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Sounds like you've made a choice, but... the only things I can throw in here after everything else mentioned I agree with is A ) the obvious - figure out what you need and ignore the rest. The camera I most use is seven years old. Focal lengths outside your uses aren't important and heavy to carry around. Same with aperture. FPS and video too. AF speed? Don't ignore MF. PureRAW and Topaz products can help through AI on ISO performance and occasional resolution needs. These are getting better and I just used DeNoise this morning to battle low light. B ) With sensor resolutions doubling, the longterm lens to body relationship is changing. Most want perceptual resolutions to travel with sensor resolution increases. Character lenses can go on forever, but those aiming for accuracy aren't often built for the next jump. Keep an eye on MTF charts, but there was a repeated line about a ton of older celebrated lenses were really built for 10-12MP. Not the ones you mentioned, but they also were unlikely built for 50-100MP. I have some beautiful Voigtlanders that are my favorites at 24MP, but not at 50MP, unless again you're going for character. Finally, we're all likely different, but I shoot differently with different cameras. Again, I'm being obvious, but struggles often connect with deliberateness. I'm happy camera phones are always getting better, but when I throw the shots in C1 it's obvious I shoot different than with traditional cameras. Same between dissimilar traditional cameras. Finally figure out the more important practical needs around size/weight/speed/other conveniences and it's usually possible to build what you want as most are rarely in a need of more than 1-3 focal lengths, and given resolution-cropping options, maybe less than that.

Man, hard for old people to replicate the power of young people's falling in or out of love's all-in perspective (or at least fake it in song).

Annual Taschen sale going on. If you’re looking for fat, impressive books, to collect dust, now’s the time. https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/sale/all.htm

Had only seen clips. Plays a little differently in whole.

Maybe rename the thread "Blackwater"?

Testing if one is really the loneliest number?

Okay, consider this a recommendation coming from very low expectations, and I know they've been around awhile, but picked up one of those GE LED+ BR30 bulbs (battery backup, multi-color, or Bluetooth speaker extra "addition") with the speaker option and it isn't half bad. The surrounding can rattles a little with bass, and should be considered, but not the bulb's fault. I mean again have proper expectations (think of the same mono driver in a similar sized, cheap desktop speaker), but it's kinda cool if you have a use case. Anyone else using?

Sonny Rollins on jazz landmark The Bridge at 60 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/21/i-was-so-close-to-the-sky-it-was-spiritual-sonny-rollins-on-jazz-landmark-the-bridge-at-60

RIP Steve Schapiro, photographer & photojournalist https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jan/18/ali-to-andy-warhol-steve-schapiros-life-in-photography-in-pictures https://petapixel.com/2022/01/19/iconic-american-photojournalist-steve-schapiro-dies-at-87/

Is this where Bradley Cooper gets his technique?

Glad it was a good birthday and smart move going inland. Mel and Esmé went to Capitola after the clear and the beach was closed due to debris everywhere.

Hope it’s a grand one.

Sounds like the picked the right name for global warming caused "Arctic Zombie Fires".

Seems the Spotify hifi tier timing is still unknown (missed earlier stated EOY). https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Music-HiFi-Quality-Lossless-Streaming-16bit-44/idc-p/5324421#M238504

I'm not seeing any snow angels in these photos.

Okay, not a new idea, but Noveto is at CES this year, so perhaps closer to a real product. https://noveto.com

RIP Peter Bogdanovich https://decider.com/2022/01/06/peter-bogdanovich-obit/amp/ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-01-06/peter-bogdanovich-career-best-movies

Started Station Eleven last night, but this morning Alex Steffen on discontinuity and the planetary crisis. https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/discontinuity-is-the-job https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/were-not-yet-ready-for-whats-already Learning fun new words like “transapocalyptic”.

Congrats. Watching Mindless Consumerism thread.

I’m trying to approach 2022 less seriously, so starting the year with Wings. I mean Wing.

I don't know which of these 2022 will be, but here's hoping for the second.