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I know I know, taking pictures of cameras is goofy. But I was practicing some product photography type lighting and it was as good an object as any. Shot on z5 II with an adapted sekor C 80mm 2.8, I think around f8 or f11. If anybody who does that kinda product photo work has any tips then please share, I’m just an amateur.

I found a little way to make manually inverting scans a bit faster and more consistent, which is to use the auto black/white point feature in lightroom. For those who don't know, if you hold shift and double click the white/black label beside the slider, it'll automatically set the white/black point based on the darkest or lightest _visible_ part of the image. That is to say, it will take into account cropping and any adjustments you make to the exposure of the image before doing this.

We can use that to our advantage by white balancing on the unexposed border, cropping so that none of the border is visible, then auto setting both white and black points. Then when you use the points on th

Having a weird problem with pixel shift merging. I scanned a roll of film using the 8 shot pixel shift merge setting. In NX studio, every time I try to merge any of the images, I get "An error occurred while performing pixel shift merge". No error code besides that. It doesn't matter which of the 15 sets 8 images I try, they all have the same error, whether I try to merge them all at once or one at a time. Curiously, if I select the option to merge them into 2 images rather than 1, it works properly. Has anybody else run into this problem?

I’ve been trying to figure out the smallest 35mm lens option on Z mount. I don’t mind adapting an older/vintage manual focus lens but all the adapters tend to add almost an entire lens worth of length. The smallest adapter seems to be the Leica M mount to Z, which are also the most expensive lenses. The Zeiss C-Biogon seems to be one of the best options for that direction.

Also looked at the newer Chinese lenses like TTArtisan but they usually prioritize super wide apertures over size. I wouldn’t mind an f2.8 or even an f3.5 lens if it was a bit smaller.

I’m curious if anyone here knows about any other options!

A popular theory I keep see floating around is that when Mark first joined MDR, the first file he worked on, Allentown, had something to do with his wife Gemma. I'm not going to speculate on what exactly the refining process is doing but assuming that file was Gemma, I have a theory about Cold Harbor.

I think Cold Harbor is Petey. Cobel went to great lengths to get his chip back. Everyone at Lumon thought reintegration was impossible until Petey turned up and Cobel retrieving his chip for testing confirmed it. I believe that's why Cold Harbor is so important. If they can get Mark to finish refining Petey's data, they have something special, insight into the mind of the only person ever to s

Can anyone post an example of a file you’ve used to do flat field correction in Lightroom that worked? I’ve tried a half dozen times but each calibration image I’ve taken has gotten rejected by Lightroom and I can’t figure out why. I’d like to see a working one to try to figure out what’s wrong with mine.

I’m using a Minolta 50mm f3.5 macro lens on an old canon t3i body. It fills the frame well and it looks plenty sharp but Lightroom just refuses to recognize anything as a calibration file. I’ve tried different brightnesses, every combo of cropped and uncropped on both the negative and the calibration file, white balanced and not white balanced, it always throws the no calibration file fou

I'm pretty new to elixir. I've been working my way through advent of code this year, but because of that I've mostly been using mix tasks or .exs files since the problems don't really require building a whole application. The breadth and ergonomics of all of the built in modules were already blowing my mind. Today, out of curiosity, I started fooling around with Agents because I wanted to write a little program that manages images on a cdn.

As someone coming from a primarily javascript background, the moment when I realized that I can run anything I want inside iex while I'm changing a module in real time was nuts. I've seen videos on youtube and read articles where people use iex to do tha