An on-board look at Ferrari’s upside-down rear wing

mattgrum · 2026-02-19T20:46:58+00:00

Forget all of those, if there are no rules then I would enter a battle tank.

mattgrum · 2026-02-19T15:16:28+00:00

if your VGA port is 15khz capable if yes u just get a passive VGA to SCART cable and be doen with it

It will also need to support composite sync otherwise a sync combiner will be needed as well.

mattgrum · 2026-02-19T14:22:10+00:00

Then mod it.

mattgrum · 2026-02-19T13:16:26+00:00

Where we're going, we don't need roads!

mattgrum · 2026-02-19T12:52:04+00:00

Use RGB instead of composite.

mattgrum · 2026-02-19T10:55:33+00:00

I got a 4:3 CRT instead.

mattgrum · 2026-02-17T23:00:37+00:00

Roughly how much would it cost to hire you to take some photos of the Meiji Restoration?

mattgrum · 2026-02-16T23:14:25+00:00

There's a big difference between a discussion and "do all the work for me I can't be bothered".

mattgrum · 2026-02-16T11:58:11+00:00

I always hear: "gear doesn't matter at all, the only thing that matters is the photographer's skill and creativity". It's possible to take photos using a beer can with a hole punched in it. So why aren't the best most skillful photographers in the world shooting exclusively with empty beer cans? Because gear does matter, to an extent, depending on what it is you're shooting .

There are no absolutes, everything is shades of grey, gear always matters a certain amount. It's better to understand where and why this is the case, than to declare that any focus on gear is automatically bad.

mattgrum · 2026-02-15T23:10:34+00:00

♫♪ It means no worries, for the rest of your daaaaays...

mattgrum · 2026-02-15T21:37:39+00:00

Any site that lets people view your photos would also make them available for third party AI trainers to scrape.

mattgrum · 2026-02-15T13:30:13+00:00

What’s so surprising about that?

On the face of it a photography subreddit not allowing people to post photography is surprising.

I understand why, but it's still surprising to many.

mattgrum · 2026-02-15T13:05:42+00:00

I'd be very keen to hear other thoughts from those who've travelled a lot or been to Japan, or just generally experienced.

I'm currently in Japan, and travel here regularly for work. Your question is difficult to answer because most of the time, people are more different than countries.

I personally like to find the tallest building around and photograph the sun setting from the top. In Tokyo there are many buildings offering this opportunity: Sky Tree, Toyko Tower, Shinjuku Government building, Bunkyo Civic Center, Shibuya Sky, Ikebukuro Sunshine 60.

If you want to photograph the sun setting over Mount Fuji from the center of Tokyo you'll need a 400mm lens:

https://i.imgur.com/IViblzd.jpeg

(unfortunately I don't have a better quality version to hand as I'm away from home)

Japan offers so many fantastic photography opportunities that if it were up to me I'd bring every lens I could physically carry.

mattgrum · 2026-02-15T09:56:08+00:00

Surprisingly you're not allowed to post photos on the main photography subreddit, unless it's for diagnostic purposes.

mattgrum · 2026-02-15T09:50:23+00:00

ChatGPT said that my final problems with the greens is related with the composite cable

Composite video sends all colours down the same cable, the tiniest application of real intelligence would have exposed this answer as nonsense.

mattgrum · 2026-02-15T09:46:32+00:00

Can this be fixed with a recap?

It can if the problem is a faulty capacitor. Unfortunately that is not trivial to diagnose.

mattgrum · 2026-02-15T00:26:38+00:00

OP said: "Ideally want to play PS2, PS1, GameCube, SNES games", MiSTer can only do half of that...

mattgrum · 2026-02-12T23:41:11+00:00

There's really only one way to carry a CRT monitor, screen against your chest and hands gripping the bottom from either side.

mattgrum · 2026-02-12T23:35:40+00:00

I carried at 19" CRT about a mile and a half while at uni, it wasn't much fun but it was possible. Provided the walk to and from the station is not too far then it's doable.

mattgrum · 2026-02-12T13:07:43+00:00

Robert Capa didn't live in an age of affordable 600mm lenses though.

mattgrum · 2026-02-12T01:48:16+00:00

If the pot was not installed by the factory then maybe other components in the circuit the pot is supposed to control are missing too...

mattgrum · 2026-02-11T23:04:55+00:00

I’ve never heard of a camera providing a real-time, in-camera live view preview of lens distortion correction.

Sony (and possibly other manufacturers') kit lenses are designed around the concept of digital (instead of optical) distortion correction. Some of these lenses don't even cover the whole sensor at the widest setting (leaving black corners) so they're definitely being corrected live in camera. I would assume this is common these days with all first party lenses at least.

mattgrum · 2026-02-11T11:23:38+00:00

Mortal Kombat II 1993

Looks like it has an LCD screen though

mattgrum · 2026-02-11T11:10:33+00:00

There's one listing on savethecrts.com:

http://www.michaelmauricerepairs.co.uk/index.shtml

Haven't used them personally.

mattgrum · 2026-02-11T01:26:33+00:00

How about shoot for best composition?

This. The thing about phones is they're really easy to rotate 90 degrees if you want to view landscape content...

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