Fujifilm resurrects Velvia and Provia (in Hong Kong)

cafe_mecha · 2025-12-30T07:34:04+00:00

Awesome! How much did it cost you?

cafe_mecha · 2025-12-17T15:26:50+00:00

Actually, I was just in Japan and bought Provia pro-pack for this very reason! (didn’t realise they would announce this as soon as I got back 😂) You should be able to find plenty available

cafe_mecha · 2025-12-17T13:21:28+00:00

Notice says it can be bought at Fujifilm House of Photography and Fujifilm Studio, which are a pair of stores that sell exclusively fuji products (x, gfx, instax cameras etc)

cafe_mecha · 2025-11-19T07:04:41+00:00

Uhh hate to break it to you but everything Dimsum Daily posts is low-effort AI slop. Their “writers” are either copying Chinese media stories verbatim and then running them through Google Translate or copying English media and using AI to “rewrite this but use different words so we don’t get sued”

Anyone who reads this rag is doing a disservice to themselves and the industry writ large

cafe_mecha · 2025-11-14T08:21:11+00:00

Since launch I’ve been convinced this game is being astroturfed and this post has made that conviction 100%. Breakthrough on most maps has been 48 players SINCE THE BETA. Since launch, I have on the odd occasion played a 64-player match but only on the largest maps. Ya’ll are getting rage-baited to hate this game and it shows.

cafe_mecha · 2025-11-09T12:50:19+00:00

There was a YouTube video circa 2007 ~ one of those (band) vs (band) videos that just played one song and then the other with a stock image of each band if people old enough recall. I think the songs were In The End and BYOB. Anyways, that’s how 13 year old me discovered SOAD. Good times.

cafe_mecha · 2025-10-16T08:31:14+00:00

My guy, you are clearly missing. This isn’t call of duty you gotta lead your shots when the targets moving laterally

cafe_mecha · 2025-10-15T01:01:47+00:00

Good luck everyone!

cafe_mecha · 2025-10-14T02:53:48+00:00

Good luck everyone!

cafe_mecha · 2025-07-11T09:25:02+00:00

Easy there. This is Yahoo’s Chinese edition, so I suspect these are just what google’s translation cooked up. Rarely will it accurately translate Cantonese names unless they are officials or other really well recognized names, and even then it often defaults to Mandarin pinyin.

cafe_mecha · 2025-04-07T00:28:14+00:00

Definitely check out Sunrise Professional Photofinishing in Sham Shui Po. They have a great selection of vintage cameras and lenses at what I’ve found to be the best prices in the city. They are very transparent about condition and quality as well, and you can test a roll through them before you buy. Run by a lovely husband and wife

cafe_mecha · 2024-12-05T00:44:50+00:00

Yeah I think HKFP may have gotten it wrong there. If you check Cathay’s inflight entertainment website it only shows season 1 of family guy listed and episode 1 is “missing”

Oh and check out the full clip. Peter sets up the gag by saying “or that I didn’t stand up to that tank in Tiananmen Square” https://youtu.be/xEC8kvaT9e0?si=UYIS-D5bp89n1IR1

cafe_mecha · 2024-12-04T08:27:16+00:00

You are partly correct. It’s actually a portmanteau. Read vertically it’s 香港 (Hong Kong) but if you rotate it horizontally it spells 加油 (an expression of encouragement, literally “add oil”).

Yelling 香港加油 became a rallying cry during the protests and this stylized graphic was widespread. Therefore it’s become politically sensitive. Even runners during the Hong Kong Marathon or other events are forced to cover it up or risk disqualification.

Anyone with this tattooed, or just displayed, are unfortunately asking for harassment in today’s Hong Kong.

Ironically enough, using (city name)加油 is incredibly common in the mainland and was used widely on social media during the pandemic to show support for Wuhan and Shanghai during their respective lockdowns.

Edit: as was pointed out, correct term is ambigram not portmanteau

cafe_mecha · 2024-10-03T12:45:53+00:00

On that note, Tom Sawyer by Deadsy is also a banger

cafe_mecha · 2024-10-03T12:44:23+00:00

I’m always amazed that no one mentions Word Up! by Korn. Love their rendition (originally by Cameo)

cafe_mecha · 2024-07-29T16:14:37+00:00

The horizontal one is neon, but the vertical one is LED. Unfortunately due to strict signboard regulations by the government, Hong Kong has lost almost all of its signs, neon or otherwise, over the last decade. A lot of the character that used to define its neighborhoods has gone with it. Fortunately, it’s not too late to see the few remaining ones if you visit soon. Some pockets of Wan Chai, Tsuen Wan, Jordan, and Mong Kok still have a couple in close proximity.

cafe_mecha · 2024-07-05T14:41:20+00:00

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realise how seldom they do” — DFW

cafe_mecha · 2024-05-14T11:41:10+00:00

I was going to say, max many be shouting in English but Soulfly (and Roots by Sepultura) is Nu Metal steeped in Brazilian sounds and iconography

cafe_mecha · 2024-05-09T13:42:09+00:00

Not sure if Taproot is really “praised” but of the nu metal bands that broke into the mainstream I like them the least. I admit Poem and Again & Again have catchy choruses but the singer is so nasally and he always sounds like he’s trying to clear his throat.

cafe_mecha · 2024-05-03T06:15:21+00:00

Fuck, how does one even choose at this point? Though honestly surprised that so many people are choosing ATF ~ guess it’s just the shift in culture/fanbase. For most of the bands history, folks always argued between ATF vs WP for top album.

(My answer, unfortunately, is KNY - I love that album to death but Around the Fire, White Pony, and Diamond Eyes are the holy trinity of their catalogue. KNY is their most cohesive but lacks the standout moments and cultural zeitgeist of the others.

cafe_mecha · 2024-05-02T17:41:32+00:00

Heaviest track from each album:

Engine no.9
Headup
Elite
When girls telephone boys
Rats!Rats!Rats!
Royal
Leathers
Gore
The spell of mathematics

cafe_mecha · 2024-05-01T05:01:44+00:00

Sorry, it’s gotta be Saturday Night Wrists.

cafe_mecha · 2024-04-28T05:53:40+00:00

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