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I somewhat like Canon, but...

I don’t think Canon will be as well off as Sony or Nikon, at least not in the short run. Canon will probably essentially pluck a boat load of pixels from thin air, from the vacuum of space, and cram the pixels into a large sensor that’s not even a high sensitivity one, nor will it have groundbreaking dynamic range. I suppose that’s also true to some extent for the other camera brands. If all of the aspects of creativity were matter, then all of the camera brands would probably seem to be anamolously collecting only about 10% of this matter. Perhaps not the most exact and understandable analogy, I suppose; however, I think that we consumers should get rid of all of that dark matter in our heads, and call on manufacturers to gravitate towards the idea of more intuitive concepts, one major one, for example, is to adopt the user interface (UI) of smartphones, like I’ve already written about when I wrote about the cameras that Samsung once created. If that technique, or concept, were use
I wasn't talking necessarily about Canon; Canon will almost certainly have a full frame mirrorless on the (25th?) but I think that a revolutionary camera will come out independent of the Canon. I think that something will soon be at least pre-released before the Canon Mirrorless does, and this new imaging system may be exceptionally portable relative to the size of its sensor! I think it also be relatively thin compared to other cameras, but heavy at the same time. I think the specially designed lens might be somewhere between 35mm and 60mm and have an aperture of around f/1.0; again, you might already know the rumors about Canon and it’s lenses, but this is about something that’s not on the rumor sites yet! So to recap, I think that something “large” is coming in a relatively small & affordable camera design, along with a normal, and extremely fast lens. Again, 4k video using mechanical shutter and a slowest shutter speed of about 1/2” to 1” possible using 4k. The ISO pe

A new Full Frame camera announcement for the near future would be very interesting!

A new full frame mirrorless in the near future would be VERY interesting. In fact, I think that if a mirrorless full frame camera gets announced soon enough, then I think that it will be exceptionally interesting. I'm not very sure why, but it's a feeling that I got. Now, Canon's most likely going to dip their feet in the water pretty soon; at best guess I think it'll happen within this week. But for me, however, I’m waiting more eagerly for Panasonic or Olympus to release a Full frame camera with fast & affordable ED and ASPH optics! The reason that I'm excited with Panasonic and Olympus is that they have a better selection of quick, affordable optics as compared to full frame fighters. At least it's something like extra low dispersion, extra high refractive, and/or aspherical elements that should give perfect clarity and definition from center, to the midframe, to the edges and corners at the widest and (preferably) smallest apertures, as long as the senso

Global warming? Ice melting? Severe weather declining? And This!

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829143836.htm

Global Warming may be leading to decreased severe weather

So today I was at the bookstore and noticed an image of ice melting, and thought to myself, while looking at the image, whether or not this ice is essentially representative of severe spring and summer-like weather, such as tornadoes, hail, and strong wind gusts. I came home today afterwards to find an article about the possible link between ice melt and tornadoes! I became really fascinated, and I have wondered something of that nature before, about whether or not the melt from possible global warming would cool areas closer to the equator by a significant degree, and whether or not this decrease in temperatures in various regions of the world (if not global decrease) would be enough to hamper down severe conditions...Today I’ve bought some reading material about climate (New Scientist magazine) which I hope to write about on this blog, and I hope that you’ll find pretty interesting. I have also picked up the newest issue of Sky & Telescope. https://www.wunderground.com/cat6

The Fascination Of Science

A Google Collection of mine: https://plus.google.com/collection/8-DYb

A New Drug

galantamine
But my problems can't be blamed for medicines that I've been taking. I’ve been having dark thoughts about myself and dark dreams. I want to hurt others because I feel like some have been a negative influence on me, and have influenced me to have darker thoughts than what I initially would’ve had despite the medicine. I have had dreams of dying and I feel enraged towards others because they’re not nice people. In fact, some of the people that I’ve met aren’t really human at all. People should’ve helped me instead of considering me psychotic are whatever, and blaming it on me, saying that I’m behaving this way on purpose!

Thinking about getting a Nikon Z6!

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I've seriously been thinking about getting the new Nikon Z6, as long as I can purchase it with a quick enough and high enough quality lens, and if I can get the lens/camera combination for a good enough price! Update: I recently have been thinking about a Sony, with either Mitakon or Voigtlander high sensitivity lens, but has Nikon now won me over?! I mean, yeah, the lower end, Z6 camera, will start at nearly $2,000 but it sounds astounding! As long as the new lenses aren't too expensive, then I will keep saving and in maybe a few years finally get the camera with their "Noct" lens!

Thinking about getting a new camera

I’m thinking about getting a new camera/lens combination. So far, I’m thinking about getting either a Sony A7 II, Fuji XT20, or possibly even a Panasonic G85. And for lens I was thinking about getting either a Voigtlander or Mitakon; despite tej Voigtlander probably being of higher quality when compared to tle Mitakon, Mitakon seems to be much cheaper and I feel like there’s probably more information about the Mitakon than the Voigtlander.

Clouds could be created by the shells of tiny microorganisms

https://www.sciencealert.com/marine-algae-phytoplankton-emiliania-huxleyi-could-be-creating-ocean-clouds
https://www.sciencealert.com/penrose-b-mode-hawking-points-sign-previous-universe-in-conformal-cyclic-cosmology

If you're like a beginner, watch this

1. Go to Netflix 2. Look up "Most Unknown"

Don't worry about today, but why?!

For the clouds will form into neat shapes and disappear and reappear. Soon before the smoke from the wildfires hovered above my side of town, there were some really strange but brief cloud formations which involved the clouds being scattered fairly evenly, that is to say, they were evenly distributed into a nice looking pattern and would move in various directions. I still have one photo that I took, although it’s one of the least interesting ones... most I unfortunately deleted from my memory and wasn't able to recover using the correct program. However, today I got the intervalometer, or remote shutter release, to working mode; before that it was practically useless but now I’m ready for those cool looking puffs of cloudiness today.

Can evolution eventually make organisms invincible?!

Maybe there’s a civilization out there somewhere...whose health and wellbeing isn’t prone to radiation of any kind, no matter how high the dosage. Maybe they have evolved over time to deal with nuclear waste and they might be organisms that can tolerate it, just like the way that we have adapted to be able to tolerate background radiation. And then what’s beyond nuclear radiation, what’s even more intense than that?! And could we overcome that too?! And could we also become shockproof like some microorganisms are?! Finally, someone built a wall out in space out of Hydrogen; just kidding.
Gotta love it when Chuck Norris' son talks about UFOs in YouTube!
Maybe capsaicin can make me invincible to Cancer, or at least inflammation?! I suppose that it’d take many centuries to build up enough of the chemical though.

Immune Cells Influence Sexual Orientation

https://neurosciencenews.com/immune-cells-sexual-behavior-9702/

Trump and Manson's looks are eerily alike in this GIF

https://www.facebook.com/meehaasz.meehow/posts/2083493168360215

Hurricane In Hawaii This Year?

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19°37'"N 155°29'W=Hawaii's Big Island
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I seem to feel different than what I’ve been feeling in my life before. I’m more thoughtful, deeply emotional, and more intrigued by things that are paranormal, the theory of parallel universe, the simulation theory, etc. I’m like addicted to these topics, and I feel like I might need some medicine or something that can get me back to reality, as much as I hate returning to it. My mind, my emotions and feelings, seem to have travelled forward in time, while my physical self has stayed put! Think about such a concept for at least a moment; your life’s experiences, as perceived by your senses, can go by at a different rate than what your emotions go by; not that your emotions are delayed, but instead that your emotions come before the future even happens! That’s good stuff, isn’t it?! For some people, it’s drugs, and for others it’s gambling; or still, it could be sex, or cell phones. But for me? For me intrigue is the drug that fuels life itself. For me, compelling facts and strange m
Would you rather shift into a parallel universe, or be able to travel past time?
When I’m in another part of the world, at least in a different country, why do I sporadically feel as though I’ve shifted into another, parallel, universe?! And yet the whole world could be one entire country? I’ve also been thinking, is a space agency about to declare a secret space war against extraterrestrials. And could extraterrestrials be virtually invincible to all forms of radiation, including nuclear? Have they reached that phase yet? But to be honest, I’m not necessarily being serious, but using compelling arguments to explore space and time, and reality as we know it! And if we ever detect signals from outer space, could they be time travelers?! Honestly, this intrigues me enough to reconsider what life is all about...

Significant amount of smoke moving across the Midwest

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Nanoparticles and the environment

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-metal-nanoparticles.html

Just Imagine...

Just imagine listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ctgfoU9zU .Now imagine listening to it during a stay at a winter, snow covered wonderland, where it's extremely cold, frigid, and everything's so pure and clear and clean, and you can be taken to another state of consciousness, an altered state.
I'm currently waiting for my necessary devices to load so that I'm ready for late night viewing and photographing of the meteor shower! Can't listen to music yet, iPod hasn't been charged yet, and neither has my PC nor my camera and headphones. It will very likely be a long night!

The Real Meaning Behind the afterlife

Torment after death? No, in fact, you don’t and won’t ever know, what’s after death. The consciousness is nonexistent after death, and so what you experience is therefore essentially nonexistent. What does exist, though, is the unknown, and that is what we fear the most. Even if you were to experience something after death, which isn’t out of the question,then how do you yourself know that what you’re experiencing is real? Maybe it’s an illusion, made to make you think that reality=your experience? Therefore, we mustn’t, or s houldn’t, be fearful of such topics such as death.

The Real Deal And Religion

Don’t take life too seriously, as the religious people do! Seriously! Maybe stop thinking about things such as angels and/or demons, and actually think about the stuff that matters! For example, you could all think about the intricacies of the universe; that doesn’t have to involve the conflict between good and evil. So many things don’t actually involve good vs evil, yet religious people have seemed to practically always gravitate towards good or evil, and talk in terms of good or evil. But this world would be so much more beautiful had you stopped and reconsidered such thoughts!

Aspects of my life..

Anyways, there are things or aspects of my life which I’m still hesitant to talk about. You know, I’ve seen someone good looking, at least once, and then all of a sudden I had to walk away. But that’s not the only bad part of this story; because, as it turns out, the pain doesn’t really begin until you’ve realized that you should’ve, or could’ve entered in a phone number from them. But I knew at the time that for reasons yet unexplained, I couldn’t muster all of the courage that I usually have in life...and so the story goes, but in my case, this one’s different. You see, after I unwillingly have to abandon someone, it feels that I’m in a great pain! Another example of pain that’s excruciating, literally! And so you can tell me, that everything that’s known to us, is only in our minds. That makes me hurt even more. As awful as pain is, I wish that there was an alternative, such as escaping it for eternity. I wish that there was a place where pain didn’t exist. But then again, this cou
There have been times in my life, which were pretty recent, that I have felt as though I’ve been on the “other side” and it’s been convincing me that I’m dead. Perhaps that’s not how it is, though? I can only wonder, but no answers...this universe is much more deceptive than it seems to us, I keep seeing it in horrible ways and the problem is that the ways in which I see are accurate and true to life! I would like to get into more detail, but this would be far too controversial for the readers.

Oh, you know...

songs don’t usually remind me of anything. I suppose that’s because I haven’t been out much. It’s not a good thing, but not a bad one either. I suppose that songs can bring back emotions about past events that you’d be better off not knowing. I never get to see people on the other side by the way. But whenever I see specific people out in public, I get the feelings...whether you know or don’t know, well things would definitely be better off had I not been out in public at all. Why would I want to communicate with such an ignorant society, when what I write is either translated wrong and/or you don’t want to listen?!

I've been listening, and...

Wow! I can’t describe the music that I’ve recently been listening to! It’s magical when compared to all emotions. It's called ATB.

I Can't Wait!

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Wait For this, to become reality!:

Spraying aerosols wouldn’t help stop global warming

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180808134302.htm The website that’s been listed tell about the spraying of aerosols into the Earth’s atmosphere. This might not help global temperatures to fall, but it could do irreversible damage to our environment!

SETI to launch experiment into the stratosphere to see if other worlds can be observed from the stratosphere

https://www.seti.org/it-possible-see-other-worlds-stratosphere-hicibas-first-proof-concept-fly-soon

Morgan Freeman Talk Trump

https://www.facebook.com/ATTNVideo/videos/1560579390644181/?hc_ref=ARSQlsuDzqJQ5xvWAvumgeRd4XMxq3xv52S_ApqEpUQzkYwZUe91oCzm-JDYTkQZGf4

Check out this 300+ second exposure of passing cumulus clouds!

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The Black and White version has been enhanced to simulate a red filter!
Nothing ever changes here in this world, in this life...

Clothes that can chat with each other

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180808134329.htm

We Don't Know Why the sun;s changing shape!

http://www.theeventchronicle.com/solar-watch/the-sun-is-changing-shape-and-we-have-no-idea-why-2/

Black Holes reveal amazing light shows

https://www.quantamagazine.org/star-swallowing-black-holes-reveal-secrets-in-exotic-light-shows-20180808/

Let me be serious for a moment!

Now, I’ve recently posted about frequencies, entities, atmospheric conditions, etc. But now you’re probably wondering, where did I go wrong?! When did I start going crazy?! Well, the answer is, I haven’t been going crazy! I seriously want to discuss the very creative and perplexing thoughts that come to my mind, but only seem to be possible very late at night! I was in fact being serious, I don’t know what to think about it...Thank you, I appreciate it; at home I’m too easily considered a kook because of my alternative way of thinking!
*Please don’t regard/consider this spam. (Now let's begin) Vibrations at the atomic scale; or vibrations at the scale of radio waves...so if the vibrations are correctly matched with the frequency of beings, those of which can effectively materialize because of these specific frequencies from a higher dimension, then can these frequencies also be dependent upon Earth’s atmospheric conditions? This I tried to post. For example, if you enter a state of lower relative humidity, then the vibrations might be more likely to coincide with a higher dimension?! No, but seriously, think about\ it!

The Interesting Connection

After my post being considered spam no matter how I format it, I seriously need to seek an interesting connection!

Fuck This Fucking Shit, The Fucking Internet...

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What the Fuck is this shit that I received?! Seems like I can't post anything online anymore. WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!!

New York has smoke from California

https://weather.com/news/news/2018-08-07-wildfire-smoke-detected-majority-us-states ; shortly after smoke from Siberian wildfires reached the lower 48, and while a Category 4 hurricane makes it’s way only about 150 miles away from Hawaii, with two other tropical systems in it’s wake, large wildfires in Portugal and Spain, the worst drought in Georgia in over 900 years, and the worst Australian drought in over 300 years, the largest wildfire in California history is bringing smoke to New York...

Methane Uptake From Forest Soils Has Been Falling At Significant Levels

https://www.carbonbrief.org/methane-uptake-from-forest-soils-has-fallen-77-per-cent-three-decades

143 MPH winds of fire, an ominous sign of the future...?

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-redding-tornado-destruction-20180802-story.html

I’m thinking about taking the plunge...

I’ve come across one of those websites...the one where you can enter into photo contests and win really great prizes, starting at about $4.50 per month, up to about $10.30/month (Pro subsription), and for the Pro plan be able to upload as many images as you’d like and be able to participate in any contests, as well as be able to download some kind of software, in addition to having a professional website! Interesting times we are in, eh?!
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What’s going on, everyone?

I Actually would add you on Facebook, but...

Listen...I know you’re pretty and maybe all that, but...I don’t know you. I’m tempted to add you as a friend, but I’m afraid that’s not going to happen! Hopefully I get into some kind of a club and actually meet people who I get to know as actual friends. Of course, for reasons which remain unexplained, people who I’ve talked to at clubs seem to get afraid of me, because they don’t return and at least one of those people has deleted their Meetup profile. It’s making me have mixed feelings about the world, the society, in which we live in. It could be that I’m offensive, but that’s just because you probably don’t know how to handle the truth. Get some mad people to talk with me, and others like to feed off of that anger and direct it towards me. Yes, seriously, it even happened in High School. Looks and relations with people are deceptive, you really need to dig deeper to know what or who a person really is.

Oh no...

So I guess we’re living in a simulation, in which there are multiple gods, and the one in which you believe in is the real one, and at the same time, we deal with climate change, and it depends on whether or not you believe in global warming is what influences it into making it a reality. I guess that climate change is based on democracy?! And tell me why it’s so, that religious people would like to condemn and punish atheists and free thinkers?!

Wow!

Attach a microscope eyepiece with a wide enough FOV to a camera such as the Panasonic LX10, and switch to video mode, and you can achieve about 25x or more zoom in addition to the eyepiece, which can serve as a macro lens! For instance, you can zoom on on just an ant’s head, or maybe further! After giving it some thought though, I won’t be turning my GoPro into a Back Bone modded cam, since I don’t see how I could be able to adjust aperture, so the results would most likely be shitty, at best. However, I’m tempted to purchase a micro 4/3rds mirrorless cam, and you can’t really go any cheaper, even when purchasing a point and shoot! The lenses for these cameras are like extremely light, about 200 to 400 grams, so I was thinking that this might be my next camera system, although maybe I should actually go Full Frame or APS-C? I just don’t know about it, it’s too difficult, it could literally take a lifetime to figure it out! Yes, a lifetime! Debates, whether they have to do about te

Australia's worst, and current, drought is quite unusual

https://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-worst-drought-in-australian-history.html?spref=fb What’s astounding about this drought is not just that it’s winter in Australia, but also because El Nino hasn’t developed yet.

This I Like

It was shortly after noon (about 30 minutes), it was quite dark and warm at the same time. This is the type of weather that I like. I also think that it’s interesting when it’s extremely bright outside and cool at the same time.

Is the climate shifting into another domain?!

What’s happening to our climate?! Record temps being set across the world, highest temperature ever recorded in Africa, enormous wildfires in Siberia pushing smoke all of the way into New England, Record high in South Korea causing over 100 people to get heat stroke, 80 people dead from heat in Japan, above average temperatures around the Arctic Circle including 90 degree readings, Spain approaching about 46 C (About 110 F), fires in Western US and British Columbia, etc.
They will not follow me. They will all leave me alone, in a bad way...
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Quit getting offended by things that don’t affect you!

Why are some people so offended by my actions, and my life’s occasional decisions, when they don’t affect them at all? It’s likely there’s gossip going around. I try to do the best I can in life, only to be brought down by people who practically don’t know anything about me. The nightly dreams that I’ve been having recently, about being bad and mad to people, are great representations of what my life should be like, but unfortunately they are practically only fantasies...they might make me feel better, but they don’t actually do anything in the real world. I just feel like saying “No” to literally everything and anything anyone asks me.

Who's This?!

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I might’ve made a mistake with my micro & astro photography; an interesting alternative to using a point and shoot and SLR.

https://www.back-bone.ca/product/ribcage-modified-yi-4k/ I was thinking about doing some IR photomicrography with this kind of setup; imagine instead of mounting an SLR lens, you just mount a microscope eyepiece to the front! Astronomy, or more particularly, astrophotography, would be much more challenging and demanding, and the extremely small sensor wouldn’t be able to do much at all, however, in video mode, you could get some great videos of the moon or very distant terrestrial objects. Would be neat to record some UFOs with this kind of a setup. I know that a camera such as a GoPro isn’t truly dedicated towards photography and/or cinematography, but I seriously think that some amazing captures could be done if you bought a modified action cam, because it would suit a microscope and telescope very well, even better in my opinion than what could be achieved with a point and shoot camera, even the most expensive, the $1,000+ Sony RX100 VI. This is really exciting concept, I wish

Free Photo Stacking Software Alternatives superior to Photoshop

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Photoshop and Lightroom might be a great thing, but the problem is that despite maybe being considered not expensive, still not everyone can afford it. This post isn't necessarily about replacing Photoshop, although for some uses you could, albeit with these pieces of software, you mostly lack image alignment. Instead, this is specifically about stacking software (things such as image averaging, exposure blending, focus stacking, etc.) Here; a couple of very interesting pieces of free software that very few people know about. First, let’s discuss one called Starstax: I have tried using starstax to make a time stack video, and although it can only make a photo, it can still save each frame, or photo, so that you can use another piece of free sofware for making time lapses or video editing, to assemble the remaining photos into a time stack video, or what you could call by the term “stacklapse”. The great thing about this software is that you can stack photos in a way that you als

Great!

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Could GoPro (theoretically) be a professional system for macro photography?

People have been trying macro, especially macro with a magnification over 1:1 reproduction ratio, using various camera systems over time; whether it be cell phones, or Full Frame cameras (and probably larger formats as well, just not to my knowledge). Let’s talk about an alternative idea for getting those extremely small details in focus. So recently, I’ve been quite interested in what’s known as Back Bone: a company that can modify your existing gopro, in a way as to allow you to mount various lenses onto it. The Gopro has it’s drawbacks, the main one probably being that the sensor is small compared to SLR cameras; and the dynamic range is rather poor. However, I still think that the Gopro could theoretically make a compelling choice for macro photography. I have also thought about how well it would suite astrophotography, but despite the fact that there are some pretty fast lenses on the market, the small sensor “counterbalances” that fact; in other words, the small sensor is what ma
Why... I know Facebook is bullshit. But why?

What I learned this week

This week, I learned some info from the web; after several Youtube videos, and many Facebook posts, I learned that collusion isn’t a crime. I also learned that Whether or not Trump makes for an ideal president is a tricky deal. Thankfully we live in a country where it’s legal to talk about the president, and to express your own personal opinions, whether or not they offend particular people. Apart from politics, I learned about tech, as well as the the sad truth that Americans are, supposedly, getting lonelier; but then how about if people don’t respond, even on the web, let alone in person?!

The loneliness epidemic in america

https://www.yahoo.com/news/empathy-bootcamps-can-help-fight-americas-loneliness-epidemic-211730689.html Man, do I wish that I had the same problem, only because mine’s worse. I’ve been an avid user of social media, but not even there can I get much communication! It’s like people shut down and block all communication from me, even when they in the virtual world!

What I think about modern cameras, and thoughts about the Canon M50

Canon M50: As much as I like the M50, with it’s best features including a swivel touch LCD & large APS-C sensor, as well as a relatively deep grip, it’s still made of plastic composite. Sure, that might make things light, but at the same time, if you ever decide to use a heavy lens, then the weight balance will probably be towards the lens instead of the camera, which is a disadvantage when it has to do with image stability. Overall, the M50 is a camera that seems to be a little on the small side, which is a good thing. However, when it comes to lenses, I think that there should be more native lenses available for cameras these days, and I’m not talking solely about Canon. Camera makers ought to make lenses that are lighter, and have faster apertures. Zoom lenses should be more versatile, and prime lenses perhaps even greater quality. I wish that the M50 had Aperture and shutter priority modes in video, at least in 4k. There are still things that need to be improved upon in the w

Yes, it IS true

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Theoretically, this is true. But certainly, it's written by a _______.

An indefinite moment of life...

When does the sun rise on my life?! Seems as though it’s been dark for an indefinite amount of time... experiencing happiness and good feelings along the way, but still covered in darkness. Without the sun, everything seems fake, including emotions, and I yearn for the light. My soul has been feeling cold, and the despair is too surreal for description. I have an indescribable urge to cause and create mayhem, to create unrest.