I am a Canon guy, but I had some expensive EF mount lenses that I didn't want to give up or pay the prices for the same RF mount. The Canon adapter IMO, was over engineered . I have only purchased one new RF mount. Many of my EF lenses perform better on my Canon EOS R camera than on my DSLR. I would go to your local camera store and see how your older lenses perform with the adapter. If you don't have a camera store, look at renting from Lensrental the camera and the adapter. If your lenses work well with the adapter, you will ne able to save a lot of money
As someone who spent a 40 year im software development, starting as a programmer, there are the mundane tasks that are already fully automated. The biggest challenge will to flesh out customer requirements fully and take those into a design document. Many times in my career, customers didn't know what questions to ask or how to answer our questions properly and hopefully we caught those things on the analysis phase. That doesn't always happen. Having worked on AI algorithms and systems the last 7 years of my career, I know the difficulty of writing self learning techniques. All methods of programming will need to shift to be more robotic and have very strong standards on place. Yes, eventually the actual process of coding could be automated. I, though have heard that since the 1990's but programmers not been replaced yet
As software developer for 40 years, I started programming on cards and I worked with AI in business applications. The many algorithms were very complex and always evolving. Can an algorithm learn. It depends on how the data is stored along with intermediate and final results that are kept as historical data allowing th3 computer to make decisions based on both current and historical data. We had the largest sets of legal data in at least the US and possibly Europe where our parent company was. We stored billions of rows of data from all kinds of 100's of sources. To process that most of that amount of data 25 years ago could have taken weeks. Our longest job which updated all of the outside data tables took about 17 hours.
I found that with my Toyota uses Navteq data. I used that with my work for years. There updates are 400.00. I live in an area that has a lot of new building in areas where 9 years ago when we purchased out car and it has all of the new information. When I used this data at work we paid 10k a month for updates. Not sure why we need it.
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You are partially correct. I was in IT for 40 years, my last job writing AI algorithms for a very big big data system for a large multinational. We had billions of rows of data stored, the largest legal data collector. We had the results of various queries that were stored. We also reprocessed queries that our customers wanted. daily, weekly, monthly...etc. With that data, natural language queries, data could be extrapolated and used to determine results for new customer queries. We basically kept pointers to various pieces of data that could be used by other queries to effect the outcome. Now the part that floored me when I first went to work there, these are all flat files. I could read through a billion rows that were 100 bytes in length in about 2 minutes. Blew me away.
This is going to continue to happen. Farmers are selling out for their fortunes, big sums of money for prime land to developers. They in turn, take off all the topsoil to sell. When finished, in NE Indiana, they will have the largest solar farm in the country able to power 250,000 homes. The first nuclear reactor, a fast breeder, has been approved and construction has started. Nuclear is our future. Small modular plants, built in a factory and shipped to sites will speed up the process. Since the plans have been approved by the NRC and FERC these modular plants will not need to be inspected like current plants that are all one offs. They can put 12 of these on one site. Starting in the mid to late 2030's, we will see the first fushion plants. Once these are available, there will be no reason to build anything else.
My last job that I has was writing AI algorithms for a very large AI engine that was first created about 2010 and constantly improved. It would use results from other queries saved over time to give better results so essentially it was self learning.
I have been able to cut my GAS purchases to almost NIL from your postings. Not only has it saved me a ton of money, but it has made me learn my current gear better.
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On the lens side, I shoot Canon EOS R. I have purchased only 1 lens and use all if my lenses that I used with my DSLR. Canon, IMO, over engineened the adapter. Some of my lenses perform better on Canon EOS R. I would test your current lenses on the new camera before thinking about replacing them. I am a hobbyists now and was a bit more serious about it pre-Covid. If you aren't a professional, you need to fight through the gas. I doubt new gear will make you a better photographer. Advances make with photo editing software( Adobe, Luminar Neo, Capture One or the Topaz products), after post processing, I doubt you can see the difference.
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As we know Adobe has been integrating more and more AI features into Photoshop generative fill and has upgraded Firefly, its AI generating program, to Version 3. In the latest release of Photoshop beta it is now possible to generate a multiple layer composite image using only verbal commands. Generative Fill and Generative Expand, both AI functions, allow us to add AI images to photographs easily and Generative Expand allows us to expand the borders of a photograph with the push of a button.
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We are starting to see in some phones ( Google Pixel 8 and Google Pixel Pro. ). How much longer will it be before we see some high end cameras have AI in camera? Could jpgs be considered AI since the camera makes the decision on what the output will be? What about automatic mode or program mode?
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MAC vs Windows is a Pepsi vs Coke thing. I have an iPhone for work and personally use an Android and old Samsun Note 9 but it still does what I need. ASUS and ACER are good. I have a DELL for work but it's a lower to mid-grade machine as it costs more for a better CPU and more Memory. Most important what are your specifications and budget? If you want to keep the MAC then go to YouTube and find instructions (if you want) Steve Jobs was a great salesman. I used to drink both Coke and Pepsi and eventually started drinking Coke exclusively. There are many ways to store your photos, but hard drive arrays are expensive. There is Cloud storage which is not cheap either. I would suggest checking all avenues for pricing because sometimes you get better prices for shopping unless the company price fixes. Yes I know its illegal to fix a price but MFRs set a suggest retail price and on occasion offer their product for less and if a store sells it for a lower price that company will no longer sell to them.
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My experience with MFR's is that with electronics there is a 23-30% profit in the MFR's
If it doesn't dry out then take it or ship it to Roberts Camera in Indianapolis
I have found Zelle to be every bit as secure as PayPal and I am not giving them any money. I switched about 2 years ago from PayPal and haven't needed to look back.
You never know. My aunt who is very healthy and still brushes the horses daily, had the ball in her hip replaced at 95. My dad is 93 and walks 4-5 miles per day 5 days a week and my 90 y/o uncle plays 9 holes of golf 3 times a week. Staying healthy needs friends and family around you and do things that keep your mind sharpe.