Tainan City in Taiwan had been installing and using smart parking meters for the last seven years; it uses a set of cameras on the parking meter to identify vehicle license plate numbers. It pretty much does all the things mentioned in the article, except it also allows you to pay on the spot via payment card or third-party payment, if you want to.

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Gogoro's business model revolves around making money off the batteries. You are required to sign up for the monthly battery swap service, even if you buy the charger and charge the scooter yourself.

This is based on my experience with the Sony A7S III specifically, but I assume it should apply to other mirrorless cameras. The EVF will try to show the preview image at as close in brightness to your camera settings as possible, but at in real-time up to the maximum native ISO. For example, if the camera is set to 1" @ iso 1600, then the live view will be as bright as if the image was taken at 1" @ iso 1600, but in real-time and a much higher ISO (base on trial and error, the preview brightness tops out at the equivalent of 1/60" @ iso 1024000.)

For comparison, using a lens at 600mm f/6.3, with the camera set to 1" @ iso 1600, you can clearly see and manually focus on Jupiter and its four larger satellites; they look like one big white dot with four little dots. Comet Leonard also shows up as a white dot at this setting (but I wasn't able to really tell what it actually looked like until I took the shot.)

I would definitely say the EVF performs better than an OVF, especially b/c when you start manual focusing, the live view can be magnified by up to 10x.

Regarding loss of night vision, I didn't find that to be a problem (just turn down the EVF brightness.)... you aren't really going to be looking thru the EVF once you start recording anyways.

Hope this helps.

The mirror(s) also redirect some of the light to to a metering sensor and the AF phase detection sensor, so a DSLR traditionally needs the mirror to be able to autofocus. A benefit of the optical viewfinder would've been that it was easier to manually focus at night (since your eyes are more sensitive than the sensor), but I find that the mirrorless cameras these days are good enough that this is not really the case anymore. The only other actual benefit I can think of is that optical viewfinders use very little power compared to electronic viewfinders, so you need to bring more batteries with you when using a mirrorless.

They mean the IDE itself is now 64-bits (the previous IDE executable was 32-bits.) Also, note that Visual Studio for Mac is actually a separate product, in the sense that it started out as a rebranding of Xamarin Studio (which had a Windows, Mac and Linux version.)