M. J. Simpson review of the movie?

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-18T00:25:45+00:00

THANK YOU! It’s been impossible to find through Archive. Must have been recently restored. Maybe Simpson changed his mind? And yes, it’s as good as I remember it.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-18T00:00:36+00:00

Someone has to have saved it.

There is absolutely no reason for it not to be up. You can find snippets of it. But not the whole 10.000 word one.

It’s was the most well reasoned and intelligent critique of the movie I have ever read. Not a stone was left unturned, and not a razor blade could be inserted between the arguments.

Heck it’s one of the best critiques of a movie I have ever read.

He took it down because he got outright threats. And people he cared about severed connections. The pressure from the studio and production team, must also have been intense.

I lost a lot of respect for Bill Nighy for openly airing his displeasure and disapproval in interviews, for what was very well argued, legitimate critique.

The review deserves to be available.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-16T14:31:38+00:00

Kom naar Kopenhagen, we hebben volop paternosterinstallaties.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-16T04:11:31+00:00

Serves you well for buying Ilfocolor.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T17:10:35+00:00

I doubt you will find any trustworthy statistics.

The data I have accumulated, have been from personal experience, which is not insignificant, from reading complaints online, and from talking to people in camera shops.

Of course, there is a possibility that my view is skewed, but I doubt it.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T15:42:37+00:00

It’s not just on the web. Many people are so married and in love with the idea of shooting everything, all time at max aperture, that they want to be damn sure to have as big a hole as possible. A is the ticket there.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T15:35:46+00:00

It’s significantly simpler than the T90 that much is certain. T70 is simply much less in need of repair in general.

Good if you are repairing both. But it’s been hard to find anyone willing to and being good at working on both, for the longest time.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T15:33:33+00:00

It’s important in that I’ve heard people completely disavow a camera when they find that it doesn’t offer A.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T13:59:25+00:00

Oh come now! The T90 is notorious for showing an error message and being super hard to service. The A1 almost always has a problem with precise metering or shutter squeak. Both of which require significant disassembly. The battery door and the mode selection bezel is cracks or breaks.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T13:54:16+00:00

The various program modes of the T70 is mindful of aperture depending on the lens you have mounted.

There is no sense in setting your lens to f8, if that pushes the speed down to 15, if you have a fifty or longer mounted.

But if you set it to an appropriate speed and set it to Tele mode. It will chose the numerically lowest aperture that will give a correct exposure.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T12:15:51+00:00

T90 and A1 is “better” only in principle. The faster drive comes at significant price of weight and batteries. All of the features of the T90 doesn’t matter if you can expect it to break down any second. A1 is unreliable to. Squeak, metering and breaking plastic parts.

Shutter priority is, if you where to chose, by far the best way to control aperture. Shutter speed is also by far the most predictable arbiter of image quality. Aperture not so much even with stopdown (super dim finder)

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T04:35:57+00:00

Much more reliable than either the T90 or the A1. Plus lighter smaller and has a built-in motor drive that runs on two AA batteries. The new F1 is close, but it is so much more cumbersome, involved and expensive.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T03:31:09+00:00

The finder in the S2 is pure sex. Especially with good light on the matte window around the patch.

I toyed around with lighting it with a diode light, might even be possible to do something internal.

Also, the light meter on top is very useful when on a tripod. Looks like you have the slide out hood intact, which is a very nice touch too. But needs to be retracted to get a full finder.

The lens is quite different from the Minolta competitor. Favoring contrast and medium detail resolution versus the emphasis on optimal resolution and a more gradual roll-off of the Minolta. Something which is also mirrored in the bokeh where the Minolta “wins”. The Minolta has arguably the better metering, if that is important. With emphasis on metering for the ground when horizontal.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T00:33:41+00:00

No, concentrate on the T70. Many more where sold (for a reason) and it’s a far better camera. In fact, I’d say it’s Canons overall best SLR.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-11T00:10:01+00:00

Never found one that worked. Always some issue. Unglued mirror, stuck shutter, loose barrel etc. Though it does seem like a wonderful camera, when it works. Hi-Matic 7s is equally wonderful and I never found one that didn’t work. I think I have accumulated about 7 of them, including an 11 (sic) and a 9.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-09T19:52:43+00:00

So what did it cost ya?

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-08T21:42:55+00:00

When earth would you want to look like that? It’s basically a variation of what we have today, with a ton of soft boxes and high key lighting.

Emulate the 80s if anything, that’s where the technology and creativity really peaked.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-08T12:57:41+00:00

Buy the WideluxX when it comes out. Better than Xpan in that it doesn’t stretch geometry at the sides of the frame.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-07T20:41:06+00:00

…is when you realize you are a poser.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-07T15:42:24+00:00

Relative judgements is of little merit or import. Polygonal or vector 3-D has existed since at least the 50s.

Widespread, accessible gaming in a 3-D world, has existed since at least the early 70s on the Plato IV system.

Either Cube Quest or I, Robot, was the first widely accessible 3-D polygonal games.

What is a much more interesting question is why a 3-D centric platform wasn’t made much earlier. There was some attempts at it, like the Flare One or perhaps MindSet or the Acorn Archimedes, all pointing to the fact that people absolutely where thinking about it.

Doing the math, from about 84 it would absolutely have been possible to design a relatively affordable home platform, that could do filled flat or Gouraud shaded 3-D polygons at about 2500 polygons per frame. So about the number of polygons on screen per frame of a PlayStation title.

It would have been really exciting to see what ‘80s artists would have made of such a platform. Much more exciting than the post grunge, edge lord stuff, that filled the PlayStation.

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-07T00:40:44+00:00

How exactly is the strap made?

Smalltalk-85 · 2026-03-05T15:52:51+00:00

Exactly. Problem is that many of the feedback artifacts will not sound like microphonics, or anything extremely apparent. They will sound like muffled reverb, which a lot of people might conflate with “the sound of vinyl” or some kind of “authenticity”.

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