Your Canon Photos No. 24: 15th to 21st October 2023

Mocha,

That's OK. I'm here to learn as well as to share.

Steve

Dunlin,

That's a good catch of the dragon fly. The yellow leaves look pretty against the clouds and blue sky.

Dunlin,

There's some things I did not originally like about the Canon M50 MKII mirrorless camera, but I've learned some things that make it a good option. For video I was able to change the record button to be the large shutter button (instead of that tiny button) in the menu. That sensor shutting off the use of the camera when I get too close is annoying, so I pull the LCD screen out and that reduces that problem. Also when using the LCD screen to take pictures, I change the settings on the LCD screen with my left hand instead of my right hand. That way, my right hand does not accidentally trigger that sensor when crossing over from right to left. I'm getting in the habit of doing it that way, so things are better now with it.

Steve,

I do like this photo better with the blue sky. If you chimp the photos, you can see the histogram. Be a regular chimper like I am. 😀

I do that to minimize post processing. I'm so busy taking pictures, that I hardly have extra time messing with them on the computer.

Thanks mocha.
Have fun with Linux. What distro are you using? We're hoping to move this PC to linux in the next few days. (I'm actually writing this on a live Linux USB drive, because Windows seems to be suffering from a really odd WiFi problem.)
Regarding darktable, I found it really difficult at first. I changed my mind several times on whether or not I'd use it, including the last few months when I've been just using OOC JPGs, but I am fully using it now. I can't recommend Bruce William's Understanding darktable YouTube channel enough, his videos are really helpful. Also, what I did was read though a couple of posts like this, to get an idea of what modules to start with. (pixls.us is the forum for FOSS software.) I'm still really new to darktable, but I know enough to do basic processing.

Thanks Digirame.

@Digirame my Olympus also has proximity sensors for the EVF, I do find it a bit annoying, and I could disable it, but I keep it on as I am shooting through the VF most of the time.

Hi Dunlin,

Because the Raspberry Pi4 is a single-board computer and 32bit there are not many distros that work well or at all, so I chose Ubuntu Mate. My favourite version that I've used in the past on an old laptop is Linux Mint. Thanks for the links I'm going to give darktable a go. It should be fun.