{"id":2416,"date":"2014-05-05T00:17:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-05-05\/2416"},"modified":"2014-05-05T00:17:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T15:17:58","slug":"in-case-you-werent-fully-aware-of-just-how-stupid-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-05-05\/2416","title":{"rendered":"In Case You Weren&#8217;t Fully Aware of Just How Stupid I Am&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"053313\" href='\/i\/JF4_053313.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_053313_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nphotostream='japan'\nalt=\"Waiting Kendo master next in line for his match -- \u65e7\u6b66\u5fb3\u6bbf -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2014 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\nid=\"i053313\"\ntitle=\"Waiting Kendo master next in line for his match -- \u65e7\u6b66\u5fb3\u6bbf -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2014 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>80 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2, ISO 1000 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_053313.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_053313.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Waiting<\/span>\n<br\/>Kendo master next in line for his match\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_053313.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2014-05-04'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Waiting Kendo master next in line for his match -- \u65e7\u6b66\u5fb3\u6bbf -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2014 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>If you don't know me personally you may not have <span class='nobr'>a good<\/span> grasp of just how stupid <span class='nobr'>I am,<\/span> but today's story\nshould fill you in plenty.<\/p>\n\n<p>Online reviews for Sigma's new 50mm f\/1.4 <span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>Art<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span> lens have been universal\nin praise for its quality without respect to price, made all the more\namazing that its price is &frac14; that of lenses of comparable quality.\nI've not had good luck with Sigma in years past (as reported <a\nhref='\/blog\/2010-05-07\/1517'>here<\/a> and <a\nhref='\/blog\/2006-10-31\/274'>here<\/a>), but all the\nstellar reviews made me give them another try.<\/p>\n\n<p>Yesterday I ordered it on Amazon Japan, and it arrived today just as <span class='nobr'>I\nwas<\/span> about to head out to photograph some <i><a\nhref='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kendo'>kendo<\/a><\/i> (<span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>Japanese\nfencing<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span>). It wasn't the best focal length for the situation, but <span class='nobr'>I used<\/span> it here and there throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n<p>Prior to loading photos into Lightroom <span class='nobr'>I have<\/span> to pre-process the files to fill in missing lens details that\nLightroom doesn't let me edit after the fact, such as replacing the\n<span class='nobr'><span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span><b>0.0 mm f\/0.0<\/b><span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span><\/span>\nthat the camera puts for my favorite non-CPU lens with <span class='nobr'>a more<\/span> descriptive\n<span class='nobr'><span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span><a href='\/blog\/2010-07-13\/1564'>Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5<\/a><span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span>.<\/span>\nWith the new 50mm lens, <span class='nobr'>I wanted<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a full<\/span> description so as to differentiate it from other 50mm lenses\n<span class='nobr'>I might<\/span> use, so <span class='nobr'>I needed<\/span> to update my pre-processing program to fill in something like <span class='nobr'><span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span><b>Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM<\/b><span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Updating my program to handle the new lens involves finding out exactly what data the camera writes for it,\nthen mapping that to whatever <span class='nobr'>I want<\/span> to change.<\/p>\n\n<p>It's at this point in the process (after ordering the lens the previous\nday, receiving it today, testing it, and then using it throughout the day)\nthat <span class='nobr'>I realized<\/span> I'd ordered and received the 35mm version, not the 50mm\nversion.<\/p>\n\n<p>Doh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don't know me personally you may not have a good grasp of just how stupid I am, but today's story should fill you in plenty.<\/p> <p>Online reviews for Sigma's new 50mm f\/1.4 \"Art\" lens have been universal in praise for its quality without respect to price, made all the more amazing that its price is &frac14; that of lenses of comparable quality. I've not had good luck with Sigma in years past (as reported here and here), but all the stellar reviews made me give them another try.<\/p> <p>Yesterday I ordered it on Amazon Japan, and it arrived [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}