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I think the best way to convince him would be to bring him there. Just saying.

Does the Canon 50F1.4 focus internally? Although I dont have one (and dont really shoot 50's much) this is a VERY nice feature on the current 50F1.4g. I am curious to see the Bokeh of the Yongnuo lens. So many MFR's are so blah about Bokeh. Wow! its F0.75. Bokeh 1 step better than a Mirror lens... Thanks for less than nothing.

I wonder if they would fit my Brompton

Nechama at the end of the ~20mile ride to her brother's house for Passover. You cant tell from the photo, but this is after riding into a 30+MPH headwind for 4 miles, over water. It was brutal. Last year it was cold and rained the whole time. I liked it better in the rain.

From a week or 2 ago, finally edited... Click for slightly larger.

Happy Birthday Ryan!

It may also be helpful if you refrain from dipping your headphones in your beverages. Or using them in the hot tub.

I would suggest you stop treating your gear like shit. Show it some respect, and it will treat you well. 1-3 months. WTF? Seriously? The headphones that came with the original gameboy will last years with any measure of care. You know, simple stuff - dont drag them in the dirt. Try not to let them get crushed in a car/subway door. Dont roll over the cable with your chair. Play those fuckers loud enough that you will need hearing aids when your 35, they will run for years! Kids these days.

HD800. Why buy headphones for $100 that will be worthless the moment you open the box when you could own the best (current production) headphones in the world for $100? Buy used HD800 for $1000. In 3-5 years sell them for $900. Maybe they cost you $150 once you figure in shipping costs.

This is a great post.

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Somewhat contrived, but still fun. http://petapixel.com/2014/04/21/quick-bts-puts-iphone-5-up-against-hasselblad/

Happy Birthday Jeffy!

I see what you did there.

Something to note - When you downsample (high sample rate) to 1644, you *must* apply a ~20Khz brickwall filter or you will get aliasing problems. Inaudible ultrasonic crap turns into even worse audible crap when you have aliasing issues. I have no idea how Foobar does this, but it may be worth looking into. You may also like the results from setting the filter a bit lower than 20Khz, if you have the option.

Based on your return habits, at least 90% of the "upgrade" lenses you have bought suck too. Its a kit lens, it is what it is. It will take non-gear-centric* photos just about as well** as any other lens. They are GREAT for starting out, and offer a great feel for upgrades the user may want to make in the future. *As much as its the tool holding the tool, there are some things a tool cant do unless he has the right tools. Nobody likes to say it, but there are some photos you just cant take unless you have a *magic* lens. 95% of these photos are just not worth taking, but how would anyone know you had a Noctilux if you shot it at F2.8? I hesitate to call non-gear-centric photos average or common, because they can be insanely far from it. Indeed! When you look at the overwhelming trend towards "I shoot it at F0.95 because I bought an F0.95 lens" in photography the terms average and common take on a totally different definition. A photo with 3 or more elements working together, that is far from average, and as easy to take with something as simple as a Pinhole camera as something costing OMFGWTFBBQ(USD). I'm happy when I get 2 things to work. **Ignoring distortion, enough light to shoot at F8.

Unless Sony really screwed up, the low-light performance from this camera should be amazeballs. The AF seems kind of sloooooow though I hope that is correct. The part of me that wants to take everything apart wonders if it uses the 24 or 36mp sensor? If its 36mp, I will be crazy-mega-uber-impressed.

Happy Birthday!

Hapy Birthday Tyler!

Happy Birthday Mike!

[hqiku] I took some photos Red hook Crit was last weekend It rained quite a lot [/haiku] It was a great time, ignoring the rain. The races got moved forwards a few hours - last year it was almost too dark to shoot. It was also too crowded last year.... This year was good for the crowd level. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_nikon_12/sets/72157643384442023/ ^^ Should take you to the set.

Is now the right time to voice my strong opinion against the vast majority of tube phono stages? The effect of various tube parameters (Rp) on the RIAA accuracy totally trumps any advantage. A few stoopid-expensive phono stages take it into account and have neat solutions, but most do not

Those people are too mainstream to be hipsters.

1: The beyerdynamic T1 comes with a shielded cable. This seems like a good reason to sidegrade. 2: You could try putting Ferite beads on the headphone cable. I suspect that the noise is getting in to the system through allllll sorts of methods though. Do you have shielded interconnects? 3: Briliant pebbles. Those fuckers work good! Try em. (April fools!) Almost no "audiophile approved" gear or mods do anything to protect the system from RF - in fact many "audiophile approved solutions" seek to remove what little was there! 4: Occams Razor? Costs nothing. Quite effective. More effective would be to just turn the phone off and enjoy the music. 5: I'd rather just listen to the GSM noise, but to each his own. 6: Why does high output impedance matter? Do you mean you want higher? I could get behind that. The HD650 respond nicely to an amp with highish to freakishly high (60ohms or up) output impedance. The OTL tube amps so many people lalalove with the HD650 start at 60ohms output impedance and go up from there quickly. Balanced cables do not block *high frequency* RF! In a balanced system, the balanced cable rejects low-frequency EMF (60hz hum) but the individual strands of the cable are physically too far apart to reject high frequency noise. For high frequency you need a shield. The shield works great at high frequency, but does nothing at 60hz - so we combine them to kill allllll sorts of noise. You have not mentioned what sort of interconnects you have - you may find some improvement by switching to shielded interconnects, if you don't already have them. In the case of a headphone or speaker power-amplifier output, where the pickup of 60hz is not a problem (there is no amplification stage after this...) balanced "works" for completely different reasons which have basically nothing to do with noise rejection/pickup.

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