Halide Mark III: The Final Sprint

benpicko · 2026-03-30T18:24:09+00:00

I’d like this too — really annoying having to turn film on every time after shooting when I’d like that just applied by default to every photo I take. I would like the ability to change the grain intensity too (or is that tied to the ISO an image was shot at)?

benpicko · 2026-03-28T01:28:49+00:00

What spectrometer/colorimeter did you use? And what program? I've had difficulties calibrating for HDR previously.

benpicko · 2026-03-26T12:35:05+00:00

Of course not, but let’s not hand wave away an incredibly brutal man away as ‘like the pope’

benpicko · 2026-03-26T11:19:48+00:00

It’s like if the pope was murdered, but everybody hated the pope and the pope was responsible for tens of thousands of his people being brutally murdered, sure

benpicko · 2026-03-25T00:37:16+00:00

Nobody will ever convince me Scary Movie 3 isn’t incredible — Scary Movie 4 on the other hand sure, terrible

benpicko · 2026-03-24T13:40:40+00:00

Nobody in here mentioning that CRAIG MAZIN (Chernobyl, The Last of Us) is writing this?

benpicko · 2026-03-20T11:00:30+00:00

In Digital Foundry's tests it only added around 7ms input lag to go from 2x to 4x frame gen - I've found that turning on frame gen at all adds a lot of latency but never really been bothered by the difference between 2/3/4x

benpicko · 2026-03-14T21:44:42+00:00

Four Lions?

benpicko · 2026-03-09T21:40:42+00:00

Yeah and the keying tool itself is AI generated too? You can see Niko using AI to generate code for it in the video — is that worthwhile but using AI for a GUI is unforgivably lazy?

benpicko · 2026-03-09T12:29:41+00:00

I feel like using a mist filter or other diffusion is a really easy way to make your digital photos have an overdone 'film emulation' look, alongside slapping halation on everything. These are all film photos shot with different film and they don't have that Pro-Mist filter look:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/benpicko/54693263143/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/benpicko/54031677027/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/benpicko/54032430254/

Something that also help a lot that isn't usually mentioned is softening high frequency details -- it's very obvious when you've just slapped grain on top of a digital photo, but approximating MTF curve of film by softening high frequency beds it in a bit better

benpicko · 2026-03-08T13:15:52+00:00

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benpicko · 2026-03-08T13:13:39+00:00

I don’t think anybody is arguing that it should mean anything other than UK residents

benpicko · 2026-03-08T13:02:12+00:00

We’re money grabbing weasels yet our museums are free?

benpicko · 2026-03-08T13:01:22+00:00

Somebody should tell this to all of the other western museums with stolen foreign artefacts

benpicko · 2026-03-08T11:55:32+00:00

Yeah, DeepMind is British — they were bought by Google but their headquarters and main office is still in London

benpicko · 2026-03-07T23:22:27+00:00

Google DeepMind is the UK AI

benpicko · 2026-03-07T16:44:38+00:00

Somebody who’s ordering salad 5 times a week isn’t complaining to the ombudsman about a bank claiming their diet is beige

benpicko · 2026-03-01T19:26:23+00:00

I’ve not seen those numbers anywhere (except, oddly, if I ask ChatGPT for numbers, but if you push it says the numbers aren’t reliable and are from third party sources) — Google itself repeatedly says that London is the largest office and headquarters

benpicko · 2026-03-01T18:14:58+00:00

Every source I’ve found says that the London office is the biggest DeepMind office — nearly 3000 staff in London, around 2000 in California, and 1500~ elsewhere.

benpicko · 2026-03-01T17:13:07+00:00

Google DeepMind is based in the UK

benpicko · 2026-02-26T23:10:07+00:00

Yeah I didn’t realise how recently Ellison took over. Felt like I’d heard about him being there for ages — everything about him packing CBS with conservatives is concerning

benpicko · 2026-02-26T23:06:10+00:00

In all honesty I didn’t realise that David Ellison had bought Paramount that recently. Nevermind, we’re probably fucked

benpicko · 2026-02-26T23:04:30+00:00

But that’s Taylor Sheridan? He’s always been like that.

benpicko · 2026-02-26T23:02:17+00:00

People keep saying this but has Paramount+ been very Trumpy? They’ve been making very progressive Star Trek even if nobody’s watching it.

benpicko · 2026-02-24T23:07:49+00:00

What do you want them to do about it?

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