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Geez Mel... What an awful amount of the sad side of life you've had to deal with man... My thoughts are with you. Hope your and the Chihuahua's health both improve. Take care.

Yikes, get well soon John! Our thoughts are with you!

On solid clean surfaces, the wider the tyre the more grip you'll have. It's only when there's an opportunity to bite into a soft surface (like a dirt road) or push through a layer of slippery stuff like water or snow to connect with a solid layer underneath (usually a paved road), that narrower...

Yikes, that looks like quite a crash! Glad you're okay! Regarding 4wd, that'll help you keep traction (tyres propelling the car in the direction they're aimed) and help prevent understeer in corners, but it doesn't change the sideways grip that the tyres have. You mention that the car was...

I have the 8x34 Nitrosport by Helios, a budget brand. Optically definitely better than you'd expect for the 100 euros I paid for them, but the build quality ain't great. After 3 years of (admittedly rough) use, one of the eyecups won't stay in place which is a pain when I'm not wearing glasses...

Welcome Ed and Inphoto! looking forward to seeing any photos you care to share! Or random chitchat about just about anything :) Tbh POTN has never been on my radar, but looking at it now, I don't know why, it looks like a cool place. Too bad it's shutting down!

Yikes, take it easy for a bit! All the best!

All the best and hope to see you back next year fellow Bart!

It's a historic charity housing complex around a shared courtyard. The courtyard (but not the inside of the houses) used to be freely accessible to tourists, which was fine as it was just 2 or 3 people at a time. But in the covid / closed borders years, domestic tourism boomed so much that we...

I live in a monumental house, and when my MIL visited our city a couple of years ago, she stayed in a hotel room that had a photo of our house (each of the 100 or so rooms has a photo of a city monument, and by pure chance she stayed in the room featuring our house). We thought it was awesome...

Yikes! All the best Herbert! Glad you were alert and caught it so early. I'm not in my 40s just yet but will get it checked then. And watch my heart. Thanks to all for the good advice here.

My condolences, Myra, and thank you for letting us know. Your father was a much appreciated member of this forum for almost its entire existence. May he rest in peace. And, as Ray indicated, if you feel inclined to hang around here we'd be delighted to have you.

That sounds really interesting. Will have to figure out how to watch it here. Thanks for telling us about it! I'm currently watching the final season of the absolutely brilliant Better Call Saul, and today I'll watch the 5th episode of the 6-episode miniseries We Own This City, in which David...

This... A few times a week I'll stay longer and really browse around, but my 5 minute visits occur anywhere between once and ten times a day... I make >95% of my forum visits using my phone. And yes, that means I don't get to appreciate the images I get to see to their full potential...

I just rewatched both the Hobbit and the LOTR films, and found them astoundigly unemotional. Waaayyyy too much action strung together. I might upset some people here, but I thought the Harry Potter films did a much better job of balancing the action with the character development and bringing...

I barely watch any sci-fi, but at the risk of losing all your respect, my wife's 20yo cousin introduced me to The 100 and it became a guilty pleasure :hide:

Yikes that's a recipe for an underwhelming final season indeed I thought the serial killer plotline was stretching the credibility a bit too far, which I always felt was very unfortunate in a series so intent on - and succesful at - blending entertainment with a slap to the face of...

Last seasons are notoriously difficult. Even the best series of all time (clickbait much? 😋), The Wire, had a final season that didn't quite live up to the first four. Breaking Bad final season was good though. And I'm counting on Better Call Saul's final season to be even better, seeing how...

Must've been the vacuum of space that did that... The risks and/or benefits of taking a cosmic leak!

You got that all wrong Kevin, the copied version really "isn't the same"... In the sense that that copy doesnt come with the 50 dollars worth of bragging rights due to some log in a blockchain... Which just goes to show that "keeping up with the Joneses" is more important than the actual content...

Yes, at 16:50 CET the winter solstice will be a fact. Can't wait for those long spring and summer evenings :cloud-9-039:

Sweet!

Clix Pix, will focus? It's like porn names but for cameras 😅 I kinda feel like changing to Wide Aperture now... :sorry:

Sorry to hear of your losses Bill - what a crummy year it's been for so many. And very sorry to hear the deterioration continues. It's a frightening thought that it might hit any of us. Your presence has been and will be missed, but I'm happy to know you're still lurking over us from time to...

I find that since I got some good binoculars, I have reduced the number of photos I take on a walk, and often just take in the beauty and the feeling of being part of nature. It's one of the reasons I'm saving up for a used X-Pro3; viewing the world through glass is just a more organic...

I'd like to see either England or Denmarknwin it over Italy, unfortunately only one of them can progress to the finals... Rooting for Denmark as it was a childhood favourite holiday destination.

Yesterday really offered some of the most attractive football I've seen in ages!

Being Dutch, it's... Not quite inevitable, but certainly more likely than not, that I'm following it. At least my own country, and the odd game between other countries. I mostly stopped watching club football out of chagrin after someone on Twitter pointed out that Manchester United's defensive...

My Sony Xperia 5 (mark 1) is close to 100% stock android and bloatware free, and is tall but narrow so I can reach all but the top of the screen with my thumb, and I don't have long fingers. I quote like stock android, although every once in a while the Sony implementation bugs a little, or at...

Does that also include LR? I hated the subscription model when it was released, but got it anyway for the mobile app and cloud storage, and I must say I'm really enjoying it. My raw editing has become much more minimalist over the last few years, and most of the edits I do can be done equally...

Oh, just thought of one, but it afflicts several manufacturers. Panasonic, Olympus and Canon all use only fully articulated screens on their higher end bodies. I much prefer my screens tilting, as do many other stills-only shooters. It annoys me that they seem to assume that every enthusiast is...

He's an architect and builder (built and renovated dozens of buildings himself; seeing him think with his hands and work his way around surprises during a renovation is truly a thing of magic), and now a professor at University of Cincinnati's DAAP. He heads a joint program with (and hosted by)...

Most of the simulations aren't actually made to look like a film stock, they're just designed for a similar use case as the film stock they're named after and consequently share some of the broad characteristics (shadow / highlight contrast, general saturation, skin tone saturation). They're...

I think you'd like my father in law, who heads a uni program that gives you dual titles of both engineer and an architect. He loves bringing those two together. As for camera companies: yes Canon's lack of innovation has long been exceedingly boring to watch. But if they'd release a model that...

How do the racing 'vettes sound now? I always thought the C6.R and C7.R sounded like somebody trying to cut down a tree using a hammerdrill :-P

Star wars is the one with the Borgs, right? :p I kid... But only just. Never made it through a full star wars movie. Much prefer the Potterverse ;-)

Sad news indeed :-( forums are great in one way, because they require a bit more effort to post and interact, which can be an encouragement for thoughtful posts... But then because they don't have the omnipresence of the major social media platforms, it's also easier to lose track of how people...

Well, the only boring moments are when we have to engage in the bureaucracy around investigations - filling out forms to request certain authorities (for instance requesting a warrant), and writing files describing our findings (especially when they're actually non-findings). That's boring...

Both the range of styles on display and the level of execution are really impressive!

Nope, nope, nope... Speaking both English and German as foreign languages, I find German grammar considerably more difficult than English grammar, even though Dutch and German are so closely related that it prompted the English to take the native word for German - Deutsch or Duits - and apply it...

drd: the more important question is, did you see the Wire? ;-) I'm a financial investigator at the police, a bit like Lester Freamon in that show... Used to work at two of the big 4 accounting firms, doing tax returns and tax accounting mostly for international companies using the Netherlands...

Ha, me too! I think there've been one or two similar threads since. But it's fun to read about the lives of all of those longtime and/or former members...

15 minute, 5 ingredient pasta Put some water to boil and add dried pasta (i usually go with fusili) and a pinch of salt when boiling, and cook until ready. Meanwhile, cut a chorizo sausage in 1cm / half inch slices and quarter those slices. Put them in a saute pan on medium-high fire, no oil...

I can't seemto go very long without playing the evergreen Take Five, and recently a youtube comment on that directed me to the unsquare dance, where the video and song make me happy for the quirkiness in equal measure

I think if Olympus were to take the 4/3 sensor and stabilisation know-how, and place those in a series of waterproof, rugged compacts with: - evf - flash - decent controls - 9mm, 14mm, 20mm and 40mm f/1.8 lenses, - hand held pixel shift for those high resolution geeks - top hinged rotating...

For any shooting seesion longer than, say, a minute, the act of holding a very thin and relatively heavy rectangle by its thinnest dimension simply doesn't work very well for human hands. So unless they provide your hypothetical phone with a case that adds a moderately comfortable grip, an...

I would suggest that the (ab)use of an image of your wife for a cause that you don't support would merit an amount of damages that increases for every day that they leave the image online, so not just a lump sum. They are a political action group using the image in a campaign. I would base the...

The article states it was a bird being released by a shelter type place

100mm at FF... That bird was not very far away!

You're looking at high contrast images exposed for the highlights and with everything darker than the sky being black or something awfully close to it. That gives you no good indication of DR - since you're letting the shadows turn black anyway - and it gives a fairly extreme contrast between...