This looks great. Maybe I can manage a trip to Bristol. Saw this exhibition at Photographers’ Gallery in London. Four floors of Women Japanese photographers from the 40s to the present day.
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk
As well as two separate exhibitions on American photography since its inception to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The British Museum also has a 250th US exhibition.
I am so jealous that I’m So Happy You Are Here (Japanese women photographers) came someplace close to you. Asako Narahashi is one of my favorite Japanese photographers.
Likely not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OxoqkZwmmk
After a Copilot sesh tonight doing the last stretch of procurement documentation validation. Thanks uBOL.
Yeah, I noticed the Aperture book of the exhibition was from 2024. I guess it was shown in New York and other places previously.
I’ve printed and hung pictures at up to A3 format (42×29.7cm) that came from my not-even-21MP APS-C sensor, and it’s fiiiiine. Those prints can be 300dpi from that sensor (assuming I don’t have to crop), which is already overkill.
Based on that video, I’m now even less worried about prints, and might go for a much larger print from some images.
Do note that he’s benefiting from down-sampling, so the results are gonna be better than a simple 8MP crop or taking the photo with an 8MP camera. Of course nobody has an 8MP camera these days, but the test is flawed in my opinion
I have two 10MP ones. Also, are you sure there’s a diff between a downsampled or a native image? Assuming decent glass and no crop? And even when downsampled, a soft image is not magically going to sharpen up, just because you smush some pixels together, right?
Maybe for the purposes of pixel peeping, yes. But practically, if your prints look good, then that is what matters.
That’s what I thought, too. Still, I might have been missing something, of course, which is why I asked.
By downsampling you gain higher SNR, anti aliasing, and other small benefits. You will not magically gain sharpness. But of course, it’s not so straight forward, it will depend on the specs of each sensor that you are comparing.
A practical example is how people complained the X-T5 had more perceived noise than the X-T3, but when downsizing the 40MP → 26MP you end up with similar noise.
I still don’t know much about photography, but I learned this: if you have a working camera from the last 10 years (or even 15), and a lens you like (no matter what vintage or price), and maybe a few trivial gizmos depending on what you shoot (a tripod, ND filter, flash…), 99% of the time you are not missing anything.
Specifically, I think that if you know what you are doing, you can take very good photos with 10Mp cameras. A couple of decades ago I had a Nikon D70s, with its glorious 6Mp sensor, and a kit lens, and I have an A3 panorama I stitched together from JPGs taken with it that is hanging on my wall.
At the cabin.
Went to make coffee this morning, found we’d forgotten the pound of ground coffee set aside for the cabin’s venerable Mr Coffee machine. What we have instead is this Netspresso machine that that our kid gave us when he upgraded, and some of its compliant pods. Rummaged through the boxes, found an espresso roast and put it in the machine. Pressed the button, and it proceeded to squirt an ounce or so and stopped, apparently satisfied with it’s performance. Well, I’m not satisfied with that quantity, so I pressed the button again, and got another ounce. Did that six more times to get a proper serving, then doctored it up "pastry- style with my standard dose of half-n-half and sugar.
Yes, i know the Netspresso system is designed to meter product according to the sort of coffee that resides in the pod, and espresso roasts are intended to be served in those tiny cups you hold with just your thumb and index finger (oh, and my pinkie finger sticks out naturally due to childhood injury, so, yay that) but that’s not the cup of coffee i want, doggonit. Staring longingly at the Mr Coffee machine…
I have my just- acquired colorchecker studio spectrophotometer with me, and ArgyllCMS on my computer to run command line programs at it to bend it to my will, so maybe i have issues… 
Yeah, I fairly recently learned that the Italians drink their espresso all at once, hence the expression “shot”. So, their servings are quite small. I haven’t tried it that way yet, but I intend to.
Omg @ggbutcher nooooooooooo
French, too, traditionally. I stayed with a French chef in Paris for a week. We’d been flatmates in Cardiff for six months as his girlfriend was a Welsh dentist. We went to the local cafe for a coffee before his shift the first evening and he walked in, stood at the bar, knocked back two shots one after the other and about 20 seconds later we were out the door. That’s why they call it espresso.
AFAIK you can reprogram water quantity on most machines. On mine, it is a long press of the button, release when done. Maybe check the manual of yours.
Same here in Portugal. If you go to a café and ask for a coffee, that’s exactly what you will get 
People usually drink either that or the usual variations of an espresso + milk, or half espresso (long one), half milk, etc.
Drinking coffee any other way is blasphemy!!
But the volumes of ristretto (15–20ml), espresso (25–30ml), and lungo (40–50ml) are not that different. If someone can drink one quickly, they can just drink any other quickly.
My understanding is that the volume of water matters because the longer it runs, the more bitter/astringent flavor will end up in the cup. Of course it depends on the beans and roasting too.
The rest of the world does not consider a gallon of coffee to be a “cup” 
We drink an actual cup sized coffee.