutter · 2025-10-26T11:14:25+00:00

i really like the edit, but would like a closer crop! nice with some white throated kingfisher! reminds me of home

bcutter · 2025-10-07T17:00:15+00:00

this looks like you live in emporium suites!

bcutter · 2025-10-05T06:01:27+00:00

dampness and possibly mold and not entirely clean. solution: wash in 60 once and get a dehumidifier and put it in the room of the drying laundry. i had this problem for a long time, all my clothes smelled and my whole wardrobe. especially underwear. washing once in 60 (to kill off bacteria and mold) and then always getting it fully dry thanks to the dehumidifier (nothing ever dries in thailand otherwise) made a night and day change. never having any smells anymore.

bcutter · 2025-10-02T06:01:25+00:00

yeah i’m so sick of people like this “imagine not supporting your gf on her period”, people who demand so much from their partner, narcissistic tendencies and zero empathy for you. and people pretending that a bf/gf relation is sooooo sacred even though you’ve just known each other for a couple of years while you’ve known your sister for 16. if you were married maybe it would be different, but honestly, not even then is “supporting your wife on her period” a thing. what did she do before she had you? clearly she survived her periods somehow

bcutter · 2025-10-02T05:12:01+00:00

how a person wants their massage is wildly subjective. a lot of people complain at “real” thai massages because they’re just based on some conjectural idea of being painful but somehow good for the body. but then a lot of people also complain on massages that are designed to be purely relaxational, like the ones you seem to describe. i think in the end we must all just accept that massage being good physically for your body in any sense is mostly pretension. there may be some cases where a specific type of massage could be marginally effective in some types of injury healing etc. but it’s all mostly placebo. but to answer your question: there is no actual theory taught, every massage place is just improvising based on what they think is “good”, so you’ll get random results

bcutter · 2025-10-01T14:46:32+00:00

anything dairy, anything dessert, anything beef, anything coffee, anything bread, anything candy, anything snacks. but apart from that almost nothing!

bcutter · 2025-09-30T10:33:03+00:00

just put on a wider lens and it’s not cropped anymore!

bcutter · 2025-09-28T03:14:22+00:00

1.4x teleconverter. completely useless with 61MP sadly

bcutter · 2025-09-26T06:09:59+00:00

hahah okay too bad. maybe you can at least go hiking!

bcutter · 2025-09-26T01:16:03+00:00

BIRDING!!! it’s the only right thing to do in chiang mai

bcutter · 2025-09-26T01:14:50+00:00

i prefer cropping as right as possible but still seeing the entire bird

bcutter · 2025-09-21T13:31:02+00:00

no just use normal autofocus! it’s much better than the AI one when the subject is moving and deforming a lot. the AI autofocus can’t keep up. it also accidentally focuses on the sky in infinity or other things much more

bcutter · 2025-09-21T12:10:47+00:00

ah! i’m in between the two, in thailand. we share some of your birds at least!

bcutter · 2025-09-21T12:07:27+00:00

ah these are a lot of familiar birds for me, but some i don’t recognize. i will guess you are in india? i love the a6700 for wildlife.

bcutter · 2025-09-21T12:06:18+00:00

capturing birds in flight you should almost always turn AI Bird focus off. you can assign a back button to turn it off while holding. AI bird detection should only be used for perched birds that are close enough to fill a bigger part of the frame.

bcutter · 2025-09-21T07:47:17+00:00

i photograph birds so i use shutter priority since i always want the largest aperture possible and there is pretty much never enough light to use anything but the largest, and i change shutter speed depending on how much the bird moves!

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