I feel lucky that in NJ the worst we get is occasional heavy rain and the occasional tropical storm.
All very well for you, I just need to find a forest near here 
In darktable I wanted to give a new module a shortcut only to notice that I have now set every single letter-key to a module/shortcut. Well, Ć was free, so thats where 3D LUT lives now.
That Ektachrome VS generic LUT from the RawTherapee Film Simulation Collection is just beautiful!
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ā¦Firefox all the way (even though it is not without itās controversiesā¦).
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quitting while Iām ahead now, maybe the other stuff was a random thought too far
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That BBC video was fun :-)! And the AI ad is horrific.
Donāt really know, what you are trying to get at with your posts first paragraph though.
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yeah, Iām having trouble here with my screen freezing up so Iām going to have to maybe log out to come back to it and then hopefully it will make sense
Also trouble getting too much white space on the post as well and another YouTube link didnāt seem to want to appear so maybe I will recycle that later
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I used to have one of the last Sony Trinitron WEGA CRT TVs which was flat, widescreen, and had HDMI. The picture quality was great. I wish I could have kept it but the thing weighed a ton.
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I think they used to hold the blacks better than lcd but Iāve read thatās no longer the case as technology has improved. I still have a hardly used Pioneer plasma that used to be my main tv attached to the wall in an upstairs room.
I have a Panasonic Plasma TV that is one of our two main displays in the home. Contrast and colors are great! It will be a sad day when it dies.
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It is good and I did used to go up there to watch it sometimes. Looks like you can buy a 50" Pioneer Kuro plasma on eBay for about Ā£150.
me too ā¦ I got one being dumped for way below cost in 2005 or so, I probably paid about a third of the original retail price. But it was deeper than the screen measured diagonally. A beautiful piece of technology that was well engineered.
Mine had no HDMI, but did have component RGB which I used for my DVD player, plus 2 further rear AV inputs (RCA jacks) and 1 front input; the front and 1 of the rear inputs had optional s-video instead of RCA composite video.
Alas, lack of digital tuner meant that when HD digital came in all set-top boxes only offered HDMI out so the WEGA was consigned to history.
Well, this is an interesting place to find a security errorā¦
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I can fully recommend. Several years ago, I lived very close to a beautiful forest and spend lots of time walking there. Indeed usually all my worries faded away while in the forest.
Coincidentally, this is also where I started doing photography more seriously.
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My wife and I have these conversations semi-regularly because we always find ourselves in a place with a new natural disaster to contend with. On Vancouver Island, it was the constant threat of the Big One, which is supposed to destroy the entire Pacific Northwest, and now in Kelowna, BC, we have wildfires every season.
Three years ago, this was the view from my driveway one day in August:
For those that donāt know, Kelowna is on a large lake (Lake Okanagan), which is about 3-5km wide (2-3 miles). That picture above is taken from my side of the lake (east), but the fire was on the western side. While fires can happen on either side, there was no recorded history of any fire ājumpingā the lake. So no one on our side was particularly scared.
Except in 2023, the fire did jump the lake. Shortly after the photo above was taken, fires broke out on our side and spread rapidly. At that point, it was spreading away from our house, but fire crews were struggling, and any change in wind direction could have threatened the downtown core of the city.
The speed at which the fire spread really gave us pause for thought, and we started to wonder whether an unpredictable but rare earthquake was better than a predictable but common wildfire. The wildfire threat is getting worse, and itās clear that fire crews have to decide which properties to try and save. They simply canāt contain an out-of-control wildfire when it gets going, no matter how heroic they are.
We still havenāt decided which is worse, but weāve made our peace with staying here for now. We have an evacuation plan for future events.
The funny thing was, a few months ago I was lying in bed almost asleep when there was a huge rumble, bang and shaking of the house. It was only a bloody earthquake in a place where we didnāt think we had to worry about them! I almost miss the renowned weather of my childhood in England, where the worst we had to contend with was deep puddles and strong gusts of wind, which still somehow remain deadly to the Brits!
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This is one of several reasons (ok, not a major reason, but still valid!) why I have no great desire to leave the UK to return to Australia 
I sometimes feel differently in winter 
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On a much more minor scale, my wife and I have been in eastern Tennessee for a few days and will be starting to work our way back to Louisiana tomorrow. Weāve been enjoying true May weather here ā lows at night in the mid-lower 50s F, highs in the upper 70s F ā and weāre not looking forward to losing that upon returningā¦ not to mention being surrounded by the beautiful Smoky Mtns!
At least weāre heading back to West Virginia in July. By that time weāll definitely need a break from the heat. And hopefully I now have a few Tennessee photos in the bag, but weāll see.
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Why do cameras not have an automatic LCD brightness option? Phones have that for nearly two decades and yet I donāt think I have ever heard of such feature in a camera of any kind. It would make sense, since itās a handheld device where the ambient light changes quite unpredictably.
I know EVFs have an auto mode, but not LCDsā¦ or have I not noticed / found any camera that has it? Please correct me if there is one 
