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How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by sho »

ackbar03 wrote: post #14
sho wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment is kinda snarky and borderline facetious but man, I can't help but agree. After 10 years hanging around this site if there's anything I've learned it's that I am nowhere fucking near "max geekiness". I couldn't stick with a project like this for 6 hours, let alone 6 years. And yet literally in the last week I've been (gently) ribbed for being nerdy enough to think reading books for pleasure is an accepta…

Dude it wasn't meant to be snarky at all. It was literally like wtf how is this even possible.

Sorry snarky was the wrong word. But I'm on the same boat!

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by ndnxhs »

I am absolutely blown away by the dedication of this person. I can't imagine spending so long working on this.

Somewhat unrelated but I wonder if we will make the move to open hardware like we have done with software. Having access to schematics and firmware source does wonders for the reparability and upgradability of hardware.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by javajosh »

sho wrote: post #12
ackbar03 wrote: post #10

This is crazy, how on earth do you have the patience and persistence to work on something like this??? It took five - six years?

This comment is kinda snarky and borderline facetious but man, I can't help but agree. After 10 years hanging around this site if there's anything I've learned it's that I am nowhere fucking near "max geekiness". I couldn't stick with a project like this for 6 hours, let alone 6 years. And yet literally in the last week I've been (gently) ribbed for being nerdy enough to think reading books for pleasure is an accepta…

Yeah I didn't get the snark at all. Just genuine admiration.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by noch »

ackbar03 wrote: post #10

This is crazy, how on earth do you have the patience and persistence to work on something like this??? It took five - six years?

> This is crazy, how on earth do you have the patience and persistence to work on something like this??? It took five - six years?

Immediate gratification culture (a generational problem?) teaches us that the very short term is the meaningful range in which to work and expect results. But anyone who has become a master at their art or craft knows that 10+ year projects are normal and that the long-term is where mastery resides. In the medium term, one is often on a plateau, barely seeing significant progress. (Just ask the best cellists or figurative fine art painters or marble sculptors.)

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by _Microft »

jimmaswell wrote: post #11

"My wife and I always wanted a Leica camera and suddenly we realized that if we didn’t buy it now, we will not be able to for a while." Is this the mindset of "better buy the expensive thing before we can't afford it"? I've seen this expressed before and it's not sound reasoning. If you wouldn't be able to keep that money in a savings account because you know you'd later find other uses of the money to provide better…

It reminds me of something from Robert Kiyosaki's book "Rich dad, poor dad" (I'm surprised I'd quote that) that basically says that the things you need to do or pay will be done or paid, while the ones that not necessarily will be done or paid might not. Therefore do the unnecessary ones first because the necessary ones will be done anyways. This way you end up with e.g. both leisure time and work done instead of just work done but no leisure time.

An interesting thought, in my opinion.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by StavrosK »

ackbar03 wrote: post #10

This is crazy, how on earth do you have the patience and persistence to work on something like this??? It took five - six years?

You just like it, and you keep working on it as time permits and you get unblocked. Which reminds me, I need to write up my own 4-year project (which is nowhere near as cool as this).

https://www.makerfol.io/project/Z5XFwxh-lighttracer-a-photog...

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by ghaff »

jimmaswell wrote: post #11

"My wife and I always wanted a Leica camera and suddenly we realized that if we didn’t buy it now, we will not be able to for a while." Is this the mindset of "better buy the expensive thing before we can't afford it"? I've seen this expressed before and it's not sound reasoning. If you wouldn't be able to keep that money in a savings account because you know you'd later find other uses of the money to provide better…

I'd be quite sure the author is well aware of the contradiction. Not every human activity and behavior has to be 100% rational.
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