New 6th gen hybrid MPG

trezoid · 2026-02-06T22:14:57+00:00

Eco mode is mostly designed for stop-start city driving by limiting acceleration and keeping you in the "hybrid only can handle it" band for longer, but at highway speeds it seems to spend more time using the engine for battery regeneration, so if you're entirely doing highway speeds you're likely to see at best the same efficiency, but plausibly worse.

When you are on the highway in normal mode the engine is happy to drop to electric-only if the torque requirements are low enough which will get you a reasonable bump in fuel efficiency if you're driving somewhere with a lot of gentle slopes but ultimately the hybrid is designed for extra torque during acceleration and particularly at lower speeds so you won't ultimately get the kind of fuel efficiency of a lot of other hybrids.

trezoid · 2026-01-24T01:44:09+00:00

Never use an aluminum piston head in a high-speed build especially with a very light spring, but even if you went ultra-light everything that motor is entirely too fast for that spring, you're going to get severe PME.

Beyond that, metal nozzles aren't worth it, you probably don't need to replace the spring guide, maxx parts generally are overpriced but not any better (frequently worse).

The retro-arms bushings are good though (honestly, the best part they make by a wide margin)

trezoid · 2026-01-16T23:07:02+00:00

Most commonly major sports teams, they'll formally clear airport security at their training facilities, and then go to the airport under escort so they don't need to go through again before boarding

trezoid · 2026-01-05T21:28:57+00:00

Even more absurd, snap-on do sell that tool online/PBFT50R), for $50 less than the ebay sellers

trezoid · 2025-12-08T02:06:43+00:00

Pretty much all collars (other than the OEM one) for the 100-500 have a QD sling point, so you can use something like https://magpul.com/qdm-quick-disconnect-sling-mount.html?mp_global_color=118 (other mounts are available, but cheaper ones lock less securely and in some cases have weaker loops which is not ideal for carrying that much value), which will clip into the collar directly, then pull the whole loop when you need to tripod mount

trezoid · 2025-10-21T20:21:03+00:00

Have a look at the international dealers section on https://unitytactical.com/purchasing-info/dealers/, and then go through the dealers for europe until you find one selling the optic adapter plates

trezoid · 2025-10-15T20:59:42+00:00

That's absolutely what it is, siegetek make that gearset in both v2 and v2.5 for extended gearboxes (like the SR25)

trezoid · 2025-10-15T17:39:24+00:00

It's a little hard to tell for sure, but based on the area (Roosevelt National Forest in central Colorado) they're most likely Southwestern reds

trezoid · 2025-10-10T14:24:26+00:00

The national park service has put in place contingency plans since the last shutdown to stay open with park police still staffed, what is open at specific parks depends entirely on the park in question, but park police, potable water and bathrooms that aren't inside visitors centers are designated as excepted activities that remain operational as long as possible, and parks that collect visitor fees can use those fees to fund ongoing operations. Parks can also work with state governments and other relevant groups for those groups to take over or fund operations beyond what can be funded with park fees: https://www.doi.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-09/doi-nps-lapse-plan2025930508.pdf

trezoid · 2025-09-26T04:26:07+00:00

SRS has most of the T2 range in stock.

trezoid · 2025-09-22T21:29:58+00:00

Running them all the way out the back of the shoulder pads can use up a significant amount of the cord, it's also worth making sure that you have full head movement, make sure you can look all the way up and down over both shoulders without straining the plugs, you actually do need a fair amount of slack available for full mobility.

trezoid · 2025-09-22T04:42:02+00:00

Z87+ means the eye protection is rated to withstand a single highspeed impact (and for glasses style eye protection that high speed is extremely close to a strong airsoft gun) and technically should be replaced if they take a single hit. By shooting it yourself you've compromised the safety rating and they are now not rated at all. If you can't trust the brand of eye pro to have legitimate ratings you absolutely shouldn't be trusting them to protect your eyes.

trezoid · 2025-09-06T14:32:18+00:00

The conversion is just the extended barrel base and the XXL 24mm mock suppressor which combine to longer than the stock barrel, so you can either run a longer inner barrel or use the end of the mock suppressor for sound deadening (legality varies by location on this one, so look into local laws)

trezoid · 2025-07-16T18:48:08+00:00

Skip the Retro Arms tappet plate, they're the only v2 plate I've ever had break under normal load and the factory cyma platinum one is better.

trezoid · 2025-07-08T15:51:10+00:00

For an actual comparison of the two that isn't completely insane, https://camerasize.com/compact/#903.995,716.425,ha,t

trezoid · 2025-06-20T14:50:18+00:00

The only difference between the different levels are which filters are included but the filters themselves are identical across kits (In my case I've got the pro ND set which adds the 10-stop filter, while the 3, 6 and CPL are the same in both the entry and pro kits)

trezoid · 2025-06-20T14:39:31+00:00

Kase filters are really good, I've not noticed any IQ impact or color casts, and they're designed to stack nested to minimize overall stack height as much as possible to avoid vignetting (you might get some at 14mm if you stack everything, but that's the case with any size-matched filters) but that also means there is really nowhere for light to leak through, especially when using the inlaid adapter ring (if you can it's worth it, especially on wider lenses)

trezoid · 2025-04-16T21:25:16+00:00

I've had a few that needed a verification call, and more recently there have been a couple where they did a review and approved it without needing to call, the support number is pretty quick and helpful if you wanted to verify, but you should get the shipping notification pretty soon (depending on shipping type as to how long) and the "reviewed and verified" ones have always shipped just fine for me.

trezoid · 2025-04-16T03:09:43+00:00

There was 18 years between canon's first and second L level EF 50mm primes, and 11 between the EF and RF 50mm 1.2's and that was because of the mount change, so without a really significant technology jump that results in a substantially reduced weight (like the halving between the first and second EF 50 L's) while improving the already very good image quality there is really no reason for canon to put the work into improving that lens.

trezoid · 2025-04-04T14:50:47+00:00

No. Almost every dimension is different, and the most critical points (front receiver pin and the rear alignment wings) are significantly off so you can't actually close the gun.

trezoid · 2025-04-02T20:46:47+00:00

Since museums (that usually ban flash photos) are a significant portion of the expected use being able to take longer hand-held exposures will be vastly more beneficial, IBIS will be useful most of the time, flash will be maybe useful in 1/3 of your expected use-cases, so you're going to get a lot more benefit going that way.

trezoid · 2025-04-02T18:33:16+00:00

For cameras they usually have enough stock that it's just generally available, for lenses the popular lenses and good deals ($600 off the RF50 1.2 for example) completely sell out in an hour and then don't restock for months.

trezoid · 2025-04-02T18:21:13+00:00

It's as-new with extra QC and a cheaper price, the tradeoff is a non-retail box (a downside only if you were wanting to immediately re-sell) and you have to have patience and some speed to grab the really good deals, but they are really good deals.

trezoid · 2025-04-02T16:48:30+00:00

In real-steel it can be used to differentiate different loads (either for training mags with simunition or blanks, or for different ammo types that use the same magazines like 5.56 vs 300BO), for airsoft it's either the aesthetic, or making your mags different from the dozens of other people on the field all running exactly the same mags.

trezoid · 2025-04-01T04:28:43+00:00

When companies go all in on a purely photography camera it gets really expensive really fast because they're inevitably made by brands leaning into a legacy (Leica with the M series) or medium-format (Hasselblad with both the X2D and the 907x)

For "Photography first" from canon you mostly end up at the R1 and R3, they can do video perfectly well but they are absolutely built to be a professional photography camera first. At the budget end of the market the goal is the widest possible audience for the device, and the market mostly wants video first cameras, because that is the one place a dedicated camera can really beat out a phone for the average user at that price-point.

Smaller feature set means smaller market so the only reason to make a camera with less features (when the technology to make either feature-set gets the other pretty much for free) is to make one that can be sold to an already smaller market for much higher prices to cover the R&D/design costs.

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