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The product has four hours' battery life in low-filtration mode, according to Pocket-lint, or 1.5 hours in high filtration.

Who’s taking one for the team? https://www.ign.com/videos/these-dyson-zone-noise-canceling-headphones-have-an-air-purifier-ign-now Is it April 1st somewhere in the world already?

Sounds like the Baftas were even more fun. Rebel Wilson made light of the fact that Smith wasn't present to collect his best actor prize when she hosted the Bafta Film Awards in London earlier this month. "Will Smith won for King Richard, but I thought his best performance over the past year was being OK with all his wife's boyfriends," she joked from the stage, a reference to the couple's apparently open relationship. After an audible gasp from the crowd, the Australian comic added: "What? Come on, he didn't show up."

Yea, I don’t get the spreading the blame at all. Jada has alopecia, not stage four cancer. She’s struggled, but “became friends” with it last year. She no longer hides it and clearly going for a strong bald look now. The joke was a softball, that’s what they do at these shows, and Will initially laughed at it (rewatch). And he was protecting his wife how exactly? He probably just sabotaged both their careers. What a ridiculous mock manhood. That family, and I’m including Jaden here (I don’t know enough about Willow and should we mention the infidelities and hidden first family?), has been fucked up for a long time (while pretending to be the perfect Hollywood family). This was Will exploding. Simple as that. If that set him off what wouldn’t next time? And the speech he gave for Best Actor a few seconds later “love makes you do crazy things” sounded exactly like the justification court testimony of every boyfriend who’s killed their girlfriend. I can’t figure out if I hope he is banned from all future award shows or they book Ricky Gervais next year with the request he only makes jokes about the Smiths. Well, maybe let him make fun of CODA too. EDIT: His acceptance speech is even worse than it sounded like from reports. I don't pretend to understand the pressures he feels, but Will Smith as savior is a bit much. Who's "the devil" in this speech? Vessel and Ambassador of Love? And still giving him a standing ovation?

Will and Jada Smith?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ca7gcT4gz1O/?utm_medium=copy_link

Sean Penn: I’ll smelt my Oscars if Academy doesn’t let Zelenskiy speak https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/27/sean-penn-oscars-zelenskiy-ukraine

Placing here as we don’t have a what are you not eating now thread, but came across this this morning at 7 Eleven. When did we start caffeinating donuts?

So we had the same server as last week. This week’s attempt at “Esmé”.

You Should Listen to CDs https://www.wired.com/story/you-should-listen-to-cds/

Invasion adjacent activities... US Capitol riot suspect gets asylum in Belarus https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60843262

I’ve been driving Esmé crazy with her new name.

Anyone watching this during the Russian invasion of Ukraine? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/mar/18/american-song-contest-eurovision-usa-states

^ They actually call the baby formula Nestogen?

One more diversion point. When I was a kid on a family friends boat on Lake Erie and crossing over to the Canadian island Pelee, literally all I remember about any cultural differences were that KitKats had a different name (at the time), Rowntree. It seemed so sophisticated. For a few years in this brain KitKats were THE global brand.

You still have a possibility. KitKat is handled by Hershey, Nestle's rival, in the US. So maybe avoid elsewhere, but stock up from US and double the economic damage to Nestle. Map of countries where Kit Kat is marketed. Dark Red: UK (country of origin). Red: Countries with KitKat products owned by Nestlé. Light Red: Countries with KitKat products manufactured by Hershey (US).

Drone Mass Johann Johannsson

That first image is impressive, but still seems like lots of tuning left from the second.

Best lens is of course dependent on a lot including what you shoot, and some of these are only available to specific mounts and in specific mounts there are many other options, but favorite? That's easy. Ignoring the CV 50 APO-Lanthar (new and suffering due to second lens choice below) and CV 50 Nokton 50 f/1 (arrived Friday, but first results are encouraging**), the clear winner is the only lens mentioned twice (different mounts), but actually three times. I bought the Voigtlander Nokton 40 f/1.2 E for a Sony system with electric coupling. Although the A7III was my least favorite camera (skin tones under mixed lighting and controls from a Fuji analog control fan), that lens-camera combo was my favorite. When I moved to the M240 I went with the 50mm VM equivalent due to frame lines with the rangefinder. And then when I traded the M240 for a SL, I re-ish bought the Nokton 40mm f/1.2, VM version this time. And of course I haven't sold any of them 'cause I'm lazy. Those Noktons are the perfect balance between character and accuracy in my book. Just pick the 40 or 50 based on FL you prefer. And don't take my word for it. Take a glance at the longest running single lens review thread over at FM (if you run through all you'll even see a birthday boy's appearance in bubble popping fun). There's an argument the Noktons are when Voigtlander went from third behind Leica and Zeiss, to equals (and of course many of Zeiss lenses are also made by Cosina, Voigtlander's owner). And if you discount the Leica approved/branded Panasonics and Zeiss approved/branded Sonys, Voigtlander has released the most lenses and experiments in the last seven or so years. Less expensive is a plus too. Two lens prime option? A smarter person would spread out the focal lengths, but you're talking to me. I'd go for the Sigma Art 40mm f/1.4 (aka Beyond Art - one lens cine specs in a still body experiment - c'mon Sigma do it again!). The Noktons opposite. Big, heavy, 16 elements/12 groups, optically near perfect and will pull resolution out any sensor behind it. Also that auto-focus thing. And watch the pricing as it rotates mounts sales often. Currently Canon and Nikon users are in luck (Adorama a little cheaper than B&H). Check out the below video. I love talking about camera gear and hate doing comparison shots, but you can see examples on IG and less frequently updated Flickr. Same user name and lens always mentioned in IG description at least. Using rangefinder lenses without info sent to camera doesn't help on the Flickr side and again, did I mention I'm lazy? Ha! I'm a big believer in body-lenses combinations. Lenses are creeping up in price (approaching/matching older bodies used cost) and with sensor resolution jumps the old lens-body relationship isn't what it quite was ("date the body, marry the lenses"). If you don't mind using different systems, maybe find magic combos, instead of spreading out to all focal lengths. Or go with zooms which invalidates pretty much everything above. Please! I'm always curious about cases/bags/straps experiences. Recently for me it's been Clever Supply straps and Stone or LATZZ drawstring bags for each lens/body and then whatever non-descript backpack my company gave me or Timbuk2 messenger bag I picked up on sale, that doesn't scream camera(s) inside. ** This is one of the 13 shots I've taken so far. Momentary Roblox disruption yesterday. Again, this is mostly family stuff so anything I say has likely zero benefit to landscape, sports, street... pretty much everything, shooters. But typing this did allow putting off cleaning house for a bit!

Happy birthday Al. Assuming your car’s vibe is currently…

Maybe I should aim for "comprehensive"? And still not sure on that second question.

Putin the ascetic

So if there's one thing I learned from the headphone hobby it's if you don't have too many headphones and amps you're going to have to collect dust somehow else. With the addition of the CV 50mm f/1.0 arriving yesterday (and today a blah and rainy day to test instead), doing more buying than selling during the pandemic, and knowing that has to change (I have lenses that have no corresponding bodies at this point), decided I needed to lay out the worst offenders to survey the damage (and offer you a laugh). I'm pretty much a prime, "normal" focal length shooter. Prefer 50mm to 35mm, though have drifted somewhat to 40mm over time. Well, 40 is the cine's normal to photography's 50 after all. Anyway, including only lenses at these focal lengths, not 35s or wider or 55 or above teles or any zooms, this is what sickness looks like. 17 lenses covering the same-ish view. "All the shots look pretty much the same!" Yeah, kinda, mostly, not completely, but I know. Don't harsh my buzz. A purge will come. Left to right and front to back... Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.0 (m-mount) Sigma dp2 Quattro [Foveon] camera fixed 30mm (45mm equivalent) f/2.8 Asahi Pentax SMC-M 50mm f/1.7 (k-mount) Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.2 (m-mount) Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.2 (m-mount) Voigtlander APO-Lanthar 50mm f/2.0 (m-mount) Voigtlander Heliar 50mm f/3.5 (m-mount) Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.5 mkI (m-mount) 7Artisans [Photoelectric] 50mm f/1.1 gold-baby! (m-mount) Sigma Contemporary I 45mm f/2.8 (l-mount) Sigma Art 50mm f/1.4 (sa-mount) Sigma Beyond Art 40mm f/1.4 (l-mount) Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.2 (e-mount) Zeiss Loxia 50mm f/2 (e-mount) Mikaton Zhongyi Speedmaster 35mm (50mm equivalent) f/0.95 (x-mount) Contax Zeiss T* Planar 50mm f/1.7 (c/y-mount, thanks @dsavitsk) Fujinon GF 50mm (40mm equivalent) f/3.5 (g/gf-mount) sd Quattro H and Fujifilm X-pro2 cameras not shown for those lenses. And here's a quick shot of a diarrhea sign testing the new lens last night before the sun went down. Buy high, sell low. I do love those Noktons. Maybe just settle on the CV 21 f/1.8 Ultron, and Noktons CV 40 f/1.2, CV 50 f/1.0, and CV 75 f/1.5 and one system? But the GFX is so fun with those Lomo lenses and color manipulation. Maybe two systems? And a basic zoom for each? Oh, that GF35 is so light, basically a X100 on steroids. And that CV f/3.5 so fun at that aperture. And I still have film aspirations. And I'm not going to get much cash at this point for those Foveon cameras anyway. I dunno, is minimalism still in?