oooh those are bringing up some serious childhood arcade memories.
I loved Zaxxon! I gotta see if I can play that on PC.

nice lighting and colors on these. :+1:

as for the format, I could go either way. I’m also fine with 3 separate posts–it wouldn’t be spam imo :)

Totally agree with this! Same thoughts about Spider-Man too.

You are right. There used to be some setting… I had it hooked in via Nova Launcher and some accessibility setting, where with one gesture I could “turn it off” without requiring password, and with a power button press I could fully lock. But Android has (fairly recently) removed that option. (Also, fwiw, I’m no longer on Nova, but that’s beside the point!) Thanks for checking that for me.

Thank you for confirming this!

Good idea, but yeah, I tend to leave location off unless I’m using it for driving directions or something. I’ll keep it in mind though, thanks!

That sounds right. If I swipe down from the top, there’s my navbar, which very much feels like the phone is sitting there “on.” ok thank you! Maybe this idea was a pipedream after all, but I can get used to typing my password more often.

This makes sense. Thanks!

We’re talking about Kvaesitso, right? I see 1.29.1 from Feb 21, whether I check it on fdroid or github.

Thanks! I grabbed it on fdroid, which gets updates, right? It looked like the most recent was 2 months ago, when I installed it.

Awesome… I just installed kvaesitso after (…about 10?) years of being a paid Nova Premium user. I uninstalled Nova and so far so good. Thanks!

beautiful!

Interesting points. First, yes about the F-mount lenses! I don’t often use random old lenses, but, probably my most “successful” photo (big air quotes there) was when I needed a longer lens, which none of my “nice” ones are, so I slapped on an MF 135mm that someone had given me, and boom.

As for facial recognition, sports stuff, focus tracking, etc. – I basically do most of my (non-casual/family/etc.) shooting on a tripod, at things that ain’t moving (or if they are, like clouds or water, I’m using an ND filter to get that motion); so, a lot of those newer bells and whistles I don’t really consider. I like lots of megapixels, low noise, a good lens, solid tripod, etc.

Ooh that size tool is cool! Dang, my D800 is a beast.

And yeah I agree, phones are no match for the real thing. Even in good light, especially if you’re going to do any raw/post work on it.

So sorry for the reply delay! But, that is nice to know that the more recent upgrades boil down to quieter/mechanical shutters etc. I guess I am not too worried!

But it sure would be nice to have something midway between a) the bulky D800 with very heavy sigma 12-24 or nikon 24-70, and b) my phone. :-D

Thanks again.

“how bout a round of Gwent” answer to everything

Cool writeup! I myself haven’t recovered from young kids yet, so I’m still rocking a nikon d800, which is great for going out shooting nature/architecture by myself (which never happens), but less so for candid family stuff. Anyway it’s nice to read your experiences.

Totally! Thanks 😊

and inspired C#, which is pretty rad! (humble opinion… preparing for downvotes because I don’t get the feeling lemmy is where M$ devs hang out)

LOL