@matigo yeah. I like the self-referencial humour like that.
Man, s5 felt way darker than I remember the previous seasons. I think the show is better for it, though.
Finally watching Bojack season 5. @matigo is right, ep6 is great. Whole season is great, as usual.
“Looking at ScreenTime reports” is in my top5 ScreenTime report for today.
If the goal was to get me to look at the screen less this seems counterproductive.
@matigo never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes on a highway.
Eventually I am sure I'll get used to TB3 speeds. For now, though, it sure is nice moving 20GB in roughly a minute.
@matigo yeah, farmer’s markets are pretty great. One thing I like about this town, all the various markets. I rarely get to actually make it to them, but I really like it when I do. :)
@matigo sounds like you’re the perfect audience for something like Amazon Pantry or such. Or maybe those ‘shop for you’ services?
@matigo I know some camera apps on the iPhone do offer dual-file saves as an option. While it'd be nice if the default app could also, I don't see it happening. That would be more of a "pro" feature and those of us who care about such things probably aren't using the default app anyway due to other features.
Reviews such as the one on The Verge regarding the Pixel 2XL camera being better than the iPhone XS camera always make me think a bit. "The Pixel 2… makes all the processing decisions for you …come with plenty of contrast, sharpness, and dynamic punch" are cited as reasons the iPhone XS camera is somehow lacking. Perhaps it's my time with a photography hobby but those same points sound like critical flaws to me. And those sample images he posted as proof of the Pixel 2XL being superior all looked over-sharpened and with what I'd call blown highlights and undetailed shadows. Maybe I've spent too many years working with raw images, but the "flat" look he's complaining about looks to me to be a far better starting point.
All that aside, I don't doubt he's correct that the default camera app on the Pixel 2XL does produce finished pictures most people will find more aesthetically pleasing. Perhaps with enough detail that a pass through an Instagram filter or two doesn't result in unusable garbage. Which is the part where it gets me thinking. What do people actually think of when they talk about a "camera". What is the output expected from such a thing? And to the extent comparisons can be made between 'cameras', what would count as "better"?
My medium format TLR certainly produces pictures with far more detail than my DSLR ever did (or my mirrorless does). But focusing with the ground glass takes a long time and running the enlarger isn't exactly something I can do while riding the bus (though I do miss the smell of fixer). If detail is all that mattered the TLR is clearly a 'better' camera, so why haven't I used it in years? My mirrorless takes great photos no current phone camera can match along any measurable metric. So why are most of my daily pictures taken with my phone?
And yet, though clearly convenience wins and "the best camera is the one you have on you", I still like to have most of the post-processing decisions done by me. I don't like it when a picture comes out of the camera system looking overly punchy. I don't want a camera system that will over-saturate the colours without any input from me. Sure I may wind up cranking the saturation and contrast anyway, but I want those steps to be discrete active decisions on my part. I suspect most people would agree with the author at The Verge and be perfectly happy to let the camera do all that for them.