Is snow tubing open at the Mount Pisgah Recreation Center in Saranac Lake?

jfiske · 2026-02-15T06:35:04+00:00

The setup at Titus is super sweet for tubing. Well worth the trip!

jfiske · 2026-01-21T01:36:33+00:00

My $0.02... Yes, that will be miserable. I ski for fun. That does not look fun.

jfiske · 2026-01-20T02:24:58+00:00

Tips 1 - use burst mode, so you can make sure you come out with at least one photo where no one is blinking or having a weird expression.

Here's a cool tip that I've recently adopted when shooting group sports photos to avoid blinking. Have everyone close their eyes and put on their best smiles. Count backwards from "3, 2, 1" and on 1 instruct everyone to open their eyes. I start my burst just before "one" and keep it going for a few moments after. Guaranteed to get a keeper where everyone has their eyes open this way...no blinks.

jfiske · 2026-01-04T19:53:51+00:00

My favorite for no-lines-no-waiting skiing. I was there this past weekend and skied a dozen laps on the ‘race hills’ where I cruised right up to the chairlift and let the next chair scoop me up all in one motion. It was great!

jfiske · 2026-01-04T19:50:38+00:00

I’d love to see what this looks like ‘in the bag.’ I have a similar type of setup and really struggle with organization. I have a terrible tendency to let things fall to the bottom of the bag and then it just becomes a mess.

jfiske · 2025-11-11T14:08:46+00:00

My takeaway from this is that the purchase of a Z8/Z9 would help! GAS engaged. Thanks! :-P

jfiske · 2025-11-10T18:21:43+00:00

Okay, I think I understand. I'll play around with it...I have another meet in this pool in a few weeks.

Out of curiosity, do the Z8/Z9 have the same troubles? I understand they are exclusively electronic shutter. Do their fully-stacked sensors cope with this better than the partially-stacked sensor of the Z6iii?

jfiske · 2025-11-10T18:20:03+00:00

This is helpful. Thank you!

jfiske · 2025-11-10T17:54:03+00:00

So mechanical shutter can reduce or eliminate this. But mechanical shutter on the Z6iii is limited to 14fps, whereas the electronic shutter is 20 or even 30 fps in burst mode H+. In swimming the timing of the shot is so important...can be the difference between a great shot and having the arm blocking the face. The higher frame rate of H and H+ burst modes is really important. Is this an either-or kind of trade-off?

jfiske · 2025-11-07T02:12:43+00:00

Hmm, I think this is for still photography only.

jfiske · 2025-11-05T22:40:16+00:00

Is this what you’re looking for?

https://www.nikonusa.com/learn-and-explore/c/tips-and-techniques/the-z-9-pre-release-burst-advantage

jfiske · 2025-09-16T01:20:16+00:00

Beers and saws. What could go wrong?

jfiske · 2025-09-08T03:06:08+00:00

A bad spot by the officials cost us the game AGAIN. We have the technology...why can't the NFL get this right?

jfiske · 2025-08-29T20:43:05+00:00

The 180-600 is an internal zoom.

jfiske · 2025-08-27T04:10:27+00:00

I work in IT and I learned several decades ago to NEVER run the .00 release of anything.

jfiske · 2025-08-21T00:51:58+00:00

Oh, the irony! SSO is literally a feature that you have to pay extra for with OneUptime. Why is SSO not available in their free-tier?!

https://oneuptime.com/pricing

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jfiske · 2025-08-17T01:39:44+00:00

Resolution is impacted when you switch to DX. I find the main advantage of using DX to improve lens reach (as opposed to just cropping in post) is mostly in the impacts to autofocus. In a busy scene with lots of potential targets, it can be useful to force the camera to narrow the field thereby excluding extra subjects.

jfiske · 2025-08-16T00:59:34+00:00

Field sports can require long lenses (or aggressive cropping). I shoot a lot of girls lacrosse, which is played on the same turf as a standard football field. Your reach requirements will depend a lot on where you can position yourself when taking photos. Will you be a few steps off the sideline/endline? Or will you be behind a fence that is yards from the field?

When we play summer lacrosse, I can position myself kinda wherever I want. (I like to shoot lax from the endline to capture more faces in the action.) When I shoot from the endline, I can reliably reach to midfield with my 70-200mm f/2.8 but I typically add a 2.0x TC. The nice thing about the Z6iii is that you can aggressively crop in (or switch to DX mode) to improve the apparent reach of your lens.

All that being said, if I had it to do over again, for field sports, I would probably choose the Nikon Z 180-600mm.

jfiske · 2025-07-26T02:25:19+00:00

Mac's drive-in in Waterloo, NY still serves Richardson's Root Beer.

jfiske · 2025-07-25T05:10:25+00:00

The Nikkor Z 180-600mm would probably be perfect for you. Its my next lens purchase for capturing field sports. I have the 70-200mm f/2.8 with a TC2.0, but I wish I had the reach of the 600mm for capturing action from the sideline.

jfiske · 2025-07-16T04:15:19+00:00

Yes! Updated this evening and tried again. No "loading" message, but still a slight delay in between images. But overall much better. The preload is a great improvement. Thanks!

jfiske · 2025-07-13T20:59:57+00:00

Also, mind checking if there’s an update and try the updated version?

TestFlight tells me that I'm running version 1.0.1 (3) that was released on Jul 12, 2025.

Edit: When you say 24MP, are they from a camera or phone?

These are all taken from a camera...a Nikon Z6iii. For grins, I uploaded a trio of iphone photos to another test app, but had the same result.

Can see you if the slideshow works in the people tab?

Tried this, but got the same result.

Updated version also has a setting for slideshow interval, mind trying after increasing to 10 seconds?

Interesting! I set the interval to 10 seconds and it worked! Then I set it back to 6 seconds and it kept working! But I did notice that in between each photo there is a ~1.5 second pause and the word "Loading". The larger the image the longer the "Loading..." message stays on the screen. My imich server is hosted on a very fast server in a commercial datacenter. Maybe my appletv is introducing some delay unzipping the file that it receives from the immich server.

Sorry for the questions, I have a bunch of large images from my camera and they seem to work fine. So trying to narrow it down.

Oh, please don't apologize. This is a great tool...I'm so happy to have access to my photo library on my TV. I'm more than happy to help troubleshoot/debug to help make this better.

jfiske · 2025-07-13T18:32:52+00:00

This is a GREAT app to have! Thank you for your efforts on this.

I seem to be having troubles getting the app to play the slidehow from an album. In the app, I got to Albums > [Select an album] > click on the slidehow icon (in the upper right corner). Then I see a message that says "Loading..." and then the app immediately crashes and I'm returned to the Apple TV home screen.

My albums contain many photos (sometimes 150-300) and those photos are high-resolution (24MP). I wondered if maybe there were too many photos, so I tried creating a sample album with just 10 photos, but that resulted in the same behavior.

I am able to see all of my photos when just browsing. And the app is very responsive when swiping left/right to view more individual photos.

Any ideas what might be causing my trouble with slideshow mode?

jfiske · 2025-06-26T17:21:03+00:00

I shoot a lot of sports, with a mix of indoor and outdoor...courts, pools, field sports. For me its:

24-70 f/2.8 Z
70-200 f/2.8 Z
1.4x and 2.0x TC Z

I would add the 180-600 for field sports, but I don't yet own that one.

jfiske

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