jerclarke

jerclarke, 11 days ago

FWIW I tipped and thanked the performer. There had just been a downpour.

Fuji X-T10 with FX 35mm f/1.4

jerclarke, 25 days ago

@matthewcassinelli Seems like a really unnecessary tension to add to their plate

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jerclarke, 26 days ago

@davidbisset Interesting it’s not on such a comprehensive list: laptop in front of me, using the keyboard etc, with studio display above.

This is my go to default. Hate turning my head and use the laptop screen as a HUD for audio/terminal.

jerclarke, 26 days ago

@chris @davidbisset I did a few years of 9 because I became intolerant of the non-retina resolution of my external display and just raised the laptop closer to my face. It was horrible!

So glad there are good monitors “again”!

jerclarke, 1 month ago

@sdw Please spend it convincing them to let Halide have 24mp output and access to the true macro mode as an API!

jerclarke, 29 days ago

@sdw Sorry but I think there’s something in default camera macro that Halide is missing. Have you done a pixel peeping comparison on iPhone 15 Pro?

Default has smaller file sizes and more detail, “image pipeline” stuff like the 1.5x I guess. Halide just has more sharpening on the crop you start from.

Of course default is useless because it’s impossible to focus, so Halide still wins, but Halide needs to find a way to deliver that same detail rather than upscaling and sharpening a crop.

jerclarke, 1 month ago

@matthewcassinelli Just want to shout out Wace Link: 1. I saved a ton on it and never miss the things it doesn’t have. I think maybe they discontinued it but that’s a shame. Simple mic that sounds great 👍🏻

jerclarke, 2 months ago

@chris I wish there was a button for “Continue my streak, I have a good reason.”

Duolingo supports this with Streak Freezes, which are a bit BS because they function automatically, but are also really valuable when working with streaks. Insight Timer, my meditation app, also effectively lets you "fake" a meditation on demand.

When I'm sick I just want to tell Apple Health “ignore today, the conditions make streak continuance impossible”. All my streaks since end when I get COVID 🤷🏻‍♀️

jerclarke, 3 months ago

@evan Water is cut off to our neighborhood. Had to take a cold shower and hoard drinking water this morning.

jerclarke, 3 months ago

@matthewcassinelli What a thrill that it worked out! Enjoy!

jerclarke, 3 months ago

@justinling What if they're lying to defend themselves?

As a long-time viewer, my assumption is that most of the Dudesy writing is a mix of AI generations and human editing. That Chad "wrote the whole thing" strikes me as very unlikely. He's not a good enough actor to feign surprise so convincingly. Will could do it but not Chad.

So weird that they would dump this information in public this way.

jerclarke, 3 months ago

@justinling Yeah, your piece was very convincing, except that as someone who has “watched ‘em all, pal”, I just can't believe that Will and Chad are not in fact surprised by the output on a minute to minute basis.

When it first started I thought it was a farce and they knew the author, but as time went on it seemed less and less likely they were in on it.

If "Dudesy” is written by a human, then I think it must be someone other than Chad or Will. Otherwise they deserve Emmys for their acting.

jerclarke, 3 months ago

@chris Congrats! Enjoy the good feelings 😊

jerclarke, 4 months ago

@halide The thing is that I absolutely need Halide in order to do macro, because the default camera’s lens switching makes it almost impossible to get focus. Halide's manual focus tools, and even just the ability to force it to not switch to the main lens, are required.

But if I use the default Halide mode with 0.5x, I lose too much resolution, and if I turn on Halide Macro, it gives such worse results than default macro. It's a real dilemma.

Hopefully there's a solution out there somehow.

jerclarke, 4 months ago

@halide All are HEIF.

AFAIK Halide Macro in RAW kind of defeats the purpose because it no longer crops and upscales, right? What I get is a full 0.5x view that’s super washed out.

Testing a default camera RAW gives a teensy bit more detail than default HEIF.

Attached is another HEIF example of a more natural subject. The central abdomen really shows off the effect.

Here's a link to a .zip file with the source files for all of the examples in “original” and JPG: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p79O53A1U0ZUWhvDbA3syuBIf2CVVaPk/view?usp=drive_link

jerclarke, 4 months ago

@halide Looking at the original files, I see that the Halide HEIF files have the full 0.5 format, so I guess the app saves the full 0.5, then applies a crop afterward?

Manually cropping from 0.5 seems to give the same detail as the Halide “Macro”, just looking blurry instead of over-sharpened. I guess it's an inevitable tradeoff for the app. Personally I think less sharpening would be better.

🧐 Apple should let you access their "macro” image pipeline so you can add focus tools on top of it!

jerclarke, 4 months ago

@halide Ok so my request would be to review the tradeoffs in “enhancement quality”, honestly. I'm having a hard time finding any scenarios where that sharpening is an improvement, and the way it adds huge chunky noise in the bokeh is disturbing to look at. Better to just have a smaller picture.

Maybe it could be a setting, like the one for disabling default processing, but for the Halide Macro processing?

jerclarke, 4 months ago

@halide Ok I see what you’re saying, I can get the pixels I’m looking for by just skipping macro mode entirely.

But then I miss out on the ergonomics. When focusing on something small, the macro mode is way better for focusing. And seeing the final framing is also better.

The sharpening in macro mode feels completely against the ethos of Halide 🤷🏻‍♀️