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Maybe the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 is too new? Coincidently yesterday I got stuck at a "drop off" party at California's Great America, or as I call it "hell hole", and I've only been there once before, with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5, also 10 megapixels, but CCD. Really loved the colors, which sent me down the CCD rabbit hole. This time the only camera I had with me was the hipster Hasselblad with a Voigtlander lens that required using electronic shutter and these 44 x 33mm medium format Sony sensors are known for the horrible rolling shutter. Anyway, in case there is any doubts, the 13 year old tiny 1/1.63" sensor Panny LX5 destroys the Hasselblad 907x 50C II with ES on moving objects.

Not sure if this summary existing is good or bad, but if want a little of the V magic, but not willing donate more than 18 minutes… Just finished and fun memories.

Nostalgia chills

https://petapixel.com/2023/04/19/lonely-redditors-duped-into-paying-for-pictures-of-ai-generated-woman/

On that note... https://www.npr.org/2022/12/13/1142467098/emerald-city-nights-revisits-jazz-pianist-ahmad-jamal-in-a-series-from-the-1960s

Test Flight EDIT: Not today

Here's a great, short, old doc on Adams...

I have to admit there's still a tiny residue taint here. Silly I know and won't keep me from seeing the show. I'm just repeating what everyone else has said, but it was similar for Hitchcock for years (or during those Serrano years early Spielberg). I lived in the architecture dorm for a year and Frank Lloyd Wright was the same. Just really hard when a single name is known by so many and repeated so often, no matter their justified fame. As for dorm room posters, was in Esmé's fifth grade class yesterday and they recently put up Escher prints and I cringed. See? Exposure, then corruption for life. Grahame, the recent Exposing Muybridge doc could be a fun follow-up as the above shots of different photographers in similar locations are mentioned. Also, due to the timeline, the photographers life Adams was born into (about when Muybridge died).

Where the hell should this thread go? Any thoughts on Schiit’s new “universal surround” dac/preamp/headphone amp? https://www.schiit.com/products/syn Some development history over on the other site (linked in announcement email).

Probably best to A/B to be sure. How was the show?

I wear that hat often. In a group chat yesterday I posted "I guess Leica is out of business". It went similarly.

Okay, my jokes don’t always land.

Leica once again copies Pentax

Get your monochrome camera here - https://pentaxrumors.com/2023/04/12/ricoh-announces-new-pentax-k-3-mark-iii-monochrome-dslr-camera/

I dunno. Steve it's kind of you to be considerate of the experience and potential power imbalance, but I gotta say aren't you assuming a little about pseudo fathers and fragility and how it applies in his case? Maybe it's true, but maybe he just kinda likes specifically you. And you wouldn't be you at a more matched age. Also maybe some protective "not good at relationships" stuff to get past too? Tread caring and carefully and see where it leads?

FIFY Oh, these videos are getting too common lately. 🫣

It sadly took Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru dying two weeks ago at 99 for her to show up on my radar. Listen to a short interview with her on the BBC, The Honky Tonk Nun.

It was kinda fun to watch The Hummingbird Project (Hulu) right after.

Best episode ever

The Russians Took Their Children. These Mothers Went and Got Them Back. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/todayspaper/ukrainian-children-mothers-russia.html

It’s coming.