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May 3, 2024 09:06:18   #
Beautiful pics. The area looks great.
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May 3, 2024 09:02:42   #
Nice photos. I just read an article in the April 2024 edition of National Geo about fungi. If you get a chance take a look at it.
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Apr 30, 2024 09:31:33   #
Outstanding photos. They make me want to go there.
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Apr 29, 2024 11:56:27   #
Mac wrote:
Consider the Leica Q3.


I love it, but it’s not cheap, and pretty much out of stock. It also requires fast memory cards, and a fast computer with lots of storage.
It does take beautiful photos.
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Apr 29, 2024 11:45:54   #
bobbyjohn wrote:
While AI is an interesting technology in the world of photos, videos, search engines, advertising, etc. etc., and with a myriad of legal and ethical concerns, it is my belief that there is NO SUCH THING as Artificial Intelligence.

I have used AI to produce strange and weird images, and will likely continue to do so...because it's fun!

Before retirement, I was in the IT field for many decades, and back even in the 2000's, the term and delivery of AI was in its infancy. It was the belief then, as now, that AI is produced by humans, humans writing computer programs, and as such takes on the characteristics and leanings of its authors/developers. A computer cannot think, it is just a series of 0's and 1's, created by some human, with a myriad of IF-THEN-ELSE logic. A computer cannot have emotions. When an AI deliverer want his program to react in a certain way, he programs it that way...it is a reflection of the developer. Such it is with AI that has permeated the world today.

While the term and delivery of AI is here to stay, we should always remember that in using AI, we are catering to the whims of the developer(s). We should not assign "intelligence" to a machine that can have no intelligence.
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The latest AI programs like Chat GPT are doing things that even the pro gamers don’t understand how the answer came about.
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Apr 26, 2024 08:56:54   #
I would love to watch it.
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Apr 26, 2024 08:54:39   #
Love it.😊
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Apr 26, 2024 08:52:36   #
RKastner wrote:
Please excuse my rant....but I'm really getting fed up with some people (okay...more than some) can't seem to contribute anything helpful. Maybe that's why I like coming to the UHH. For the most part everyone is as helpful as they can and when it warrants or in Chit Chat..funny.

While we were in the moving process and after we moved to Florida I was in some groups about moving to Florida. I put up with the negativity then because I was looking for information. Now that we've moved I'm there to help those looking to move to Florida. Unfortunately, there are a number of nabobs of negativity who have to complain about how bad they have it in Florida, be it traffic, the heat, bugs, or whatever. Then telling people not to move to Florida for whatever reason they have.

I've already left a few of them because of this....but it still frustrates me. Yeah...I know I'm old and this is what the inter webs has become.

Please resume your normal programming.
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When you move here you will find that the south east coast has crowded roads all year long, and the south west coast has roads that are most crowded in March. Traffic is getting worse each year as more of us boomers move down here.
The average home insurance is over $10,000, and for many, flood insurance is a must, and is increasing every year. (I hope that the elevation of your home will put you in an X zone rather than AE or AH zone which will cost even more). Car insurance is higher in Florida than any other state. Plan on buying a water filter (I use zero water myself), because the water tastes terrible (to me at least). All ponds in the state potentially have gators in them. Mosquitoes are a real problem (for me, they ignore my wife), and there is a potential for some of them (aedes aegyptii) to carry serious diseases (Dengue fever, Yellow fever, malaria), and some evidence that that is happening, if not, it’s probably only a matter of time until with warming climate, these diseases return to Florida.
The weather is great from late October until early April. You cannot play outside in the summer heat without taking a serious beating. Real feel temps are over 100 most of the time, and over 110 too often.
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Apr 25, 2024 17:15:16   #
Fantastic photo!
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Apr 24, 2024 21:45:31   #
therwol wrote:
I use my 20MP Canon G7X Mark II more than any other camera. 20MP and an outstanding lens is all I need most of the time. I use my Nikon D850 when I need to use a macro lens or a lens that goes beyond the range of the little camera. I also use it when I don't have a lens long enough for the situation. Cropping is a viable option. The small camera is convenient enough to take anywhere. The big camera is not. Can I see the difference in photos taken with the two cameras? Yes, but it is slight or difficult to discern on a computer screen and only becomes apparent on magnified or cropped images.
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I bet you can tell the difference in certain prints.
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Apr 24, 2024 11:49:14   #
I’m currently reading The Photographer’s Vision Remastered by Michael Freeman. In the book, Freeman quotes American photographer William Albert Allard. Allard’s take is relevant here.
‘You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures that nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.”
I think that all of us here on UHH are trying to do just that.
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Apr 24, 2024 09:37:33   #
A larger sensor (medium format, vs full frame, vs APSC, etc) tends to be better in low light, high ISO environments. Smaller sensors are also softer at higher f stops (above f11).
More MP’s allow you to crop closer with no loss in quality (depending on the use of the photo). So, for example, 40MP would act as a 2X lens with a 20MP crop, without changing lenses.

Larger sensors are more expensive, heavier and require heavier more expensive lenses.
There are trade offs no matter which choice you make.
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Apr 24, 2024 09:26:59   #
Well planned, well executed. Nicely done.
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Apr 24, 2024 09:24:50   #
Beautiful photos. The kayak photo would have scared me. I’d be afraid of damaging my camera.
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Apr 24, 2024 09:21:31   #
Really great photos.
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