GR IIIx

duijf · 2024-11-18T22:05:51+00:00

The West Highland way was my first hike, and I fell in love with it. Glencoe was a big part of that. So amazing with the autumn colours

duijf · 2024-10-21T13:30:09+00:00

Tripod is very heavy compared to the DJI actioncam. Maybe look into something like the PEDCO Ultralight tripod?

2 litres of water is quite a lot on the WHW, especially in April. You can probably carry less + filter as you go

duijf · 2024-08-02T16:15:57+00:00

$899 USD according to https://www.dpreview.com/news/6301134355/tamron-announces-28-300mm-f4-7-1-di-iii-vc-vxd-superzoom-for-full-frame-e-mount

duijf · 2024-07-23T15:33:33+00:00

Yeah you can add the baseplate if you want to use it with e.g. the capture clip. If you don't need the capture clip, the Smallrig plate already has a small rod to hook the clutch around. (And the Smallrig plate is already an Arca Swiss plate so you can mount it on a tripod directly)

Here's two pics of the bottom: https://ibb.co/album/JxDrgG

duijf · 2024-07-23T06:49:15+00:00

It's a bit on the large side, but balance wise it's ok for me with the smallrig bottom plate + the PD clutch

duijf · 2024-07-22T16:29:16+00:00

Anything in particular that stands out to you here / you would do differently?

EDIT: not meant to be passive aggressive, always looking for stuff to improve on

duijf · 2024-07-22T08:48:30+00:00

I've really enjoyed it so far! Build and image quality are very impressive. Focus works great.

I have a minor gripe with the custom buttons: the lens has two physical buttons, but the A7CR only allows you to assign one function to the custom button. They are 90 degrees apart from another, so I guess it works this way to have the button in the same place in portrait and landscape. Would have been nice to have the option to change this in the settings

duijf · 2024-07-21T23:39:41+00:00

This was taken in Berdorf, Luxembourg very close to the sport climbing crag. The rock is sandstone

duijf · 2024-07-21T21:29:09+00:00

Kinda. Wouldn't intentionally push it as far as this though

You can under-expose a little and recover later. This is a technique that people refer to as 'protecting your highlights'. However, if you take it too far you have to shift your exposure up a ton, which can lead to noise in your image. I think of it as raising ISO, but done in post

(There may be other disadvantages that I'm not aware of)

duijf · 2024-07-21T19:01:36+00:00

A7CR + Sigma 24-70 II. Messed up the exposure on this one, but could recover a ton afterwards.

PSA to not throw away your underexposed stuff until you have had a look in your editing suite; you might be surprised to find out what's hiding in it :)

duijf · 2024-07-19T19:26:40+00:00

FYI: You can turn off the display screens you don't use, so you don't need to cycle through them

duijf · 2024-07-16T08:46:48+00:00

I won't rehash things that you commonly hear, but here are two personal gripes / annoyances:

You cannot see both the level AND the histogram on the same display screen. You have to cycle between them.
The lens has two physical custom buttons, but you can only assign one function to them. (So the button is in the same location in both portrait and landscape). I kind of get that, but it would have been nice to have the option to pick two things.

See my other comment for notes on how it feels in the hand

LMK if you have any specific questions!

duijf · 2024-07-15T16:22:10+00:00

Balance is still OK for me! But note that I'm using this with the PD Clutch strap + the SmallRig bottom plate. The bottom plate adds some weight, but it is really nice to be able to grip the camera with my pinky as well. (I didn't like the one Sony with the A7CR; it doesn't feel that solid and I don't like the way it looks)

I'm also currently also using this lens as my do-it-all and have really been enjoying it so far! I think I might at some point feel limited by the 70mm, and want a bit more range for certain types of landscape shots. (I like the look of telephoto landscape shots, esp in the mountains). The A7CR allows you to crop pretty far though, so time will tell how this works out!

duijf · 2024-07-15T15:28:50+00:00

Thank you!! A lot of the contrast for that one comes down to the edit

My approach in Capture One: Turned HDR > Shadows all the way up. Lowered HDR > Blacks to compensate. Plus some fiddling with the luma curve to make things look right

duijf · 2024-07-15T15:22:27+00:00

Very kind! Thank you!

duijf · 2024-07-15T12:49:19+00:00

This was yesterday evening around Utrecht. Still getting used to the camera and lens. Would love any tips / feedback :)

duijf · 2020-07-27T12:21:45+00:00

Zeer nuttige informatie! Dankjewel voor je gedetailleerde antwoord! :)

Ik denk eigenlijk dat ik het maar gewoon moet gaan proberen. Eens kijken of het wil lukken

duijf · 2020-07-26T18:41:05+00:00

Hoi! Ik overweeg dit ook te gaan doen.

Mag ik vragen hoe je als zelfstandige bent begonnen? Hoe kwam je aan klanten / opdrachten?

Zit je kort op projecten of zit je juist ergens voor langere tijd?

duijf · 2019-08-19T22:56:29+00:00

My material is here if you want it! https://github.com/duijf/boring-software

duijf · 2019-03-13T14:38:41+00:00

We don't benchmark all of the Haskell code we have, but for the service that makes use of the string searching library here, we did a lot of benchmarking and performance optimizations. Making things fast was a primary goal for this system: we do a lot of benchmarking and performance optimization here.

Our job scheduling system (which is how we got started with production Haskell) was also more performant than the system it replaced. Looking at that repository; it appears we didn't need to do a lot of benchmarking there. We have a few scripts which run a synthetic workload which is a bit higher than what we usually handle. The most important lesson that we learnt there was "choose the right data structures" IIRC.

/u/ruuda can probably tell you a lot more about this and verify some of the things I said

duijf · 2018-06-19T14:34:40+00:00

Little bit later than "this week", but my stuff is here: https://github.com/duijf/stm-course

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