11 days to go till my gold badge, then I don't have to obsessively make sure I access the site every single day

not that I won't be on pretty much every day

but I won't be constantly worried about forgetting a day

@AJHenderson good for you, I got to 6 days when I forgot one day.

visited 94 days straight and then forget one, but it was a fun day and I just did not even think about internet or anything related :)

that kind of day ;)

I just opened a tab on my phone with photo.SE so each time I used my phone for browsing, it connected to the site - got to 140 days or so without thinking about it

@HåkonK.Olafsen hehe, that's nice :)

you could call it cheating :P

I have two or three tabs open but I tend to change the pages linked

Now a Finn wants to sell his summer cottage.

so he makes a video to show the place out

@EsaPaulasto yeah, I remember you mentioning that

that's why I've been stressing a bit about making sure I get on

I'm enough of a completionist that I'd get pretty upset (or at least frustrated) if I forgot one day this close in

Finn way is to stay calm, accept the reality as it is and to start over again.

Not quite lethargic, but close. ;)

Lol @AJH , your answer.. "pun not originally intended" - but is now! :D

yeah, I got through about "screw" and then realized what I was typing

but decided to keep it that way

hmm, I just accidently answered a question on Photo about a camcorder thinking that I was still on AVP

I only realized I wasn't when I got a notification that it had been migrated

Hopefully you still had the answer there to copy-paste. Such a waste if you had to write it all again.

answers migrate with it

so it doesn't actually matter where you answer it

ah, that's cool.

it might not even be intentional, but in the DB, the answers would be associated to the question and the question would be associated to the site

it would require more code to make the answers go away than to keep them

and since users are linked across the network, they seem to just use your global user id for the answers, so if you don't have a user on the site, it goes to your network profile and if you do, it automatically connects to that site's profile

So even if the question got migrated while you were busy typing the answer keeps track of where the question went and follows in. Technically it works differently, but a layman's view on how it happens ;)

Stackexchange is a clever piece of databasing.

I liked the way how Tom Clancy used a noun as a verb in "the president was vehicled to White House" ;)

@EsaPaulasto that's the only thing I'm not sure about is if it would let you post after the migration of the question if you didn't have a profile on the site it was migrated to

but I already have accounts on all the SE networks I might ever post to

so I can't test it

even though the db records would work, the security permission checks might not

depending on which site's permissions it applies

Likely it would follow just the same if you are registered on the target site or not.

Answers posted before migration do follow just the same, so it should not matter to an answer still being edited/typed.

right, but when you submit the answer to be stored in the DB, it needs to perform checks that you have permissions to write an answer

it migrates existing answers regardless

but without special code, after a migration, when you try to respond to the question, it would appear to the system just like you were trying to make an answer on a site you didn't have an account on

Ah, good point.

which would normally fail

they'd have to do something special to make it still succeed even if you didn't have an account on the new site yet

Do you happen to remember a question that got migrated to some not so usual target site?

not on here, though I could tell you in a couple of weeks

Like not Superuser or Avp.

10kers can see a migration history

hehe, I see :)

I'm very much looking forward to unlocking that on here so that I'll have mod tools unlocked on all of my 3 main networks

I'm happy with my 1k rep, being able to see up/downvotes separately.

though I'm probably more excited about finally passing warriorbob on AVP and getting my 100 day badges

exciting next 2 weeks or so

I got 2 days to my first gold badge ;)

Electorate

Can't get sportsmanship, I don't have enough positive score answers, and some answers to questions where I do have votes are just so bad that I won't upvote them, not even for sportsmanship :D

well the simple solution there is to answer more :)

Not so long ago I went thru my zero-voted answers to see what's wrong that they don't attract even a single vote, and I have to admit most of them are just so that I would not upvote my own answers myself :) and just barely good enough not to get downvotes too.

Whatever, not here for rep but to learn those things in photography that I did not even know I didn't know.

lots of answers don't get voted on in general

I have some great answers out there that have never gotten votes or take a long time to get votes. Less so on photo, but regularly on AVP

For example, today I learned what time of year to best try to capture tha Milkyway here in Finland

Our location on North side of 60 latitude...

hmm, apparently I vote on answers way more than questions

well just pretend I didn't just have a complete math brain fart

About voting questions I once read a good advice from an old member. If the question is good enough for you to write an answer it is good enough for voting up as well.

I don't always agree with that though

I'll answer a question that I vote down

and vote to close

just because I'm a generally helpful person

lol :)

I actually regularly do that (like several times a week)

brb

actually I only figured the weatherwise best season to capture Milky way. Have yet to check if it is up enough at that time.

ack, for the week and for the month, my top keyword is Nikon

clearly I need to answer some more Canon questions to fix this problem ;)

Try Sony instead ;)

It looks like Nikon users have more than their fair share of problems.

Is this lens reasonable for a lumix gx1? I want it as a bit of a general purpose lens, but also doing some portrait work - cgi.ebay.com/ws/…

Minolta 35-70mm f/3.5 - I already have the adaptor

f/3.5 seems pretty bad, but for about $30 I can't complain much.. Right now I have the panny 20mm f/1.7 and a minolta rokkor 50mm f/1.4. Would this complement well?

@Daenyth Background bokeh will not be great with that Minolta, so portraits will suffer a bit. But I'd take the lens at that price anyway :)

is it an older lens?

the thing to realize is that if it is film era, it isn't going to have anti-reflective coatings on the inside elements

so it is going to get internal reflections from the sensor

it's only really a problem with bright light sources in or near the shot, but it is worth mentioning

If it turns out to be a failure, you can always tear it apart and maybe learn something in the process

hard to go wrong at $30 though

@AJHenderson is that likely using flash+umbrella off camera? Only if the actual source is in frame right? I haven't noticed any such issues with my 50mm

Point was if it has those antireflective coatings or not. Other words, was it made for digital or film camera.

let me look..

Film

So good to know

but yeah, at $32 I'm totally going for it since I already have the adaptor.

it's only if it is pretty directly in the frame

or angled towards the lens

Thanks

basically, it's easier for light to end up bouncing around inside resulting in images becoming washed out or having glow and ghost lights in the shot

but if the light sources are behind you and you aren't shooting at night, then you probably won't have many issues

it's just certain situations the lens will fail miserably

but otherwise it will be fine

I'd rather have aperture ring on lens than any of those modern camera dials/buttons

but then I did not have a zoom lens when I was shooting with aperture-ring-on-lens system

so I guess I don't really know if I would like it for real.

taking photos like this got my Canon powershot into trouble (years ago)

Reminded by this question photo.stackexchange.com/questions/41604/…

it was a windy day and the very fine sand was flying, not only after footsteps but really flying on its own.