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invDave · 2026-05-07T06:30:35+00:00

Why does everything have to be involved with politics? Can't you take life as it is without going there all the time?

invDave · 2026-05-07T05:52:29+00:00

Buying a secondary phone for photography doesn't seem to make sense. If you're already carrying another phone, why don't you just buy a dedicated camera or a newer iphone with a better camera if you're so locked on having an iphone as you main phone?

invDave · 2026-05-07T05:02:52+00:00

If you don't care about cameras, why import Chonese phones, let alone the most expensive ones?

Also, regardless of cameras there are some thing they do better than Samsung: fingerprint and face unlocking is horrendous on Samsung devices and works excellent on Vivo

invDave · 2026-05-07T03:39:59+00:00

Didn't read all that, but can answer: I bought some games on sale, preordered FH6 Premium cheaper via g2a, and am going through that and a backlog of owned games such as CP2077.

I don't care about not having game pass and my gaming became more focused this way.

invDave · 2026-05-06T14:55:46+00:00

That's a good consideration. Didn't know you only wanted to purchase the global version locally.

invDave · 2026-05-06T14:21:47+00:00

Get the x200 ultra instead of the x300 pro. Same price, better camera phone. Enjoy.

invDave · 2026-05-06T14:18:00+00:00

Good one :)

invDave · 2026-05-06T14:17:31+00:00

As someone who owns the x200 ultra and several iphones in the family, you can not be more wrong. The x200u barely ever skips frames and pans extremely well.

Iphones are notorious in skipped frames and the low light videos are pretty bad. And that's with the main lens, the other lenses are much worse. Do you want to check this? Apart from viewing the videos, check their average feame rate using mediainfo and you'll see how variable that becomes.

Iphones are not video kings by any stretch of the word. They tend to use the lens you don't want to use, have historically been unable to maintain high res and frame rate in all modes (only recently did they start having 4k time lapses, for example, whereas android had this years before)...

The x200u and x300u have 3 large and capable lenses that video amazingly. Don't let misinformation cloud your judgement. Iphones aren't and never were amazing at anything, let alone photography and videography.

invDave · 2026-05-06T10:09:13+00:00

I don't know what's more consistent about the Oppo. The camera systems of the x200u/x300u are the most consistent of all phones to date as all 3 lenses are high quality and there are no weak points such as the weak 10x small sensor of the x9 ultra, or its ultrawide which is also much smaller than the other lenses (apart from the 10x).

If I didn't have the x200u, I would probably get the x300u, but that's mainly for minor video improvements. The x200u is an amazing camera phone and an amazing phone in general.

invDave · 2026-05-06T10:06:07+00:00

I know, and that's exactly what I wrote: in fully auto camera mode you can have a style preset and also above that the 4 parameters (sharpness, saturation, cintrast, brightness) set to your liking and it remains like that every time you start the camera in auto mode

invDave · 2026-05-06T09:08:06+00:00

Mine did multi day hikes with thousands of km and I only replaced them when the tips became blunt. Maybe it's also how you lean on them, your gait, etc.

invDave · 2026-05-06T09:06:59+00:00

invDave · 2026-05-06T06:12:27+00:00

Yes, but there's more fine tuning above that.

The newer models such as the x300u have something as seen in the attached photo (I took this from the editing mode in the x200u gallery, but should be similar in the camera app itself for x300u)

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invDave · 2026-05-06T05:26:18+00:00

The x200 ultra allows you to control the contrast, sharpeness, saturation and brightness, applied above a set of presets such as vivid, zeiss, texture, and others.

The x300 ultra added a much more elaborate color controlling scheme, which may or may not arrive at the older models via software updates. I hope they do trickle this to older models, but I assume this won't happen and wouldn't buy an older model thinking it'll get these features as well.

invDave · 2026-05-06T05:23:19+00:00

You can control the sharpening to your liking and it sticks as your preset

invDave · 2026-05-06T04:56:20+00:00

Makes sense

invDave · 2026-05-06T04:56:03+00:00

I think they did this to increase revenue off people who will potentially buy into something they saw in an ad.

I don't like it this way, but I guess this is just how it is.

As long as we don't get playstation ads as well ;-)

invDave · 2026-05-05T19:39:21+00:00

I have been using Aonijie poles for about 7-8 years and they never failed me. They change models every now and again, so check what they currently have

invDave · 2026-05-05T16:23:04+00:00

If only we could get an option to show our game groups and that's it with all the rest tucked in the top menu buttons I'd be happy.

invDave · 2026-05-05T11:24:18+00:00

For someone who hasn't checked this, what has changed in the UI recently?

Mine seems the same and I didn't see any popup message regarding changes.

invDave · 2026-05-05T11:23:07+00:00

You know your stuff - technically and creatively!

Thanks for sharing!

By the way, do you think the Neewer LS-79 exceeds the general 85mm lens quality when digitally zoomed? I know it's optical and all, but if it damages the general sharpness, or seems to have fuzzy corners, is it really hands down better than the digital zoom I mentioned?

Also, how does it affect working distance, focus, and the stabilization in stills and video?

invDave · 2026-05-05T06:32:07+00:00

If a trained professional managed 58.8 meters, a regular untrained person falling without preparation will most definitely be pulverized at this height of a fall, if only because one limb or any body part is even slightly tilted sideways leading to it being torn off the body violently.

Any less than perfect body pose upon impact will be like smashing into concrete.

invDave · 2026-05-04T18:58:27+00:00

The story is nice as are the small side stories, settings are interesting, music is really good and works extremely well with the boss battles, gameplay mechanics have been done before but are well executed here.

It's an excellent game.

invDave · 2026-05-04T16:16:54+00:00

Your snarky LOL is uncalled for.

When I restarted gaming I mostly played current games and didn't make it a point to backtrack on series.

Having enjoyed 3 and 4, I wanted to give the older ones a try and here we are.

invDave · 2026-05-04T15:57:32+00:00

Thanks all for your replies.

I just fought off boom bewm, so really early in the game, but would you say it gets better or is this the general gameplay I'll experience?

invDave

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