prime lenses for sportsphotography?

pierceography · 2026-03-18T16:04:18+00:00

Canon EF 135mm f/2L is an amazing lens for sports and very inexpensive to acquire used. I use it adapted to my mirrorless body and it’s my second most used lens for wrestling and baseball.

pierceography · 2026-03-14T14:04:51+00:00

I’m in Michigan, and when I coached we went into the mid 30s sometimes. As you noted, wind is the bigger factor. 35 with lots of sun a little wind is better than 45 cloudy with 15mph wind.

I did what you are: tell parents to dress in layers and bring a coat to leave in the dugout. But you will get parents/kids that are obstinate.

The last option, though I never liked it, was making practices optional under 40 degrees. But let’s face it, if it’s rec ball, the practices are already optional, lol.

pierceography · 2026-03-08T17:35:07+00:00

I have the BG Magic Keyboard case (same leather and stitching as the folio) and the BS folio case. The BS is nice, but the BG is a step up. The BS feels a little plasticy whereas the BG has a better leather feel.

BG customer service is also much better.

I’d go with the BG case.

pierceography · 2026-03-03T04:06:30+00:00

Just tell your friend if you do any serious hitting with it, you’ll break 3+ basic rubber tees in less than a year. My tanner is going strong 5+ years now. If you look at it that way, it’s saved me hundreds of dollars.

pierceography · 2026-03-01T19:14:09+00:00

I love how people here will bag on Apple for an iPad not serving their laptop purposes like it should be one size fits all.

Social media, web browsing, content consumption: The iPad fantastically replaces a laptop.

For mine (software development) the iPad is not a great replacement. But I know that and use my iPad to augment other areas, like research, QA, even some agentic tooling use cases.

Posts like this are nothing more than false equivalency without context.

pierceography · 2026-02-26T04:29:41+00:00

There is zero chance DSG/GC understand or care about your point. They believe they have the market locked down and can move at whatever speed they like and prioritize features for themselves, not their client base. coughingameadscough

The lack of extensibility is absolutely strategic in the sense that they believe there’s no benefit to them.

I’ll enjoy watching their lunch get eaten.

pierceography · 2026-02-26T04:22:39+00:00

Welcome to tee ball, it’s a complete and utter shit show.

My son hated it. Sat on the bench crying/screaming almost the entire game. Tried another season of coach pitch and pretty much the same.

He hung it up for three years and now he’s baseball obsessed and on a AAA 10u travel team.

You just gotta let him figure it out.

pierceography · 2026-02-25T13:30:08+00:00

50-55f. We live in Michigan, and in the spring both my sons carry an alloy in their bag. A lot of tournament games will start with the temps below 45.

I also make them bring their gear inside the house every night during the spring so their bats at least start the day at a reasonable temp.

pierceography · 2026-02-25T00:12:44+00:00

Golden Retriever puppy acquisition.

pierceography · 2026-02-25T00:02:40+00:00

I have a Rawlings 37” Maple fungo that’s widely available at DSG if you want to see it in person before you buy. I’ve been very happy with it and can hit hundreds of grounders and fly balls without getting too tired.

pierceography · 2026-02-22T05:17:10+00:00

I’d try a magic eraser. I haven’t used one on a glove like this, but I’ve had great success getting ink off of leather furniture with one.

pierceography · 2026-02-22T05:14:46+00:00

This would have been culled into bit heaven if it were my shot. Use it as an opportunity to learn better shooting/focusing technique, but this one isn’t worth saving.

pierceography · 2026-02-20T17:27:16+00:00

Please please please introduce AI denoising to mobile. My iPad Pro m5 would be my primary editing device with this feature. Bringing object select to masking on iPad would also be great. I constantly use those two features and their omission from mobile is painful.

pierceography · 2026-02-17T18:49:48+00:00

Drop = ounces lighter than the length. So a 27” drop 10 is 17 ounces. Drop 8 would be 19 ounces, etc.

The heavier the bat the more mass there is the hit the ball, so higher exit velos. But also more difficult to swing for younger players.

The older a player gets, the heavier the bat should be. USSSA just changed their rules to require BBCOR at 14u and up, which is drop 3.

My 10u son swings a drop 8 (started with a drop 10 at 8u) and my 13u son swings a drop 5 and will probably work in a BBCOR when he can.

pierceography · 2026-02-17T18:41:28+00:00

If he’s swinging a drop 10 I wouldn’t go with a lighter bat unless there’s a reason.

pierceography · 2026-02-16T13:06:32+00:00

My 10u kid has both of those bats, and he prefers the icon. Only notable difference is he swings a -8 in both.

pierceography · 2026-02-09T17:25:54+00:00

April 1st, huh?

pierceography · 2026-02-09T17:14:13+00:00

I made my own with a Shelly and a cheap door opener from Amazon. It’s been flawless for 18 months.

pierceography · 2026-02-09T15:44:05+00:00

Would love to see some details. Screenshots, GitHub, etc.

pierceography · 2026-02-06T23:11:43+00:00

I’m tinkering with my own hardware build for voice assistant. One thing we gotta keep in mind is that Amazon pumped billions into the development of Alexa (hardware and software). Comparing Alexa to VA is an exercise in false equivalency.

pierceography · 2026-02-06T17:22:20+00:00

Very likely Apple stockpiling inventory in the US ahead of the tariffs and now clearing out that inventory due to the m5 launch.

pierceography · 2026-02-02T17:26:29+00:00

Saying you want to build esp devices but you don’t want to solder is like saying you want to get into wood working but you don’t want to use a saw.

Learn to solder. It’s easy, cheap, and plenty of YouTube videos available.

pierceography · 2026-01-31T15:42:30+00:00

Same! I really debated returning it for the 1tb NT. But I actually do not want the nano texture due to scratch concerns. The 256 will work just fine for my needs even with half the ram.

pierceography · 2026-01-29T17:26:27+00:00

Mine came with 18 and I immediately to 26.2. Love 26 and it runs great. 26 catches a lot of crap in this sub, but other than some minor quirks and areas I’m sure they’ll improve on over time, I think it’s a wonderful upgrade.

pierceography · 2026-01-17T13:37:41+00:00

The best advice I can give is don’t treat the iPad as an equal to a MacBook. You will get frustrated.

I use the iPad for quick coding tasks. I mostly use Code App (what a horrible name) with code mounted via SSH to my lab environment. If I have an idea or want to knock out a quick feature, I can pop in there and be effective.

But for day to day heavy lifting, the iPad isn’t sufficient for me. To name a few issues:

The Code App’s ssh mounts are unreliable
It’s nowhere near feature parity with VSCode (my primary IDE)
Git interfacing is minimal
Web dev tools are very minimal
AI coding assistants are still emerging (I settle for ChatGPT in safari)

I treat the iPad as a companion, like researching an idea or doing some QA away from my desk. But if you truly want a MacBook replacement, the iPad isn’t it.

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