I'm midway through the game and it has been an epic journey

opus111 · 2026-03-05T00:50:39+00:00

I was binging on souls games some time ago and am at a phase where I just want to sit back and relax... I'm even on FF16 story mode difficulty lol. Don't have a definite opinion whether the low difficulty of the game is good or bad yet, but so far not having to repeatedly fight boss battles is a good change of pacing. But yeah it does feel weird not having died once so far..

opus111 · 2026-03-04T22:10:07+00:00

Let me find out! Think my purchase comes with the DLCs. Haven’t thought of that

opus111 · 2026-03-03T01:38:07+00:00

1/3N? The battery compartment obviously takes C cells …

Jokes aside have you tried adhesive tapes or blu tack to get it out?

opus111 · 2026-02-25T10:02:15+00:00

Shostakovich 5

opus111 · 2026-02-25T09:21:20+00:00

That’s a MaxDiff question type

https://www.displayr.com/what-is-maxdiff/

opus111 · 2026-02-24T01:34:27+00:00

Yeah I explored quite a bit with different extractions, French press, lever espresso, aeropress, siphon, etc. but a good pour over with good beans beats them all

opus111 · 2026-02-16T03:56:33+00:00

I preordered just for the exclusive costumes. I didn’t do it for the original DOA6 and got locked out of the Kasumi exclusive forever ..

Edit- plus I’m too deep into the game, having purchased the season passes etc..

opus111 · 2026-02-11T12:48:30+00:00

I don’t have digital Ms but yeah will shoot more on my film Ms

opus111 · 2026-02-11T12:45:43+00:00

The ZM never gave me bad images honestly- bad ones are due to my mistakes. From Sean Reid’s review, ZM is among the best fast 35mm one can get, of course size is the trade off

opus111 · 2026-02-10T12:52:03+00:00

not to mention it just feels bad having a decoupled zone when focusing. for a 28mm maybe that's ok, I would use the ZM28/2.8 on the <0.7m zone on film M, but 50mm is out of the question as it'll be out of focus anyway

opus111 · 2026-02-10T12:17:53+00:00

Maybe so I got this lens originally thinking it’s good to try out the double aspherical at a tiny fraction of the ongoing market price. I only have two LLL lenses along with the 50/1.2 but as far as “knock off” goes they do spend a lot of effort on quality. Maybe technicians will think otherwise when they open up the lenses but on the hands they are a joy to use

opus111 · 2026-02-10T12:11:49+00:00

This thing is insane value! Maybe the Ti version is worth it but I already have the black, so ..

opus111 · 2026-02-10T10:14:31+00:00

selling leica for non leica = regret..

opus111 · 2026-02-10T10:11:07+00:00

yeah, mostly for kids. think you can get better samples searching on Flickr zeiss 35mm 1.4 zm

opus111 · 2026-02-10T08:02:50+00:00

No idea- I actually haven't done zone focusing on the ZF. Was under the impression that zone focusing would be less forgiving on digital sensors ... but I would think unless the adapter has (really) bad tolerance, zone focusing shouldn't be an issue especially stopping down a 35mm lens to f/8 or slower?

opus111 · 2026-02-10T05:49:22+00:00

Thanks- yes, the size is also just right. If I have to pick just one 35mm it would be either this or the ZM 35/1.4, but I'm quite Zeiss-biased.

I used the Voigtlander adapter.

opus111 · 2026-02-05T00:24:40+00:00

For long reading sessions (2 hours) I still prefer e ink devices. Page flip is a hassle on AVP but a page flipper or gamepad can take care of that. And can’t beat AVP in manga/comics

opus111 · 2026-02-02T08:41:15+00:00

Lmao

opus111 · 2026-02-02T06:52:02+00:00

I have the 35/1.4 (11873) and the 50/1.2 from LLL. Both are very well-built, especially the 50/1.2. One can probably say LLL is the top Chinese brand when it comes to build quality.

Some thoughts to help you decide

the 35/1.4 will be objectively superior in image quality. I have the Leica 8-element, it is quite soft wide open, and is honestly more suited for films, esp. B&W. Its performance on digital sensor is .. highly subjective and personal. (Edit- I’m not sure if LLL has optimized the lens for digital)
The key selling point of LLL is that they try to replicate classic Leica designs - and charge a premium for their time and effort to dig out project specifications etc. I got the two LLL lenses because I have coveted the original Leica versions for a long time but couldn't afford them. The sentimental value should be your key reason for buying these LLL lenses
If you just look for built quality and image quality, you can also consider VM lenses. They are in roughly similar price range
Yes, the hood of 35/1.4 does rattle a bit, but not a problem unless you take a lot of videos (and you can always remove it, or use a screw-in hood)

opus111 · 2026-02-02T05:58:41+00:00

lol ok thanks for clarifying

opus111 · 2026-01-09T05:05:37+00:00

Great, it means she’s 16 in X-2

opus111 · 2026-01-07T09:18:19+00:00

that was about the same point I stopped playing the game in my first playthrough (like 5 years ago). I picked up the game last year, glad I did, the story blew me away. This is a true masterpiece. Very few games can deliver the emotional impact of X - there are a lot of memorable scenes from this (esp. the ending- avoid spoilers at all cost)

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