Another interesting difference is that when giving directions, men generally say north, east, etc. Women tend to say right or left.

Most farmers and hunters are good at estimating distances as well as north from south. I have noticed that real citified men don’t know which direction the sun comes up or goes down in. I’ve never met a farmer that didn’t and most hunters also know.

According to some people around here, there’s no way you could have taken that shot without a high dollar state of the art mirrorless real camera and not a lowly camera phone.

Regardless of what you used, I think it’s an outstanding photo!

That’s what I want to be when I grow up, an apex predator!

The color thing is real. Years ago we had severe weather with tornado warnings on the radio. Guys would call in talking about how the storm clouds were green in color, or black or blue and almost black. A woman called in and talked about the storm clouds over her house being sea-foam colored I’m sure I wasn’t the only guy that said, “What the hell color is sea foam???”

I like the cat one!

I wouldn’t trust that squirrel, he looks like a troublemaker. Did he have a pack of smokes folded up in the sleeve of his white T shirt?

Were you wearing Lederhosen? Sehr gut!

On model Ts the throttle was operated by hand and you shifted with your feet. No gear shift lever and no gas pedal. Kind of like a motorcycle, hand on the throttle and clutch a shift with your foot.

So does that apply to spouses? Marry and divorce enough of them and sooner or later you’ll find a keeper? Or do you just give up and settle for what you got?

Good job!

Like art, superior is in the eye of the beholder and everyone has their own definition of superior. If you define superior as bang for the buck, forget about one of the Nikon Zs and pick up a used D800 for a tenth the price. If you define superior as FPS, don’t even consider the plodding 800.

As for AI on Facebook, I believe that most “Ram TRX” and “Jeep Trackhawk” videos are AI generated. Other than trucks diving off 500 foot cliffs and landing without a scratch or the vehicles literally driving over other cars, rolling over and over and then driving away with nary a dent, AI can’t seem to correctly depict exhaust smoke or dust from the wheels. Other than that, those videos do look real. I also saw videos of a Russian truck hauling a single giant log, one crossing a rickety bridge and another crossing a stream. Where the wheels meet the bridge or in the water as well as the exhaust smoke is obviously fake. I’m sure AI will continue to get better and better.

I do know that many times true artists are square pegs living in a round hole world. When they look at something, what they see or comprehend is totally unlike what we more pedestrian humans see. Sometimes that different vision can be sold and make them a living. Far too many of those unique individuals live a pauper’s live and die penniless (or commit suicide) before anyone appreciates their vision.

Albert Einstein was one of those unique individuals that saw the world totally unlike others did at that time. And while it was a quarter century before some of his theories were proven correct, other theories were proven wrong, although Einstein refused to accept it even when the proof was in front of him. Even the greatest people of world history have been fallible.

Problems like yours interest me but also cause me to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to find the cause. Good luck.

I wonder what “improvement” will be next for cameras or are mirrorless the pinnacle of camera technology?

In times before SLRs, most improvements and refinements involved film.

After that the standard (as in the universal 35mm camera built by most manufacturers) was SLR technology; basically what you see is what you get in addition to easily interchangeable lenses. Most improvements involved optics. At the very end auto focus and exposure came about.

Then the industry standard became a SLR with a sensor instead of film. Auto focus and exposure were refined and “new” improvements involved sensors, processors, and image stabilization. Good optics had pretty much already been perfected and so called improvements were mostly in reduced weight, reduced cost and greater zoom lengths. No real earth shattering leaps in image quality due to improved lenses.

In recent years the mirrorless (SLR without the mirror) has become the industry standard. Unless I’m mistaken, most new mirrorless sensors, processors, auto focus-exposure, etc aren’t much different than their DSLR predecessors. The selling point seems to be no mirror and increased frames per second plus a few other things already mentioned here. It doesn’t sound like there has been any major leap in image quality between DSLR and mirrorless.

It seems to me that image quality because of optics has pretty much leveled out and can’t be made much better, at least in consumer grade products. Sensors and processor improvements may have leveled out as well. Unless someone comes up with some radical new concept in photography, mirrorless (to me at least) appears to be better at applying or taking advantage of current sensor and processor capabilities.

The point is that most things, especially mechanical items, can be improved upon only to a certain point. The time comes where you can’t make good any gooder because it’s as good as it’s ever going to get.

Anyone have any ideas of where consumer camera technology may go from here, at least without implanting a sensor and processor inside your brain?