Yep!

I'll generally remove posts without questions if someone reports them, but if they aren't bothering anyone enough to report it and I don't notice that they're in this community, then IMO, they're not doing much harm.

But if and when the community gets bigger, signal to noise ratio becomes a lot more important when it's harder to keep up with everything. But we can cross that bridge if and when we get to it IMO

That's how you can tell it's a juvenile! The adults have a full black face mask

Government drones aren't real!

For me, it's great egrets!

Even when I went to another continent, it felt like they were following me! Everywhere I turned there was another great egret!

Don't get many of them in Australia! I mean, they definitely exist, but the majority are anything but brown!

The r50 can do electronic shutter or second curtain shutter, but it doesn't have a global shutter or full mechanical shutter.

So, some ELI5 background on camera sensors. Most sensors read the data from the sensor pixel by pixel, line by line. So what that means is that a small amount of time passes between reading the top lines of the sensor and the bottom lines of the sensor. Most of the time, this doesn't make much difference. But for fast moving objects (or if you're panning the camera really fast) it means that the scene can change during that passage of time, which is what gives you trains that lean to one side and propellers that look like they're made of rubber.

To get around that, you can use a physical shutter. Cameras with "second curtain" shutters physically close off the light to the sensor before they start reading data from the sensor. This means that even though time passes between reading the top and the bottom of the line, the light captured by the sensor does not change during that time, and so the wobbly subjects don't happen.

A camera with a full mechanical shutter puts a physical shutter at the beginning of the process and the end, but the gains over second curtain only are negligible.

In theory, there is also "global shutter" which is a camera that reads the entire sensor at once, but in practice, this technology doesn't exist at the consumer mirrorless camera level.

Electronic shutters aren't all bad though, because they let you do faster shutter speeds than are possible with physical elements, and they let you do higher fps when shooting in burst mode. And electronic shutters are also silent

This is a screenshot of the activity in this community. It looks ok to me...

The way I see it is the rules exist to improve the experience of the community. They set guidelines to help us achieve that. The rules aren't the final source of truth though, the quality of the community is.

So, if you see something that breaks the rules and is pulling the community down in doing so, use the report function, and highlight it.

If it's breaking a rule, but not harming the community, then just let it fly.

I have no interest in enforcing rules for the sake of rules. I see them more as guidelines for fostering a better community, and that's the lens through which I moderate.

Yay! 4.8 supports my camera! I can finally stop running darktable nightlies

I used Dreaming Spanish, which uses natural comprehension and teaches entirely in Spanish, with no translation. It's not as fast as some alternatives, but it matches my learning style, and has given me a neutral accent when I speak

Can confirm

Image description: A screenshot from a birdpi, a device that identifies birds by their song, and catalogues their activity vs the time of day. The image shows a small amount of activity from a Barn Owl at 10pm and 1am. It also shows a very large volume of activity at 7am from crows, and other Australian birds