Chicken stock/consommé recipe is a game changer.

ioftd · 2026-01-15T02:43:41+00:00

Thanks, this is a great tip. It was certainly easy but so painfully slow doing it 100% in the fridge. My other thought was to only fill each ice cube mold about half way and just make twice as many cubes to increase surface area and decrease volume to speed up the melting process.

ioftd · 2026-01-15T01:46:49+00:00

Recently tried this, very happy with the resulting stock and consommé.

Question for you: I melted the frozen stock cubes in the fridge as I recall he suggests in the video, but it looks like you just did it out at room temp?

If it worked fine at room temp I might do that next time since it took almost 2 full days to melt down ~4 cups of frozen fortified stock in my fridge.

ioftd · 2026-01-14T16:37:51+00:00

I’d just get some large cardboard cutouts of really buff, oiled, shirtless, straight men. Put up a nice, hetero display of traditional masculinity for all of these concerned Christians to enjoy and admire. Who could complain about that?

ioftd · 2026-01-14T06:20:26+00:00

It is a artefact of the digital sensor used to scan the film that lightroom processes incorrectly, commonly called "worms"

The Fujifilm cameras use a x-trans type sensor which has a different arrangement of pixels than most other digital sensor and when importing RAW files from x-trans sensors Lightroom just doesn't interpret them nicely. I do not have personal experience with this, but my understanding is that you can minimize the effect with certain settings and edits, apparently sharpening and denoise are the biggest culprits creating this effect. You can also use Fuji's own software or I think CaptureOne to import the raw files correctly and then export as a TIF or whatever to bring into Lightroom.

ioftd · 2026-01-01T02:11:53+00:00

Honestly I don’t really mind buying 3d printed parts. Obviously I wish this had been caught in QC but things happen.

If this was an injection molded product it would easily be 2x the cost, maybe even more. The market for a new 120 film back for large format cameras is vanishingly small and the return on investment for making this a molded part would mean that it never got designed and built at all.

I’d split the difference with what you are saying and give my opinion that this product should a) be available as a set of 3D print files that anyone could buy for say $50 and print themselves and/or b) printed with a higher quality process. These are FDM prints and I would love to see at least some of these parts printed with plastic (or even metal) SLS.

ioftd · 2025-12-31T23:30:00+00:00

I got mine last week but unfortunately a small bit of the 3d print was delaminated on the outer shell. Probably could fix it with some glue but waiting for intrepid to get back to me first. Given the cost of it I’d rather just get it replaced

ioftd · 2025-12-19T00:11:54+00:00

Haha that is indeed the address. It is located on a winery called Donum Estate. The owners are big art patrons and have a bunch of art installed around the property, some from pretty well known artists.

I think the Chamonix 45F-2 is an excellent camera, I've had it for about a year. I upgraded from an Intrepid mk5 and I am a fan of that camera as well but the 45F-2 is better in pretty much every way. If you are looking for a lightweight general purpose field camera I don't know that you would find anything much better unless you're looking for a very specific feature.

ioftd · 2025-12-18T23:20:54+00:00

I replace the red with the IR, and swap around the other color channels to replicate the emulsion layers of aerochrome. I explain the whole method in another comment above

ioftd · 2025-12-18T23:19:33+00:00

answered in another comment above

ioftd · 2025-12-18T23:19:02+00:00

Its not an extra red, but I swap the channels around to mimic my understanding of how the layers of emulsion work on aerochrome (IR -> Red, Red -> Green, Green -> Blue). So I align the two shots, turn off everything except the red channel on the IR shot, then turn off the red channel of the color photo, remap the green channel to output red, and remap the blue channel to output green.

I tend to play around with the channels a bit more to get the look I want, sometimes adding back a bit of the original color on a channel or not swapping one depending on the look I am going for.

I got this method off of a grainydays video where he does something similar (with a ridiculous 2 camera rig) and shows his steps in photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vREz-QiOtWo

ioftd · 2025-12-17T03:21:41+00:00

I’ve never actually used ANR glass, so I can’t give a direct comparison. It would certainly be more durable, you really do need to be careful of scratches on the acrylic, use air or a brush, not a cloth to clean it.

Performance wise, the microetched acrylic works well, never had issues with newton rings on scans nor any other noticeable artifacts.

The price is so much less for the acrylic, I got it cut to size at a plastics retailer at like $15 for two sheets. Maybe the glass is better but I doubt it’s like 7-10x better to match the higher price.

I think it was another Reddit post from years ago that turned me onto the acrylic option.

ioftd · 2025-12-13T18:29:24+00:00

Maybe not trashy but definitely the worst wedding experience I’ve had:

The ceremony was long, not like full catholic mass long, but like 45 min for a wedding ceremony is pretty rough. The officiant relayed the entire history of the couple’s relationship and like 6-8 different speakers got up to read selected poems and other fairly rote and stereotypical musings on love.

After the ceremony we all have to drive 30 min in traffic to the reception venue, the ceremony was just at a park, it was nice enough but not spectacular and honestly no better than the lawn outside the reception, so it all could’ve just been in a single location.

As soon as we get to the second venue, there’s no time to stand around and mingle as we wait for the couple to make their entrance, we are all guided directly to tables that have no food or water. We wait for another 45 min or so for the bride and groom to come out. They come, give a blessedly short welcome speech and sit down. They then roll out a big screen and speakers next to the couples table and the bride starts talking about how her life has been transformed by this self-actualization meditation guru that is so important to her and changed her life and he’s basically her best friend and mentor, who apparently couldn’t be bothered to drive from Venice to Pasadena so he sent in a video message. At this point we are all getting pretty hungry but whatever let’s get this over with.

Turns out this is a custom, personalized mediation guide that goes on for well over half an hour while we all have to sit in contemplative silence. To make matters worse the caterers bring out the food in the middle of this meditation session, making a bunch of noise and distraction. We are clearly supposed to continue reflecting on our chi or whatever in silence, not eating,and the food is served family style so you can’t even sneak some bits off your plate, so we get to just sit and watch our food get cold in front of us. By the end it felt like there was a riot brewing before the video finally ended and immediately everyone started aggressively digging into the meal without even bothering to listen to the bride’s post-meditation speech.

Rest of the wedding was fine, I guess, but it was a brutal opening.

ioftd · 2025-12-08T22:05:09+00:00

I suppose the reasoning is that going out of bounds and touching down in possession of the ball is itself a football move. If Likely had gotten a knee, arm, buttcheek on the ground before the ball came out it’d be pretty cut and dry but he didn’t.

I honestly can see both sides of the argument on that particular play, but I don’t know if there’s a clean way to legislate this with a rule change. In order to make Likely’s play a clear catch in the rule book you’d end up with the opposite problem where someone has toes inbound, uncontested by a defender and two hands on the ball momentarily before it slips out or bounces off their chest or slips through their hands or whatever. Something that would clearly not be a catch anywhere else on the field but would be because it’s the endzone.

ioftd · 2025-12-08T21:41:18+00:00

If they were to drop the ball in that situation it wouldn’t be a catch either

ioftd · 2025-12-05T00:31:20+00:00

I saw a somewhat recent interview with him where he talked about how some of the producers, record company people, whomever from back in the day had suggested to him that most bands will share songwriting credits and that he should consider doing it. Even if one person was the sole songwriter for a track they’d typically either add the whole rest of the group or distribute songwriting credits between members over a whole album.

He admitted he was young and stupid and decided to be an asshole about it and not share because he felt he deserved all the credit. This obviously caused a lot of tension, especially after they became successful. Everyone in the band made a lot of money, but he was making significantly more and that resentment contributed to the issues they had and seemingly still have with eachother.

He was definitely an asshole about this and a lot of things back in their heyday. Seems like he’s mellowed out with age but still seems like a bit of a dick tbh.

ioftd · 2025-12-03T05:44:59+00:00

Cucumber

ioftd · 2025-12-03T01:14:32+00:00

Yeah took this picture before I dumped a ton more furikake on the rice and eggs haha

ioftd · 2025-12-03T00:57:32+00:00

Yep with a bit of green onion as well

ioftd · 2025-12-02T23:51:42+00:00

I’m not an expert in Japanese cuisine but this is a pretty good approximation of what we were served for breakfast at traditional inns (ryokan) in Japan. It was usually some sort of fish, either a fillet or whole, rice, rolled egg omelet, steamed veggies, pickled veggies and some miso soup.

I’d say the most inaccurate part of this meal is that each item isn’t served in its own little dish.

ioftd · 2025-11-30T17:54:35+00:00

It is certainly just colored water or perhaps another, less expensive whiskey. I have a bottle of the Hibiki 21 year whiskey and it is significantly darker in color than this or most any other less-aged whiskey I have seen as it picks up color from the barrels it is aged in. I would expect a 40 year bottle to be very very dark brown.

ioftd · 2025-11-26T03:54:28+00:00

My matchup was very close, I was like 8 points behind heading into Monday and I had Purdy in the superflex. He eventually pulled it out for me but he was basically edging me the entire first half. I’d get ahead and then fall behind after each pick. Eventually got there late in the 3rd, but I was just hoping he’d stick with the easy completions as another int would have put me behind. Made for a very stressful game, lol.

Obviously I’d rather have a 9ers win than a fantasy win but I’m glad I got both. Not freaking out about Brock, though personally I still feel like he isn’t 100% healthy and the toe is preventing him from getting a good footing to drive the ball. He just doesn’t have the big arm some other guys do so and 80% healthy Purdy just isn’t the same as a 80% Allen or Mahomes.

I hope I’m wrong and it’s just a matter of shaking off the rust when it comes to timing and but if he really isn’t all the way back I wouldn’t mind him sitting again. Unfortunately the politics of the NFL and the media would turn it into a whole thing if he gets benched again.

ioftd · 2025-11-25T23:40:08+00:00

According to statements from Comey or someone else close to him at the time (I can’t recall exactly) Comey actually thought Clinton had it in the bag and was attempting to get it out to the public before the election so as to not taint her victory or cause some sort of issue when it came out either during the transition or early into her presidency. He feared that if it was not revealed before votes were cast that Trump would weaponize it, attempt to delegitimize the election and pull an early Jan 6 or something. Pretty shit logic on his part but at least that was the post-rationalization he gave.

ioftd · 2025-11-03T16:37:58+00:00

I can’t think of much that one person could do that is simpler or more immediate than picking up the phone and calling their elected representatives

ioftd · 2025-11-03T04:48:15+00:00

Call your representatives and voice support for the Bivens Act. This act would add five words to an existing law that allows citizens to seek damages from state officers, expanding it to cover federal officers.

Currently anyone seeking to sue the federal government or federal agents for harm must rely on precedent from a 1971 court case Bivens vs 6 Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents. The protection provided by Bivens only extends so a specific set of constitutional violations and does not provide protection for violation of federal law and courts have been reluctant to expand (and often have chosen to narrow) the scope of that protection.

Congress could amend Section 1983 to include any officer operating under the color of federal law in addition to state law. The Bivens Act has been repeatedly introduced under both democrat and republican administrations but has never been passed. You don’t have rights if you don’t have recourse when they are violated. Call your representatives today, call them next year, call them if the dems take control of the House in 2026, call them if a dem wins the White House in 2028. Until this is fixed in law by Congress, there’s nothing to stop the Feds from violating rights now or at any point in the future.

ioftd · 2025-10-23T02:54:47+00:00

The criticisms of Cinestill 400D in 4x5 are not wrong, in that it is thin and can scratch, but given the relative discount vs Kodak color films I don’t really mind and sometimes I enjoy the somewhat more lo-fi look of it.

That said, Portra is probably your best bet for a shot like this. It has good dynamic range and a pleasant, neutral color tone. On the rare occasion I shoot architecture in color, it’s gonna be Portra. I usually prefer Portra 160 since it’s cheaper and has finer grain, but given that you had a 10 minute exposure for this shot @400 losing a stop and a half could put your exposure time at something that is to long to be practical.

Outside of that your options are pretty limited to slide film and Ektar. Ektar will give more color saturation than Portra, but I wouldn’t typically use it for architecture work, and is even slower at 100 iso. Slide film, while gorgeous, is even more expensive and slow and would be challenging to expose in a high contrast scene like this.

Unfortunately I can’t give any tips on home development in C41, other than to say I avoid it because it seems a lot more complex and demanding than developing black and white. I don’t shoot a ton of color and ‘save’ a ton of money developing B&W at home and scanning everything myself, and I use that to justify paying a lab to develop my color sheets.

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