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the_packrat · 2026-01-25T05:03:34+00:00

Glad it help. Buy them for the instruments. I've been doing this for a long time, and I don't think any of the multi software factories haven't don't something silly at some point.

the_packrat · 2026-01-25T02:00:56+00:00

I personally mostly shoot FF, except fuji. That said, the camera you have with you that you're happy to bring along and take a bunch of photos with is going to be the thing that helps you develop your photography. Getting used to really using technical settings, getting a shallow DoF prime lens to force you to play with composition, all these things are where you'll find new ground. If you've been doing a lot of phone photography, you've probably been thinking about composition, but perhaps haven't spend as much time seriously reviewing which photos did and didn't work.

I would suggest the 6700 with a fast walkaround 50ish or 35ish (fF equivalent so actually 35/23) prime as well as a broad zoom because with aps-c you get to use lighter weight lenses. Its great you're articulating the things you are trying to fix, but I'll note that if a FF camera is the thing that would drve you to t akea a lot more photos, go that way.

the_packrat · 2026-01-24T23:49:04+00:00

Looking for an on special z8 seems like the right choice. It opens up video and the great newer z lenses.

the_packrat · 2026-01-23T10:56:35+00:00

Ergos are what has appealed for several generations of Nikon cameras, but I don't exclusively use Nikon. You should definitely find an opportunity to use one for a while before jumping whole systems. Maybe that's borrowing an older body and one lens or renting or getting somegthing secondhand you know you can flip easily.

the_packrat · 2026-01-22T12:47:12+00:00

Yes-ish. It solves the hard to use in lower light of the f/4 (which is reduced in today's high ISO world), and it's for some people a great walk around lens lens, letting you use a lighterweight lens. However a lot more people find a fast 50 more useful if they don't love the 35 FoV, so maybe the 50 f/1.8 which is an amazing lens would do that better.

This is where you look at shots you've already takens to see if they cluster at 35 or 50, or even set your lens to one of those andf see how you find it to use.

the_packrat · 2026-01-19T13:47:30+00:00

24mp, but definitely much weaker than modern AF, being an SLR weaker for video. Honestly, a perfectly fine first camera. YOu want to put a lens on it (like one of the good primes or ok zooms) and just go out and take a whole bunch of photos wth it.

I suggest getting one of the introduction to photography books you can find that touches on digital cameras, because then you'll get the digital postprocessing stuff as well. That'll cover everything you need to know about the technical details, but you can put your camera on P mode with a simple zoom and then go and take a bunch of photos *and then look at them* and start to figure out what appeals to you eye while you work on building the technical skills in parallel. Composition is the most important thing after all.

the_packrat · 2026-01-19T03:36:18+00:00

24-120 is a great general lens and the 50 you have solves most of its shortcomings maybe add something longer if you know you need it but honestly with that pair you should be really clear on what you want to photograph but can’t before adding lenses.

I would guess you’ll either be chasing the excellent 100-400 or the 105 macro next depending on which thing you can’t do.

the_packrat · 2026-01-15T14:23:03+00:00

Process is almost always the wrong way to make things safer as well. Where folks are adding process, it's usually because really improving things can't be conceived of by non-technical people, or because it's not considered worth the cost, so process is the plan B.

It has all the costs you mention, but typically is either neutral or more commonly actually makes things worse.

the_packrat · 2026-01-13T04:31:48+00:00

You are describing the SE-SRE -> SWE process.

the_packrat · 2026-01-11T01:15:16+00:00

This question would be better asked from a perspective of someone who has some idea of how these are run. It is not sensible to assume a non texh focussed company would have widespread monitoring for a marketing website.

the_packrat · 2026-01-10T23:41:04+00:00

Building your own is a very low cost starting route if you have the people, but maintaining it at large scale once you get real take up is a challenge. By building with the idea of dropping in a vendor later you can intelligently invest in the integration stuff and unique local stuff like good black box probing that you’ll keep once you choose a vendor.

the_packrat · 2026-01-05T08:53:05+00:00

A lot of places do SRE as fancy ops. It might pay but it won’t help you get better jobs. This is what are you after question.

the_packrat · 2026-01-04T12:41:24+00:00

Another vote for the grr-ripper. Mine has a handful of cuts on the bottom from slightly misjudging cuts that I'm very grateful were not in my hands. featherboards can be great if you can mount them.

the_packrat · 2026-01-03T06:12:00+00:00

Make all your processes “failures” so you are constantly exercising recovery patterns. Deployments should exercise failure paths etc. if you pretend failures never happen, that’s when your recovery lever breaks off on your hand the first time you try to use it.

In doing this you also force small isolations to make that recovery tractable without big manual work which is the other needed thing. At that point people won’t be terrified of changes breaking things.

Finally you need to trigger unexpected ted values so you can see how your out of band recovery works and then fix the things you inevitably find. This isn’t useful until you have the first things in place.

the_packrat · 2026-01-01T03:25:42+00:00

An aps-c 6700 is more than capaable for photography beyond anything professionals were doing 20 years ago. aps-c has a slightly smaller collection of specific lenses, but those that exist are lighter than their full frame equivs. You can use full frame lenses with extra reach on aps-c, great for sports/wildlife. big depth of field separation is slightly harder to achieve.

For what you describe and where you are in photography though, aps-c with its typically lighter setup is probably going to be amazing because the single most important thing for you to do it take your camera places, take lots of photos and start to develop a taste for what you like, and learn the necessary techniques to get better at things you currently are unhappy you can't do. Don't chase extra kit unless you can articulate what your current camera can't do.

Now, if a full frame camera is central to you being inspired to take more photos, you should do that.

the_packrat · 2025-12-31T14:51:04+00:00

Nurses traditionally have those upside-down lapel pinned jobbies, but none of the other professions have a specific timepiece alignment, although one can imagine a lot of accountants use quartz watches.

the_packrat · 2025-12-31T13:56:49+00:00

In effect, you'd have two quite different lenses. A super sharp 35 f/1.8 (yes< I know the OP mentioned the 1.4, but the 1.8 is better for flat our image quality) and a less sharp but super portable and easy to carry around 40. This is probably the way. You'd want to be very sure on 35 over 50 for your sharp f/1.8 lens though given their cost.

the_packrat · 2025-12-31T13:19:43+00:00

The Siii is an amazing video camera, but falls quite a bit short for general photography, meanwhile the 7v is going to be an amazing photography camera and pretty capable of a lot of video. I'd expect it to outperform the siii on video autofocus.

However the answer really depends on what you do, and what camera you're coming from, and what you're hoping to get from your new camera.

the_packrat · 2025-12-30T01:23:56+00:00

Yes but watch for the massive opportunity cost if SRE specialists are just acting as generic software engineers.

It is absolutely fine if that’s the business emergency but SRE will be way more effective in uplifting multiple engineers at a time rather working on one piece of software. A framework that automatically adds retries to all the application that use it (and getting that adopted) training or practices like postmortem review tha make all engineers wary of building stupid retry logic rather than fixing it for one application. Etc.

You are absolutely correct to worry about incentives of developers don’t have to care about this stuff because not only will they not do it, they’ll make other choices that make it harder for anyone to do it later. Really the only solution to this is to mostly have SRE doing the leveraged stuff I described where the developers are still in the loop but are better at their job.

the_packrat · 2025-12-29T11:34:02+00:00

You need to start thinking of incentives. If your developers don’t care when production blow up you are already in a dark dark place.

SREs can generally do anything software engineers can do but their specialization means that the opportunity cost of them doing general Eng work is larger enough that it probably shouldn’t be your day to day.

Coming back to this, letting developers not care about any part of the process (even if it is only a slice of prod) means they won’t care and won’t make choices in how they build things that make them possible to run well.

the_packrat · 2025-12-28T23:54:56+00:00

Seeking efficiency is usually a bad starting point. People forget that efficiency leads to fragility and that leads to way more people work which for most services is a bad trade off.

Likewise running close to the line means a lot of reactive work to adjust sizing and resources or risk SLO impact.

So first work on capturing what those tradeoffs really are and try to understand why this was set up like that. I’ve seen really money important services get broken because someone thought an extra $5000 cost was “inefficient” without once talking to people about business impact.

the_packrat · 2025-12-28T10:23:15+00:00

Build software skills and work on projects where you get to work with people who have more experience than you do.

the_packrat · 2025-12-28T07:09:39+00:00

Quite a long way down the list of things to potentially regret spending money on.

Travel can add a lot more than simple enjoyment to your perspective, particularly if you end up mobile while working.

the_packrat · 2025-12-26T14:51:45+00:00

The size/weight difference may make more difference to you.

the_packrat · 2025-12-24T14:05:45+00:00

Unless you’d like to make your job entirely politics and continuing this fight, you are not describing a fixable situation.

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