
Mathieu Frappier
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@kublermdk @DJSnM This. They were still several hundreds or thousands of miles from the moon so even long focal lengths lenses would focus at infinity at this distance.
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@DJSnM Or because both the Moon and Earth are so far away they are basically focusing to infinity?
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@NWSBayArea No pretty sunrise is SF due to the Maine layer but the sunset was ok! isitfoggy.com/photos/gopro-h…
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Is there any good reason for cameras to ever suggest 24 fps video? I tend to think that is almost always a poor choice, and users should have to go out of their way to select it.
If you are recording something that will be cut into an actual shown-in-a-theater movie, then yes, you need to shoot at 24 fps to match film standards, but nearly all video is actually going to be shown by YouTube and social media on 60 fps displays.
24 fps guarantees not just a low framerate, but an uneven one, as frames get presented in a 3/2 repeated cadence (or worse, a 4/2/2/2 repeat if it gets converted to 30 fps video somewhere along the way).
120 fps displays can show 24 fps video at a constant repeat rate of 5, but I would wager that less than 10% of the video seconds today are in software and hardware properly configured to do that, and you would still be better off with 30 (or 60) fps video.
There was a period where some video encoders or decoders could only just barely do 4k at 24 fps and couldn’t manage 30, but I don’t think that is common today.
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@fulligin Posted the same link twice, the second link should have been youtu.be/ERFFMGJABjA?si…

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@fulligin It's been a while but for moon rises, the day before the full moon youtu.be/qv0EW5lMxC4?si… and youtu.be/qv0EW5lMxC4?si… looked better (in terms of exposure) than the day of: youtu.be/PRCXgMfs6ho?si….
I'd expect the rule to apply similarly for moonsets, but one day after.

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@fulligin That is for moon rises though, so I guess the day after the full moon (today, like right now) would be the best for the moonset through the tower?
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@fulligin I found that aiming for the day before the full moon gives the best compromise between the moon and ambient brightness.
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Watch the power come back to SF after a big outage yesterday (towards the end of the video) isitfoggy.com/photos/gopro-h…
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@US_Stormwatch Meanwhile in San Francisco: isitfoggy.com/photos/gopro-h…
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Rare lighting storm in the bay area last night! Nicely captured by my new gopro setup at sf.fenetre.cam

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@UniverseIce As a certified thermographer, I can say with high certainty that the shown temperatures are incorrect. The material's emissivity differs, and you could see the reflective temperatures of others affecting the values. Especially with metals & glass.
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@DJSnM @thejackbeyer It's on my favorite bike route but somehow I have never taken the time to stop for a tour.
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@thejackbeyer We can't make a Radar that can discern individual planes in formation, so let's make sure the warhead doesn't care.
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@joebarnard @timonsku We enjoy the result!
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@timonsku Oh the file size is what does it - I export/upload in really high bitrate cause I enjoy pain
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