/ in this context is integer division, not rational division, so e.g. 7 / 3 = 2.

The division operator in this case is not division in the algebraic sense, and it does not cancel with the multiplication such that (a / b * b = a) {b != 0}. Otherwise your reasoning would be correct.

To still make this super clear, lets look at 19 / -12. The real number division of this would give you -1.58... But we actually have division rounded toward negative (floor division) or division rounded toward zero, and it’s not necessarily clear which one is it. Floor division returns -2 and division rounding toward zero returns -1.

The modulus is connected by the rule that I gave earlier. Therefore 19 = q*-12 + (19 % -12). If you plug in -2 here, you’ll get -5 = 19 % -12, but if you plug in -1 then you get 7 = 19 % -12.

Whatever intuition here was is lost due to constraints to stick into integers or approximate numbers, therefore it’s preferable to always treat it as if modulus was connected with floor division because the floor division modulus contains more information than remainder. But this is not true on every system because hardware and language designers are fallible just like everybody else.

I use the venerable pass. It has none of this mobile mumbojumbo or autosync frills the kids today are talking about.

It’s so simple and lean, I never thought pass git pull would be annoying.

I would appreciate a mobile UI sometimes, though. A Sailfish client. But that’s not a dealbreaker either.

Maybe I could hook the missus up with Rubywarden, though. Pass would be too much for her.

Addendum: There appears to be a QML frontend on OpenRepos. Found through storeman. Not a complete client but have to give it a spin :)

It’s kind of sad though that newer Nikon pro gear (everything on the NPS list) is built to lower and lower standards, with production offshored to China or Thailand, while Canon pro equipment is built to better and better standards in Japan, and it’s cheaper than Nikon!

I much prefer the Nikon ergonomics and the features of Nikon cameras, but the lenses produced today, while of great optical quality, feel cheap and awful. Canon lenses on the other hand are made of metal (the good ones), and feel like a tank.

I don’t feel like Canon is in a rush to move to mirrorless (IMHO, the benefits are minimal for protogs).

What they are getting beaten on is sensor quality; no BSI in 2018 is a sign they’re not investing in their in house sensors enough.

All it would really take is bringing the sensors up to speed, and adding some better 4k video handling in the 5d series (you can now at least get c-log output) and they’d be competitive again.

I mostly shoot slide film. I have a Nikon F4, a Nikon FM3a, and a Nikon FA, and a bunch of old, manual focus AI-s lenses. However, I want to shoot digitally too, so a bought a Fuji X-T10. I have been using this camera for about two years now, and have taken many great pictures with it, but I hate it so much, so much. I can’t wait to get rid of it and buy a Nikon DSLR.

Let’s start with the good stuff. The good Fuji cameras and lenses are built to the highest mechanical standard. I wish new Nikon lenses were this good.

That’s all the good stuff I can think of, now the bad stuff:

The camera is small, but the lenses are just as big as modern DSLR lenses. This means the camera is too small for proper hand-holding technique. When assembling a system, the total weight is little bit lower than a DSLR kit, but the bulk is not significantly smaller at all, and I am constrained by bulk, rather than weight.

Focus by wire works poorly. In fact I would say it’s impossible to use. Never again. But even if where were lenses which didn’t focus by wire, you still could not manually focus because the resolution of the EVF is too low for critical manual focus. On a tripod you can zoom to 100%, but handheld, no way. On the other hand I use a split prism focusing screen on my SLRs, so this is never a problem.

The ergonomics of the camera are bad. I can’t use it with gloves. I can use a (D)SLR with gloves.

The software on the camera is terrifyingly bad.

The flash system is weak.

In low light, or for sports, autofocus is useless. There are some mirrorless cameras out there that do better AF than even DSLR, but only the top-of-line stuff.

The colors I get from this cameras are not great. This is not a problem with the camera, but with the color profiles used by desktop software. However, it is what it is. I can’t really do anything about it. You can make custom profiles, but it’s much harder than most people realize, and if you do it you’ll get a metrologically correct profile, which is not what I want. Nikon and Canon profiles are non-flat in a way that I like, and I can’t really emulate that.

Speaking of color profiles, Nikon allows you to load custom profiles in-camera. This is huge, because even if I shoot RAW, I need to make decision in the field based on the JPG preview, so it’d better be what profile I’m going to use anyway.

All lenses use different filter thread sizes. This drives me nuts.

Battery life is poor, and extremely poor in cold weather. A pro DSLR can take Lithium primary AA batteries that work at -40C.

Again, not a problem with the camera, but with Adobe software, but Adobe does a very poor job on Fuji raw files. I use Iridient Developer to convert Fuji raw files in DNG, but that makes the workflow slower and uses twice the amount of space (assuming I want to keep the originals, which I do).

Oh yeah, camera takes too long to boot.

I would like a mirrorless camera, but it would have to work differently than they work now.

Personally, I want a APS-C/FF camera (micro 4/3 is too small) that has small lenses. I want a 16-35/f8 and a 70-300/f8-f11 (35mm equivalent). When doing landscapes, I shoot at those small apertures anyway, so i’d like small lenses. You couldn’t make such slow lenses for DSLRs, because they would be too dark in the viewfinder, but with mirrorless you could. With small lenses, the camera can be small too, as it won’t feel unbalanced. The lenses must of course use the same filter thread size, and it should be possible to operate the camera with gloves. The camera should boot instantly. The camera should close the shutter when changing lenses (why don’t mirrorless cameras do this??).

If you can’t make small zooms, I’d be happy with small primes. 20mm, 85mm, and 200mm are all I need. If you kake them f/4 you should be able to make them, really, really, really small.

Oh yeah, and I’d like some tilt-shift lenses too.

In our household we solved the problem of size and weight by me carrying all photo equipment and playing assistant to my wife, who has the talent and skills. Not for everyone but I am happy with results :)

I’ve switched mostly to an X100 for the past few years. However the DSLR is still ‘needed’ for two things - kids sport and product/portrait shots for my wife’s seamstress business. The second could be mitigated by switching to a interchangeable lens mirrorless, but then I lose a lot of what I love about the X100.