2w ago

Pika Pika

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Pika is a real animal?
Gen 1 pokemon really are just funny colored real animals.
- “Ekans” is just “Snake” spelled backwards.
  “Muk” is just…oh, oh god
- Pika is pronounced "pie-kuh" generally. Pikachu comes from pika pika (japanese onomatopoeia for "sparking/sparkling" usually with the connotation of clean) + chuu (sound a mouse makes/squeak).
  
  Actually it comes from pika(-tto), the onomatopoeia for a lightning strike.
- Voltorb, Muk, Magnemite, and Mr Mime would all like a word with you. Jynx, however, doesn't mind.
  
  brotlov?
- Bigger lens is better for wildlife photography and long distance shot. Animals scurry away when you try to get close, so it's best to take a picture from the distance.
- Wtf is a Glumanda?
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_salamander
- Confusingly, there is the animal in the post that is commonly called pika (Ochotona daurica). What I had to think of first was Pica pica though (the Eurasian magpie)

When you stare into pica, pica stares into you. Also sprach Zarathustra.
- You mean Pica pica?
  
  Zarathustra sprach only once.

Shit. My ADHD brain doesn't need another expensive hobby to hyperfixate on.
- Wanna buy my setup? My hyperfixation ended.
  Edit: but for real, we should introduce a ADHD-sharing network. My old fixation could be yours and vice versa. And I could tell you everything I learned, which is a lot!
  
  I'm super into this idea. It's got stuff! It's got sharing! It's got socializing! Seriously, what a rad idea
  
  That's a great idea for a store front. And great for buying for those people that are hard to buy for, cause they have to figure out how the whole collection works lol
  
  Haha, i think, I recognise you from another adhd post 😄
  
  Genuinely, what do you have and what would you possibly be looking to get for it if you were interested in selling it? I've got a EF mount Tamron 150-600 contemporary but it's a little slow.
  
  slides over What's your setup?
  Oh shit nevermind, my wife is coming!
  
  i agree with you. a friend found an alto sax at an auction, got it for a song. when he heard i was dusting my tenor off he just gave it to me. i will have to give it back eventually, but we're just glad it's being played.
- Can you afford to not get into photography, though?
- Dont spend money on fancy new cameras, chances are the camera in your phone is already better than 90% of all cameras in history. Don't drop a dime on equipment until you've hit the limits of the hardware you already have.
  The picture above isn't a picture of what an expensive camera can do - it's a picture of what a good photographer can do, enhanced by specialty equipment. In the hands of a novice the equipment cannot produce pictures like this.
  
  Phone cameras are great. Their compatibility with telephoto lenses is what sets them back.
  
  I get the point but there is no way my phone camera can capture the mountains reflected on the eyes of any animal even on full daylight
  
  Wildlife photography really is mostly about the equipment though. And waiting/being in the right place obviously. But I can tell you from experience, a novice can absolutely produce pictures like this with the right equipment.
  
  Phone cameras are good, yes, but their lenses are not. Even a cheap, used camera is better.
  
  I did the math for another post and if I remember right the best telephoto lens built into a very recent phone camera has equivalency to around 120mm (anything else is just digital zoom and sometimes AI enhance).
  It's a relatively new gimmick, and it can do wildlife photography from afar (I got some good full body shots of deer recently), but it's not quite as good as 600mm or the 1000mm from the other post.
- 600 mm lens for my camera costs as much as my whole year's salary🫠
  And it weighs more than 3 kg. No way I'm carrying that on a hike.
  
  No way I'm carrying that on a hike.
  Not with that attitude you won't. Where's that "can do" sipirit, buckaroo?
  
  That's what the harness is for.

Casually using an amazing photo for a meme 👍
- A top-shelf flex.

I like the content, but seriously I’m baffled as to how this is a science meme?
- I would assume because it's related to educating someone about why optical lenses can give an incredible amount of detail that digital just can't compete with. But that's just a guess and that might not even be enough for this forum
  
  What's a digital lens exactly?.. The only thing I can think of are in some point& shoot cameras and phones they have fake factorial zooms that are just cropping into the resolution.
  
  Also, because posts like this drive really informative comment sections like this thread. I promise there's a method to the madness.
  
  ~~you people do understand it is fake, and if you zoom on the top right eye, it is not the same as bottom right, right?~~
  ok, so to my surprise, it seems to be possible. the difference in the eye may be result of multiple layers of shitty jpeg compression.
  
  the author has more pictures on his web - https://www.pjvphotography.com/Fauna/Pikas

Enhance!

What does it say, when it sneezes?

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mountains in the eye of a trailside pika, ...
- Eating seeds as a pastime activity
- moments lost, like tears in rain
  good bye
  now I gotta watch blade runner again dammit! RIP Rutger Olsen Hauer for that performance god DAMN!

beautiful 🤌

https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8RwvDEQrN/
- Today's risky click is presented by GreatTitEnthusiast 👀
  
  Hey, I'm just hear because I heard climate change is threatening Great Tits

Why 600mm? Because sometimes you need really good photos of squirrels.

You can also see them directly, with your own eyes

Laughs in micro fourthirds.
- Listen buddy, I spent a lot of money on my full frame, and a lot of muscle lugging it around, so I'd appreciate it if you could keep your superior sensor to yourself.

It's not even that much of a sacrifice. There are some modern 600s that weigh less than what a typical 70-200/2.8 does. Granted, they're on the darker side, but if you have the light (supposedly you will during a hike), you don't always need an f/4.

..could just have shot the mountains.

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