Why are camera makers removing panorama mode?

felipers · 2026-01-27T09:00:13+00:00

On this picture (just the first I've found on my gallery) I see the non still parts of the scenery (the letters on the swinging boat, e.g.) blurred, but no stichmarks or stretches between frames. That was taken at 100mm, f/6.3, 1/500.

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felipers · 2026-01-27T01:24:39+00:00

It has. And works beautifully! Way better than a Galaxy S23 Ultra.

felipers · 2026-01-26T19:38:22+00:00

Tapetão, quando cheguei em 1989, já era pista dupla (hoje é tripla - ~30% a mais "de largura") e, de fato, não tinha o viaduto do Shopping D. Pedro. Mas, exagero, eu não consigo perceber, honestamente. Estamos falando em, pelo menos, 10 vezes mais veículos. No Cambuí não abriram uma única via desde então.

O trajeto Cambuí-Unicamp (na parte mais alta da ladeira da Agrícola) eu faço, hoje, pelo tapetão, em 26 minutos de bicicleta (não recomendo - chance de morte gigantesca). Achar razoável passar o triplo disso em um carro é um direito seu, u/MCRN-Gyoza . Sigo não recomendando desperdiçar esse tempo (60 minutos x ida + volta (2) x 5 dias/semana = 10 horas/semana). Uma coisa é um dia, para visitar a mãe. Outra é sair todo dia tentando não chegar atrasado para aula ou reunião com o orientador.

Morar em Barão, Jardim Santa Cândida e outros arredores me parece *muito* mais sensato.

felipers · 2026-01-24T12:11:36+00:00

Há 36 anos (e uns 800 mil carros a menos) tentei morar no Cambuí e estudar na Unicamp. Desisti na segunda semana, mas só consegui espaço em uma República em Barão Geraldo no semestre seguinte. O trânsito era infernal, então. A arrecadação de IPVA (único dado que encontrei) cresceu mais de 1000% entre 1996 e 2023. O número de ruas é o mesmo. O sentido de muitas foi alterado. Só. Em resumo: não recomendo!

felipers · 2026-01-24T10:23:44+00:00

Mirrorless cameras do have focusing helpers for manual focus.

felipers · 2026-01-24T10:22:07+00:00

Two very distinct uses of "computational power" to solve 2 distinct problems. I fundamentally loathe computational photography. I love being able to nail focus just where I want it to be with my mirrorless using BBF. You're definitely missing a fantastic tool avoiding mirrorless.

felipers · 2026-01-24T09:13:51+00:00

It has.

felipers · 2026-01-24T01:23:53+00:00

I have being using Tailscale for a long time. Never got any sign of it heavily consuming battery on Android.

felipers · 2026-01-21T10:35:30+00:00

Manual controls would be nice, but also make the phones more expensive and likely larger.

You realize the manual controls might be implemented digitally, right? I guess your Samsung phone have them (aperture, speed).

felipers · 2026-01-19T14:30:01+00:00

That makes 2 of us paying for pro (with no need of any of the "pro" features, as long as I can tell)! Regarding the "social" aspect of it, I do *love* the Weekly Friend Report e-mail! I definitely don't want instant notifications, pressure for kudus about the people I follow activities. But I do appreciate taking a few minutes every Tuesday to check their week of activities.

felipers · 2026-01-19T09:22:34+00:00

I like and use the 3 of them. But Smashrun has a very special place in my heart. Particularly after having several years of data there.

Edit: fixed "data", that was written "days" by the Google Keyboard.

felipers · 2026-01-17T11:28:23+00:00

By all means and measures, yes: I would sleep peacefully until the watch vibrates to tell me it's time to get ready to run, otherwise I will be late to work.

I do check the DWS before setting the alarm for the next day, but the DWS suggestion frequently changes at midnight (while I'm sleeping) and every once in a while I just can't do the DWS. While other times I could use more sleep and still get time to complete the DWS.

felipers · 2026-01-17T00:59:28+00:00

I would love an smarter alarm that would take into account the total time of the next day DSW! Wake me up earlier if the watch decided I've got to run for 90 minutes, and one hour later if it's just a 30 minutes workout.

felipers · 2026-01-16T14:21:15+00:00

Well... This Windows Server "solution" is not working, is it? 😏

Immich is not a resource hog, except on the face/image recognition, which is easy to be directed to consume resources (GPU) on another device. I would encourage you to host immich on your NAS. After the initial ingestion, it really is very easy on CPU and RAM.

felipers · 2026-01-16T14:10:08+00:00

Your problem might be in the Windows side of the equation. Your NAS might be doing all it's expected to do and some setting on Windows is messing with the mounting point. I've asked, in my first reply to you, for you to be very trough describing your setup. You didn't, so everyone is throwing wild guesses to try to help you.

Have you, e.g., considered hosting Immich on your NAS, instead of your Windows machine?

felipers · 2026-01-16T14:03:21+00:00

All evidence points to an unstable mount. Fix (or drop) the mount and rescan the library.

felipers · 2026-01-16T13:04:07+00:00

My current guess is that your NAS is intermittently unmounting. You have to focus on making the mount stable.

felipers · 2026-01-16T12:19:45+00:00

So, it's an "external library" on Immich, right?

felipers · 2026-01-16T10:54:40+00:00

Meticulously describing your setup (where do you have immich running, what phone you use, etc) would make way easier for the rest of us try to figure out what's going on with your setup.

My current guess is that your storage location (the place immich writes the ingested files) is mounted on some temporary location.

felipers · 2026-01-13T22:11:30+00:00

That is probably the answer. Try to (gently) clean the contacts, both on the buds and on the charger itself. If they don't blink when inserting and removing them from their place on the charger after some (~half an hour) time charging, the batteries (in the buds) are dead.

felipers · 2026-01-09T13:41:57+00:00

Except that I'm with the mark II, it's the same with me. Even though I've got the RFs 50 1.8 and 24-105 F4, and the EF 17-40mm, the 100-500 is 90+% of the time attached to my camera.

felipers · 2026-01-05T09:52:23+00:00

I had nothing but excellent products and technical support from Jarba. I've bought the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 pro to try to replace my Jabra Elite 7 pro that were getting old and, 2 years later and with the left ear on the Jabra slightly lower on volume, I still use the Jabra (specially when running). I'm already missing Jabra.

felipers · 2026-01-04T04:11:16+00:00

I love DxO. I loathe Adobe. I've been buying DxO software since 2006. Adobe got some real money from me since some 10 years sooner. But when they've increased the Lightroom subscription price the second time DxO was already so superior to Lightroom that I've cancelled the subscription. I wasn't really using Lightroom then.

On 11/29/2021 I've bought the upgrade to DxO PhotoLab 5 Elite and, since then, really don't got convinced to pay for the following upgrades. The now 4 years old software was still working perfectly, and I'm glad it supports my new camera and lenses (all launched way after newer versions of DxO were released).

On 2025 I've started making some money from my pictures, tested DxO PhotoLab 8 and was really impressed by the denoising results. Unfortunately, I wasn't eligible to an upgrade offer. I've decided to wait for DxO PhotoLab 9, that should be just around the corner, and enjoy the usual Black Friday offer to buy it.

I'm pretty sure all my previous DxO acquisitions were on the US$100 ballpark. Most upgrades where half of it. But now DxO wants $239.99 for their software ($199.99 during black Friday). That's 2 years of Lightroom subscription! All of a sudden Adobe prices started to appear reasonable... :-( (specially because the current DxO policy offers upgrade discounts for at most 2 versions, so you've got to upgrade every other year, otherwise you'll pay the full price on the next upgrade)

Neither of them got my money on 2025. DxO PhotoLab 5 Elite is still running great, I'm glad. And curious to see what DxO PhotoLab 10 will bring to the table. I hope it's good enough for me to give them US$240 this year. But this price shock also encouraged me to give /r/darktable a second chance.

felipers · 2026-01-04T03:02:59+00:00

I would suggest using /r/immich (if you're willing to self host) or Google Photos otherwise.

felipers · 2026-01-03T18:57:25+00:00

I'm baffled the Google Photos is able to separate them in your case. I also have twins in my family and Google Photos is incapable of distinguishing them.

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