Yeah, the DSLR gets brought out either when I want good quality photos of something or when I need capabilites it has that my phone lacks (such as fast shutter speeds, good manual controls, tolerable low light performance even at high ISO, color reproduction, etc). My phone is still by far my main camera, and after I got my Moto One Zoom I'm a multi sensor/lens phone camera convert. Especially for the price, it delivers amazing quality. Even the "telephoto" is highly usable (81mm equivalent optically, but it goes to ~260mm with digital zoom, which while pretty bad for stills is surprisingly tolerable for video), which I wouldn't really have believed before I tried it. The telephoto option has probably increased the amount of phone pictures I take by 5-10x. IMO the standard phone wide angle ~23-28mm focal length is about the most boring focal length possible - not wide enough to be wide, nowhere near normal, and absolutely useless for capturing anything but landscapes if it's more than 3m away. Good for capturing daily life and all-round use, but nothing beyond that. Still, things like animal or bird photography on a phone is still a complete pipe dream, and while current phones do a lot of good stuff with computational photography there's still far more headroom to get a good landscape or street photo out of something with a sensor with higher native dynamic range. Which is why I can't see myself leaving the DSLR behind any time soon.
We've got a Microsoft Wedge Keyboard and some small Logitech mouse (M330 Silent IIRC) for the current setup, and they'll both likely carry over. Having the mouse separate is useful as the keyboard is only used sporadically (it's not like a HTPC sees much writing, chat, or other typing). The M330 tracks great on the couch (pretty rough fabric) or living room table. Whenever the living room gaming urge strikes I'll either plug in a controller (Rocket League is likely to be one of the main games here) or just bring in my gaming mouse and keyboard from the office. The only real drawback is that the keyboard is BT and doesn't work in the BIOS of the current setup, though I've heard that some modern BT chipsets save the connected devices and allow them to connect before the OS loads - that would definitely be a nice thing to have if true, though it's by no means a deal breaker.
First ever ever ever? Did you miss the Barton - Newcastle - Winchester - Venice party? Man, that were good times ?
My first AMD CPU ?
(Currently getting parts for living room HTPC)
Wow, that is a gorgeous case.My Lone L5 arrived today ! Thanks to @Lone for providing such a nice case to the SFF community. I'll take more photos when its guts will be there and I'll make sure to write a proper build log.
Surprised you missed it. It is a super cool case but like you I just don't need anything that small. I wish he would make one that supported full height GPU.
Yeah, that's a big limitation. Also looks to absolutely require an external power brick, which makes me sad.
