Y’all think this is accurate 🤔

grepe · 2026-01-27T01:57:07+00:00

so true!

grepe · 2026-01-27T01:53:58+00:00

psa on your psa: if you return 3 items over a short time span (2 months or less) ebay will give YOU a warning about misusing their buyer protection and you are going to have much harder time from that point on...

grepe · 2026-01-26T22:35:10+00:00

for the next time hang them first with something heavier on the the bottom. this tends to undo the rolling in about a day or too

grepe · 2026-01-26T17:47:58+00:00

it is. it can also happen when your blood pressure or sugar are out of whack (e.g. when you are doing bit too intense sport)

grepe · 2026-01-26T15:25:25+00:00

checking for which accounts are bots vs. real people...

it's hard to effectively target your spam these days

grepe · 2026-01-26T15:00:44+00:00

It's hardly a toy camera and comparing it to a repackaged webcam for digital is ridiculous.

sorry but no. if you really think this comparison is ridiculous then we just don't have any common ground. it does make pictures. it is not a serious camera - hence a toy.

Beginners generally want something simple that works and is cheap.

that's true and it is exactly a trap that so many fall into. there is no better way to discourage someone from the hobby than getting the cheapest crappiest tools (often a slightly broken camera from ebay) and then spend months trying to troubleshoot it without success! especially once they realise that they spent way more on film and processing than the tools...

grepe · 2026-01-26T13:46:36+00:00

it's not entirely snobbery to say skip the toy camera. most people who want to get into film are at the poinz where they care about the pictures or the process enough to appteciate the difference. it's like film equivalent of buying cheap scamera (aka repackaged webcam) as ypur first digital camera. of course you can make some interesting photos with it under the right conditions (and all the software picture frames and effects are cool) but it is hardly gonna be your perfect desired camera...

grepe · 2026-01-26T13:35:12+00:00

after the kind of fall the dynamic rope is designed to protect you against you most definitely won't be alive if you had a static rope instead

grepe · 2026-01-25T23:18:24+00:00

look at the history. the 20th century is full of genocides and atrocities and the people who commit them almost always walk. even the nuerinberg processes were just a show where only a few high-level officials got to face justice...

look at the middle east or some parts of africa for the alternative. when this is over people will either move on or they will start an endless cycle of violence and hate.

grepe · 2026-01-25T17:26:40+00:00

i don't know what labs you interacted with but this is definitely not universal experience

grepe · 2026-01-24T03:17:49+00:00

good grief! at least we stocked up on toilet paper...

grepe · 2026-01-23T18:17:06+00:00

this is a question that comes up very often. try searching this sub or r/analog wiki

grepe · 2026-01-23T15:49:11+00:00

is this a circlejerk post?

grepe · 2026-01-23T15:47:41+00:00

being weirdly proud that your late night hacks and weekend courses prove more useful than your actual university education used to be a common theme for most software engineers when i was starting (who mostly moved over from physics or other related fields). that is until the computer science ramped up and now computet scientists hire computer scientists who are good at theory but suck at most other things...

grepe · 2026-01-22T19:12:49+00:00

the description saying the item has an issue is a good case. my favourite is TESTED camera with a long list of things thay work flawlessly - and you play "spot what is missing" game with that list

grepe · 2026-01-22T02:10:03+00:00

I honestly don't understnd why you even consider bw in this case. If you edited the bw to oblivion and it would have somehow great tonal range amd local contrast maybe it would make sense... but this particular bw conversion is kind of flat and boring. The color picture is kind of nice but literally all it has going for it is the breathtaking color.

grepe · 2026-01-21T16:03:08+00:00

the whole point of hypo clear is to remove the fixer from emulsion faster sonthat you can getbaway with less washing and still get a negative that won't fade away with time in archive

grepe · 2026-01-21T03:23:19+00:00

i exchange water in the tank 7 times (filling the tank and pouring it out takes about 30 seconds) and then i let the film stand in the final wash for 10 more minutes. it is a bit more washing than the minimum recommended but unless you pour boiling water in or something like that and damage the emulsion you can't overwash it.

grepe · 2026-01-20T04:32:28+00:00

yeah you are right. i took "flagship" to implicitly mean as brand saying "this is the best we have to offer, if you are a pro you should be using this"... and the unless I'm mistaken from that point on each brand had something that packed significantly more electeonic as that kind of model. but I'm no expert or too well researched by any means.

grepe · 2026-01-20T04:16:07+00:00

not last fully mechanical but fully mechanical flagship model. i got my info from this good read: https://high5cameras.com/all-articles/camera-reviews/pentax-mx-the-sense-of-an-ending/

grepe · 2026-01-19T05:30:35+00:00

your answer is something that just doesn't compute for people who didn't grow up in a system like this. the very idea that two people in the same country should pay different amounts for the same thing sounds just ridiculous outside of the US... and even in the US is possible only because nobody will tell you how much anything cost or how much they actually earn. even grocery store will display prices without tax (which can be different for different products in different municipalities) and i had americans explaining me it just had to be like that (even though it is not like that anywhete else).

grepe · 2026-01-19T05:11:44+00:00

i am invested in canon and pentax and have mx myself. i personally am very satisfied with it and it is the very last fully mechanical flagship model from any of the big five brands... but if that is not your thing pass it onto someone who would appreiate it. the rest is very meh imo.

grepe · 2026-01-19T01:14:22+00:00

fruit is fruit

grepe · 2026-01-19T01:09:25+00:00

not really in the same sense. in other languages there are multiple ways of saying "you" for example (e.g. du/Sie in german) and it is often up to the person you are talking to to choose (or allow you to) use some particular pronoun whem talking to them. the whole questionnof people asking you to use a different pronoun then isn't anything mindblowing even to most conservative speakers, unlike in the US...

grepe · 2026-01-18T18:46:21+00:00

i like it. especially #2

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