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  1. Best show on TV. Some seasons can occasionally be seen in the US on various services. It's been on Netflix, BritBox, Roku channel, Amazon, and a few others.
  2. Is the jam on top of the crem on one of those and under it on the other? Pick a side.
  3. I took 4x5 classes in college and this pretty much lines up with my experience. Indeed, the more expensive the camera gear, the worse the results seemed to be. Take a look at the Mamiya Super 23. It's a 120/220 camera that is a rangefinder but that also incorporates bellows for tilts and swings. It has a ground glass back available for utilizing those (as well as a Polaroid back). It also has 6x6. 6x7, and 6x9 backs and really excellent glass. I had one on loan for a while and it's probably my favorite camera I have ever used.
  4. I know lists like this are subjective and always leave stuff out, but no K1000?
  5. @naamanf That's really lovely -----^
  6. Yes and no https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/business/global/sonys-bread-and-butter-its-not-electronics.html
  7. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
  8. Doubtful. Generative AI creates based upon what it has consumed. It has currently consumed everything. While the pattern recognition models will get better, some increasing percentage of what it consumes in the future will be AI generated, and that recursion will make the hallucinations worse, not better. To be better, the AI would need to be able to differentiate between AI generated and not AI generated, and it can't.
  9. Going down the rabbit hole of thinking about sadly discontinued film, I stumbled on a page of someone shooting agfa ultra 50 (the most utterly ridiculous film) with a rolleiflex (the most ridiculous camera). https://www.35mmc.com/08/04/2023/rolleiflex-3-5f-and-agfa-ultra-50-taveling-in-turkey-and-pakistan-by-ibraar-hussain/
  10. You could probably pull process a few stops. https://www.belindajiao.com/blog/pushing-pulling-film
  11. I believe ilford xp2 was the original c41 process b&w. Neither holds a candle to tmax.
  12. To add to this, color positive film was typically associated with "better" color reproduction and archivability than color negative film. And the color positive to high quality print process (Cibachrome/Ilfochrome) goes back a long way and yields better quality and more archival prints than the negative to negative color process. But to the best of my knowledge, there has never been a commercial positive to positive B&W process* and the negative to negative process is of such high quality and extreme archivability that there wouldn't be a point in developing it. That makes B&W slides a not very useful gimmick. It's also the case that [good] B&W photographers do a lot of darkroom work as the process lends itself to it. It wasn't unusual for me to spend full days and dozens of sheets of paper trying to get one print right, and I was a rank amateur. B&W slides would have been useless in that regard. *You can reverse process B&W film to make slides (though I assume you still battle base + fog). I'm sure someone has done the same with paper, but it certainly isn't a common thing.
  13. Agfa Scala was a thing in the 90's, but otherwise I don't remember any B&W slide films.
  14. Not sure it was ever common, but Ektagraphic HC slide film was one of my favorites. https://125px.com/docs/film/kodak/f12-Ektagraphic_HC.pdf https://www.lomography.com/films/871967025-kodak-ektagraphic-hc/photos
  15. For anyone mourning Bob Barker, Pluto streaming service has a 24x7 "Barker era Price is Right" channel.
  16. dsavitsk

    Podcast Thread

    Project Brazen ... announced the launch of “Spy Valley: An Engineer’s Nuclear Betrayal” The series, hosted by award-winning intelligence and national security journalist Zach Dorfman, explores the story of a man named James Harper, a Silicon Valley engineer turned spy, and how he began selling nuclear secrets to the Soviet Bloc. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spy-valley-an-engineers-nuclear-betrayal/id1696589693
  17. Bob Barker, Longtime Host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ Dies at 99 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/arts/television/bob-barker-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=4YbM2mJnqZNndwBV99ivNoczqtsUTXhji-ygPqyfZBZYrVsUtTAxCzomNTRZMbpq7DwJ_1dcCBDeWojww25xevkjZfWLhYRg5l5zeFHHbWUYSNSF6r4dwnXGuigODMHtALYuQRKQTWW2Nzgiu1Qrw3zBSxK39OpBrytH0d8lyJqra54rkyFNcs9jmHLvAPOmkmlpJSQ2aj-NZke1aSa2K7bBXYs4NH5i_FkjZS0J1izeHq38BwzwtWUIwbIZ6neObqg6LopEdJd8Rql7aiFHSShB-rtrLVXegHBovBAI97M_sJIzg4tBQFOVMzKYUm1fg0TrY5QbgdXwfti7LeOySg&smid=url-share
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