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  • It varies by army, so this won’t be exact.

    A platoon has around 30 people in it. It has around 20 privates, about 7 non commissioned officers and one commissioned officer. Say 3 lance(junior) corporals, 3 corporals and a sergeant. In overall command is a commissioned officer.

    When you join the army you typically go in as non commissioned as a private or commissioned as a leuitenant.

    Officers are trained to lead people from the start. The lieutenant may have 1-2 years experience and the sergeant may have 16 years experience.

    The next level up is a captain who commands say 3-5 platoons. At the start of saving private Ryan, Tom Hanks character was a captain in command of around 100 soldiers.

    I think around 5 companies make a battalion. And that’s just soldiers.

    You can also make a unit out of soldiers, engineers, artillery, transport and some other specialists like medical and cooks.

    I believe a brigadier general would command a unit around this size.

    To get there I would expect he worked his way up the rank, working at each level for around 2-3 years.

    He would have been in the army around 15-20 years, but some people could get promoted faster.







  • I feel communities can be put in 3 categories.

    1. Everything here is safe for work

    2. Things here are not safe for work, e.g. adult communities. There might be a bit of safe for work, but anyone browsing it knows what to expect

    3. The third is a combination. It might have a community rule that anything NSFW is tagged as such. With my browsing setup I have to click on NSFW posts to reveal them.

    I’d have a look around for an art sharing community. I think theres one on world and they might allow NSFW content and people would be more likely to give you relevant feedback.









  • It’s getting a little outside my area of expertise on the image quality part. Canon have professional lenses which have the red ring around them (or they did for the ef lenses) and I have seen others judge image sharpness etc between lenses and say stuff like it’s slightly sharper at f/8.0 but I don’t think I could tell the difference between the lenses without looking at the EXIF data.

    The page I looked at said the 18-150 had macro capability and the extra reach of the zoom would be the two main things I’d see as differences.

    No image stabilisation shouldn’t be an issue by itself. If your zoomed out wide, you might need to use a faster shutter speed such as 1/200th of a second or a tripod to keep the camera steady where stabilisation might let you hand hold and take the shot.

    I’m using sample figures here, but stabikisation might let you take a shot at a lower ISO and keep a higher image quality at 1/20th second or 1/60th second and might help take a nicer picture in lower light conditions which would otherwise be blurry if it was taken hand held.

    But adjusting the ISO from say 100 to 1600 and taking the same photo at 1/500th a second shouldn’t see much image quality change.





  • I would do two things before committing, plan what lenses id want to add on to the ones you buy initially.

    id also have a look at the manual, and lightly browse it front to back to see that everything kinda made sense. You dont have to read everything in fine detail, but downloading the manual should be free and it could help you realise any more important questions before the sale.

    I wouldnt worry too much about shooting RAW and using manual mode first. Powering it up and using auto and maybe scene mode (sports, landscape, night shot?, macro?) should get you up and running fast.