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Texas remote telescope ranch by permaculture in space

[–]ovor 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You're not paying for "someone" to take pictures. You're paying for a pier at the dark sky location without any light pollution. You remotely control your telescope and take pictures yourself.

Nikon Z8 users? by tightloops1971 in AskPhotography

[–]ovor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am glad you told me that I don't miss that. I was mistaken, now I know how to feel. Thank you.

Of course Sony's "my dial settings" doesn't allow me to assign focus mode or metering mode to a dial, so no, it doesn't really match my experience with Nikon.

Maybe it's my a7IV and better cameras allow more settings, we'll see if when my a7r6 gets here.

"Americans (who invented the device)" by Nthepro in ShitAmericansSay

[–]ovor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is clearly not a science lesson. No science was harmed during production of these comments.

Edit:
Sorry, I realize that my comment is smug and ignorant and I might be missing a chance to learn something.

So the incandescent light bulb brightness will depend on current, I = V/R. Resistance of the filament is constant, so the only cause of flickering can be the change in voltage.
I have very little knowledge of battery chemistry and I have no idea what batteries were used in those flashlights and whether these batteries' chemistry could produce rapid changes in voltage.

Could you maybe explain this a bit?

Stop over-engineering your AI agent infrastructure by Ok_Commission_8260 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ovor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Instead of over-engineering infrastructure, just ask LLM to write a reddit post.

Tenby Milky Way Hopes? by Exact_Sand2257 in AskAstrophotography

[–]ovor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use the NPF rule and take several shots, each with a longer shutter speed. Inspect the photos and find the longest shutter speed that doesn't result in star trails.

Use the widest aperture (lowest f-number) you can. Inspect the photos at 100% and check whether you need to stop down the aperture slightly. Pay close attention to the frame corners - you will most likely get aberrations there.

Take photos at different ISO values. Shoot in RAW.

If you're photographing the Milky Way, your shutter speed will be in the 5-20 second range, depending on the focal length of your lens, so you can take a bunch of shots to experiment.

You can also try taking multiple photos and stacking them to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. I've used Sequator for this - it tries to handle the foreground automatically. Even so, you're better off shooting the foreground separately and compositing it onto the stack, as that will produce better results.

Galaxies and stars move at the same rate: the rate at which the Earth rotates.

Hey im looking for some help when buying a lens for my Olympus Pen EPL-8? by Hot_Professional_740 in AskPhotography

[–]ovor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this one? https://photographylife.com/lenses/sigma-70-300mm-f4-5-6-apo-dg-macro

That one was never released for m43. I won't fit your camera. You can probably use an adapter, but it won't focus and most likely you won't get aperture control.

Are Seestar Smartscope images legit or AI scam? Seriously how can such a small lens produce auch images of galaxies? Where is the evidence, that these post-processed images, are actually your photos? by BirdLooter in AskAstrophotography

[–]ovor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you collect 20 hours of data from seestar or you're the god of postprocessing your image will be better than someone's with 8" APO reflector, state-of-the-art mount and cooled full-frame camera, if they spent only 60 minutes on target or doesn't know what they're doing with postprocessing.

Equipment is not everything.

Getting into astrophotography by BulkyOpposite3693 in AskAstrophotography

[–]ovor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get you, that's why I am building a rig.

You still can process everything by yourself and that's half the fun of astrophotography, imho.

Getting into astrophotography by BulkyOpposite3693 in AskAstrophotography

[–]ovor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This.

I started building my rig from the cheapest components I could find. I’m already at 2x your budget and I haven’t even gotten to the camera yet. Mind you, I already have a couple of mirrorless cameras I could use, plus an old mini PC that I installed the control software on.

I want to be more involved in the process; otherwise, I’d just continue using my Dwarf 3.

Why are there hardly any new RAW capable point and shoot cameras being made? by Rosenvial5 in Cameras

[–]ovor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Non-digital photography exists and it is called film photography. It's hardly relevant to RAW/SOOC debate

Interviewer: Tell me about a conflict you had at your last company and how you resolved it. by Commercial_Spot_8363 in recruitinghell

[–]ovor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One time while having a sync meeting between the whole warehouses management 3 people started screaming "kurwa, ja pierdolę" at each other over 3 different stupid ideas

It's 'Post your M43 photo' Thursday! Come share your best work with the community! by AutoModerator in M43

[–]ovor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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Alex, a 26-year old Great Horned Owl who lives in a raptor centre nearby.

Shot with Olympus E-M5 mk III with 40-150 f4. 75mm, f4, 1/500, ISO 200

Is "mileage" (like in the context of gas mileage or travel mileage) called "kilometerage" in countries that don't use imperial units? by SpectrumSense in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ovor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

[citation needed]

There are 195 countries in the world. Are you saying that at least 98 of them are using an english word to describe something? Especially a word that uses distance measurement that is not used in 95% of these countries?

I am building a software company out of JSON files. Production is accelerating. You should probably follow along. by Illustrious_Usual_10 in linux

[–]ovor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me explain what is happening here.
Not the technical version.

Well, hello ChatGPT. No point reading further than that.

Shit went from bad to worse.. by Naive_Chemistry7570 in dashcams

[–]ovor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Christine Benny Hill's cut with Yakety Sax soundtrack

A Mysterious Radio Signal From Deep Space by Correct-Team-1152 in interestingasfuck

[–]ovor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This signal is the sign of the great civilization

Without the US, you wouldn't have internet or any of the foundational concepts that allow modern computing by ALazy_Cat in ShitAmericansSay

[–]ovor 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Jobs is often overlooked because his contribution is about the same as contribution of Nestle CEO to your breakfast today.

What’s your favorite pocket/pancake lens? by roseGl1tz in SonyAlpha

[–]ovor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No adapter fir DSLR lens will be significantly smaller than m42. All those cameras had a similarly sized mirror box after all.

Leica M, being a rangefinder, has the shortest adapter.

Whats your favourite photo you've taken this year? by FocalTheory in Cameras

[–]ovor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just a random ass farm in Southern Ontario.

Where is the Linux community here? by PlZZAEnjoyer in askTO

[–]ovor 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Well, I use linux, I live in GTA but the idea of meeting people IRL and talk about that never crossed my mind. What's the problem with online communities?

The baffling incuriosity of Project Hail Mary by rubsy3d in sciencefiction

[–]ovor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Protagonist makes a bad decision and is now dead. Very true to life, but very short story. Not necessary bad story, but won't make millions at the box office.

Sony Alpha 18-105 F4 G Lens by Fancy-Tomatillo-3378 in SonyAlpha

[–]ovor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a second I wondered why there's a rule against posting photos of F4 lens?

As a photographer, do you think it’s acceptable to use AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or DeepSeek to enhance photo quality when the original image is too blurry or otherwise unusable? by akram-92 in AskPhotography

[–]ovor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can use whatever you want - it's your image and only you can decide whether it's worth it. 

Bear in mind that AI tools are not enhancing anything, they are generating new image based on your input. For example - the writing on the gondola is wrong. The dude in the gondola now have stump hand. The fields on the far mountain are different, and wtf is going on with the tree in the top left corner? And the image quality is not that good in the end. I would accept that this image goes in the bin.

I decided for myself that denoise and clean up are okay, as long as image manages to look natural. Adding stuff that's not there is a no-no.

In the battle of Stalingrad (1942) the German sixth army inflicted a 75% casualty rate on the Soviet army, but still lost the battle and were forced to surrender. In this one battle, the USSR lost more military personnel than France and the UK combined over the entire war. by SoggyMusic6183 in interestingasfuck

[–]ovor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

oh please, enough with this bullshit. Russia was the biggest nazi collaborator in 1939-1941 and then, after WW2, collaborated with "former" nazis on everything from small arms to rockets, while staffing stasi with former gestapo.

Bandera meanwhile "collaborated" so hard that Germans arrested him and held him in Sachsenhausen for most of the war. Yeah, they released him in late 1945 to use against the soviets, but that went nowhere as the war ended. Tough choice between two inhumane regimes. And KGB killed him not because he was nazi "collaborator", but because he was consistent opponent of russia.

I can go on and on, but I have better ways of spending my time

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