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These guys now on vinyl.
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Remapping the aspect ratio switch to MATE-like focal lengths is cool.
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15 hours ago, crappyjones123 said:
Super nice colors. I am either using an 85mm or a 135mm almost always. Looking at some of the images, my mind immediately went to how far I'd need to walk to get the same perspective, if at all. Compression is nice but sometimes nice to be close and capture a wider fov.
Yeah, I'm a 40-50mm shooter generally. Rarely go tighter, except some portraits (75, 105mm). Have been attempting to go wider (24-35mm) more over the last six or so months. Again these are nothing special, but I'm trying to "see wide".
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RIP expiremental photographer Duane Michals
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A Fake Angine De Poitrine Has Been Playing Live In Russia
https://www.theprp.com/2026/06/08/news/a-fake-angine-de-poitrine-has-been-playing-live-in-russia-they-dont-even-say-its-not-a-real-band/
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Kicked off the summer this weekend with the San Mateo County Fair. A few not terribly inspiring shots below. Leica SL2-S during the day with the softer Light Lens Lab 35mm f/1.4 Double Aspherical "11873" and during night the more modern Voigtlander 28mm f/2 Ultron.
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On 6/4/2026 at 7:21 PM, n_maher said:
I'm heading in to work tomorrow at 3am to trigger the time lapse camera that I setup this afternoon using my A7IV. If all goes to plan it'll take at least 3000 still frames over a 24 hour period and not fall from the sky (it's mounted ~100' in the air). It's on a smallrig mount with multiple tethers so it shouldn't be capable of flight and should be rigid enough to be stable/consistent throughout. If I get the video cleared for public release I'll post it.
How did it go?
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Jordan Jensen’s 2025 Netflix comedy special Take Me With You. Probably the best set I’ve seen in a while.
[NSFW]
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RIP Marjane Satrapi, director of ‘Persepolis’, “who died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life”
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Cumbias Chichadélicas 2
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Cumbias Chichadelicas: Peruvian Psychedelic Chicha, ‘cause Chicha + ‘cause I’m studying the Inca in class.
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^ Cool Canon J20x Super box lens on that Sony.
And yes, I've previously had sex with women.
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Finished Suddenly Amish last week...
which lead to the reverse, a Breaking Amish marathon this weekend.
And I assume Return to Amish is next.
It being modern America, Jeremiah Raber, of the latter two shows, now has an album out. He may be King of the Resentful Adopted Into the Amish Bro Country singers.
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38 minutes ago, robm321 said:
I'm finally getting around to listening to Sonny Rollins.
We've been at the lake house for a few weeks. Will listen to, Way Out West, when I get back to my vinyl rig.
Till then, Qobuz will have to suffice.
The last 45 minutes of the 48 hour memorial is playing.
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37 minutes ago, HiWire said:
Affinity by Canva? It's free.
Thanks, yeah it’s a strong app and I use occasionally. This is where we get to the apples to apples question. [Switching to Adobe-speak] Affinity, is a great Photoshop replacement, not so much Lightroom. Trick is Capture One covered what I needed for both. The Photoshop-Lightroom division has always felt abnormal from a photography perspective (though PS is obviously used by non-photographers too). PhotoLab is close as tries a similar approach, but because its focus is camera and lens corrections, it won’t even import (or fall back to OS processing) any non-supported combos. You’re dead in the water with many cameras, including several I use. Anyway, first world problems, but all ears for suggestions and thanks for this one.
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Looks like Capture One will be sold again.
https://petapixel.com/2026/05/28/capture-ones-private-equity-owner-is-trying-to-sell-it-report/I really don’t want to go back to an Adobe subscription, Exposure (aka Alien Skin) hasn’t been updated in a few years, PhotoLab doesn’t seem to have any interest in demosaicing old or unusual sensors, and my experiences with Luminar and ON1 have not been positive. Maybe time to give Darktable a try, unless others have a different recommendation?
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The 48 hour WKCR Sonny Rollins Memorial Broadcast today and tomorrow.
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The Plot to Eliminate Gaza
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-board-of-peaces-plot-to-eliminate-gaza.html
"The Board’s charter does not mention the word Gaza once. The stated mission comes with a much broader ambition: to promote stability, restore governance, and secure peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict — anywhere. Gaza seems to be merely the Board’s first deployment. Under its own logic, the three active military fronts currently disrupting the Middle East — Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran — are theaters of war that should be resolved by the Board, if only they were not being waged by two Board members, the U.S. and Israel."
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5 hours ago, skullguise said:
^^^ One more reason why the human race is doomed.....
Another (more from Todd Hata).
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The postman always rings twice. Live album arrived.
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For those interested, WKCR is running a 48 hour Sonny Rollins Memorial Broadcast Friday and Saturday.
http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u
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He was also the last musician survivor of “Harlem 1958.”
https://uptowngrandcentral.org/harlem-1958
With the death of his fellow saxophonist Benny Golson in 2024, Mr. Rollins became the last survivor of the 58 musicians captured by the photographer Art Kane in his famous Esquire magazine group portrait “Harlem 1958.”
“I was a fan,” Mr. Rollins told The Times in recalling the photo shoot in 2024. “I was in the picture, but it wasn’t so much as a musician — although I happened to be there as a musician — but I had been following jazz all my short life up to that time, so I knew a great deal about the guys.” He added that he was particularly proud to have been photographed alongside “my particular idols, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young.”
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Hania Rani, Manchester Collective, Hugh Brunt: Non Fiction
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RIP someone or another
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Another one - pianist Abdullah Ibrahim
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/15/pianist-abdullah-ibrahim-dies