In this bed we have basically a remainder of seeds from the other ones, not gonna be able to rotate the beds like I originally planned, but oh well....
Very nice! What type of wood did you go with? I’m really wondering if I should just go with wood if/when my janky (but cheap!) beds start to fall apart.
It’s partially the freight trucks, but even without them there’s a reason why the states around us spend 3x as us on their roads. Agree that freight trucks don’t help, but the real gap is spending.
Our kids wish we had more. I’m not sure which verity these are, but they put out tons of runners which makes me not want to put them directly in soil....
We have a raspberry bush that I was… silly enough to put in the ground. It’s spreading like crazy (about two feet laterally from where it was last year). It’s in a raised bed, so hopefully it doesn’t go down through the 10" or so of dirt before popping up outside the bed
I appreciate the dump and will give it a through read through! This is year 2, but my second strawberry pot had a rough winter so I’m considering it year 2.
It will be very interesting if these are June bearers or ever beaters. I have no idea what they are TBH, but it looks like there are some new flowers that haven’t turned into strawberries yet. This is both nice and not nice. Nice that we will have strawberries all season. Not nice because we’re probably only going to be getting 1-4 strawberries per day because they’re not in a very big pot so there aren’t a ton of plants.
Ha, this might be the worst of both worlds. Aggressively spreading and smaller fruit. They are pretty tasty though. Time will tell if they’re ever bearers.
Post pics if you got em! I think mine is my dioscorea elephantipes (at least right now, it changes often). Grown from a seed, she’ll be a year old in July :)
Don’t ever expose it to young kids. They love whacking it because it makes chunks fall off :(
We made that mistake with our own kids (two human, one kitten).
Our jade is pretty big + old, and the damage happened years ago. At this point it’s probably due for a good pruning to help it have a better shape. The plant itself has some air roots that form every once in a while, but it’s happily flowering currently so it can’t be all that mad.
I’m growing more and more impressed with its capabilities the more I use it! Wrapping my head around its approach to masking, and its “scene referred pipeline” took some time, but now that I’m getting the hang of it, I think I can say I genuinely prefer it to Lightroom....
I think I’m going to lean into the FF E-mount world, which means giving up my D5300 + Nikon AF-S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 VR (115 - 450 FF equivalent). Before kids, I used this lens for motorsports/landscape/travel. Post kids we don’t do a ton of that, so I’ve been getting along well with a pair of 35mm and 50mm primes....
That thing is big and heavy, lol. I’m currently rocking Tamron’s 50-400. I could see maybe switching to Sony’s 200-600. The Sigma is more than twice the weight of the 50-400. Sony’s 200-600 is 500 grams lighter and I don’t think the extra weight is worth the wide end that I’ll only occasionally use with this kind of mass/reach.
I did try out Tamron’s 150-500 and didn’t think the extra 500 grams (roughly 50% heavier) was worth it for only 25% more reach.
I could see the sigma being a great lens for the right person. 600mm does sound nice, but I suspect 60mm brought some weight penalties with it.
The one time I needed a wide lens at a soccer game I was competing with a wall of parents with cellphones for end of season team photos. I had a 70-300 on an APS-C body and there was no way I could get a wide enough shot without backing up behind the wall of fellow parents. 60mm on a FF body would be better than that, but most phones seem to be 24mm-35mm FFEQ so it probably still wouldn’t have worked out. For this kind of reach I’m OK trading a loss at the wide end for size/weight since 99% of the photos I’ll be taking will be of things far away.
How do you like your 200-600? Do you hand hold it often or do you use a mono (or tri) pod? The 50-400 I’m using now is about 300 grams heavier than the 70-300 I was shooting with previously and I’m somewhat feeling the weight. The 200-600 is full kilo heavier than the 50-400. I think I would probably adjust, but it seems like a lot of lens to being to a youth sports event. For now, 400mm is serving me pretty well but it’s likely I’ll want more ready when the kids are on bigger fields.
If your subject isn’t very far and tiny, you can hand hold relatively comfortably.
My subjects are 40"-48" or so tall and 75-100 feet away from me depending on the field. I thought my 50-400 was serving me pretty well, but I went through the EXIF data and realized that about a third of the photos I had taken were at 400mm. I haven’t taken any photos at the field with the 100 foot distance yet either…
I did get a small rig baseplate to make my a7iv’s grip tall enough so my pinky fits comfortably.
Ha, I did the same on my former A7III. My pinky seems to fit fairly well on the A9II, but I do find myself missing the massive grip on my former Z6II.
I’m 5’11" and kind of chunky, but if you’re a lot smaller the lens may not be as easy to hand hold.
I’m 5’10" and reasonably fit, but I haven’t actively worked out in a very long time.
I did swap for the Tamron 150-500 today and did a tiny amount of shooting with it. It’s a 4 pound lens vs the 50-400’s 2.5 pounds or the Sony 200-600’s 4.65 pounds. I did briefly handle the 200-600 today and the zoom was amazing and the weight wasn’t that different than the 150-500. Having the zoom ring further toward the front of the lens, since it’s always “extended”, might actually make it better handling than Tamron’s 150-500 in hindsight. Maybe I should swap again and then wrap the lens to make it not white, lol.
My main concern is fatigue from shooting a full 1.5 hour game.
I wouldn’t be too worried about how you look. Just carry on with the things you enjoy, and get those overly profession photos of your kids’ sports.
I really appreciate the entire end of your reply. If this wasn’t for pretty young youth sports, the 200-600 would be the lens to have. It’s not like the 150-500, or even the 50-400, is that much more compact when they’re fully zoomed. My wife likes to rib me about being the creepy camera guy, but the other parents on the team seem to really appreciate the photos. At this age the expressions the kids make are priceless and you’re not going to see them without reach, but I’m wary of taking it too far. At this point I’m just the guy with some disposable income. One of the parents did ask if I was a professional photographer and was surprised when I said no.
At least so far. The first go round had the nozzle crash into the tree support, resulting in a layer shift. The good news is that the print stayed very firmly stuck to the bed....
Yes, I’ve done skirts. At a certain print size/aspect ratio it doesn’t really matter though - the parts are going to want to warp without a warm enclosure. If you have great first layer adhesion it will just take your build plate with it. You’ll find a picture of that happening on this printer if you look through my post history.
Smaller parts in x/y and round corners will help prevent warping.
I printed all the parts for my Voron using an i3 clone under a cardboard box. I doubt that “chamber” got very warm, but it was enough for success.
Ultimately, if the printer is going to go up in flames the source of those flames won’t originate at the cloth draped over the acrylic enclosure. The chamber barely cracked 60 °C, which is well below what smaller Vorons, especially V0s, will hit with only acrylic panels. Yay lots of surface area I guess.
It will be very interesting to see how everyone reacts (or doesn’t) to some “better looking” insulation. The sources of ignition won’t be any different, but I bet that people will be much more comfortable looking at insulated ACM panels that were built for purpose.
Hi All, my fava beans are being eaten by black ants , no aphids. the ants themselves seem to be sucking the juice out of the leaves, leaving black spots where they have been nibling....
The top half are Black Hungarians, and the bottom are jalapeños. I actually ended up with more than I have pots for. I’ll see if anyone in the office wants some of them.
AWD, yes. V8, not sure. I think they share some underpinnings with the s10, so even if they didn’t come out of factory with one it wouldn’t be a hard swap.
I discovered that the reason some of my starts were yellow this year was due to poor drainage and over watering :( we have tons of happy house plans, but I had it in my head that small pot + lots of grow light must mean high water needs.
So I’ve got this Monstera plant thats been with us for a while but recently got attacked by these tiny tiny black insects that keep eating the leaves. I’ve actively tried to get rid of them as well as screening this plant away from the rest, but the insects seem to always come back. I’ve just read that it’s possible to...
Agree on replacing the soil. Pull the plant, rinse the roots, fresh soil and clean pot. A number of pests can live in the soil. Even if you get them, their eggs can survive.
Title basically. I have a decently large solid wood desktop (guessing around 72"x30"x1") that supports two computer monitors, two studio monitors, a tower computer hanging under it, a laptop on it, and a decent amount of clutter because it’s a decently sized space I spend a lot of time sitting in front of. I’m currently...
Last raised bed planted! Still need to plant flowers though. (lemmy.world)
In this bed we have basically a remainder of seeds from the other ones, not gonna be able to rotate the beds like I originally planned, but oh well....
Michigan roads are deteriorating faster than they’re being fixed (www.mlive.com)
First strawberries! For those that grow them, how big is your patch? (lemmy.world)
Our kids wish we had more. I’m not sure which verity these are, but they put out tons of runners which makes me not want to put them directly in soil....
What's your favourite plant in your collection? (lemmy.ca)
Post pics if you got em! I think mine is my dioscorea elephantipes (at least right now, it changes often). Grown from a seed, she’ll be a year old in July :)
I'm a recent darktable convert
I’m growing more and more impressed with its capabilities the more I use it! Wrapping my head around its approach to masking, and its “scene referred pipeline” took some time, but now that I’m getting the hang of it, I think I can say I genuinely prefer it to Lightroom....
Recommended focal length for outdoor youth sports?
I think I’m going to lean into the FF E-mount world, which means giving up my D5300 + Nikon AF-S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 VR (115 - 450 FF equivalent). Before kids, I used this lens for motorsports/landscape/travel. Post kids we don’t do a ton of that, so I’ve been getting along well with a pair of 35mm and 50mm primes....
I found a way to keep my chamber temps up for long/big ASA prints (lemmy.world)
At least so far. The first go round had the nozzle crash into the tree support, resulting in a layer shift. The good news is that the print stayed very firmly stuck to the bed....
favas eating ants? (feddit.dk)
Hi All, my fava beans are being eaten by black ants , no aphids. the ants themselves seem to be sucking the juice out of the leaves, leaving black spots where they have been nibling....
The pepper seedlings are ready for potting this weekend (pawb.social)
The top half are Black Hungarians, and the bottom are jalapeños. I actually ended up with more than I have pots for. I’ll see if anyone in the office wants some of them.
Average U.S. vehicle age hits record 12.6 years as high prices force people to keep them longer (www.nbcnews.com)
~6 week old watermelon start. Shock or is time to just get it outside in the garden? (lemmy.world)
What's best practice in this scenario? (slrpnk.net)
So I’ve got this Monstera plant thats been with us for a while but recently got attacked by these tiny tiny black insects that keep eating the leaves. I’ve actively tried to get rid of them as well as screening this plant away from the rest, but the insects seem to always come back. I’ve just read that it’s possible to...
o7 for Piper growmies. (lemmy.world)
standing desk legs
Title basically. I have a decently large solid wood desktop (guessing around 72"x30"x1") that supports two computer monitors, two studio monitors, a tower computer hanging under it, a laptop on it, and a decent amount of clutter because it’s a decently sized space I spend a lot of time sitting in front of. I’m currently...