Sigma fp

[...] This takes me back to the first commercial software i ever worked on around 19 years ago, it was an accounting software written in Visual FoxPro. It's a super easy language to get started with programming and the fact that you can drag your widgets on the screen helps a lot. [...] In hindsight that's both good and bad, because the moment you move to another language that doesn't offer an IDE where you can drag widgets with your mouse on the screen to position them and you have to work with containers, programmatically, you quickly realize how little you really know about creating UIs with forms. I don't think i had an opinion back then if VFP was good or bad but I remember the IDE would crash when you tried to build your project sometimes with a pop-up that would say "Catastrophic failure!". I always thought that was super funny and to this day i still have the screenshot. [...]

[...] What a load of shite, I bought a voodoo 3 for my dad's pc, got quake 2 and was bitterly disappointed. [...]

[...] Benchmarks and FPS don’t really show things like micro stutters and little performance wrinkles like that. [...] Upgrading my CPU alone with the same GPU took away the environment loading slowdown almost entirely. [...] My old advice would have been to buy one of those sweet spot cheaper mid-range gaming CPUs, but my newer advice is really if you’ve already spent all that you’re willing to spend on a GPU (I have a 9070XT, my only upgrade paths are insanely expensive), buy the highest gaming CPU on the list for gaming benchmarks (e.g., I wouldn’t go crazy with a 9950X3D2 since it doesn’t have any gaming improvements above the 9850X3D). And the thing about CPUs is they’re not insanely expensive like GPUs. We are talking a price delta of $200 between this beast of a CPU and something way more middling.

[...] Sure, but this same hardware was able to edit 1080p / 30 fps videos on Windows without performance issues and not needing to use proxies. [...] I never encountered a single video that lagged when scrubbing, even 90 minute videos with a dozen tracks. [...]

[...] I personally use Mac laptops as well, and Apple devices use P2P wireless and Bluetooth for so many little things you use everyday, so when I click it and it explicitly prints "Disconnecting from Bluetooth devices until tomorrow" prominently, I'm happy with the functionality. [...] About your experiment: - When I disconnect Bluetooth for a day, it shows Bluetooth as on and adds a note: "New Bluetooth connections have been turned off from Control Center." It has a big button above it: "Allow New Connections". - When I disconnect Wi-Fi for a day, it shows Wireless as on and adds a note: "New Wi-Fi network connections have been turned off from Control Center". [...] If I open an app using Bluetooth while it's disconnected, it shows a dialogue saying that new connections are disabled, but app needs new connections. [...] Unless you give explicit permission, it never connects to a wireless network or Bluetooth device. [...] Same for Bluetooth. [...] HDR display is disabled, system FPS is halved, etc. [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of extreme low temp (-70C ambient) photography with a Sigma FP. It’s basically a full-frame box hybrid movie camera. The addon EVF works well long after the LCD freezes. [...] USB charging is nice but I use a cabled external battery most of the time. The battery will die in minutes outside and for whatever reason Sigma decided not to add USB power pass through in the EVF. [...] The power solution I came up with is a modified battery charger with a removable base (Wasabi Power). I added teflon coated cables and a connector to go to the (also butchered) dummy battery. Real battery gets stuffed into a pocket or up a sleeve. The camera doesn’t care how cold it gets, from experimenting. It’s also small and the display is most of the back. If you make the display bigger, the camera gets bigger. [...] Really you want a good OLED display or a high-res viewfinder. [...] The same goes for wifi - a lot of new cameras have 2.4Ghz in them (my OM-D EM5ii from almost a decade ago can sync to an app). [...]

[...] You must get a top spec 64GB (larger capacities are too slow, smaller capacities have not enough space to record anything). [...] If you suffer from the shadow flicker issue, let me know. [...]

[...] Sigma FP (great camera too), as you mentioned elsewhere, does uncompressed CDNG. [...] It could be nice to have that as an option on Blackmagic cameras too, but to be honest I don't miss it since BRAW arrived - the files get huge. It's a shame RED was awarded a patent for in-camera lossless compressed RAW video. [...]

Never been a fan of editing photos, especially as I have difficulties dealing with the infinite possibilities. I just stick with default output from the camera and just fix backlight or some minor adjustments required. [...]

Blackmagic sold their cameras with support for CinemaDNG advertised, and removed that support after the fact, leaving only BRAW that more or less locked you into Resolve. [...] Luckily, I noticed that just before I bought a unit (!). Now I’m a happy owner of a Sigma fp, which not only is sold with CinemDNG support—shows that BM did have some choice, after all—but is also technically superior. If I ever do something where their gear is required and someone leases it, sure, but I don’t see why I would give my personal money to BM after how they handled this.

I own a Sigma fp and a Sigma fp L, so you bet I preordered this already (in silver). When will I use it with all my other cameras? [...] A Sigma camera is no regrets though.

bc believe you me… i bought the sigma fp bc it looked sleek and small and ideal for adapting lenses. and allegedly had very good high ISO performance. i didn't realize the IQ of a camera from 2019 was gonna spoil me forever.

it does? I don't have it installed now (lest I get tempted into a quick 2-hour session and end up being late for work 12 hours later), but IIRC it performed the same for me on iGPU and 4090, even on the big saves running below 60 FPS/UPS.

[...] The crucial part is browser performance and network latency. [...] on firefox, you use firefox's profiler to see which parts are slow. [...] Welcome to software engineering.

Mine was a procedurally generated FPS I've forgotten the name of, it used a seed key to generate the map and then you could fight on it, if it was a cool map you could just keep or share the key so was replayable. Iirc it used a voxel engine so would have been late 90's.

lmao I was like "wtf is going on with that stick" the slab design I wonder, I made my own camera bodies (for RPi) and the straight edges do hurt your hand The size reminds me of the hype I felt with Sony Alpha Nex-5n when that was new (tiny body and big lens) The body reminds me of Teenage Engineering edit: oh yeah Sigma FP that was another tiny body camera

[...] As mentioned, the Samsung galaxy camera, as well as Polaroid branded android cameras. [...] The primary hand holds the camera, the other hand holds and supports the lens. In the olden days, the film canister was physically stored on the left in almost all cameras (and certainly in all SLRs), so the protrusion on the right isn’t really a remnant of film designs. Older film cameras actually have smaller less ergonomic protrusions on the right (look at a Nikon F2 vs. [...] The big ergonomic protrusion on the right has been an evolution of newer modern technology and expectations. You can get a camera with gps, wifi, Bluetooth etc. do they have you screens that don’t have multitouch? [...] I can do crops and color treatments on my Nikon if I don’t want to just transfer directly to my phone and do the editing there. Yeah, the camera doesn’t automatically put it all in my iPhoto, but that is literally just a few taps. There are MILC cameras that have minimal physical controls and touchscreens so I’m not really sure what you’re looking for? The sigma FP is pretty minimal, and you just strap on what you need.