What are you doing today?

[Lanpenn]

I have a Canon PowerShot SX400 IS since 2016 (my father who lives in the US bought it for my 18th birthday) and it is a good camera, although for some videos it is better to use my phone.

 

[connorlindeman]

Cool! I love Canon! Both my camera and printer are Canon.

Printer: Canon PIXMA TS8220 6 cartridge that matches well with my camera for awesome photo printing.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T7 which is another nice camera but probably a level below what you got. If your camera has a flip-up battery/SD card cover on the bottom treat gently as I've had it break off on a Rebel T3. Actually I still have the T3 as a backup camera. And, yes, the battery cover is still broken but the camera still works fine. I just had to sort of 'jimmy' a switch to make the camera 'think' the cover was closed.

With the new camera you will/should have the option to save photos as RAW and/or JPEG. Unless you are REALLY serious about photo control and editing don't bother with the RAW format As the high quality JPEG format is just fine.

What size SD card will you use? I use a high speed 256 GB card. LOL! I'll never take enough shots in one outing to need that much space but my T7 is also a video camera that does nice HD video with stereo sound.

If you will accept advice from one that used to sell photos on-line take a lot of shots of the same subject under different camera settings. I do this when I go out and may end up with 200-300 shots of which I may keep 10-15 at most.

You got yourself a really nice camera, make use of it.

Oh!!!! If you are ever interested in accessories and/or a new lens look at B&H Photo out of New York. They sell new and used with the used having a number system to denote condition. I got my 75-300 MM telephoto through them that was rated as a 9.5 which is the next thing to new. This was a $650.00 USD lens when new but I got for $300.00 USD around 10 years ago and still have no issue.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/

I had a powershot many years ago.
I have a 256 Micro sd card I use for my drone. That won't work for the camera, so I will probably get another 256 for the camera.

Used or refurbished is definitely the way to go. This camera can record in 4k. I plan on making use of that.
It should come in next week, but we will see.

 

[emeraldking]

What are you doing today?​

Sitting in my bathrobe in front of my laptop. Enjoying a relaxed Sunday afternoon. Taking my rest as I suppose to be doing... Following my doctor's advice.
Fish have been fed, plants are watered and now it's just me-time...

 

[jaylach]

I had a powershot many years ago.
I have a 256 Micro sd card I use for my drone. That won't work for the camera, so I will probably get another 256 for the camera.

Used or refurbished is definitely the way to go. This camera can record in 4k. I plan on making use of that.
It should come in next week, but we will see.

Why can't you use the card from your drone?

 

[connorlindeman]

Why can't you use the card from your drone?

Its a micro sd card. r10 won't accept a micro sd.

 

[jaylach]

Its a micro sd card. r10 won't accept a micro sd.

Oh, OK. I think the card in my T7 is a micro but the micro is inserted in a full sized SD adapter. I probably have half a dozen such adapters.

 

[connorlindeman]

Oh, OK. I think the card in my T7 is a micro but the micro is inserted in a full sized SD adapter. I probably have half a dozen such adapters.

Interesting. Do those adapters slow things down at all?

 

[jaylach]

Interesting. Do those adapters slow things down at all?

Not at all as the adapters are just a straight wire to wire thing. Actually, if you take apart a full sized SD card, you will likely find a micro inside.

You may find the 256 GB card I recently acquired of interest. Good price and fast at 200 MB/sec.

https://www.newegg.com/sandisk-256gb-secure-digital-extended-capacity/p/N82E16820173568?Item=N82E16820173568

 

[connorlindeman]

Not at all as the adapters are just a straight wire to wire thing. Actually, if you take apart a full sized SD card, you will likely find a micro inside.

Sweet. I'll buy one of those. You just saved me some money. Thanks!

 

[jaylach]

Sweet. I'll buy one of those. You just saved me some money. Thanks!

You are quite welcome.

 

[Back in the fold]

@WhistlingBadger I went out on my trail run through the hayfield and jumped eight mule deer . Not an antler in the bunch . They stared at me and didn’t flinch which surprised me because last week somebody was in there with a .410 after pheasants . I know that sound and was surprised that somebody had the nerve to do that in the city limits . The game wardens up here frown upon that .

 

[GaryE]

I'm in city limits, so there's no hunting. We had 33 cm of snow xmas eve, and I have about an acre of meadow behind the house. No people walk there. It's been interesting to track the white tailed deer. On the 25th, they stuck to the edges of cover, but as of today, the meadow has more tracks than an elementary school playground.

Plus we've had nighttime groups of 5 or 6 passing along the edge of the driveway and within about 25 feet of the house. Since the snow, I've only seen deer out there twice, but the tracks tell a story.

There are no other large animal tracks, other than my size 13s and retriever paws beside them.

 

[jaylach]

I have a Canon PowerShot SX400 IS since 2016 (my father who lives in the US bought it for my 18th birthday) and it is a good camera, although for some videos it is better to use my phone.

Nothing wrong with a 'point and shoot' camera other than they tend to lack as to recording videos. Unless one is pretty strongly into doing photos they serve quite well.

My first digital camera was an Olympus 3.2 Mega Pixel that did quite well.

BTW, the number of mega pixels has nothing to do with quality. Quality is determined by the camera's sensor. The mega pixels just determine how large you can print. With the Olympus 3.2 Mega Pixel my maximum print size was pretty much 10X14 inches. With my Canon T7 24 mega pixel I can print large posters.

 

[Alice B]

@WhistlingBadger I went out on my trail run through the hayfield and jumped eight mule deer . Not an antler in the bunch . They stared at me and didn’t flinch which surprised me because last week somebody was in there with a .410 after pheasants . I know that sound and was surprised that somebody had the nerve to do that in the city limits . The game wardens up here frown upon that .

I'm in city limits and the new neighbor behind me took a shot at my other neighbor's dog today. then tied their little dogs on the lot that isn't theirs directly behind my backyard to drive my dogs nuts and get them to bark. First of all, shooting in city limits isn't kosher, 2ndly tethering dogs is illegal in Fort Worth, And third I think I need a sign, in spanish that says never mind the dog beware of owner. Probably don't need that. My neighbor with the dog is going thru her camera footage to see if her dog was on his property and see if she got the shot on camera. If she got video and is willing to call police I can back her up, I just didn't see the gun, didn't jump up on my trailer to look over the fence until after the shot and the dog quit barking. (and on spanish. I say hello and apparently that is not comprehensible because it isn't returned. I returned their kitten a couple of months ago, talking into the ring doorbell until she opened the door and accepted kitten but the guy has never spoken to me. Loud Spanish music but only until 10.

 

[Lanpenn]

I am still doing genealogic research. By checking a populational map from the small town of Cabo Verde (not the islands, but from Minas Gerais) from a website that has some old archives, I am suspicious that he was a small farmer. There is not certainty, but I got more documents and I am doing a catalog. It is also sad that, by seeing this map, there were some families who had several slaves...

I also use my Canon's SD card for other purposes, usually, for printing bureaucratic forms and papers. Only later I found out that Canon is also a Japanese brand. During my chilhood, Kodak was considered the brand, as well as Volkswagen for cars and Mercedes-Benz for trucks.

These were some pictures I took during my undergraduate thesis. Equipment used: Olympus® BX43 microscope, with Olympus® SC100 camera and Olympus® Cells Sens Entry™ software. The Artemia project failed miserably in the lab (I only would get success when culturing at home in another city...), but I did some interesting registers. Maybe one day these things will be useful in the future.

Without my artemia culture, I am giving my Betta small live isopods. The BSFL are doing good, I sell some of them for fishermen.

Instar I Artemia franciscana

This "string" looks like a cyanobacteria

Maybe a Brachionus sp.? I am wondering how this creature appeared in the aquarium.