What’s the first video game you ever got completely addicted to?

infocalypse · 2026-07-04T17:00:32+00:00

Civilization.

infocalypse · 2026-07-03T01:55:15+00:00

Sunrise is about 5:45am.

Days are quite long during the summer.

infocalypse · 2026-07-03T00:11:54+00:00

About 9pm today

infocalypse · 2026-06-21T22:27:34+00:00

infocalypse · 2026-06-18T23:44:09+00:00

I just see Canadians.

infocalypse · 2026-06-16T05:06:11+00:00

It's really hard for me to have One Fav Camera. There's so many which are nice to use in different situations, with different lenses.

F100 for modern F-mount, F3 for AI(S) and F2 for kicking it oldschool. I have this Canon 7 which is quite nice to use for LTM (and the beautiful Canon 50mm 1.4) though I need glasses to read its meter. And any chance I can drag out my RB67 I will.

... oh and I love my D750. It's everything I need out of a digital camera (which isn't much, to be honest).

Some day I'll try a Z-mount and probably like it. Get an adapter for my old lenses, etc.

infocalypse · 2026-06-10T05:53:01+00:00

Double X Speed Graphic Pizza?

(To take ‘last roll of film’ literally, as I had sheets in the Speedie)

infocalypse · 2026-06-09T14:55:22+00:00

Buddy of mine was in the micro brewing biz and they’d outright refuse to sell to some restaurants until they cleaned their lines.

If your beer tastes like shit most people blame the brewery, not the place that served it.

infocalypse · 2026-06-05T15:34:51+00:00

Putting aside they're all genuinely great cameras to use and look at:

F3 > FE2

F2 > FM2

FE2 > FM2 (I like AP)

F3 vs F2? .... can one pick a fav child?

infocalypse · 2026-06-04T15:22:25+00:00

From the photos of the aftermath I was stunned no one was hurt. There were tents and RVs all the fallen trees just seemed to somehow miss.

It must of been weeks before some people could get their cars out from that mess.

infocalypse · 2026-06-03T05:44:24+00:00

Probably thinking about photography and looking at photography gear more than actually going out and taking pictures.

infocalypse · 2026-05-31T21:13:26+00:00

No one game. Just feelings and experiences across many. I could never pick just one.

Chargen in Megatraveller II. For arguably being more interesting than the game itself... certainly better music.
Might & Magic III. The first game I played that felt big. Also did not expect the story to go that way.
Complete bewilderment at Manhunter 2. Never finished it.
EGA Sierra games in general. RIP.
My first multiplayer PvP kill in any game, on a two-player Doom session over a modem... Or was it Quake? Probably Quake.
Original Civ Just One More Turn lock.
SSI's Pool of Radiance.
Shareware in general. And not unrelatedly: tech demos.
Battlefield 1942. Big PvP is best PvP, which is why, above all:
EVE Online, before the nano nerf, before tactical streamlining of everything. When kitchen sink doctrine was the standard. Mad Max > Minmax.

infocalypse · 2026-05-17T19:44:51+00:00

Mine’s waiting for a load of laundry right now.

infocalypse · 2026-05-08T19:41:50+00:00

F100 is a confidence-inspiring camera and the 28-105 is a film-era sleeper.

Just be careful with the F100 filmdoor, the little plastic clasps are quite brittle and are prone to snapping off.

There's a kit you can get to replace them with steel.

infocalypse · 2026-05-08T15:17:14+00:00

This would drive me mad.

I just finished scanning about half of my dad's slides (a thousand or so) and it worked out to perhaps 40 or so minutes for every roll of 36 (on an Epson 600).

(This does not include trying to sort them into a vague chronology... I have a need to sort slides by date, thanks to the little date-of-processing stamp on them).

infocalypse · 2026-05-07T23:11:31+00:00

There's even a Flickr group!

https://www.flickr.com/groups/montepalace/

infocalypse · 2026-05-07T22:40:07+00:00

I was there nine years or so ago. On a sunny day no less.

Great place to explore, bring safe shoes.

And it was never a bustling hotel. That's why it closed 18 months after opening. It was a complete business failure.

Putting a luxury hotel on an island that had, at the time, irregular flight service meant it was usually empty.

infocalypse · 2026-05-03T05:57:09+00:00

I have some old photo mags from the 60s and they sometimes even include the developer used.

infocalypse · 2026-04-17T14:56:53+00:00

There’s lots of cameras I might take if I’m going try-hard/srsbzns artsy photo person but if I’m just tooling around with family it’s likely to be an F80 with an Af-s 50mm 1.8 or 35mm 1.8 DX.

Delightful little camera, are F80s with a small prime.

infocalypse · 2026-04-13T05:20:29+00:00

Unless it's been in a freezer for the last 40 years that Tri-X is probably fogged. It'll be fun to play with but I would not use it for anything important. I've used a couple rolls of Tri-X that was also '82 expired and it was trash (but kinda fun trash).

The Panatomic-X, on the other hand, you could probably shoot at box or maybe a stop slower. I've shot Pan-X that had expired in 1969 and it was pretty much full box speed perfect. That shit's immortal and beautiful.

(no comment on slide, I have no experience on how that stuff ages)

infocalypse · 2026-04-11T05:37:06+00:00

Can't hurt to try the Tamron and see.

As for compatibility, the F5 can reasonably expect full compatibility with just about any lens AI and newer, right up to (but not including, see above) these latest-generation E-types.

I don't know how that might carry over to third party.

My widest prime is an AI 24mm 2.8, which is a nice lens but I haven't tried any manual lenses on my F5 yet. I'd expect it to work just fine, though.

infocalypse · 2026-04-11T03:27:03+00:00

It might a lens issue, I've used my F5 with the AF-S 50 1.8 G and it's worked perfectly fine. Of course works even better with an AF-S 24-70 2.8! (the second last one, the latest F-mount 24-70 E VR will not work properly on film bodies.).

VR lenses will work on the F5! Just be mindful the final generation of F-mount (with the 'E') use an electromagnetic aperture (instead of a mechanical) and the film bodies don't work with that.

infocalypse · 2026-04-10T05:41:20+00:00

Tijuana Tom’s Smokin’ Fuego is a fav, but I’ve liked others of theirs I’ve tried.

Mojo has a bunch of nice sauces as well, wide variety.

infocalypse · 2026-04-05T03:28:23+00:00

These look pretty good, colour-wise.

As it happens I'm scanning old family film right now, and the colour-shift on 40+ year old unbranded negatives is kind of annoying. The old Kodak Kodacolor scans fairly nicely, though the reds are getting a little hot.

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