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[–] 98 points 11 months ago (18 children)

Pika is a real animal?

Gen 1 pokemon really are just funny colored real animals.

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Actually, name of many Pokemon are multi layered

    So there is no wrong, but both right

    It is the beauty of Pokemon names and even concepts

    Watch some lockstin and gnoggin if interested in this topic 😇

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Its light in general, not lightning

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    “pika” on its own is a sudden flash of light. This onomatopeia is very old (edo era old). What kind of light flashes do you think you’d find 400 years ago? There was pretty much just lightning. Not to be confused with the repeated “pika pika” which like the other commenter said indicates more of a glimmer or shiny and is way more common today.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I think these are the same root? Pika pika is used to mean clean but it's onomatopoeia for sparkling. That double word onomatopoeia construction in japanese doesn't really have a direct analogue in English I don't think.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 43 points 11 months ago (46 children)

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

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  • [–] 62 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (17 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Haha, i think, I recognise you from another adhd post 😄

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    i agree with you. a friend found an alto sax at an auction, got it for a song. when he heard i was dusting my tenor off he just gave it to me. i will have to give it back eventually, but we're just glad it's being played.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Genuinely, what do you have and what would you possibly be looking to get for it if you were interested in selling it? I've got a EF mount Tamron 150-600 contemporary but it's a little slow.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    EF ... I think sigma 120-400, but sluggish as well.

    I wasn't able to convince myself to get on the proper Canon one.

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  • [+] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (20 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    depends on your definition of novice.

    a novice that is incredibly passionate and has been absorbing knowledge and experience at a fast pace? sure

    a novice that just got a camera who's shooting in .jpeg and has yet to hear of lightroom? (or alternative photo editing software) no

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Yes, but there's so much more to compositing a good shot than just focal length. I'm recommending to a new hobbyist to walk before they run. Framing, lighting, perspective - a cheap phone from 2019 off eBay is still better than what your grandparents had, and is better than cameras from 99% of human history.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Cheap phone from 2019 is better than medium format film wat?! Better than 35mm film?! I dont see it.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Well, went and did research (gasp!) and found I had been lied to! Or at least to say it's complicated. My statement does have merit in that yes! The most popular cameras from 2019 average 25 megapixels, and that puts it neck and neck to several uses of film (frequently animated uses).

    I still think my primary argument is unchanged, but the precise details of my statement are somewhat hyperbolic. In my defence, "better than film" has been the marketing for at least a decade and there are things that digital photography shine at.

    Still, thank you for keeping me in check.

    https://www.learnfilm.photography/the-resolution-of-film-negatives/

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    a cheap phone today is better than a digital camera from 15-20 years ago. but neither can stand up to analogue cameras that use film. we can extract 4k video from footage shot on film in the 80's (any film footage really, but i mention 80's because the music video for Last Christmas available on youtube in 4k is a wonderful example)

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    how is it physically possible to fit a 120mm lens into a phone?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I said equivalency, so I don't think that's quite literal. That said, it does stick out a bit and is sunken into the phone itself by about a cm.

    I'm not really sure how they get the rest of the way.

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Casually using an amazing photo for a meme 👍

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (1 child)
    [–] 22 points 11 months ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 38 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    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

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    What does it say, when it sneezes?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Why 600mm? Because sometimes you need really good photos of squirrels.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Laughs in micro fourthirds.

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  • [+] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    It's not even that much of a sacrifice. There are some modern 600s that weigh less than what a typical 70-200/2.8 does. Granted, they're on the darker side, but if you have the light (supposedly you will during a hike), you don't always need an f/4.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    ..could just have shot the mountains.

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