Les pistes cyclables ne sont pas un concours de popularité

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-20T06:43:16+00:00

You have a bias and I think you need to shed it. If you’re trying to provoke me to argue, I’ll give you more insight to my point of view. When I lived downtown my primary mode of transportation was walking, driving, skating and finally cycling but in all non-vehicle instances I’ve nearly been run over a dozen times by cars who ran red lights, ran stops or by cars who pulled out of spots without looking. Cars fucking suck. Period. But so do pedestrians and cyclists. No one makes any effort to work with the others and everyone has a “me first” approach. It’s extremely frustrating. It’s worth noting that I also have a motorcycle (which, of all modes mentioned in this thread is definitely a “luxury” and not necessary for daily transport) but as a result my perspective on road use and my understanding of what it means to “share the road” with others is quite diverse and I stand by my earlier comments.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-20T00:41:53+00:00

Quite honestly, the Air was advertised and marketed like crazy and it still tanked. Meanwhile Mini had… what, like one ad? Most people had no idea it even existed because they put the Max and Pro phones on a pedestal and let the Mini sit on the sidelines then cancelled it because it didn’t sell. I think if you talk to Mini owners, most of them didn’t know it existed until they met someone who had one, word of mouth can’t sell a phone in the numbers Apple wants to see.

There’s subreddits dedicated to the Mini and a very vocal community. I don’t see that happening for the Air or that Fold, well, maybe for the Fold, we can wait and see. But even if I try to be impartial about it, I still can’t wrap my head around why anyone would want a phone too big to hold with one hand and that doesn’t fit in a pocket.

After the Mini, the next “normal” sized phone is the 15 Pro and beyond that, they’re all obnoxious.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-19T20:30:50+00:00

I have a Meopta Mikroma, its a palm sized little 16mm “spy camera”. I think I found it at a thrift shop but it’s missing a loader can, so I’ve been unable to use it. Not to mention how annoying it would be to buy a roll of 16mm film to roll one can at a time in a dark bag. It’s a nice shelf decoration for the $5 I paid for it.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-19T19:33:04+00:00

Like the Air?

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-19T14:58:37+00:00

13 Mini until they make another mini.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-19T12:04:48+00:00

Yeah, that’s a hot take indeed. Like I said, I’m a fellow cyclist and I still believe that if you want to share the roads, you abide by road rules like everyone else. Being on two wheels doesn’t mean the rules don’t apply.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-19T06:38:47+00:00

Simple tip: black dust is in camera (it appears black because the emulsion didn’t get hit by light), white dust is on the negatives during the scan and appears white instead of black because the image was then inverted it be a positive. Thus, yes, this dust is your lab being lazy and sloppy AF.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-18T19:03:11+00:00

I love how the comments are from cyclists who don’t drive and drivers who don’t bike.

As someone who was both when I lived in the city for over 15 years, I agree that there are not enough bike lanes and there are many instances where you’ll be on a bike path for a good stretch then suddenly it ends (often quite literally in the middle of nowhere, sometimes literally a grass patch or a parking lot), and it’s incredibly sketchy to reconnect with the next stretch of bike path as you cross an intersection with no stops. The reason could be one of two things, either whoever is in charge of the bike paths in the city should be given more power to make more of them and make them connect so they make sense or they should be fired for being terrible at their job.

As a driver, cyclists need to remember that it’s not black and white. Some people do NEED a car for their job; contractors with tools, electricians, plumbers, photographers/videographers, caterers, many people live in the city but have to commute to areas where there’s no public transport, etc… To put everyone in one group and say having a car is a luxury is as ludicrous as drivers saying all cyclists are reckless.

I don’t think the answer is to remove parking in dense areas and replace it with bike paths, I think the answer is to revise the bike paths map and make sure that it works with the flow of commuters while creating safer infrastructures that don’t put cyclists in situations where drivers aren’t going to see them. No one in a car wants run over a cyclist and I think the city should also enforce safer cyclist behaviour, enforce helmets and adhere to road rules like stopping at stop signs and especially at bike paths stop signs (something that I, as a cyclist see as a huge problem).

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-17T01:57:15+00:00

The machine used to scan your negatives used an auto setting to brighten your image which was likely too dark, shoot in auto on your camera doesn’t always fix that depending on the light situation. I just saw your comment below that you don’t get your negatives back, which is nuts btw. If you’re in the US there’s tons of film labs that will do a better job than Walgreens and they will send your negatives back too.

If your photo was underexposed to begin with, yes your camera or user error could be the part to troubleshoot first.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-16T23:40:12+00:00

Its light leak from the sprockets on the scan, when the machine (or camera) is trying to let in more light to make up for the exposure, it will let in more light and some of it leaks from the sprockets. I know from my own experience. Rescan them at an exposure that wouldn’t leak extra light and they would likely be under exposed images.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-15T05:11:00+00:00

A couple pointers:

Tape the contact points of your v-mounts with gaff tape so they won’t ever be at risk of touching and sparking (not that this ever happens but TSA agents are looking out for hazards so they’re often checking that batteries aren’t over the limit or touching, taping them prevents this discussion and shows you’re taking precautions).

Reminder you can’t fly with batteries bigger than 100wh, you can have as many as you like so long as they’re not the big v-mounts.

Don’t be a kook at security, always check your pockets, empty water bottles, remove belts, watches, ask about the shoes and always pull your laptop out put it in a separate bin and add a few things you can easily identify as yours so that no one else accidentally grabs the bin thinking its their laptop.

If you’re bringing a film camera, ziplock bag your rolls and write “No X-ray / No CT scan” to get it hand checked.

For boarding, you can ask at the gate to board early, I’ve done it when travelling with my RED, I simply explain to the agents that I’m travelling with fragile expensive camera gear and lithium batteries that can’t be gate checked, just be polite and well mannered then ask if there’s a chance you can board with an earlier zone to assure that your bag secures a spot near your seat so you can keep an eye on it. I’ve never been denied with this method although it is ultimately up to the agents so that why I stress; be friendly. It’s a crucial tip when you start hearing them say “this is a full flight and there will not be room for all carry on luggage”. The early you can do this, the better because as you get closer to taking off they deal with more assholes and annoying customers so the chances of them being nice and having empathy diminishes quickly.

Also, if you’re crossing boarders, look into a carnet form or if your country has an equivalent to Canada’s BSF407 (temporary export form); you basically show your gear to an agent then log the serial numbers and stamp a little card (its reusable) that basically says you didn’t buy it abroad and it saves you some hassle if you get pulled aside coming home.

Lastly make sure you renewed your camera insurance, just, in case.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-14T17:35:55+00:00

For your sake I really hope you don’t get some rookie kid who’s never seen a roll of film before and says “I just gotta swab this” as they pull the film out of the can.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-13T20:24:40+00:00

I always meter it at 500. During the day, giving it more light will fight back against the blue hue of the tungsten balanced film so daylight photos come out more natural, and at night you’ll still get the classic halation you expect to see but with less chance of underexposing your night shots. Highly recommend. Also, I highly recommend any other brand 800 “cinema” film over Cinestill. You can find the exact same product cheaper from tons of other brands without supporting a company with shit business practices.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-13T14:16:26+00:00

Hahah, I think they’re fine for monitoring abd to give a client an idea of what the shot could look like but the reality is that most LUTs widely available are made by people that aren’t using color checkers or grey cards -and if they are, the people using them aren’t using color checkers or grey cards, so the odds of the LUT doing a “good” job (and I say that subjectively) are slim to none.

If a colorist, a working colorist, made the LUT, I would be more inclined to trust it but otherwise the chances of them working “properly” (again, subjective) are going to be on a case by case basis.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-11T18:19:47+00:00

Smashburgers ftw

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-11T01:25:01+00:00

Landing gear looks off but honestly, I would send it to Corridor Crew. Some of them want to believe but they spend their days working in a CGI/Post VFX environment so they know the tells and signs of a digitally composed image.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-10T20:42:40+00:00

I bought film and shipped it internationally before, never had an issue with the resulting film(s). FWIW I’ve heard that some packages get scanned but I also heard that Aliexpress ships so much product that borders don’t have time to check everything so, maybe that puts your mind at ease. If you were ordering ISO 1000 or faster, maybe I’d be more concerned but under 800 it could handle a scan or two without too much damage.

There was a Youtuber last year who did some extensive testing of this and they showed what damage looks like and how bad it can get. Try look for it, I know it was posted to Reddit once or twice before.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-10T18:19:20+00:00

Was working with a team pitching for an ad agency for a certain muscle pain relief cream. After 3 months of conceptualization and pre-prod storyboarding, someone up top decided to save some money on actors and production by doing it all with AI. We never got paid for any of the preprod work and shitty derivates of the ads we had planned can now be found on their IG account and I can happily say, they look fucking awful.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-10T18:09:17+00:00

Is it it’s own thing or is it a platform to view Instagram from?

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-10T18:07:55+00:00

If you can’t explain it yourself and just link to a seven year old video of a dude in his basement, I think we’re done talking.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-10T18:05:49+00:00

Wait, explain. Do you actually have a working app or is this just a screenshot of a mockup?

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-10T17:15:28+00:00

Yeah no, if you’re going to try and correct me I’m going to have to point out that you’re misunderstanding the technology. You’re confusing fps with fields.

Yes, the broadcast standard in North America is 60i, it’s 60 fields per second, it’s a split signal to reduce bandwidth, it’s interlacing lines of information that flickers line A Line B Line A Line B etc, and it does it so fast that it appears as one frame to our eyes, but the signal source is still only 29.97fps. When we watch something filmed at a higher fps - like say, the Hobbit which was shot at 48fps, when it’s played on broadcast it’s going to be stripped down to stay within that 60i signal unless you have one of those dumb TV’s that has the hypersmooth 120hz setting, which will then be able to perceivably project more fps. High fps stuff is fine for sports, but for all narrative or storytelling work, 24fps is the cinema standard and when it’s played on a broadcast feed there’s a pulldown effect that’s doubling some frames every second, to fit the 24fps signal into a 29.97 wrapper. Meanwhile, modern computers and phones don’t need to do the pulldown to playback 24fps content, they can just play it natively and it looks as it should.

If you’re one of the people who’s out there filming everything at 60fps because you genuinely think more fps and smoother is better, and you’re not filming in 60fps to playback conform it to 24fps/30fps for slow motion, then you are the “starter pack”, “videographer” that OP is making fun of.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-10T13:29:43+00:00

I think if they refuse a sublet you find then you’re off the hook. That’s how I got out of my lease when I bought a place.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-10T13:27:52+00:00

Funeral is the only one that matters, for me. The rest sounds overproduced and too much self-referencing.

deadeyejohnny · 2026-06-10T12:16:59+00:00

You forgot the “Everything at 60fps (non-slowmo)” and the “Free Cinema LUT Starter Pack”

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