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Speaking of big guys, anyone watching Peacemaker? It’s my smart-dumb, semi-guilty, middle of the night watch.

We're in Ozark now. Add teenage money laundering to the earlier Euphoria sex and drugs list.

This is another reason to watch the show. https://www.popphoto.com/news/hbo-euphoria-shot-on-kodak-ektachrome/

Yep, though inherent would be closer to bought. Mel's sister gave it to us as she left the country to convert souls to white Jesus. And of course ROI sucks for any other choice when you're comparing to free. Especially during rarely used pandemic times and Mel's Mini is just more fun to buzz around in. #firstworldproblems Grahame, there's actually a children's CD stuck in there, that condenses (shockingly well) the first three Star Wars films down to a softer ~35 minutes using voice actors, half of which seem to have never heard the original actors. The accompanying book is long gone ([ding] "turn the page"], but we switch on every few months, usually at night, for a semi-exciting adventure and laugh. Far worse things to get stuck in a CD player. #firstworldproblems

Not sure if it really needed it, but first car wash since the start of the pandemic. The 2010 Kia Optima is back to all its sexy glory. I really hate this car.

I’m curious your experiences with the 2i. Keep eyeing it. Also this Tweet from last night seems relevant.

I suspect this could go in at least four threads...

The Architecture of Musical Instruments https://petapixel.com/2022/02/02/photographer-reveals-the-architecture-inside-musical-instruments/

So that’s where Galifianakis got the Between Two Ferns idea

"So they rigged up cardboard cups that contained three-inch speakers and chamois pads from a flight helmet, and they attached them to a headband made of a bent clothes hanger covered with a rubber shower hose."

RIP Monica Vitti, “Queen of Italian Cinema” https://theweek.com/news/1009681/italian-film-star-monica-vitti-dies-at-90 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/movies/monica-vitti-dead.html

Kinda funny Leica's highest resolving lenses (SL) and current highest resolution sensor (M11) don't work together.

Equally small is hard for mirrorless to compete with M bodies, but lightweight they can. As mentioned above, the E mount Zeiss Loxias and Voigtlander E models, if you can deal with manual focus, are great on Sony bodies, but there are a ton of options. It’s what I used for a couple years. M-mounts versions can be adapted to anything (also mentioned above). Not small or light, but nicely balanced, I recently switched from a M240 to original Leica SL (that seven year old body) and couldn’t be happier with it. Shoot mostly M glass adapted. You may want to read around the below to find lenses, if you’re adapting. It’s Sony-Leica focused, but you could apply out. https://phillipreeve.net/blog/

Don't feel bad. They originally each auditioned for the others role. I keed. Thankfully someone just uploaded the drunk reflex test. For those younger members this is how television used to look like.

Short answer is I don't know beyond I think you're fine for any 16-21-24MP designs. And plenty argue 21-24MP is where most should probably stop. Now I'm going to blab. In the Fuji world some people argue the 16 to 24 jump was when things went from analog to digital looking and argue there are downsides of even that high. Some systems change mounts enough you kinda can use it as a division (harder to do for Nikon's long compatibility back). The 16-24 designs probably start to breakdown around 40MP+ (a guess, because honestly I haven't tested to even state that - besides examples I mention), but can be a solution until you pick up "native" glass for a new resolution. Watching others debates are often a clue. When the GFX system was announced lots of people, including myself, used Mamiya M645 medium format glass. It looks great... until you compare to native GF lenses. Damn! Over time hardly anyone uses M645 lenses (unless you want character - say funky, busy bokeh). That said many still use some EF lenses and others use Sigma Art lenses to fill in focal lengths, and I bet they outperform the M645 glass (on GFX), and they're happy. Half this is like TV shopping. One looks incredible, then you glance at the colors and blacks of the model next to it. And then all the other questions - is a "portrait lens" more suitable over time than one used for landscape? Maybe. Should you consider buying new lenses if considering a doubling of resolution new body? Maybe... if perceptual resolution is the goal. The reverse question - should you stop climbing resolution if you have lenses you know and love? Maybe. Whatever the end point, does every lens eventually become a character lens? Maybe. Seems so for a ton of big cinematographers. Does sharpness/resolution over time stop being a primary goal? Also seems so for many. I'm babbling and not really answering your question, because I just don't know, but to make things even more confusing there are long term medium format film shooters that claim digital starting beating traditional MF by most measures with Micro 4/3s around 2010. If true, we're a dozen years into everything equal or larger sensor and equal or higher resolution being icing. So whatcha gonna do with that? I know it's not a very Head-Case question, but gear in the way? 🥴 EDIT: Just reread the above. Boy that’s a lot of useless text.

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?