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[-] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 98 points 1 week ago

Pika is a real animal?

Gen 1 pokemon really are just funny colored real animals.

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 92 points 1 week ago

“Ekans” is just “Snake” spelled backwards.

“Muk” is just…oh, oh god

[-] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago

Pika is pronounced "pie-kuh" generally. Pikachu comes from pika pika (japanese onomatopoeia for "sparking/sparkling" usually with the connotation of clean) + chuu (sound a mouse makes/squeak).

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Actually it comes from pika(-tto), the onomatopoeia for a lightning strike.

[-] Cintari@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Not according to an interview by the creator of Pikachu, Atsuko Nishida:

“Since it was an Electric-type Pokémon, I thought ‘pika‘ [the expression of light flashing in Japanese].

https://web.archive.org/web/20211108083831/https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/creator-profile-the-creators-of-pikachu/

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[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Voltorb, Muk, Magnemite, and Mr Mime would all like a word with you. Jynx, however, doesn't mind.

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Bigger lens is better for wildlife photography and long distance shot. Animals scurry away when you try to get close, so it's best to take a picture from the distance.

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 week ago

Shit. My ADHD brain doesn't need another expensive hobby to hyperfixate on.

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wanna buy my setup? My hyperfixation ended.

Edit: but for real, we should introduce a ADHD-sharing network. My old fixation could be yours and vice versa. And I could tell you everything I learned, which is a lot!

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

I'm super into this idea. It's got stuff! It's got sharing! It's got socializing! Seriously, what a rad idea

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

it's craigslist ;)

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

Let's get hyper fixated on this idea and make it a ... oh, I could start another hobby?

Can we get someone who can focus for longer than a week for project lead?

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That's a great idea for a store front. And great for buying for those people that are hard to buy for, cause they have to figure out how the whole collection works lol

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[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Dont spend money on fancy new cameras, chances are the camera in your phone is already better than 90% of all cameras in history. Don't drop a dime on equipment until you've hit the limits of the hardware you already have.

The picture above isn't a picture of what an expensive camera can do - it's a picture of what a good photographer can do, enhanced by specialty equipment. In the hands of a novice the equipment cannot produce pictures like this.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

Phone cameras are great. Their compatibility with telephoto lenses is what sets them back.

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[-] Mac@mander.xyz 13 points 1 week ago

Phone cameras are good, yes, but their lenses are not. Even a cheap, used camera is better.

[-] desertdruid 12 points 1 week ago

I get the point but there is no way my phone camera can capture the mountains reflected on the eyes of any animal even on full daylight

[-] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Wildlife photography really is mostly about the equipment though. And waiting/being in the right place obviously. But I can tell you from experience, a novice can absolutely produce pictures like this with the right equipment.

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I did the math for another post and if I remember right the best telephoto lens built into a very recent phone camera has equivalency to around 120mm (anything else is just digital zoom and sometimes AI enhance).

It's a relatively new gimmick, and it can do wildlife photography from afar (I got some good full body shots of deer recently), but it's not quite as good as 600mm or the 1000mm from the other post.

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[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Can you afford to not get into photography, though?

[-] Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 39 points 1 week ago

When you stare into pica, pica stares into you. Also sprach Zarathustra.

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[-] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Casually using an amazing photo for a meme 👍

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[-] Prontomomo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

I like the content, but seriously I’m baffled as to how this is a science meme?

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

I would assume because it's related to educating someone about why optical lenses can give an incredible amount of detail that digital just can't compete with. But that's just a guess and that might not even be enough for this forum

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

What's a digital lens exactly?.. The only thing I can think of are in some point& shoot cameras and phones they have fake factorial zooms that are just cropping into the resolution.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

i'm guessing it was a brain shortcut for a "digital zoom lens"

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[-] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~you people do understand it is fake, and if you zoom on the top right eye, it is not the same as bottom right, right?~~

ok, so to my surprise, it seems to be possible. the difference in the eye may be result of multiple layers of shitty jpeg compression.

the author has more pictures on his web - https://www.pjvphotography.com/Fauna/Pikas

[-] Strawberry 7 points 1 week ago

it is though

[-] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

☺️compression did nothing wrong

You are not supposed to zoom into a compressed photo 🤭

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[-] DearMoogle@lemmy.today 24 points 1 week ago
[-] danekrae@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

What does it say, when it sneezes?

[-] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Tap for spoilerPi

Ka

Chuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mountains in the eye of a trailside pika, ...

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

moments lost, like tears in rain

good bye

now I gotta watch blade runner again dammit! RIP Rutger Olsen Hauer for that performance god DAMN!

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[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

beautiful 🤌

[-] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago
[-] halfdane@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Today's risky click is presented by GreatTitEnthusiast 👀

[-] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Hey, I'm just hear because I heard climate change is threatening Great Tits

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