• Removed user
    Dec. 29, 2023, 11:27 p.m.

    I said:

    "For your information, 3840 is exactly double 1920, and 2160 is exactly double 1080"

    People throw a lot of flak at AI but so far, for me, it does a lot better than asking Google and then opening and going though the kajillion of right-or-wrong hits that come up ...

    ... and it's a lot more polite than the circling sharks found you-know-where!

  • Removed user
    Dec. 30, 2023, 12:04 a.m.

    Yet more sarc from a circling shark ...

  • Members 655 posts
    Dec. 30, 2023, 12:16 a.m.

    Actually, the term "4K" came from the documentary, Men in Black. Agent K was given an HD photo, but needed higher resolution. So they sent another photo with double the resolution, with the note, "For K", which later became "4K". As a result, companies working with the agency made 3840 x 2160 an industry standard known as "4K".

  • Members 1118 posts
    Dec. 30, 2023, 4:06 a.m.

    I'm glad you confirmed the existence of the "Agency". We can all sleep easy and rest assured that the MiB are indeed looking after us... 😆 😉

  • Removed user
    Dec. 30, 2023, 12:11 p.m.

    As is communicating with polite humans ...

  • Removed user
    Dec. 30, 2023, 5:34 p.m.

    Sorry, I could make no sense of your post. In the absence of a smiley or equal, I took it to be sarcastic rhetoric.

  • Members 96 posts
    Dec. 30, 2023, 10:42 p.m.

    For the sake of fun, I ran Zephyr 3B, a ChatGPT - like but much more limited Large Language Model locally on my own computer. It was happy to oblige telling the specs for the the rumoured Canon R1:

    > Please give me the specifications for the Canon R1 mirrorless camera body
    The Canon R1 is a full-frame mirrorless camera body with the following key specifications:
    
    * Sensor: 12.3MP CMOS sensor
    * Aperture range: f/2.0 to f/16 (manual focus only)
    * Image stabilization: In-body image stabilization (IIIAF)
    * Monitor: 3.69" 2,359K-dot color TFT LCD (922K-dot version available)
    * Viewfinder: 0.23" 920K-dot electronic viewfinder (EVF) with 100% coverage and 1/4" overlap
    * Battery: LP-E12 rechargeable lithium-ion battery (sold separately)
    * Connectivity: USB 3.0 HDMI 2.0 microUSB Type-C (with both video and control signals)
    * Interface: RJ-11 wired remote control port, SD card slot (up to SD card UHS-II)
    * Weight: approximately 22.3 oz / 635g (body only) | 21.3 oz / 598g with 18-55mm lens attached
    * Dimensions: 3.9 x 2.9 x 1.7" / W x D x R
    
    Note that the Canon R1 supports both RAW and JPEG file formats, offering a versatile shooting experience for photographers and videographers alike.
    

    This is a pretty tiny model, and it shows in the amount of hallucinations it confidently creates 😀

  • Removed user
    Dec. 31, 2023, 8:36 p.m.

    I like the minus 37g lifting lens!

  • Jan. 1, 2024, 10:29 a.m.

    LP-E12 battery? Wow, takes 24 shots and needs recharging. Just like a film camera. And, sold separately too.

  • Removed user
    Jan. 14, 2024, 9:38 p.m.

    It did better than ChatGPT 3.5, voila:

    Nevertheless, I'm talking to it a lot these days on the subject of How Fourier Transformation works for images and getting informative results as opposed to typing into a Search Engine and then sorting through the kajillion hits ...

  • Members 105 posts
    Jan. 21, 2024, 11:30 a.m.

    iT IS WORTH NOTING (and entering once capslock is off) that there is a chabot "user", justifying itself on the "MFlenses" site

    p.

  • Removed user
    Feb. 1, 2024, 12:26 a.m.

    Where is that "MFlenses" site?

  • Members 105 posts
    Feb. 2, 2024, 3:16 p.m.

    the url is http//forum.mflenses.com. There it unfolds the locaciousness and lack of precision of statiical language models. only worth sampling, not reading.

    p