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Glitterkoe @lemmy.world

Decent (portrait/indoor) flash for Sony A7

Hiya! Any recommendations for a nice flash for the Sony A7 series?

I currently own an A7iii, but I'm debating an upgrade to the A7iv or A7v whenever it's released. I mostly shoot with my Sony 40mm G, Tamron 35-150mm, and Tamron 17-28mm.

Links to good buying guides would be great, too! (not AI generated slop recapping Amazon's top 10)

Budget is rather arbitrary as long as price/quality is upheld.

  • As a double check (or check before buying) you can search for your new GPU on https://linux-hardware.org/ to see if other users have it working without any issues. The hardware probe is also a handy tool to share your PC's specs if you should ever need to do so!

  • And then you have a trained model that requires vast amounts of energy per request, right? It doesn't stop at training.

    You need obscene amounts GPU power to run the 'better' models within reasonable response times.

    In comparison, I could game on my modest rig just fine, but I can't run a 22B model locally in any useful capacity while programming.

    Sure, you could argue gaming is a waste of energy, but that doesn't mean we can't argue that it shouldn't have to cost boiling a shitload of eggs to ask AI how long a single one should. Or each time I start typing a line of code for that matter.

  • Cool! I'm glad more people are picking up Darktable! Ever since I switched the 'image processing workflow' to 'scene-referred (sigmoid)' my editing productivity skyrocketed. It's way more intuitive than the filmic RGB module IMHO. How are you finding Darktable?

  • But in the end it's just as with email: providers, spam filters and clients. Some providers have stricter spam filters (~federation), some might prefer another client. Has there been any significant reason to deviate from that terminology?

    Meaningful discovery is a major issue in adoption, though. Pro: no search/discovery algorithm that serves some evil plan of world enshittification. Con: no search/discovery algorithm.

  • Good for them. It's an organisation's free choice to pick the platforms they post and interact on, if any. Their presence is a service in itself while there are plenty of other ways to follow or reach them if needed.

  • So far scaled seems nice to get the little ones higher up. AFAIK you can't pre-make custom lists as some communities are perhaps more fun if you go for newest (comments) but then the small ones might get lost in the chaos.

    Ideally, I would set scaled top 6-hours or something?

  • Tried it for a week or two, but since I reinstalled Firefox I really don't understand why I was judging/hating so much in the past years. Yes, Chrome/ium used to be waaaay faster, but Mozilla just has their shit together most of the time. The Debian of browsers so to speak.