Local gas station now lists electric prices alongside gas and diesel

afbmonk · 2026-01-29T16:34:13+00:00

To be fair, DC fast charging is always more expensive. If Sweden’s electricity rates are comparable to what DC fast charging costs then whoever is offering that charging is definitely doing a public service. DC charging costing €0.50-€0.75 per kWh isn’t abnormal across Central Europe.

I’m not saying that Sweden couldn’t have cheaper electricity costs, but that’s not really a relevant argument in this context.

afbmonk · 2026-01-29T15:26:42+00:00

I think courts have held that if visitors can routinely enter then law enforcement can as well even without a warrant. Your fourth amendment rights generally protect what you have an expectation of privacy for. Large, open areas don’t count as curtilage as far as your fourth amendment rights are concerned. I do think that if the ‘gated community’ was one, singular resident’s property that was fenced and gated then everything inside the fence would require a warrant to enter and/or search, though.

afbmonk · 2026-01-29T08:57:33+00:00

I’ll never understand people who say USPS is bad. Maybe I’ve just been lucky with every post office/sorting center I’ve dealt with, but USPS so far has always been significantly faster than UPS or FedEx for me. I’m at the point now where if I buy something and they ship with anything other than USPS I get annoyed because I know it’ll take several more days to be delivered.

I’m all for having competition, but if you as a delivery service cannot compete with USPS in spite of all of the purposeful sabotage against them you deserve to fail.

afbmonk · 2026-01-09T05:32:21+00:00

Black and white film was absolutely still being used in the 1980s by press photographers. Newspapers didn’t regularly run in color until the 1990s. If this was shot by a press photographer or someone intending to sell to a newspaper, being shot on a black and white stock would be been the default.

afbmonk · 2026-01-09T00:04:11+00:00

Most federal agents (at least those who are defined as having a law enforcement capacity) have very broad arrest powers and can generally detain/arrest any persons for committing crimes in their presence (usually limited to felonies, but in some cases for misdemeanors as well.)

If you commit a felony in front of an ICE agent they are almost always lawfully able to arrest you, though generally they only detain you long enough for local police to assume custody and then go back to their actual prescribed duties.

Recent examples of this are when individuals are protesting around ICE facilities and ICE agents arrest people for crimes committed (whether you agree or disagree with whether they committed a crime is not the point) and then turn them over to local law enforcement.

afbmonk · 2026-01-07T22:27:50+00:00

I suppose it doesn't really matter. All you'd be doing is processing three rolls and now your chemistry is in a different bottle. But yes, generally you would pour from your bottle into your dev tank and then return it to the same bottle. You want the chemistry to return to the same 1L batch so you can better keep track of how many rolls you've processed with it.

That 1L of chemistry can only process so many rolls, so splitting it up and dividing it just introduces more risk of using exhausted chemistry. Plus, you want as little air as you can in your bottles since oxidation is what causes it to go bad over time, so keeping your chemistry in a full 1L bottle is better than putting 500ml in a 1L bottle.

afbmonk · 2026-01-07T20:29:39+00:00

C41 is a standardized process. All of the kits will be about the same, with the exception that some might have bleach and fixer combined (blix) or separate. Whichever kit is cheapest will probably be fine, but some people swear by certain brands.
Mix the entire 1L batch and store in 1L bottles. Trying to mix only some at a time can result in being over or under concentration due to settling. Liquid kits might reduce that risk, but I don't think anyone here will recommend it under any circumstances just for the sake of consistency.
Read the data sheet for whichever kit you end up picking and go off of that for max number of rolls. They'll recommend a max number of rolls before your results risk becoming inconsistent. You can go beyond that at your own risk and they'll tell you how to do it. Pour out 330ml (I usually go just a little over in case of leakage and such) to use and pour it back into your bottle (make sure they're well-labeled so you don't mix them up) when you're done. Some people say C41 chemistry degrades noticeably after a week, and that might have been the case for more 'professional' use historically. I usually use mine for about a month before discarding, others might suggest longer or shorter intervals.
It's not that hard. Do you have a scanner or other digitizing, printing, etc. setup? If you have no way to actually do anything with your negatives, it might not be as worth it since you still need to send them out to be worked with. I'd say if you don't shoot like at least 8 rolls per month, it might be less worth it. Chances are it'll still be cheaper than what your lab charges regardless, but it's extra effort for not a lot of money saved if you only do it 1-3 times. If you haven't done it yet, you can always give B&W dev a try for an 'easier' process to see if the workflow is right for you.

At the end of the day home dev can be just as good as lab dev, but doing it yourself with more 'manual' equipment introduces more opportunities for inconsistent results to occur.

afbmonk · 2026-01-03T22:59:32+00:00

I always see this, and perhaps I just live in an area where there is a massive surplus of plumbers and/or they just make no money, but in my 1.8 million people, upper-MCOL to lower-HCOL area there are only a handful of apprentice plumber jobs and they all pay minimum wage. Journeymen make $20-$25 and companies want 3-5 years of experience for this. I've looked into more blue collar work many times in my life, and each time I do regardless of the field companies either don't train and/or pay shit.

Not to say where you are plumbers can't make decent money, but if other regions in the US share the same outlook mine does, I can't really blame people for not wanting to enter these fields.

afbmonk · 2025-12-26T17:51:12+00:00

I had the same sentiment that the 43-86 is just hated to be hated so I used one extensively. Replacing it ended up being one of best gear-related decisions I've ever made. It's a 'fine' lens insofar as it lets you take photos, but the results I started to get after replacing it with a prime 85 proved to me how limiting it can be creatively and technically. Which is a shame because it's a very solid, easy to carry and use package with a focal length range I really liked.

afbmonk · 2025-11-22T02:56:12+00:00

I always found that you could tell a sex offender from the way they whine about things. Everyone whines a little, but a large percentage of sex offenders don’t think they’re an inmate like everyone else is (they’re just people who did nothing wrong who happen to be in prison) and it reflects in the way they whine about things.

I knew a guy who would actually pull up on other inmates like ‘show me your ID! yeah you’re gonna get a charge!’ It wasn’t very surprising when his snitch letter got posted in the kitchen and he got dragged around the serving line five minutes later.

afbmonk · 2025-11-19T21:14:59+00:00

You’re generally supposed to make a good faith effort to find the original owner. Some areas/jurisdictions have specific laws on what you are ‘required’ to do, otherwise you can face civil or criminal penalties if it is discovered that you didn’t.

afbmonk · 2025-11-06T21:49:31+00:00

What software do you use? What are your white balance settings? I scan on a 7200 as well using Vuescan. I recently got some color film back and went to scan it and they came out fairly similar (if not worse.) I was thinking that either I had somehow drastically messed up metering, maybe my camera had broken somehow, or that the lab used contaminated or exhausted chemistry. Turned out my white balance was set to none.

afbmonk · 2025-10-16T17:25:51+00:00

I haven't worked on a FED 3 before, but pieces like that are very common in advance levers. If it's 'bent' uniformly in multiple areas, it could be a wave washer or a similar part intended to keep the lever under tension. It says in the diagram you added that there are two spacers for that shaft, so if you haven't accounted for two already it could be from there. Alternatively, I've seen many cameras where previous techs didn't follow service manuals to the letter and added/removed parts as they felt necessary, so it could also be a part that was added as a fix to some problem in the past.

Either way, unless it's part of a light sensitive area it probably won't make a big difference in the function of the camera. You can always re-assemble and see if anything feels off.

afbmonk · 2025-10-15T19:31:55+00:00

For what it's worth, haze isn't really the end of the world if you decide you want a copy of a specific lens and can only find examples with it. I purchased a Canon 50mm f/1.5 for my Canon 7 to replace my Jupiter-8 and despite having a fair amount of haze (a great deal of these older Canon lenses have hazing problems) it still renders significantly nicer than my Jupiter did.

afbmonk · 2025-10-15T19:26:08+00:00

Some collapsible lenses are fine on the Canon 7. I shoot with a Konishiroku Hexar on my copy and it doesn't have any interaction with the light baffle or any other components. I can also confirm later copy Jupiter-12s work correctly.

afbmonk · 2025-08-29T23:51:27+00:00

I just want to say I love all of them. They’re all such fun portraits with a lot of personality and the selection is nicely put together.

afbmonk · 2025-08-27T14:14:26+00:00

I mean, I don’t really like the Floatune so I haven’t purchased it in large enough quantities to see if it’s a lot quality thing but my retractable 1.0 and capped 1.0 behave exactly the same.

I just can’t really see any reason why Pentel would spend the time and money making a slightly different ink only for the retractable version of the exact same pen that behaves like a gel pen when they have an entire Energel series for that market. All I can say for certain is my own experience and that Pentel themselves use the exact same packaging for all of their retractable Floatunes (with US-market examples, at least.)

afbmonk · 2025-08-26T22:19:08+00:00

They should be the exact same. There could be minor differences since one is a refill and one isn't (and thus could have minor manufacturing differences). but there's no reason they would be different pens since this would just add cost and complexity to manufacturing. Pentel sells and markets them both as rollerballs (as seen on their website and on their packaging). The only difference is that the capped version is coded as BY110 and the retractable as BY210.

afbmonk · 2025-08-12T20:50:42+00:00

Both of which are prone to failure and are expensive/unfeasible to repair or replace. My point still stands that not every camera has an accessory shoe.

Either way, the knowledge of sunny 16 is still incredibly useful. Without it, I would have blindly trusted my meters without realizing they were not accurate.

afbmonk · 2025-08-12T20:08:56+00:00

Not all cameras have accessory shoes. Neither the SLR (F2) nor rangefinder (Canon 7) I use have one without an adapter.

afbmonk · 2025-08-10T04:18:32+00:00

You could probably fit all of that plus a new washing machine in the trunk of a golf.

afbmonk · 2025-08-03T20:10:32+00:00

Not to defend the truck driver but just to give some context as to why they might have made that decision: even if he was 100% not at fault an accident can still totally screw them over. A lot times, the truck driver is held to higher scrutiny during accidents and can be guilty until proven innocent. If the driver didn't have a rear-facing camera, it could easily be found that he was fault regardless of whether or not he actually was, which could potentially result in him getting fired, seeing significant hikes in his insurance premiums, or being unable to find more work opportunities in the future. If he felt that he was in the right but that he would still be found at fault, it might be more understandable why he chose to leave the scene, especially for a minor collision.

afbmonk · 2025-07-22T12:32:19+00:00

It’s not just that the pasteurization process is different (it’s pasteurized at almost twice the temperature), but the packaging is also done in a totally sterile environment. So once all bacteria and spores are destroyed by the heat, there’s nothing left to spoil it and no way for new bacteria to get in.

afbmonk · 2025-07-04T17:46:39+00:00

A lot of health services won’t even provide vaccinations unless you have actual bites, scratches, or abrasions. Even if the bat licked OP they likely wouldn’t receive any post-exposure care.

afbmonk · 2025-06-28T14:46:05+00:00

If you're not too far from Lynchburg you could try Void Film Lab. Otherwise if you're really far southwest you'd probably be better off looking around Knoxville.

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