RE: Taking Photos with An 18 Year Old Digital Camera
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I bought my first DSLR exactly when you did yours, 18 years ago, just before my son was born... It's a Nikon D60, except for the battery (that I changed as you did), everything works perfectly! It doesn't have a live view, and it doesn't have video, but photos are still better than with a mobile phone... Especially when I'm using it with natural light, and from a distance like your first photo in this post... Those photos are usually perfect! Like yours!!!
20-30$ for that camera is a bargain! Can't believe that people pay thousands of dollars to have a phone with a "good camera"...
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Nice! Quite literally the only reason that I buy canon cameras now is because I bought this one back then. Sense I already had the EF lenses I just kept upgrading the bodies and got used to the Canon menus. I am sure that if I had bought a Nikon like you did I'd be still using those.
I keep hearing promises of how amazing the phone cameras are, but I have noticed that no matter how good your phone camera is, if the light isn't absolutely ideal the image looks horrible at 100%. It has this digital smeary compression thing going on and crappy dynamic range. That being said, I've seen people shoot what looks like movie footage on a phone. I am definitely nowhere near that skill level.
That's why I just bought a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro. I'm currently rigging it up and will post about it. We're in the process of making a kids show which I hope will be successful!
BTW - I just voted your witness (I thought I already had). You're movin' on up! Mine has been resynching for a few days now. I am in the processing of setting up a backup node for these situations. It is a major headache when this happens.
Can't wait to see the results! Regarding phones, I do know that you can learn tricks to make things, as you said, movie footage, but in the end, you don't have that "brute power" you have with "regular" cameras...
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What's happened? It forked out? Resyncing is a pain in the ass... I remember the wait for the first block was like walking in a dark room... lol...
Somehow the blockchain became corrupted. I have no idea how this happened. I am a bit frustrated because I went with Privex because of the claim that you could be back up in minutes after a problem be reinstalling the server which is almost instantaneous. The problem is, the latest snapshot is from August and the drives I paid for are pretty slow so it is taking days to catch up.
I am setting up a backup server with striped NVME drives and will be making my own snapshots. That way I'll always be ready for this. I was waiting to do this until I was closer to 50th place, but it looks like things go pushed forward!
Yeah, I saw that those Privex VPS are too cheap to be good... I mean, they can work, but in the situation, like you described, it takes time to put it back up...