So it's a bit involved. I have a valoi 360 scanning kit that includes an advancing mechanism for a roll of film. It helps a lot, even though its dumb expensive. I had an enlarger that i took the head off of, which essentially made it into a copystand, and i got a tripod head to mount my camera on to. the valoi system comes with a mirror to make sure the camera is level, and then basically you feed the film through the advancer, take a shot, and then advance to the next frame.
you can definitely get by with other scanning kits, or even just a cheap lighttable off scamazon. But i had a bad experience with the lomo one and my brain broke and I shelled out the cash. Plus I develop and scan a lot of film and im not too at risk of dropping this hobby, so i figured in a couple years it will have been worth it.
It's my first time really getting into 120! I've only shot it sparingly in the past with meh results developing (the two-rolls-on-one-spool trick caused overlapping and screwed development)
I develop at home with a AGO film processor. This lets me use a larger 5-roll paterson tank so i can do 5 rolls of 35mm at a time, or 3 rolls of 120. You might notice some artifacts on the left of the frame -- I think that was moisture from difficulty getting the film on the roll in the darkbag. I used a not-completely-dry spool (i did a 35mm dev sesh leading up to loading) so i think some water got on the film and caused that.
I hang all the film in the bathroom to dry for a couple hours, then scan it with my olympus OM-1 with a 30mm macro lens. this works great for 35mm, since the negative fills the frame for the most part, and I can deal with ~15-20mp scans for 35mm. For 120, in the past I just accepted lower res scans. but this time I figured I'd try the OM-1's 100MP feature, where it stitches together multiple images to reach a higher resolution. I don't know why, but in the past I had bad blurry results from this, but this time it turned out great i think. I use manual focus assist, which zooms in while focusing, and i adjust til i can see the grain. Then i put the camera in aperture priority and start shooting.
I use negadoctor in darktable to reverse the color and then manually adjust rgb sliders. the colors are the most difficult to get right, but I've improved my workflow quite a bit over the past 2 years.
As a gamer, I love Valve. Problem is, I'm not their customer. Their customers are publishers and independent devs. Their main product is digital shelf space in the one of, if not the, most visited digital game store.
This is the lens through which any discussion of Valve's business practices has to be viewed. None of the companies in this meme compete with Valve in this arena, except perhaps Epic Games. They are for the better part Valve's customers, and they probably don't like that. They might create their own stores to try to claw back some of their sales, but their core business model is not reliant on those stores.
As another commenter said, if this is a monopoly, it doesn't seem like one created through anticompetetive behavior. You can watch Gaben on YouTube talk about how he just wanted to make a distribution platform for Half life that wasn't clunky like Microsoft. Steam was just one of the first, imo.
(This isnt necessarily me condoning their business model though. Still feels like digital feudalism if you ask me.)
Don't listen to people who say it's not possible to have fun learning about this stuff. It can be. I can be boring, too, depending on your interests. Sounds like you're worried about wading through things like Capital, Communist Manifesto, etc. Totally warranted -- they were written in a different time and for a different audience. That's not to say that there isn't good stuff to get out of primary sources, but it's more difficult.
I recommend listening Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life to get some context as to who he was, what movements he was a part of, the state of the world he grew up and lived in, and a breakdown of the things he believed, things he changed his mind on, etc. It gives you important context. You don't need to slog through it or do a ton of mental work. Just listen and absorb it. If you don't understand a section, replay it and try to do some mental work to "get it," but if it doesn't click, move on and keep listening. Over time, you will begin to understand.
I also recommend listening to Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds. Very accessible.
Why do I have to justify my lack of engagement to you. No, I don't do that stuff. I don't buy branded bananas, I don't watch cable tv, and I block ads. I don't recommend TV shows by transphobes in my day to day, as far as I'm aware.
Honestly, you yourself are probably contributing more to Harry Potter engagement by posting about it on a public forum. All publicity is good publicity, after all. I'm not out here judging you for it.
Let people enjoy things the way they do. Not everyone needs to "engage with the IP" or whatever else in order to have a good time simply watching a show on their own.
Unfortunately I've heard this exact refrain from at least one small town Christian couple up here in the northeast
I get these vibes, too, from some of the increasingly trad-aestheticized Catholics I grew up with, which is actually antithetical to the actual stance of the Catholic church which is, y'know, science and God go hand in hand, evolution is real, big bang happened , etc, etc
Edit: like suddenly those Catholics are ALL ABOUT demons and learning about demons. One was trying to tell me Labubus are based on Chinese demons and I blurted out "oh you believe in their demons too? Like not just Christian demons but ones from Eastern tradition as well" dude did not understand what I was asking so I dropped it to not be too much a dick
Chores for sure. Throw on an audiobook while doing the dishes.
Reading is fun too because you can get a little more absorbed in the world, if you can manage to stay focused.
Watch Baraka.
Go for a walk around the neighborhood.
Wake and bake. If you have a yard, go into it. Look at it. Look at the plants. Differentiate the plants. Take a picture of one. Use your phone to identify it with Google lens or iNaturalist app or something. Find the scientific name (evidently called "binomial nomenclature", huh). Use bonap.org to find out if it is native to your geographic area. If it is, keep watching it day to day. omg it is blooming. Look at the insects doing stuff on them. realize holy shit that's their home. they feel peace, like i feel when i hear running water. this is an ecosystem. If it isn't native, find out if it is invasive. If so remove it as best you can without disturbing your other plants. If it is non-native established or something else, consider keeping it depending on how dominating it is in your yard. Keep watching the natives. Identify others. Read their wikipedia page. Find out they attract monarch butterflies. Prune away the non-natives. Admire your yard. See a monarch and cry with joy. Continue into the fall. Keep taking pictures. Watch the petals turn in and shrivel a little. Witness death. Snow comes. See the stalks remain. They poke out of the quiet blanket. In other places, hard mounds of snow ice envelop. It melts to dirt. Brown yard and sticks are seemingly inert. Somehow it's all gathering momentum. Imagine next season. Those stalks weren't there before last summer. They're gonna explode and even more are gonna pop up. Get excited. Hell yeah. There's gonna be so many goddamn natives in my yard next season.
I love steam and valves hardware products, but the thing is, I'm not the primary customer in their business model. Steams product is digital shelf space in one of the most popular digital arcades, access to which they charge their real primary customers: independent game devs and publishers.
Whatever their activities are outside that, even the much appreciated proton and contribution to Linux gaming, is in the context of capturing more gamers on their platform, making their real product an irresistible choice for their real customers to release their game on, despite the steep per-purchase cut Valve takes.
That's not an entirely...erhm...nice business model imo. It's remarkabley like Amazon, but at least Valve didn't put a bunch of local bookstores out of business becoming the juggernaut they are.
Honestly i felt the giddiness that DF did in that first video. It was exciting not just because it did look like a huge upgrade to realism -- but because this is another pandoras box moment for genAI. Exciting in a holy shit way, not a "I can't wait" way. Also, I believed it when they said it was just changing the lighting. Looking at the Grace model more, along with peoples comments, there has to be more than lighting going on here. and with Jensens comments, I think that seems clearer.
He really is pushing the slop angle, and, well -- me too I agree with you. I've soured on the whole idea. I think there's been too much backlash toward DF though.
cool! i never knew
I heat it up and pretend its a hot drink (it is)
Two very different protest songs I heard this year
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - The Iron Wall Hen Ogledd - Scales will fall
well its pretty gloomy out there
weather changes though. i have more hope than i used to.
So it's a bit involved. I have a valoi 360 scanning kit that includes an advancing mechanism for a roll of film. It helps a lot, even though its dumb expensive. I had an enlarger that i took the head off of, which essentially made it into a copystand, and i got a tripod head to mount my camera on to. the valoi system comes with a mirror to make sure the camera is level, and then basically you feed the film through the advancer, take a shot, and then advance to the next frame.
you can definitely get by with other scanning kits, or even just a cheap lighttable off scamazon. But i had a bad experience with the lomo one and my brain broke and I shelled out the cash. Plus I develop and scan a lot of film and im not too at risk of dropping this hobby, so i figured in a couple years it will have been worth it.
and yeah, Darktable is amazing.
It's my first time really getting into 120! I've only shot it sparingly in the past with meh results developing (the two-rolls-on-one-spool trick caused overlapping and screwed development)
I develop at home with a AGO film processor. This lets me use a larger 5-roll paterson tank so i can do 5 rolls of 35mm at a time, or 3 rolls of 120. You might notice some artifacts on the left of the frame -- I think that was moisture from difficulty getting the film on the roll in the darkbag. I used a not-completely-dry spool (i did a 35mm dev sesh leading up to loading) so i think some water got on the film and caused that.
I hang all the film in the bathroom to dry for a couple hours, then scan it with my olympus OM-1 with a 30mm macro lens. this works great for 35mm, since the negative fills the frame for the most part, and I can deal with ~15-20mp scans for 35mm. For 120, in the past I just accepted lower res scans. but this time I figured I'd try the OM-1's 100MP feature, where it stitches together multiple images to reach a higher resolution. I don't know why, but in the past I had bad blurry results from this, but this time it turned out great i think. I use manual focus assist, which zooms in while focusing, and i adjust til i can see the grain. Then i put the camera in aperture priority and start shooting.
I use negadoctor in darktable to reverse the color and then manually adjust rgb sliders. the colors are the most difficult to get right, but I've improved my workflow quite a bit over the past 2 years.
As a gamer, I love Valve. Problem is, I'm not their customer. Their customers are publishers and independent devs. Their main product is digital shelf space in the one of, if not the, most visited digital game store.
This is the lens through which any discussion of Valve's business practices has to be viewed. None of the companies in this meme compete with Valve in this arena, except perhaps Epic Games. They are for the better part Valve's customers, and they probably don't like that. They might create their own stores to try to claw back some of their sales, but their core business model is not reliant on those stores.
As another commenter said, if this is a monopoly, it doesn't seem like one created through anticompetetive behavior. You can watch Gaben on YouTube talk about how he just wanted to make a distribution platform for Half life that wasn't clunky like Microsoft. Steam was just one of the first, imo.
(This isnt necessarily me condoning their business model though. Still feels like digital feudalism if you ask me.)
Don't listen to people who say it's not possible to have fun learning about this stuff. It can be. I can be boring, too, depending on your interests. Sounds like you're worried about wading through things like Capital, Communist Manifesto, etc. Totally warranted -- they were written in a different time and for a different audience. That's not to say that there isn't good stuff to get out of primary sources, but it's more difficult.
I recommend listening Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life to get some context as to who he was, what movements he was a part of, the state of the world he grew up and lived in, and a breakdown of the things he believed, things he changed his mind on, etc. It gives you important context. You don't need to slog through it or do a ton of mental work. Just listen and absorb it. If you don't understand a section, replay it and try to do some mental work to "get it," but if it doesn't click, move on and keep listening. Over time, you will begin to understand.
I also recommend listening to Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds. Very accessible.
Why do I have to justify my lack of engagement to you. No, I don't do that stuff. I don't buy branded bananas, I don't watch cable tv, and I block ads. I don't recommend TV shows by transphobes in my day to day, as far as I'm aware.
Honestly, you yourself are probably contributing more to Harry Potter engagement by posting about it on a public forum. All publicity is good publicity, after all. I'm not out here judging you for it.
Yikes...talk about bad at small talk.
That's how I watch TV for the most part too.
Let people enjoy things the way they do. Not everyone needs to "engage with the IP" or whatever else in order to have a good time simply watching a show on their own.
Respectfully, that's not always the way to change peoples minds / hearts. Most certainly not in this situation, which involves family dynamics.
I appreciate the frustration though. I get it.
Unfortunately I've heard this exact refrain from at least one small town Christian couple up here in the northeast
I get these vibes, too, from some of the increasingly trad-aestheticized Catholics I grew up with, which is actually antithetical to the actual stance of the Catholic church which is, y'know, science and God go hand in hand, evolution is real, big bang happened , etc, etc
Edit: like suddenly those Catholics are ALL ABOUT demons and learning about demons. One was trying to tell me Labubus are based on Chinese demons and I blurted out "oh you believe in their demons too? Like not just Christian demons but ones from Eastern tradition as well" dude did not understand what I was asking so I dropped it to not be too much a dick
Anyone know if there are immediate practical implications of this? I get foreign made routers are now deemed a security risk, but
so it seems not much is changed? I'm curious what this means practically in the near term.
still quite concerning and stupid .
Edit: oh theyre banning imports apparently. Guess i didnt know the meaning of the Covered List? https://apnews.com/article/fcc-foreign-router-ban-national-security-technology-7e5333aeaf82496ce6350f57699db5ba
Chores for sure. Throw on an audiobook while doing the dishes.
Reading is fun too because you can get a little more absorbed in the world, if you can manage to stay focused.
Watch Baraka.
Go for a walk around the neighborhood.
Wake and bake. If you have a yard, go into it. Look at it. Look at the plants. Differentiate the plants. Take a picture of one. Use your phone to identify it with Google lens or iNaturalist app or something. Find the scientific name (evidently called "binomial nomenclature", huh). Use bonap.org to find out if it is native to your geographic area. If it is, keep watching it day to day. omg it is blooming. Look at the insects doing stuff on them. realize holy shit that's their home. they feel peace, like i feel when i hear running water. this is an ecosystem. If it isn't native, find out if it is invasive. If so remove it as best you can without disturbing your other plants. If it is non-native established or something else, consider keeping it depending on how dominating it is in your yard. Keep watching the natives. Identify others. Read their wikipedia page. Find out they attract monarch butterflies. Prune away the non-natives. Admire your yard. See a monarch and cry with joy. Continue into the fall. Keep taking pictures. Watch the petals turn in and shrivel a little. Witness death. Snow comes. See the stalks remain. They poke out of the quiet blanket. In other places, hard mounds of snow ice envelop. It melts to dirt. Brown yard and sticks are seemingly inert. Somehow it's all gathering momentum. Imagine next season. Those stalks weren't there before last summer. They're gonna explode and even more are gonna pop up. Get excited. Hell yeah. There's gonna be so many goddamn natives in my yard next season.
apparently they were the only ATC on at that time.
I love steam and valves hardware products, but the thing is, I'm not the primary customer in their business model. Steams product is digital shelf space in one of the most popular digital arcades, access to which they charge their real primary customers: independent game devs and publishers.
Whatever their activities are outside that, even the much appreciated proton and contribution to Linux gaming, is in the context of capturing more gamers on their platform, making their real product an irresistible choice for their real customers to release their game on, despite the steep per-purchase cut Valve takes.
That's not an entirely...erhm...nice business model imo. It's remarkabley like Amazon, but at least Valve didn't put a bunch of local bookstores out of business becoming the juggernaut they are.
plato used it that way in the republic, at least in the version i read
Honestly i felt the giddiness that DF did in that first video. It was exciting not just because it did look like a huge upgrade to realism -- but because this is another pandoras box moment for genAI. Exciting in a holy shit way, not a "I can't wait" way. Also, I believed it when they said it was just changing the lighting. Looking at the Grace model more, along with peoples comments, there has to be more than lighting going on here. and with Jensens comments, I think that seems clearer.
He really is pushing the slop angle, and, well --
me tooI agree with you. I've soured on the whole idea. I think there's been too much backlash toward DF though.I think you mightve recommended me Homage to Catalonia by Orwell a couple months back. Its his memoir about his time in Spain.
It was so good, thanks for that rec.
I've upgraded this ability to 2.5x-3x speed for some YouTubers and I feel like a god.
I just can't watch 4 hours of analysis on Tyler Perry at 1x speed.