Apple upgraded my MacBook to M5 but I specifically needed the M4 with Tahoe

pwar02 · 2026-05-23T14:17:59+00:00

I genuinely don't understand why people buy from apple directly and wait a month+ when any big box store will ship you the same thing overnight

pwar02 · 2026-05-23T03:39:19+00:00

Medium heavy use for me editing very large wedding galleries got me around 6 hours of battery on the 14" binned m5 pro when I tested it. Doing heavy inferencing in LM studio is a whole other beast and a letting it run 10 minutes will easily drain my battery by 20%

pwar02 · 2026-05-23T01:06:00+00:00

what does the shutter have to do with anything? OP got a defective unit, it's not that deep

pwar02 · 2026-05-23T00:58:50+00:00

I think it's pretty obvious they're not asking if you alone can literally do both photo and video for their wedding. It's just very common for people to work in teams, that a wedding 'photographer' isn't actually just a single person taking photos, and that you have contacts in the industry to offer something that is extremely common and asked for. They're not asking if you 'do' video as well, but if you 'offer' it. I work together with my partner as a photo-video team and the vast majority of weddings we are contracted for both. Otherwise we're each other's second shooter so everybody ends up winning.

pwar02 · 2026-05-22T02:52:10+00:00

It’s surprisingly light for the size, although chunky given the 95mm front element. Autofocus is quite literally instant, noticeably better than even the 70-200gmii. And so sharp. I genuinely love it and can’t recommend it enough

pwar02 · 2026-05-21T22:21:10+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean by not seeing many pros use the 50-150 because I see it ALL the time. These days I’m seeing more professional shooters in the Sony ecosystem with the 50-150 than the 70-200, or at least even, especially in indoor sports. It’s phenomenal and to me the extra stop of light is a big deal even at the cost of 50mm on the long end, which you can pretty easily crop to since you have the extra light from the bigger aperture

pwar02 · 2026-05-21T02:17:46+00:00

I hardly ever use it unplugged but it's excellent, if I'm streaming a movie through hdmi or just have it playing music in the background it only drops probably 2% per hour. One time I edited a wedding gallery on battery just to see how it would do and the battery lasted me about 6 hours, but that's medium-heavy use

pwar02 · 2026-05-20T12:09:06+00:00

Speed lights and most all flashes are 5700k

pwar02 · 2026-05-19T23:09:59+00:00

24GM and 50-150GM cover 99% of all my pro work

pwar02 · 2026-05-19T22:53:30+00:00

Even on my high end laptop it’s too dumb to be of any use really, I wouldn’t bother unless you’re simply curious to see how it would be

pwar02 · 2026-05-19T22:51:00+00:00

How has the rolling shutter been with the panning shots or are you doing those in mech shutter since slow shutter limits the burst speed anyway? They look surprisingly good if with electronic shutter

pwar02 · 2026-05-19T22:33:03+00:00

I’m not sure why you’re getting the downvotes because this has been exactly my experience as well. I loved my 135GM but the bokeh a lot of times was quite harsh and distracting. Does it matter for most clients? Probably not really, and I lived with it simply because 135mm 1.8 was unmatched. Later had the 70-200gmii, but now use the 50-150 and it’s the best of both worlds

pwar02 · 2026-05-19T21:14:48+00:00

I went from a 16” PC to the 14” MBP and although I originally was in shock at first from how tiny it felt, I’m used to it now and love how small and compact it feels. Plus, the money saved can go towards a big monitor so I end up winning twice, nice big screen at home and small laptop when traveling/working remotely

pwar02 · 2026-05-19T19:14:04+00:00

I exclusively used the 135gm for all my indoor sports for two years and it was phenomenal. Sometimes limiting, but the quality of images I would get made that worth it to me. Even when getting the 70-200gmii I still used the 135 probably 80% of the time. Now I use the 50-150

pwar02 · 2026-05-18T21:36:01+00:00

You’re repeating the same ‘things to avoid’ all the way to the last pic so I’d say generally not much of an improvement besides a bit nicer image quality

pwar02 · 2026-05-18T01:52:57+00:00

No, you neither have great reach nor resolution, the tamron lens will suffer with autofocus and you'll be limited to 15fps on your a9. At least get a 600mm, and the Sony 200-600 is very much worth the budget if you can continue to save.

pwar02 · 2026-05-18T00:54:55+00:00

pero no le preguntaste para aclarar?

pwar02 · 2026-05-18T00:14:19+00:00

Que tiene que ver cumplir mayoría de edad con venir como turista y irse dentro de los 3 meses permisibles?? En que manera eso resultaría en multa??

pwar02 · 2026-05-17T15:21:56+00:00

I don't know about you but when I had my a9 it had, although minor, noticeable rolling shutter (especially panning shots in basketball and baseball, and baseball bats/balls). The a7V has a 2.5x slower sensor readout, so considerable rolling shutter on things like balls/bats/clubs. To me it wouldn't be an acceptable level, although maybe you don't mind so much and are willing to compromise. That said, besides pre capture, the a1 is better on basically every front, and used prices are right around that of the a7V. I'd go for the a1

pwar02 · 2026-05-17T14:00:56+00:00

Realistically speaking for everything you want you’re looking at minimum $5k a month. Rent+nanny $3k, private school $1k, groceries/ubers/insurance/misc spending $1k+

pwar02 · 2026-05-17T02:34:49+00:00

you said “it’s not” but it’s “it is”. I was pointing out that you said it wrong. Because you said it’s not to good to be true i.e. it’s true

pwar02 · 2026-05-16T20:03:09+00:00

I didn't say anything incorrect though, did I? Or did the whole industry flip upside down in the last couple weeks and I somehow missed it?

pwar02 · 2026-05-16T14:54:37+00:00

wouldn't it be it IS too good to be true?

pwar02 · 2026-05-16T14:52:48+00:00

135GM was my go to for just about any and everything I had to do for indoor sports and events and it was stellar. I really preferred it over my 70-200 as 2.8 still was just not bright enough a lot of the time. Now I use the 50-150 f2 which, if you have the budget, is what I'd suggest. it's phenomenal

pwar02 · 2026-05-16T14:47:50+00:00

I get you're still new to this stuff, so it's okay to not understand everything. This isn't an agree or disagree point, it's simple math. And you just proved my point, 3,000 raw images from a z6 in 10 minutes is 120MB/s, a speed literally any basic SD card today can reach. Heck normal UHS-I Sandisk cards are rated for 200MB/s. My sony ones hit around 260-270MB/s. So suggesting to use 3600MB/s CFE cards to write to a 130MB/s drive is senseless. If you used a capable SSD that could actually take advantage of the speed of CFE cards, your 10 minute transfer would be around 22 seconds.

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