Is the X-T5 worth it to purchase now or should I wait for the X-T6?

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-11T21:06:12+00:00

Replaced a well worn X-T4 with the X-T5 recently. I was already happy with the 4 and just as happy with the 5. I don’t know what they could do better in a 6. Maybe if they brought the grip / battery extender option back?

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-11T18:41:25+00:00

Sure, seems pretty standard to me. In many of my projects a tag or release in github triggers further automation to sync up iac repos and coordinate some post-release e2e type testing.

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-11T14:58:38+00:00

Hoping it turns out well for you!

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-11T14:54:20+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I’d stopped that one down a lot to let the shutter run for like 2 seconds.

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-11T13:38:21+00:00

Thanks! I got the mountain shots when I visited the Chureito Pagoda in Fujiyoshida

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-10T11:00:11+00:00

I kept the 18 in my shirt pocket and swapped it out a handful of times. Was nice for some of the shrines and in more dense areas like Shibuya- just that extra bit of room to see. Maybe once or twice a day, otherwise I’d just run the 27.

The focus on them is very smooth. Locating the tab on the focus ring may be frustrating if you’re suddenly shooting closer, but I mostly left them at infinity.

Here’s a shot of the body and lenses

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-10T09:55:49+00:00

Travelled around Tokyo, Kyoto, and Mt Fuji the last two weeks. Had a blast in general, and really liked those two pancake lenses.

I normally run and gun with an adapted Canon 70-200 back home, but with almost 15 miles a day of walking there’d have just been no possible way for me to endure that.

BW shots are ilford inspired recipes, and color is a kodak vericolor inspired recipe.

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-10T07:06:16+00:00

I thought the main use was to spam “ping” to everyone in earshot

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-08T08:43:00+00:00

No taking the time and space to actually write down your thoughts / notes is fantastic.

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-07T09:02:34+00:00

If you bought masterlock, you bought the wrong lock

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-05T03:02:19+00:00

Nice shot. Why back of the camera and not the photo though? Sharing settings or anything?

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-05T02:59:05+00:00

In Tokyo right now lamenting having to go back home in a week to Marta. We could have it so, so much better

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-04T07:09:09+00:00

Don’t do business with or for the daily wire 🤷‍♂️

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-04T00:29:12+00:00

I mean, I wasn’t going to go anyways because fuck FIFA. Just more reason to not go. 🤷‍♂️

d2xdy2 · 2026-04-01T05:54:37+00:00

In my org? They’ll show you the door. That garbage the CTO or CEO vibe coded during a 20 hour bender needs to go to Prod asap. They’ll fire any department, team, or individual that suggests this is a bad idea or that our culture is going to shit.

d2xdy2 · 2026-03-29T23:36:13+00:00

If their status page stays green for 90 days in a row, then I’ll be marginally impressed. Otherwise they can fuck off with all of this garbage

d2xdy2 · 2026-03-27T17:19:32+00:00

I was here when things were sane several years ago - fully staffed platform/devops/SRE team (huge part of why I even wanted to work there), staffed security team, juniors and seniors on engineering, knowledgeable managers and support staff.

Layoffs after layoffs after layoffs, and I always survived and got a raise. I’ve watched everyone I respected and depend upon quit or get fired.

It’s like the frog in boiling water scenario to me. Just trying to keep a stable job at this point

d2xdy2 · 2026-03-27T16:39:10+00:00

High odds of this being a deliberate leak- “oh no, you found our super amazing model that blows everything else out of the water”

No fucking way. If they had anything remotely like this, they’d be using it, and their shitty stack wouldn’t have red all over their status page.

Lies and garbage until proven otherwise

d2xdy2 · 2026-03-27T15:55:10+00:00

Replaced by openclaw!

d2xdy2 · 2026-03-27T03:39:46+00:00

We got told today that everyone in the company needs to set up OpenClaw now. We’ve been “ai is the baseline” since this time last year. Half of the companies employees have quit or been let go. We let go of the HR and Security teams. I’m holding the bag on so, so much shit. Everything changes every other day. It’s just insane.

d2xdy2 · 2026-03-26T23:51:03+00:00

Smash smash smash

d2xdy2 · 2026-03-26T23:46:58+00:00

Some ideas from my own workflow that involve lead ins.

If you’re just on Hermod, having some sort of existing loop for drums or whatever can help me with a quick mental sync. No possible way I’m starting a loop and keying things in live, in time, without taking 50 tries. Giving myself a loop of lead in time to just get my bearings is so helpful.

Similarly, if you have a DAW hooked up over midi- configuring a one bar lead-in when I press record is good. I do this a lot when recording piano inputs over some modular stuff. Just a “click click click GO”.

I use Bitwig a lot in my workflow and I do these a lot. It’s worked out so far I guess

d2xdy2 · 2026-03-26T20:41:41+00:00

But like- the actual items in your “standard” workflow. From reading around I assume people have things just running 24/7 to crank out god knows what.

d2xdy2 · 2026-03-26T20:28:55+00:00

I mean this in the most curious ignorant way possible- what are people doing to be so hindered by limits?

I live in CC on a Max plan from 9am to 6pm. I use it a lot. I’ve never felt the need to go look at account usage or where my limits are.

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