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Be prepared that when soon even more of those that blame everything on others are themselves in power, it will still be everyone else's fault.

New toy: a Laowa 2x macro lens. Comes very favourably out of reviews, also for non-macro distances. It's the crop sensor advantage that this is small-ish and cheap-ish, while still being a super-sharp f/2.8 apochromatic lens. Now I have to learn to manually focus, and to use (flash) lighting.
#Laowa #Macro
Phone photo of a mirrorless camera, Canon R10. What's new is the Laowa 65mm F2.8 2x Macro lens mounted on it. The lens is small-ish because it is made for crop sensor cameras like the R10.
#macro #laowa
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Don't handhold macro shots they say. Don't use the built-in flash and don't use maximum aperture. They are probably right.

(This is nowhere near the maximum magnification btw)

Closeup of a croissant. Because it's a handheld macro shot with built-in flash and maximum aperture, it's not a very good photo. Particularly the depth of field is very shallow.
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Glad it's winter and there are no insects about, testing out my macro lens.

Canon R10 with Laowa 65mm F2.8, either with Godox speedlite flash off-camera or the light of my Samsung phone when I had already put the speedlite away.

Plastic toy, purple, animal shaped, with its front paws in the air in celebration, a bridge leading to a plastic city hall thing out of focus behind it.

Closeup of the eye of a small plastic toy. I didn't dust it off before taking the photo.

#Photography #macro #Laowa #Canon #Godox #Samsung

#photography #macro #Samsung #canon #laowa #godox

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Except for all the other ones.

And it's that resource usage for training that is my problem with it, so I'm not happy about AI subtitles in VLC. I also suspect it doesn't work, but that is maybe just me.

MxFraud

2025-01-11 20:04:09


So, here is the first concrete technical info about VLC AI subtitles:

* it uses OpenAI whisper model.
* you'll have to download that bit separately [1].
* vlc will use that on your computer, so it is not using the paid for API version.

So still using all the water and power to train models, and to run on your computer when you watch something that need translation.

#VLC

[0] numerama.com/tech/1879712-vlc-…

[1] github.com/openai/whisper



VLC lance une fonction attendue depuis longtemps par les fans de séries - Numerama

VLC va intégrer de l'IA générative dans son lecteur vidéo open-source. Le plus célèbre des logiciels français prépare un générateur automatique de sous-titres capable de parler plusieurs dizaines de langues.
Hugo Bernard (Numerama)

I've been there! (It was already broken)

Archaeo-Histories

2025-01-11 08:04:39


Temple of Poseidon is one of the most important monuments from the Golden Age of Athens. It is perched on the edge of a cliff, located 70m above the sea, located at Cape Sounion 🇬🇷

Built in 5th Century BC, the temple is in the typical Greek hexastyle - featuring six doric columns on the front portico. 16 out of the original 38 columns are still standing today, and they were 20ft tall.

#archaeohistories


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