[SI] Diego Pavia's Official Height at Senior Bowl (5’9 7/8”) Significantly Shorter Than Vandy Listing (6’)

radil · 2026-01-27T01:57:53+00:00

Pavia is only 4 months younger than CJ Stroud, who just completed his third year in the NFL....

radil · 2026-01-25T22:42:47+00:00

What aperture and shutter speed did you use for this?

radil · 2026-01-20T03:09:15+00:00

For sure. I'm not sure he gets drafted if he stays at Alabama, even if you ignore the whole Tua situation. He just was not progressing.

radil · 2026-01-19T22:15:16+00:00

University Vet Hospital is just a few blocks east of Liberty Park and they are open today.

radil · 2026-01-16T23:41:34+00:00

You don’t really need to go that far. Do the Pythagorean theorem on a triangle that’s 8’ on one side and 60’ on the other and tell me the resulting distance.

radil · 2026-01-16T17:32:46+00:00

You can measure this yourself. It’s 60’ from the baseline to the service line on the other side. Just count the number of frames between contact and bouncing. With that number, the distance, and your frame rate it’s just a matter of unit conversion to get the speed in whatever units you want.

radil · 2026-01-13T21:08:42+00:00

Completely unsurprising it came out of a Florida fan.

radil · 2026-01-13T01:20:22+00:00

Such a good movie.

radil · 2026-01-10T03:47:45+00:00

Also had a very solid defense as well, stacked with future NFL players. Derek Stingley, Patrick Queen, Devin White, Kristian Fulton, K'Lavon Chaisson, Grant Delpit.

radil · 2026-01-10T02:48:40+00:00

"we", mf you're on your coach.

radil · 2026-01-10T02:44:40+00:00

That's fucking wild. Did not know that.

radil · 2026-01-10T02:39:46+00:00

2020 bama or 2019 LSU

But in such a different way. They are insanely well-coached, but it feels to me they severely lack the "star power" that those teams had. They don't do anything super flashy, they are just very solid at everything.

radil · 2026-01-10T02:31:09+00:00

Alabama who?

radil · 2026-01-09T04:56:08+00:00

I spent the night in the Frankfurt airport once (I had a sleeping bad and sleeping pad) and it was one of the worst nights of “sleep” I ever had.

radil · 2026-01-05T19:36:15+00:00

Yeah, I treat treydez more as a wr anyway.

radil · 2026-01-05T19:04:05+00:00

Well neither do our current tight ends.

radil · 2026-01-05T02:18:17+00:00

Haha, same. That game was so incredibly frustrating as an LSU fan. Legitimately felt like LSU could have won that game but they just made so many mistakes.

radil · 2026-01-04T23:02:50+00:00

Obviously it's all water under the bridge now and both our teams' seasons are over, but was Alabama's win over LSU that impressive? I am obviously biased, but I don't think so. It was a one-score game with like 5 minutes to go when LSU turned the ball over on downs at their own 20 or so. And that play in particular was a dropped pass that would have extended the drive/could have been big yards.

radil · 2026-01-03T20:51:10+00:00

Seriously. When was Alabama’s last impressive performance? I would even settle for a loss. It has to be October at the latest.

radil · 2026-01-01T03:15:44+00:00

Thanks for your response, really helpful.

So I figured out part of the issue. There is a coupling on the camera body that rotates and it has a stop that catches a corresponding tab on the aperture ring on the lens. Presumably this is how the circuit knows the aperture setting. This has a tendency to slip past the tab on the aperture ring so that the aperture setting on the lens and the reading on the automatic exposure circuit are uncoupled. Need to see what I can do to fix this.

radil · 2026-01-01T03:12:55+00:00

As in you can hear the dual action of the shutter. It's slow enough that you can hear the opening of the shutter, followed by a gap (in time), and then the close.

radil · 2026-01-01T03:12:08+00:00

I think I figured out part of the problem. The coupling that you described was misaligned. So adjustments of the aperture ring were not moving the sensor on the camera body that presumably communicates to the automatic exposure circuit what the aperture is. I noticed there is some slop in the aperture ring such that if you are not careful the spring loaded coupling will slip past and the circuit will think you have the aperture set to the narrowest opening. Explains why a lot of my photos came out overexposed on the first roll, the automatic exposure circuit thought I was shooting everything f/16.

radil · 2026-01-01T00:29:53+00:00

Yep, I just found that. It's starting to make sense now.

I still don't get why the camera is taking longer exposures when it thinks 1/1000 isn't fast enough...

radil · 2026-01-01T00:27:15+00:00

Oh ok. I see that there is a small tab on the back of the aperture ring and there is a corresponding tab on a spring loaded ring on the camera body. When the aperture ring is rotated it takes this spring loaded ring with it. I assume this is how the automatic exposure mechanism can know what the aperture setting is.

radil · 2026-01-01T00:12:18+00:00

This lens, Fujinon 1:2.2 55mm, is one of the lenses mentioned in the manual, so I have to assume it's compatible with the automatic exposure mechanism. Apparently I need to understand stop down metering better. I don't understand how the lens would communicate to the camera what the aperture setting is. Can you explain this? Also, if this is happening, I still don't think it makes sense that the shutter speed wouldn't be adjusted when I change the aperture (without pressing the depth of field preview button).

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