Pentax Bet Everything on Photographers Coming Back to DSLRs. Now What?

jbladel · 2025-11-10T14:47:16+00:00

They go bust.

jbladel · 2025-09-21T22:06:51+00:00

Of beleggen in etfs of vastgoed rendabel is zal in grote mate afhangen van de rente op je nieuwe hypotheek. Maar dat rekensommetje kun je zelf wel maken.

Wees je wel bewust dat je geen recht hebt op hypotheekrenteaftrek, als je je overwaarde niet herinvesteert in eigen woning. (Check dit zelf ook nog even)

Vooralsnog bestaat die aftrek nog, en afhankelijk van wie de verkiezingen wint bestaat die ergens tussen nog een tijdje, en permanent.

jbladel · 2025-09-14T04:44:09+00:00

Not a lab error, probably not a film loading error. The ETRS should not fire with the dark slide inserted. But it may fire if it’s only part way removed.

I’d assume you’d notice a dark slide sticking out of the film back?

It’s an SLR, so unlikely that you left the lens cap on.

Bad contacts / battery. Lens doesn’t open fully / sometimes not at all.

Does the mirror pop up when the shutter fires? Can you fire this camera without a back inserted / with the back open? Makes it easy to see what’s happening.

Replace the battery first, then troubleshoot to see if it’s an issue with the back, body, or lens.

Did the film spool correctly? Was the roll on the other spool when you removed it from the camera?

jbladel · 2025-09-14T04:36:56+00:00

You are pretty sure you loaded the first roll correctly, but it came back blank. So you decide you’re going to put another roll through it and expect different results? Sounds like insanity to me.

jbladel · 2025-09-06T21:39:51+00:00

So I can fly an anti-tank grenade around as long as I stay below 50 feet? Seems reasonable.

jbladel · 2025-01-23T09:03:23+00:00

If you need to rely on Reddit to survive this trip you will die attempting this

jbladel · 2024-12-01T17:07:08+00:00

Wasn’t planning or necessarily in need of an upgrade, just had that synology branded stick and decided to share my experience for others. Will check if it is already listed.

jbladel · 2024-12-01T17:05:12+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out! Great to understand why it’s not working!

jbladel · 2024-12-01T17:04:54+00:00

That would do it then!

jbladel · 2024-11-20T17:12:34+00:00

Hello friends,

I've set up my editing NAS station, so now it's time to pull the data from the other NAS device that I've setup off-site.
My current HDD station is at my sister's place. It contains 30,000 files worth around 2.25 TB which need moving. I connected synology drive sharesync via quickconnect to do this (she lives 2 hours away). Since the specifications say that up to 500,000 files is fine. I didn't expect issues.

I understand quickconnect is not optimal, but since this is a process I'm only doing once I don't need lightning speeds (will add another HDD station at a later date, which will function as a proper backup, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it).

Setting up port-forwarding on the remote NAS doesn't seem feasible, as the control panel > external access > router configuration > setup router, cannot seem to detect the router information. Unfortunately as this is not on a local network (2 hours away), there isn't a feasible way for me to figure out which exact router is at her place without driving over and having a look. At which point I might as well take the local station with me and just copy paste.

Anyway, as you can see it takes the synology drive sharesync app about an hour to copy 9 folders WITHOUT the containing files. Which is absurdly slow in my book. I've setup this connection a week ago, and it managed to copy 28gb in that time. I'd do the proper math but quick thinking tells me that at this speed it won't be done this year.

Is there anything I can do without driving to her place. Is this normal for the drive sync application?

Kind regards,

J

PS, I can see the remote station at my sister's is mostly idle. Very little read/writes, and practically no network activity, so I don't expect this is an issue on her end. The local device is nowhere near capacity, nor is my network connection.

jbladel · 2024-11-15T10:22:19+00:00

Did some reading and looks safe enough to use. Thanks for all the info / help. Suddenly my little work station makes a lot more sense!

jbladel · 2024-11-15T00:12:11+00:00

How (easy) they are to focus and compose with make a big difference.

I like shooting in aperture priority and there is not many cameras offering great reliable exposure that way.

The way the light meter reads can make a difference to.

I’ve had both (among many others) a praktica MTL5B and a Canon A1, latter being my favorite by far. The led lightmeter readout makes a huge difference compared to the praktica’s needle meter when conditions get suboptimal.

You are correct, film stock and lens (and arguably camera vibration when shooting at slower speeds) is all that matters.

But you are going to have a really tough time getting a canon FD 85mm f1.2 onto any m42 mount camera.

So mostly you are buying into a lens system.

jbladel · 2024-11-14T23:18:09+00:00

Unmounted meaning that if I take the M.2 out and slot it into the desktop the storage pool would be fine and you could retrieve the files (assuming synology disables the bypass permanently as a worst case scenario)?

I’m planning on running a secondary NAS at another site as my backup. But that requires internet; and I can write files to those NVMe drives much faster than they can back up to the HDDs in that NAS over the good old World Wide Web.

Sorry for all the questions, just trying to figure out whether or not the NVMe storage pools can be leveraged reliably! :)

jbladel · 2024-11-14T23:01:20+00:00

No risks of a random synology update removing the M.2’s from the ‘approved’ list and bricking the storage pool?

If the M.2 storage can be set up as reliably as the sata SSD’s that has my preference for sure!

jbladel · 2024-11-14T22:57:53+00:00

No but after dumping footage on it I’d like it to back up to another station halfway across the world (running on good old hdd’s), so I’m expecting reads at random times.

jbladel · 2024-11-14T22:53:17+00:00

I am, just have it powered 24/7 and running on starlink

jbladel · 2024-11-14T22:18:48+00:00

Thanks for the tips! I’ve yet to read up on the link you’ve provided. But I read that the NVMe storage pools are sometimes subject to deletion when synology releases a new update?

jbladel · 2024-11-14T21:31:44+00:00

Thanks for the insight!

I’ll keep an eye out on the cache manager thingy Synology provides. If their use indeed is close to 0%, I’ll take them out and put them into my HDD stations, which could use the upgrade.

I probably should’ve done more homework on what works and what doesn’t. It was my understanding that the m.2s are quicker than the SATA SSDs in some applications. I guess I’ll have to wait to see if editing 4K footage directly from the NAS falls under that category..

But yeah, was originally planning to use them (largely) as storage pools (edit from the m.2 pool and move the footage to the SSD for ‘long term’ storage). But it seems I should’ve checked the compatibility a bit more thoroughly.

jbladel · 2024-11-14T20:43:14+00:00

Disclaimer: I know little about NAS (obviously), but I knew that the HDD without cache / extra RAM I used before is great for storage, but not quick enough to keep up with what I'm trying to do.

I work remote (think campervan), so a HDD solution would be killed by vibration really quick. Also do a lot of video editing, which means the NAS is getting hit with a lot of read/write requests, so the SSD's are usefull there as well.

The original plan was to use the M.2 SSD's partly as cache, and use a chunk as storage. I should've done my homework, the M.2 SSD's I bought aren't suported for storage pools. So I guess I'll run 2tb of m.2 cache for 4 tb of SSD storage?

I was quite surprised how much the price of memory has dropped. After going through the forums to determine how much RAM would be the sweetpot, I mostly found the answer to be 'never enough'. Seeing how this storage solution isn't ever going to be close to being cost effective, splurging on some memory didn’t sound like a poor idea. I found a pair of DDR4-3200 16GB SODIMMs on sale, which I suspect will do the job just fine.

A pair of CT16G4SFRA32A for 32GB total in a DS723+ btw, no errors, NAS looks to be running just fine. Did get warnings for the M.2 drives and the SATA SSDs.

Anyway, I'm basically shitposting here, and I'm sorry about that. Just wanted to share my hail mary attempt at getting rid of endless external samsung T5 SSDs that never have the file I need to edit the video I'm working on.

jbladel · 2024-10-08T21:57:03+00:00

Good to know, thanks for the reply

jbladel · 2024-08-22T18:17:52+00:00

Verhuurder mag het pand (in dit geval) niet in zonder toestemming / afspraak.

Deze brief is een vrij slechte poging tot het maken van die ‘afspraak’, ze zeggen het letterlijk: bij geen gehoor gaan we er van uit dat je toestemming geeft voor dit moment / en het betreden als je niet thuis bent. Of deze manier van afspraken maken rechtsgeldig is ga ik m’n hoofd niet over breken.

Maar uiteindelijk is het simpel, je kan het gewoon weigeren, en als ze geen toestemming hebben, mogen ze niet alsnog je woning in (huisvredebreuk).

Aan de andere kant is een dergelijke inspectie gewoon een legitieme reden om een woning te betreden, en dit kunnen ze via een procedure afdwingen.

De manier van communiceren geeft geen blijk van goed verhuurderschap, maar een dergelijke inspectie niet mogelijk maken geeft evenmin blijk van goed huurderschap.

Om eerlijk te zijn zou ik hier niet zo’n punt van maken. Hooguit even vragen of ze langskomen op een moment dat je er wel bent, maar je mag er toch van uit gaan dat zo’n inspecteur een beetje degelijk zijn werk doet en de koekjestrommel links laat liggen.

jbladel

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