we’re baking pumpkin seeds rn

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Dude: if you’re the kind of person who likes sucking on unpopped popcorn kernels then pepitas are for you.

Me: …

Dude: oh see I figured that was praise, I like that

“crop factor”

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I am going to link to a nerdy B&H article https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/tips-and-solutions/understanding-crop-factor that explains this far more thoroughly than it really needs explained, but because of a conversation i just started infodumping into sonnetsandswingouts https://tmblr.co/mHg7g6_l-auD4rc9ZtLhPeA‘s mentions (sorry), I was inspired to go look this up.

This is about digital photography. This is about when you’re shopping for lenses. The focal distance on the lens tells you whether it’s a wide-angle or telephoto lens or what, but the numbers are not absolute; lenses are designed for different cameras, and the effective focal distance on your camera is going to depend on some things. So people talk about “the crop factor”, and that article explains it, but to sum up–

A “full-frame” digital camera, or a 35mm film camera, both have imaging areas that are the same size. A “crop-sensor” camera, which for a long time was the default in digital but a few years back they realized they could make big bucks making normies pay extra for full-frame sensors (formerly the provenance exclusively of studio professionals), has a slightly smaller sensor. So your lens, if it is designed for a full-frame camera, will have a slightly different effective focal distance on a crop-sensor camera, and vice versa.

(Every manufacturer has a different way of denoting this, but an easy shorthand, if you’re in the biz, is to recognize that certain numbers only make sense for one or the other. Your 28mm lens is amost certainly full-frame. Your 18? That’s for a crop-sensor.)

(A further confusing factor: mirrorless or compact cameras with interchangeable lens systems, such as the Sony NEX, Nikon Z, uhhh, there are others, but I don’t care about them. Fortunately, usually they have much different mounts, so the lenses aren’t compatible, so it doesn’t cross over or matter, excepting adaptors, which are a whole thing I’m so disinterested in I can’t summon the energy to explain.)

Lenses that are in compatible mounts (Canon EOS, Nikon AF-S) will work on both kinds of cameras. I own a number of full-frame lenses, some of which date from the film era, which I use on my crop-sensor camera body.

A general rule of thumb is that crop-sensor lenses are shite on full-frame cameras. (You can’t use the whole sensor. so why have the whole sensor? don’t bother with this lens.) The converse rule of thumb is that often your full-frame lenses are a waste of money on your crop-sensor cameras, since you’re only using the middle of the lens.

Part of it is that you pay extra for wide-angle in a crop-sensor. So don’t. Your all-in-ones– (28-75, 24-70, 28-135) are not going to be useful at their wider range, because they won’t look wide-angle with your wee sensor.

But your lovely prime lenses (those are the ones with one number– a 28mm f/1.8, a 50mm f/1.8 [for many years the default, before they invented zoom lenses; they were called “nifty fifties”], a 105mm f/2.8– those will still be lovely on your crop-sensor camera.

So don’t buy a 28-135 for your crop-sensor DSLR, because you’re paying for a wide angle you can’t use. Buy an 18-200. (I recommend image stabilization, or VR or IS or VC or whatever the manufacturer calls it.)

If you want example images, ha ha ha, well. Do I have recent ones? No. But my entire Flickr is example images, and a great thing about Flickr is that they include the EXIF data, so it tells you what camera took the photo with what lens and what flash, if applicable, and what the settings were.

Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8 fisheye https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/48268566816/in/album-72157709604700032/– this is a crop-sensor lens, and it would vignette badly on a full-frame. (Oh this https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/46359309452/in/album-72157676895177208/ is probably my favorite photo I’ve ever taken with this lens, though.)

Tamron 18-270mm all-in-one https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/44593412380/in/album-72157676895177208/– a crop-sensor lens, which is notably not fantastic at its extreme telephoto end but is pretty fantastic up to about 200mm, and i bring it everywhere. That first photo is at 18, this one’s at about 220 https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/44593404800/in/album-72157676895177208/, and here, alas, is at 270 https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/44593325760/in/album-72157676895177208/, where it has kind of fallen down, but it was a big ask. (Honestly though that’s better than no photo!)

My usual low-light or indoor lens is a 17-50mm f/2.8 VC, which I think is a Sigma brand– the VC is image stabilization, which is super helpful if you’re going to shoot at slow shutter speeds. I have used it to good effect https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/49367597436/in/album-72157712619795237/ for nighttime shots.

And I have a whole stable of fast glass– prime lenses with huge apertures– that were super essential back when I was shooting indoor sports with a slower camera body. But in 2013 or so they hit that point where camera sensors are fast now, and that glass isn’t necessary anymore, not in the same way. I hang onto it because they take beautiful pictures, but they need so much premeditation– I joke that I always have the wrong lens on my camera, and more often than not that wrong lens is my beloved 85mm f/1.8, because I love that lens because it has gotten me https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/32486775488/in/album-72157704743048775/ some really beautiful https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/46275147342/in/album-72157701395997102/ shots https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/44514837990/in/album-72157704670408424/ in my day https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/46275148302/in/album-72157701395997102/ and everything looks beautiful through it, but if your subject comes closer well you’re shit out of luck. (It’s the shallow depth of field https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/31392488127/in/album-72157704670408424/, it’s how you can pick a thing https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/46396662071/in/album-72157674601627077/ and isolate your subject https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/46302202732/in/album-72157674601627077/, that’s what makes fast glass worth it. nowadays your phone does that with a filter but it fucks it up half the time.)

Anyway if anyone has questions about what the numbers on lenses mean it’s a while since I was on the sales floor but I very much do still work in a camera store, LOL.

intermediare: showgirlglitz: I love how he has a blank facial...

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intermediare http://intermediare.tumblr.com/post/101238053269/showgirlglitz-i-love-how-he-has-a-blank-facial :

showgirlglitz http://showgirlglitz.tumblr.com/post/65197790503/i-love-how-he-has-a-blank-facial-expression-like :

I love how he has a blank facial expression. like he’s just casually doing his every day routine.

just contemplating life

he looks like this is something 1) that someone else is doing to him and also 2) completely routine. like, ah whoop here we go again, gettin’ levitated, ah well.

More and more people are marking their fics as completed when they're abandoned and it's so frustrat

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I have to admit that I mark my fics complete when I know that I won’t be adding onto them. however, when I do that I also edit the summary to clearly say in all caps that the fic is abandoned/incomplete. I also tend to tag it that way. I don’t want anyone entering the story under the false impression that they’re getting a finished story - even if I’m done working on it.

I think the idea of bullying probably comes down to the way they’re being approached? I’ve received comments in my day that were really aggressively phrased. That’s something you’ll want to avoid. But asking if they’d be willing to update their summary or tags or if they could move the author’s note to the start of the fic rather than to the end? Both of those would feel totally reasonable to me, if I got them as comments.

I don’t think authors will stop marking their incomplete works as complete. Like I said, I’ve done it myself and it feels like the right way to organize my own little section of the archive. What authors *can *do, however, is make it perfectly clear from the outside of the fic that “complete” in this case doesn’t mean the full story is there. It just means that the work has finished.

It’s our responsibility as authors who are sharing our works to make sure those works reach the right audience as best we can. This is part of that.