There’s nothing like early spaceflight. I wonder when we (humans) will be so bold again in any kind of pursuit.
These two books look great. Around 60€ each, not so bad compared to other photo books
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Rolling shutter bench found on Reddit
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I haven’t given much thought to analog photography lately…but as I was driving home yesterday a question popped in to my head:
How were panorama photos first processed? Or even photographed?
I don’t know much about this topic, but I’ve read about some cool panoramic film cameras a while ago. There was stuff like the fuji GX617
Holga 120 pan
Widelux
When things still had character
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I wonder how fast that bench was moving?
Like our school photos from 50s/60s (and later) I suppose. One long negative, one long print. I don’t have a memory picture
of the camera: might have been like the Widelux
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I don’t know about ‘first’, but I know that shooting 35mm film in a Pentax 6x7 camera can achieve a panorama shot. (The 6x7 is a medium format camera which uses 120/220 film but can be loaded with some creative work…I have not tried it with mine, but maybe one day.) So I assume other medium and large format cameras could basically do the same.
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The thread has moved on but…
This seems to be hugely difficult for many to understand. The critical things have gotten extremely unaffordable whilst entertainment and frivolous gadgets etc have gotten cheaper. It’s pretty beautiful to think that you can live frugally a few years to buy a house.
Around here that would be a dream scenario. Most don’t expect to ever pay their morgage.
Boomers have undoubtedly been very lucky in their timing. They’ve seen improvements for most of their lives whilst starting from an OK point. Many also fail to understand how much things have changed.
It’s not the generation that set things up though. It’s more or less the development of capitalism that has shifted so massively towards assets whilst devaluing work. It’s a global thing and governments can only fiddle at the margins of this effect. Now margins can make all the difference for people but it’s a global systemic issue that isn’t reversing.
Investments barely go to to productive things. Adam Smith would have had a stroke if he saw current rentier capitalism. According to him what we’re seeing would be dysfunctional right? Was a while since I read him but he was hating on rent seeking if I remember correctly. There’s barely a business plan now that isn’t based on it now.
This change in the economy has so many incredibly negative and complex repercussions. Whilst also making the changes required by the climate and other challenges impossible.
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This is the thread for random stuff right. Quite liked this:
“I was really quite good at arguing online, back in the old days, on Twitter. I have very few skills, but I am pretty good but pithy abuse - belittling people in a way that looked like victory but was in fact just meanness with an economic use of words. But the truth was, I was becoming cruel, or there was at least a possibility of cruelty developing in me. Each instance involved a subtraction from the parts of myself I wanted to encourage - connection, human empathy, understanding. All these things I’ve always found permanently out of reach.
This is why you never really win an argument online. You see people have them and even seemingly win them, but they come out of it looking as dirty and bedraggled as the other person. Everyone comes out looking a twat.”
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Isn’t this just: “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” reworded differently?
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I hadn’t heard that. Yes, better
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Who said I don’t like it??
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Some math and very nice graphics explaining traffic jams:
I guess you don’t live somewhere that TIcketmaster dominates the market.
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