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Cameras and Lenses
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#142Re: Cameras and Lenses
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
If instead of resolving points of light on the image sensor, you use a group of pixels to resolve an entire tiny image you can effectively also see around things. You end up with a picture of many small sections of the large image each at a different angle. The image on the far left of the image would see a different angle than the image on the far right. This is exactly what the Lytro camera did and it's why you can…
Well yes but you're still going to need a sensor as large as the aperture of the lens you want to simulate, which makes it a non-starter for phones.
Yea, this type of image recording has huge compromises but I personally find it really cool.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
language 1 extracts gender to a separate word. language 2 embeds gender in the word itself. names are words. it's a lose-lose situation: native speakers of language 2 will look at what you wrote and cringe or just assume you're ignorant. they won't get the point you're trying to make, null, nada, 0% chance. source: i'm a native speaker of language 2.
Yep. "Greek is gendered, the gender is embedded into the words". Sure, but I can speak whole normal sentences without referring to gender at all, something like "went to the supermarket and bought x y z, then did a, b and c and came back". You can talk about someone at length without mentioning their gender once.
This is absolutely true, but sooner or later you’ll have to pick a gender or you’ll just end up sounding funny at best.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. "Greek is gendered, the gender is embedded into the words". Sure, but I can speak whole normal sentences without referring to gender at all, something like "went to the supermarket and bought x y z, then did a, b and c and came back". You can talk about someone at length without mentioning their gender once.
This is absolutely true, but sooner or later you’ll have to pick a gender or you’ll just end up sounding funny at best.
Not really, that's just the way sentences are formed. The third person has no gender, the gender is only in the pronouns, which are optional. Adjectives will give it away, though.
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#146In terms of sharpness, each lens is different. And the sharpness varies depending on the focal length (zoom), aperture and the sensor.
A great way to visualize this, is to take a look at the sharpness of the nifty fifty canon lens
https://www.imaging-resource.com/lenses/canon/ef-50mm-f1.8-s...
Click into the heat map https://www.imaging-resource.com/lenses/canon/ef-50mm-f1.8-s...
Move the aperture from 1.8 to 2.8, and note how the sharpness increases, starting in the center of the lens.
Then at about 16, diffraction kicks in and things start getting less sharp again.
Things get even wilder when you introduce variable zoom and different camera bodies.
It's a great way to visualize the good/fast/cheap pick two tradeoff's of lenses.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The site is the work of a guy, "him", and "his" work. We don't have to guess and say "them" and "their" work. Assumptions are presumptuous and harmful. Everyone is a they/them until otherwise stated. These are extremely useful pronouns. You're a they/them. Calm down. You seem to be overly attached to regressive labels. I don't know what drives this in you, but the universe is burning and people just want to be happ…
I'll share something with you. The level of consideration you have for people who are no more than 1% of the population is admirable. Very admirable, in comparison with the actual large problems that I'm sure you pay 0% attention to each day, and do make assumptions about. So very admirable that you go out of your way to bring this to the level of everyone having to select a pronoun in their dropdown menu because you…
You're literally complaining about having more dropdown menus in your life like it's a big deal. Not a good place to "you're out of touch with the needs of the world" from.
While it's true that pronoun usage in English is a relatively unimportant problem compared to lots of other existing problems in the world, it's worth noting that the person who seems to be the most emotionally invested in that problem here is you. You might accurately feel that using "they/them" this way is forced on you in other situations, but that's not what happened here. In this conversation, you observed "them" being used that way; you didn't get told that you have a moral or ethical obligation to use it that way. That a pretty important distinction.
You're the one that's being high and mighty and trying to impose a standard on somebody else's use of language here, not vice versa.
Also, until just now, the "1% of the population" that you are talking about (which I presume is trans people) wasn't even directly relevant. You're right that part of the cultural shift towards greater use of gender-neutral pronouns is socially driven by trying to make trans people's lives easier, but you could easily have the more or less the same conversation and not have trans people in mind at all. That shift is also socially driven by just trying to leave gender out of the picture when it's irrelevant. That's an aspiration that one might reasonably have even if one doesn't give a shit about trans people.
The thing you're upset about in the first place wasn't a case of someone using "them" because it was a preferred pronoun or whatever. It was case of using "them" as a gender neutral singular second-person pronoun because they didn't bother to do the legwork to work out the gender of the person they were referring to.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it's way less effort than checking, isn't it? The name in the footer isn't English, so it's hard to know from that and there's no about page that I could find. The Twitter profile makes it more obvious, but I only clicked on it to check because of your comment. Why bother??
Slav surnames are gendered. * ski is male, * ska is female, * sko is neutral. Using gender neutral in this case is as insulting as calling him a dog. Other cases where using gender neutral pronouns insults everyone speaking the language is using Latinx for Latino. If you want to butcher every other languages genders like they are in English, use Latin instead - the gender neutral form of Latino in English since only…
Thank you for sharing your personal opinions.
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#149FYI there are digital sensors which aren't using bayer filters. Some are classic sensors missing the bayer filter (leica monochrome for example) other are based on different tech like Foveon sensors [0] Many people also debayer their cameras themselves, especially in astro photography [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3_sensor [1] https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/166334-debayering-a-dslrs...
Fuji also use what they call an X-Trans sensor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujifilm_X-Trans_sensor
Which is still pretty much a Bayer sensor, just with a different filter layout. You still have to demosaic to get a usable file. And a well-tuned RAW convertor to do so.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The site is the work of a guy, "him", and "his" work. We don't have to guess and say "them" and "their" work. Assumptions are presumptuous and harmful. Everyone is a they/them until otherwise stated. These are extremely useful pronouns. You're a they/them. Calm down. You seem to be overly attached to regressive labels. I don't know what drives this in you, but the universe is burning and people just want to be happ…
“They” is historically understood to be plural. Some information fidelity is lost if “they” can mean multiple people and a person. Language is hard, so I understand the need for compromise. “Zee” could be used to avoid gender centric labeling while maintaining language clarity.
Historically understood to be plural by you.
Actual-historically, from 1375, not so much.
https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...