Also, focusing with a DSLR manually is still way faster than auto-focus on the phones. I mostly use aperture priority mode meaning that the exposure will auto-adjust. I use my thumbs wheels to adjust the aperture, iso, and sometime over/under exposing instantly. The settings needed for the 'current' picture targets are somewhat dialed in before and only minutes adjustments are needed. After taking tons of pictures with a telephoto you can dial in the focus toward your target very quickly too. But then, the autofocus on DSLR has improved quite a lot and does a great job in most situations, and I'm still on a 4 years old dslr. I might change again in 4 years, I'll see what's best at that point!
D-SLR means Digital SLR. Yes, that`s as old as that. With image stabilization at the sensor level. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . My current DSLR has 2 128GB SD card in it, and I can switch them around as I see fit with many other cards.
Why do I think it takes better photos ? Well I compared my Samsung S6 & my friend iPhone 6 plus pictures to those I had been taking years ago and it still wasn't equivalent to those old pictures. I was saying that it's possible that the new one will reach this level now, but it's still only a toy and not a tool. I already have a few friends who confirmed they will be updating, I guess I`ll find out soon enough.
35mm film 'high iso' (400-800) has more noise and approximately the same resolution as that old DSLR capturing 3k x 2k I was talking about. If you were using slower film with tripod (so that the image stabilizator didn`t improve the shot that much over the old one) you can definitely reach the level of my 4years old DSLR, but you had none of the advantages.
I`ll see how it fares against a 50mm F1.4, or at wide angle level.. or even against my telephoto objectives. The thing is, when I want to take good picture, I get my gear out and set myself up for nice shots. If I just want to keep a souvenir then the samsung s6 does the job pretty well. I still have my film cameras, but last week I finally decided to throw to the garbage the films I had kept in the freezer for the last decade. I was sad to throw off the slides films though, those were the best:)
I don't know about were you live, but trees here are commonly 60-80 feet high ( which is low compared to what they are in other places). Reported height over the trees was 30 feet, and people are very often under-estimating the height the object they see are at. Thus, I'd expect 100+ feet for that drone (which is very easy to hit with birdshots). I do not know about the exact rules in Northern Virginia since I've not flown down there, but in a lot of places that would be totally fine. We do not know the other side of the story either. Also, depending on regulations, it might depend on the drone and camera use. With what I'm flying, I see almost nothing down there at 100 feet when I'm looking forward (you would not recognize someone), so by itself it would be enough to be protected against the most common complaints that can be used around here.
Also, the correct thing to do is certainly not to shoot it off the sky. Call the cops and track down the guy flying. There has been many judgments against people flying without following the regulations, and they are being hit with large fines when found guilty, while you don't risk being in trouble yourself.
Yeah, I might have misunderstood the depth of his comment - I took the meaning of someone commenting favorably to be instantly setting the bucket to be categorized in. His (?) reply seems to be in that direction too.
Most of them ? I've been flying for a while and encountered a lot of other flyers, but I've yet to see one of those shitbags you are referring to. I do agree some exists from videos I've seen shared, but the regulations are also much more complex than just 'not over my property'. I've flown both in the US (California) and Canada. No national parks is the only regulation I'm sad about, but I understand that this is needed for now.
How many people were affected by hydraulic fracturing ? I'm pretty sure it cause much more harm that drone ever had, yet our property in the ground under our houses and land only goes a few feet down. If only that reasoning would apply that way too!
I play on a relatively rare mode, hardcore only, 64 players. We know each other abilities, and when a cheater joins he's spotted and banned very quickly. Most of the time they don't read the rules and just start by breaking them, which gets them kicked. So I've been enjoying this little corner of BF4:)
How obtuse can you be. If I design a chip currently with the top of the line tools so that it can run at 1ghz, I can do more than if I was to design it with the same tools to run at 3ghz. You should try learning on the subject before commenting.
There's clearly something wrong with this benchmark since my i7-6700k with GTX 970 sli is much faster than my i5-4670k with the same video card and amount of ram, yet that site say that it's a much lower performance. I do not know what they use as metrics, but everything I look at seems off. It`s like it has been filled up by hand.
Let's say that the AMD chip only reach 2GHz and is still only marginally faster at that speed, would a clock-for-clock comparison still be interesting ? What about 1GHz ? When does it stop being useful to you ?
The slower your chip runs the more work you can do per clock, btw.
I still have an i7-960 between my five `live` computers, which had been released late Q4 2009, so not yet 7 years old. At that time, the CPU pricing was the same as the i7-6850K. It was about 30-40% faster in games than my 9550 (it had 12GB of fast triple channel memory too!). It gets a score of 6K on cpu benchmark. It was running a pair of geforce GTX260 core 216 in the time:) Currently a headless linux server, so a tad harder to compare to my W10 boxes to get a real world comparison.
If you want to compare to that one, I`d say the improvement is closer to 150%
Ok, lets talk real world improvement then. With the same video card and hard drives and in game settings, Battlefield 4 went from an average of 28 FPS to VSync locked at 60fps when I moved from a Q9550 to an i5-4670k (already a 3 years old computer, 7,606 points in cpubenchmark). While the cpubenchmark yielded lower than 100% improvement, I got more than that in game. I also went from 8GB to 16GB of memory but BF4 wasn't using it all. The extra memory speed could have helped though, along with the faster PCI lines, so the whole system ended up being much faster than the old.
In the system to my left, an 8 years old Q9550 ( http://ark.intel.com/products/... ) which while running Windows 10 will only put out 4000 points on cpubenchmark.net (and it shows!). To my right, a 1 year old i7-6700K ( http://ark.intel.com/products/... ) using less power than the Q9550, yet dishing out 11000 points in cpu benchmark. Then, there's this year i7-6850k, handing out a Q9550 more performance over the already performing i7-6700k (got 15500 points!). That's an improvement of 288% over something that was considered top of the line 8 years ago.
Oh, I definitely have to agree that a lot of people install bad audio system. But I personnally favor a high end 5.1 system (well, the.1 isn't really important with a good 5 for a lot of things, but it can shine on very deep bass) over only stereo. One of my favorite scene that shows off the potential of a system is in the Quarantine movie ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) when the firetrucks leave the station (and you ride in one).
Anyway, I didn't subscribe long to Netflix myself as I am more affected by the audio of a movie than by the quality of the video. In stereo I was being fed only 96 kbps, and 5.1 was 192 kbps, which mean that to me the stereo feed was unlistenable to. The 5.1 was fine when there was not much going on but as soon as the sound stage opened the quality was dropping abysmally.
You aren't even getting 5.1 channel audio with a browser, please use the netflix app for your ears. Well, at least in Canada, they should improve the audio bitrate all around, that would be even better!
It depends how badly they reused the meshes. I don`t have either game, nor the tools handy, but it could be easy to validate the mesh coordinates. If the number of vertex using the same (1e-4 difference) coordinate exceeds 5-10% and I`d have a hard time believing it was done manually and not copied. From the screenshots, I'd guess that it could be much higher than this.
At that point, the best way to simulate it might be to simply build a planet and boot it with the startup condition required to find the answer that you seek...
If only that was the only unit issue. Still, that one was so bad that I was initially interested, until I read through the summary and saw the different notation. Too bad, lets revisit in 10 years.
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Also, focusing with a DSLR manually is still way faster than auto-focus on the phones. I mostly use aperture priority mode meaning that the exposure will auto-adjust. I use my thumbs wheels to adjust the aperture, iso, and sometime over/under exposing instantly. The settings needed for the 'current' picture targets are somewhat dialed in before and only minutes adjustments are needed. After taking tons of pictures with a telephoto you can dial in the focus toward your target very quickly too. But then, the autofocus on DSLR has improved quite a lot and does a great job in most situations, and I'm still on a 4 years old dslr. I might change again in 4 years, I'll see what's best at that point!
D-SLR means Digital SLR. Yes, that`s as old as that. With image stabilization at the sensor level. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . My current DSLR has 2 128GB SD card in it, and I can switch them around as I see fit with many other cards.
Why do I think it takes better photos ? Well I compared my Samsung S6 & my friend iPhone 6 plus pictures to those I had been taking years ago and it still wasn't equivalent to those old pictures. I was saying that it's possible that the new one will reach this level now, but it's still only a toy and not a tool. I already have a few friends who confirmed they will be updating, I guess I`ll find out soon enough.
35mm film 'high iso' (400-800) has more noise and approximately the same resolution as that old DSLR capturing 3k x 2k I was talking about. If you were using slower film with tripod (so that the image stabilizator didn`t improve the shot that much over the old one) you can definitely reach the level of my 4years old DSLR, but you had none of the advantages.
I`ll see how it fares against a 50mm F1.4, or at wide angle level.. or even against my telephoto objectives. The thing is, when I want to take good picture, I get my gear out and set myself up for nice shots. If I just want to keep a souvenir then the samsung s6 does the job pretty well. I still have my film cameras, but last week I finally decided to throw to the garbage the films I had kept in the freezer for the last decade. I was sad to throw off the slides films though, those were the best :)
My 12 years old DSLR will still take better pictures than those new iphones, it just might not be that evident anymore.
I don't know about were you live, but trees here are commonly 60-80 feet high ( which is low compared to what they are in other places). Reported height over the trees was 30 feet, and people are very often under-estimating the height the object they see are at. Thus, I'd expect 100+ feet for that drone (which is very easy to hit with birdshots). I do not know about the exact rules in Northern Virginia since I've not flown down there, but in a lot of places that would be totally fine. We do not know the other side of the story either. Also, depending on regulations, it might depend on the drone and camera use. With what I'm flying, I see almost nothing down there at 100 feet when I'm looking forward (you would not recognize someone), so by itself it would be enough to be protected against the most common complaints that can be used around here.
Also, the correct thing to do is certainly not to shoot it off the sky. Call the cops and track down the guy flying. There has been many judgments against people flying without following the regulations, and they are being hit with large fines when found guilty, while you don't risk being in trouble yourself.
Yeah, I might have misunderstood the depth of his comment - I took the meaning of someone commenting favorably to be instantly setting the bucket to be categorized in. His (?) reply seems to be in that direction too.
Most of them ? I've been flying for a while and encountered a lot of other flyers, but I've yet to see one of those shitbags you are referring to. I do agree some exists from videos I've seen shared, but the regulations are also much more complex than just 'not over my property'. I've flown both in the US (California) and Canada. No national parks is the only regulation I'm sad about, but I understand that this is needed for now.
Oh well, we will see how that goes :)
How many people were affected by hydraulic fracturing ? I'm pretty sure it cause much more harm that drone ever had, yet our property in the ground under our houses and land only goes a few feet down. If only that reasoning would apply that way too!
Too poor to own a drone, so you hate on all owners / advocates ?
I play on a relatively rare mode, hardcore only, 64 players. We know each other abilities, and when a cheater joins he's spotted and banned very quickly. Most of the time they don't read the rules and just start by breaking them, which gets them kicked. So I've been enjoying this little corner of BF4 :)
How obtuse can you be. If I design a chip currently with the top of the line tools so that it can run at 1ghz, I can do more than if I was to design it with the same tools to run at 3ghz. You should try learning on the subject before commenting.
There's clearly something wrong with this benchmark since my i7-6700k with GTX 970 sli is much faster than my i5-4670k with the same video card and amount of ram, yet that site say that it's a much lower performance. I do not know what they use as metrics, but everything I look at seems off. It`s like it has been filled up by hand.
Yes, that specific video card (GTX 580) was overpowered for the old Q9550 thus it wasn't the limiting factor.
Let's say that the AMD chip only reach 2GHz and is still only marginally faster at that speed, would a clock-for-clock comparison still be interesting ? What about 1GHz ? When does it stop being useful to you ?
The slower your chip runs the more work you can do per clock, btw.
I still have an i7-960 between my five `live` computers, which had been released late Q4 2009, so not yet 7 years old. At that time, the CPU pricing was the same as the i7-6850K. It was about 30-40% faster in games than my 9550 (it had 12GB of fast triple channel memory too!). It gets a score of 6K on cpu benchmark. It was running a pair of geforce GTX260 core 216 in the time :) Currently a headless linux server, so a tad harder to compare to my W10 boxes to get a real world comparison.
If you want to compare to that one, I`d say the improvement is closer to 150%
Ok, lets talk real world improvement then. With the same video card and hard drives and in game settings, Battlefield 4 went from an average of 28 FPS to VSync locked at 60fps when I moved from a Q9550 to an i5-4670k (already a 3 years old computer, 7,606 points in cpubenchmark). While the cpubenchmark yielded lower than 100% improvement, I got more than that in game. I also went from 8GB to 16GB of memory but BF4 wasn't using it all. The extra memory speed could have helped though, along with the faster PCI lines, so the whole system ended up being much faster than the old.
15500 / 4000 = 3.875 =387.5%
I'm sorry, I rounded to 388% (it was around 15520-15540 anyway for the few runs I did)
Thus, the improvement is 288%. Would a 50% improvement be slower?
Have you been living under a rock ?
In the system to my left, an 8 years old Q9550 ( http://ark.intel.com/products/... ) which while running Windows 10 will only put out 4000 points on cpubenchmark.net (and it shows!). To my right, a 1 year old i7-6700K ( http://ark.intel.com/products/... ) using less power than the Q9550, yet dishing out 11000 points in cpu benchmark. Then, there's this year i7-6850k, handing out a Q9550 more performance over the already performing i7-6700k (got 15500 points!). That's an improvement of 288% over something that was considered top of the line 8 years ago.
Oh, I definitely have to agree that a lot of people install bad audio system. But I personnally favor a high end 5.1 system (well, the .1 isn't really important with a good 5 for a lot of things, but it can shine on very deep bass) over only stereo. One of my favorite scene that shows off the potential of a system is in the Quarantine movie ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) when the firetrucks leave the station (and you ride in one).
Anyway, I didn't subscribe long to Netflix myself as I am more affected by the audio of a movie than by the quality of the video. In stereo I was being fed only 96 kbps, and 5.1 was 192 kbps, which mean that to me the stereo feed was unlistenable to. The 5.1 was fine when there was not much going on but as soon as the sound stage opened the quality was dropping abysmally.
Oh well, I just hoard blu rays...
You aren't even getting 5.1 channel audio with a browser, please use the netflix app for your ears. Well, at least in Canada, they should improve the audio bitrate all around, that would be even better!
It depends how badly they reused the meshes. I don`t have either game, nor the tools handy, but it could be easy to validate the mesh coordinates. If the number of vertex using the same (1e-4 difference) coordinate exceeds 5-10% and I`d have a hard time believing it was done manually and not copied. From the screenshots, I'd guess that it could be much higher than this.
https://i.sli.mg/xpIy1W.png
This one is pretty damning for Orion
They will most probably get to pay their share of the suit ( 62K$ ) and that's it ..
At that point, the best way to simulate it might be to simply build a planet and boot it with the startup condition required to find the answer that you seek...
If only that was the only unit issue. Still, that one was so bad that I was initially interested, until I read through the summary and saw the different notation. Too bad, lets revisit in 10 years.