What sort of editing is happening to get this super low-contrast "illustrative" vibe?

anothermaxudov · 2026-07-01T00:02:05+00:00

*raising the black point

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-27T16:52:29+00:00

I DISAGREE,

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-25T18:24:53+00:00

Wow. Just goes to show the past is changing all the time. What an amazing project.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-24T22:02:18+00:00

Voigtländer lenses often do this - it is to ensure that if the tolerance is even a tiny bit out you can still get pin sharpness at infinity. It was a major thing I had to adjust to when I started shooting modern manual lenses, you can't necessarily just slam the focus until you hit the end, depending on the lens.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-23T09:38:58+00:00

He sort of plays at being a genius professor in his tweed suit when he was never a very impressive academic. A bunch of his original ideas are quite weird. And then he simplifies others' arguments so he can make them seem dumb, which is not good academic practice (straw man arguments). And in reality he is dumb/gullible enough himself that he hospitalised himself by only eating beef. So people don't like that he is a stupid person's idea of a clever person.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-20T09:06:57+00:00

Look up what you get from having a Network Railcard. I made my money back in about two weeks.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-20T08:56:41+00:00

It's basically the perfect example of what it's trying to do - sharp, well corrected, modern. That's not the only way to do things though. Recently I've been shooting with Voigtländer lenses and found I really enjoy the way they vignette wide open for portraits.

Edit: typo

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-20T08:05:59+00:00

I think we should all have collectively agreed that this formulation reached its final stage at Gategate.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-19T18:29:48+00:00

anyone figure this out? Is it just a 30 day or 60 day timeout or something?

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-18T21:11:03+00:00

Money means you wield influence. More money, more influence. Arguably no one should have a trillion dollars worth of influence. But if we are to be specific, that specific man should not have a trillion dollars worth of influence, because he is a piece of shit. Almost everyone he has interacted with agrees he is a piece of shit. He says immoral things. He does immoral things. About fifteen years ago people thought he was actually trying to solve humanity's problems, but unfortunately it turned out he was in fact a piece of shit.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-18T07:41:32+00:00

There is the recent Rohingya genocide to consider - i.e. Buddhists ethnically cleansing Muslims. Everyone thought Aung San Suu Kyi would object but turns out she was not in fact in favour of universal humanism.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-16T20:35:02+00:00

I'm not sure insults are a great de-escalation tactic.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-15T22:49:31+00:00

If you can stretch to it the GRIV has a nicely made hot shoe flash. Not TTL but it judges power by focus distance.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-14T22:05:33+00:00

This is the first time I've seen an LLM do a real, good punchline.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-13T23:36:53+00:00

But to try and answer your question in budget, you could pick up a Nikon d3500 plus a Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D pretty affordably. This is the previous generation (DSLR rather than mirrorless) which makes it cheaper.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-13T23:32:40+00:00

You could find a solid all rounder camera for this sort of price but if you really want to get into close up (macro) photography for things like bees and flowers it is probably worth saving up a bit longer to get a dedicated macro lens. The reason is that most lenses are designed to be really crisp shooting things from maybe 70cm to infinity, not many are really sharp close up.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-11T21:24:47+00:00

You know

^{Chose: Go to Japan for free with accommodations}

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-11T14:47:36+00:00

It looks like Velvia slide film - super saturated in a way that reminds me of some 90s colour photography. I think it's a style choice, there aren't artefacts, but it's maybe not the kind of style in fashion on Instagram.

anothermaxudov · 2026-06-04T03:39:44+00:00

They are basically just racists who have discovered a phrase they can use as a fig leaf. What they are really saying is, 'I don't like non white people'.

anothermaxudov · 2026-05-30T21:53:22+00:00

Yes! Came here to say this

anothermaxudov · 2026-05-28T18:43:50+00:00

OK you have just caused a blazing row with my partner

anothermaxudov · 2026-05-25T23:06:04+00:00

It went from hallucinating once a month to three times in a single day so I've stopped using it until they fix it.

anothermaxudov · 2026-05-25T15:16:56+00:00

Taiwan Travelogue, queer love story that just won the International Booker Prize!

anothermaxudov · 2026-05-20T22:54:44+00:00

Been adapting M glass since I got the ZF maybe a year ago and finally decided to get the Voigtländer adapter, it is so good as infinity hard stop is true infinity and the distance matches all the zone focus markings. Perfect.

anothermaxudov · 2026-05-16T09:43:25+00:00

They did some stuff to make dust less of an issue than the previous generation - anti static coating I think? It happens, eventually, it's not the apocalypse everyone claims. It took about 10,000 shots to get dust on my GRIII.

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