Oh wow, he couldn’t even be bothered to reply to you and you gave him this cam! *RUDE!!!* 😱😱😱😱

The 50-500 OS is the sharper between the two. This lens loves F8, I have a couple of them.

What's your m43 setup now and how do you like it?

@@TheCruisinCrew I wound up going with finding a used Panasonic 100-400 and at the same time upgraded the body to a Panasonic G9 (First Version). The 100-400 is an amazing lens and is incredibly light for the amount of reach you get without feeling plasticky. I would definitely recommend this kit.

@@NorthWolfPhotography I'm leaning towards the Olympus E-M III, but yeah, that 100-400 lens sounds good... :)

You can use crop Nikon lenses too. I just only have film era Nikon lenses :)

Not James, but I just checked on my own S2 Pro. Unfortunately it will not work with just the CR123s. Basically the Nikon SLR half of the camera powers up while the Fujifilm digital half does not. The top LCD and finder display turn on but show "Err". The body will actually autofocus but the shutter button will not respond. If anyone is curious, the camera will apparently operate for a short time with just four AAs and no CR132s. However, in my experience, after a handful of frames it will display a battery warning and then shut down.

@@bcostin Thanks a lot for the answer. You saved me some money by not buying batteries. Good day

I am not good with audio stuff, but I used the original track + the track ran through some adobe software to clean out noise and boost vocal frequencies. The combination gives a little bit of background noise but makes my voice super clear. Sometimes sounds a little digital though.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Ah, I've seen a lot of broken s2's out there so must be inevitable. Hopefully I can get some good use out of this one before it goes.

As I mentioned in my other reply, I don't normally do camera repair but the S2 pro is extremely easy to swap parts from. The sensor, shutter and "camera" portions are in one half and the Digital aspects that interface with it are in the other half. Find one with a good sensor and shutter but a toasted motherboard and its opening it up, undoing 3 ribbon cables, swapping the back from the one with the bad sensor/shutter and re-attaching the cables, closing it back up and you are good to go.

It does not :(

See if you can talk them down! That's a fair price in the current market, but I'm with you that I'd want it a little lower :)

@snappinessvlogs I ended up getting it for $140, and it actually came with more accessories than I thought it would. It had a memory card, and the card reader with it. It's in like brand new condition too.

That's smart. Just a piece of finished leather that you cut to shape and adhered?

@@snappinessvlogs I used a fairly thick leather ( close to 2 mm ), a piece of paper and a crayon to trace the edge on the outline of the indent and made adjustments until I got the perfect stencil. Glued it in using some contact cement for plastics. It should also be pretty resilient.

I haven't yet, but I just saw that. I'll do it soon.

I haven't pushed the limits, but it does start to break down pretty quick when I bump up the ISO, so that makes sense.

The long lens offerings for Pentax are slim pickings :(

@@snappinessvlogs Back then I befriend the Pentax Rep, I tried for a day the 560mm F5.6, slow focus, purple fringing. Very light but in a sens no better than the Bigma. So because my main subjects where birds, I decided to jump ship with Canon, bought a 500mm F4 and a full frame, never looked back. Using a R5 right now. I loved what Pentax did and a I have a soft spot for the company and its products. I hope they keep going. I still have an K5 and a few cheap old lens that I lend to my daughter when she travels and wants better than photos from a phone.

Must be a regional thing. Both are correct, just different ways of saying it.

@@snappinessvlogs Maybe you can enlighten me, a metric guy: the whole imperial system is quite clear to me (not that I don't have trouble using it with callipers and such, but that's a different story) but 2/3", 1/3" and 1/4", all rather standard sizes in sensorland are clear to me: two-thirds of an inch, one-third of an inch and a quarter inch: no problems there. But how on earth do you pronounce 1/2.3" ? I'm always glad I can use a digital calliper at work (aviation) when I need to check parts, as an analog one boggles my mind compared to metric sizes...

Ooo, I'm with you. The more physical buttons the better xD

I was just oblivious then - it looks way fun. And cool that so many free parks have courses. Sounds right up my alley 😁

@@snappinessvlogs Here in Southern NJ we are behind in the number of courses to player ratios, but slowly catching up. I have been playing for about ten years, and my girls play too, they are now 12 and 15. My oldest started around 7. It is a lot of fun...and you can get out early and photograph nature in the process.

@@snappinessvlogs oh and thanks for the shout-out

Yes yes of course :D What a great camera.

@@snappinessvlogs and btw you should think about a place for everyday growing community to make you even busier

I love these old quirky body designs

And to be honest, I still like it sooo much and I was so disappointed to see Sony ended up with the same design every other manufacturer went along with when I was about to buy something new as the focus started malfunctioning. It didn't get dirty as you'd inevitably get on every other camera these days as you press your nose against the screen, it has a HUGE eyepiece that you can really use to dig the camera into your face for added stability and if only the screen would have articulated more over the viewfinder this probably would have been a formfactor that could have lived on in other models as it made room for buttons where other cameras have the screen. And oh... the grip... ever since I bought a new one, not one camera has lived up to my expectations of being able to GRAB the thing. I've got long, slim fingers and almost every camera out there (even expensive high-enders like Canon EOS D5 my sister got) lacks the space I need to be able to grab and hold onto the thing, with my Canon EOS600D or so I bought as a replacement being the worst thing ever. Besides the fact I switched from an EVF-camera (The R1) to an optical viewfinder camera (which I just could not get used to after 13 years with my R1) and the fact I lost seperate controls for aperture and shutterspeed, where I had to press an extra button on my Canon meant I got rid of it after a year and 4000 pictures or so. It just was not my camera. Got a GH5 now, mainly because of the better grip, but the R1 still wins when it comes to the grip. When it comes to buttons in odd places, the GH5 really is a shit-thing... it has too many buttons and some are just in inexplainable locations: who on earth thinks it's a good idea to put the 'disp' (display) button at the spot where your thumb rests when you hold the camera like you should? I've pressed it so many times by accident... Oh yeah, the sales-guy at the store completely wrapped me with his pitch when I bought it in 2006, as I had set my mind on another brand though similar model. But hey, I was 18, felt like I was bursting with cash from my vacation-job and thus happily spent the 1100 Euro (probably the same in Dollars) on it. But in hindsight I was glad I bought it and it has lasted for so long (well, it still works, but focus is a bit of a gamble... something is broken inside which means it usually focuses okay, but it can produce a very blurry image once every so often)

This was the Insta360 Go2. It's not super great quality, but it's small size and ease of use makes filming very frictionless.

It's quirky, but cool and surprisingly effective...