What have you bought recently?


Somehow posted this in the wrong thread earlier, oh well
I got a used Fuji X100 to replace an Oly C5050
I'm still learning but I can already tell it's miles ahead of the old one.
Feels like a night vision device that can also freeze time.
Sorry for the huge filesize. I don't fully understand how to use RawTherapee yet.
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So happy about being able to make handheld fotos in a dark environment
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What ISO did you use for that cat shot? I see quite a lot of chroma noise in the dark areas of that in 1:1, but at least on a high resolution sensor like that you can just scale it down by half and that pretty much eliminates that, without having to piss about with wavelet denoise. It's not present on the tulip shot, but I guess there you were on a higher ISO because you were shooting into a window.
 
@levi
ISO 2500, the tulip was on 100 IIRC
You're right, I tried ISO 1000 in a similar situation and can't see any noise when fully zooming in on the camera display
 
Elw3 said:
Funny, my brother once told me to drive his automatic and after minutes of not knowing what to do i opted out. I found it so very complicated...
Nice car btw.
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For auto, just put it in Drive and use the peddle on the right. push harder for more fun. For reverse, put it in R, same thing applies just moving backwards. When done put it into P, use the parking break for extra parking goodness if you choose.

In my case for learning manual, I just had limited exposure to them, had a roommate several years ago that let me go on back roads and parking lots, but never let me learn out in traffic. Being in the dead of winter here with a few feet of snow on the ground and the thing has only summer tires on it limits me a tad for a few months, right now I'm getting it tuned up and ready.
 
I bid on a terra cotta oil lamp. The auction ends soon, and I was outbid, so I had to let it go. Probably a good thing. My max was $20.23 and right now it is almost double that.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183047951478?_trksid=p2471758.m4704
It will suck if it was truly old, but since I want it to use I decided to order one for $7 and save some money. If I like it over candles I can order a bronze reproduction that is more fancy and expensive in a couple years. I want to try putting smelly oils in it with the olive oil (hopefully I like it better than the overwhelming Yankee Candle stuff we have).
 
Klumpen said:
My best high d whistle so far. It's very heavy (about 150g) thanks to being quite massive brass, has a nice sound, I can get 2 octaves +1 note out of it chromatically and it isn't even that expensive:
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And a new high c whistle from the same line but made from aluminium, I can get the same range out of it (with only one grip being different on the upper most end), it did cost about 2/5 of my old high c one made from carbon fibres which has less range:
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very nice, i bought my first Tin Whistle in Blarney right after i kissed the Blarney Stone...... i want a low D but i dont think i hve big enough hands to reach the holes....
 
I would always looking for a clutch on every traffic light...
And how do i roll out?
Your gas usage must be enormous with the motor always turning the gears.
 
spud42 said:
very nice, i bought my first Tin Whistle in Blarney right after i kissed the Blarney Stone...... i want a low D but i dont think i hve big enough hands to reach the holes....
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I had several low-D whistles by now, some are specifically made for small hands and I need that too.

So far the ones best playable with small hands were:
Carbony / Rob Gandara
- Ideal for very small hands but lacks in range and chromatics, warm sound.
- Inverted cylindrical bore (you want that with small hands).
- Pricey and not very versatile though.

MK Pro
- Often described as "God's gift to low whistlers". I agree.
- Mostly "out of stock".
- Pricey but worth it.

Tony Dixon
- The plastic version actually plays better than the more expensive aluminium version. Fantastic price/value ratio. Range and chromatics are excellent, sound is nice although not comparable to MK Pro.
- Inverted cylindrical bore (see Carbony).

I didn't try the Alba low D but since it's made by a woman (just like the MK Pro), it should work although I think the spacing of the Alba's is very weird.

What I urge you to stay away from when you have small hands:
Ian lambe and Howard. The sound is fantastic but I just couldn't close the holes properly with my fingers.

I'd recommend looking for the Dixon Low D in local music stores, they often have it since it's made in big numbers.
If it doesn't need to be a Low D, I highly recommend Low F and G whistles, the Chieftains are nice for example when it comes to those sizes although you can never go wrong with Dixon and they are cheaper.
I have whistles in the keys of D, Eb, E, F, G, A, Bb, c, d, eb, e, f and g.
There's a size for everyone. I just need all those because I play with many different instruments from different cultures on sessions and the keys vary a lot.

Since I currently own 19 whistles of various sizes and tried many brands by now in big and small, just ask for further information.
I am not playing exclusively Irish but also French, German, Greek, Russian and Swedish folk on them so versatility (range, chromatics) is probably more important to me than to anyone else.

PS: I'm only talking about tunable ones since I never used non-tunables.
 
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I got an Old Man Stan story; I've decided I'm just going to embrace my creeping desire to tell long winded and pointless anecdotes of my youth.
TrashyMG said:
In my case for learning manual, I just had limited exposure to them
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I had an interesting learning experience learning manual. I was on the solar race team in University: take a few years, build a solar car, race it across North America against other schools. I was in my final year when we finished and the race was coming up, making me one of three people on the team that was 25 years old, of which only two of us had a drivers license: you needed to be 25 or older for insurance purposes, you see. I had a crash course (figuratively speaking) on manual transmission learning how to drive an 16 foot cube truck, and drove it, with a million dollar solar car in the back, from Ontario to Kansas and then to Texas, and then an empty one back home. Only stalled once because I made a mistake pulling into a sloped driveway: getting going from a standstill is a lot easier on flat ground than it is uphill. Since then I've only had occasion to drive manual twice, once when I needed to go somewhere at lunch, before I owned my own car, and my friend lent me his car; and again when my wife and I visited my mother-in-law and her fiance in Puerto Rico. That was an interesting visit.
Wow, this is disturbingly easy. I really could just keep going. Gimme five bees for a quarter, we used to say.
 
levi said:
Back in the day we used to listen to the dial up tone and knew before the computer told us whether we'd got online or not.
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i heard it so often i could whistle the training signal sequence..lol
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Klumpen said:
I had several low-D whistles by now, some are specifically made for small hands and I need that too.

So far the ones best playable with small hands were:
Carbony / Rob Gandara
- Ideal for very small hands but lacks in range and chromatics, warm sound.
- Inverted cylindrical bore (you want that with small hands).
- Pricey and not very versatile though.

MK Pro
- Often described as "God's gift to low whistlers". I agree.
- Mostly "out of stock".
- Pricey but worth it.

Tony Dixon
- The plastic version actually plays better than the more expensive aluminium version. Fantastic price/value ratio. Range and chromatics are excellent, sound is nice although not comparable to MK Pro.
- Inverted cylindrical bore (see Carbony).

I didn't try the Alba low D but since it's made by a woman (just like the MK Pro), it should work although I think the spacing of the Alba's is very weird.

What I urge you to stay away from when you have small hands:
Ian lambe and Howard. The sound is fantastic but I just couldn't close the holes properly with my fingers.

I'd recommend looking for the Dixon Low D in local music stores, they often have it since it's made in big numbers.
If it doesn't need to be a Low D, I highly recommend Low F and G whistles, the Chieftains are nice for example when it comes to those sizes although you can never go wrong with Dixon and they are cheaper.
I have whistles in the keys of D, Eb, E, F, G, A, Bb, c, d, eb, e, f and g.
There's a size for everyone. I just need all those because I play with many different instruments from different cultures on sessions and the keys vary a lot.

Since I currently own 19 whistles of various sizes and tried many brands by now in big and small, just ask for further information.
I am not playing exclusively Irish but also French, German, Greek, Russian and Swedish folk on them so versatility (range, chromatics) is probably more important to me than to anyone else.

PS: I'm only talking about tunable ones since I never used non-tunables.
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i have about a dozen in various keys.. about 4 or 5 in D, a G, a B flat..... and one in D that is in 2 pieces. used to carry that in my sporran when i was a drummer in a pipe band...
i have a couple of wooden ones and a couple that might be termed loosley a flute. basically the same as a tin whistle but played and blown like a flute..
currently i mostly play a Cigar Box Guitar i built. a 3 stringer in DAd tuning...
 
Yeah, Caine, the internet is officially old.

Even I was online in the late '90s, before I even turned 13. I remember Macromedia Shockwave and Java applets. Online games that could actually run on 300 Mhz processors? And nobody dared charge for them? 'Twas a magical time.
 
i remember finding out that you could mute the dial up sound. and then angrily wondering why they made having it unmuted the default.
 
spud42 said:
i have about a dozen in various keys.. about 4 or 5 in D, a G, a B flat..... and one in D that is in 2 pieces. used to carry that in my sporran when i was a drummer in a pipe band...
i have a couple of wooden ones and a couple that might be termed loosley a flute. basically the same as a tin whistle but played and blown like a flute..
currently i mostly play a Cigar Box Guitar i built. a 3 stringer in DAd tuning...
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Ha, I started out in a pipe band as well, as a piper though.

Which brands do you have when it comes to whistles and which low D whistles did you try?
 
O'Reilly C Pocket Reference, paperback.

I've been wanting to switch from C++ to C, so of course the first thing I do is spend money on it. This book doesn't even teach you to code though, it's just a reference. Figure it'll come in handy when I and the wifi-only Pyra I'll never be able to afford are out of wifi range.
 
Got a second Buffalo pad and a micro USB hub to complete the set:
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My most mobile 2 player gaming system (3 if I use the hub) is still this combination though, the screen is big enough:
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