I always consternate over what the ‘Preset’ setting should be when doing H.264 encodes with Handbrake. It’s always tempting to slide right on over to ‘placebo’ to, in theory, ensure you’ve got the best possible encoding. And in my experience that at least roughly works – file size decreases (marginally) as you use more time-consuming… Read more
So far the new “Classic” Lightroom looks & feels mostly identical to the prior version(s), which isn’t really a compliment, but could be worse. There’s no apparent performance improvements, that’s for sure, so as expected Adobe’s promises to suddenly learn how to write efficient & performant software, well… at least their marketing department gave it… Read more
I just stumbled across my D400 wishlist. I’d clear forgotten I’d ever written that. Now that the “D400” – a la the D500 – has in fact been released, let’s see how many wishes came true: ≥ 50 image buffer. In 14-bit RAW. 😂 Nailed it. The D500 never misses a shutter actuation. It’s beautiful.… Read more
I hadn’t ’til yesterday realised that EXIF metadata doesn’t actually store dates & times correctly. Whoever came up with the spec all those decades ago clearly didn’t know how to work with dates & times correctly. This is immensely frustrating since now we have countless images taken with timestamps that are collectively gibberish. The problem is… Read more
I run Einstein@Home, using both CPU cores & my GPU. Other than a few month period where Einstein@Home was issuing broken GPU work units, I’ve been successfully doing this for years, I think. Longer than I can really remember, in any case. It appears, however, that 10.12.2 has introduced some serious issues impacting those GPU… Read more
Finally. Nikon have released the SnapBridge app so that the much-touted Bluetooth+Wifi capability of the D500 can actually be used. A mere eight months after it was announced. Fuck you too Nikon. However, as I’d clearly forgotten, it’s not very useful anyway. It doesn’t work with raws, you see. Doesn’t even acknowledge that they’re in the… Read more
I recently needed to find a photo gallery service, as though I put my personal & favourite work on Flickr, I don’t necessarily want to mix in other photography I do, plus Flickr makes it irrationally difficult to control access to photos (specifically, to arbitrary people or groups thereof). I also wanted, ideally, something that… Read more