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I honestly love reading stuff like this, especially on a tech board like HN. Sometimes these days I feel like I'm not allowed to be disconnected. It is beautifu

I honestly love reading stuff like this, especially on a tech board like HN. Sometimes these days I feel like I'm not allowed to be disconnected. It is beautifully refreshing to hear about others who think that it's okay. Let's find ways to use tech to our advantage and not have it control our lives.

alexwoodcreates 10y ago
Thanks! Loved writing it - I've been a tech writer for over 10 years and something just snapped with me. Feel so much better now I'm disconnected and back in the driving seat.
iamatworknow 10y ago
I think working with computers breeds a sort of contempt for them and you start looking for alternatives. One of my hobbies is photography, and lately all I've wanted to do is shoot film. My big DSLRs can do some amazing things, but there's something about being limited to between 12 and 36 images, advancing the film by hand, controlling every aspect of the exposure, and standing at my kitchen sink for half an hour developing each roll that makes rattling off a thousand images in a blink then sitting in front of yet another screen a lot less appealing. I'm already sitting at a computer for 40 or more hours per week, why add another if I don't have to?
- jff 10y ago
  Plus, unless you're buying a $5000 medium-format DSLR, your 35mm film camera has a larger "sensor" size than the digital camera. And if you spend $100 and buy a medium-format TLR, well, now your negatives are 6x6cm and holy crap that's a lot of detail.
  - iamatworknow 10y ago
    Hah, definitely. Just ordered some rolls of 120 Velvia and Provia today for my Mamiya, in fact.
    - jff 10y ago
      I haven't tried those, I'm a big fan of Portra 400 in my Yashica-mat
      - iamatworknow 10y ago
        This will be my first time with slide film, actually. I'm really looking forward to it because I love the high contrast and saturation that those films in particular produce. Of course Portra and Ektar are great color films that I love as well, but I want that extra punch.
dredmorbius 10y ago
Quite a few tech people have been exceedingly critical of the industry for years and decades. Many of the best people. RMS, Cliff Stoll, Thompson's "Trusting Trust", Peter G. Neumann. Hyman G. Rickover, if you want to look at nuclear power.

alexwoodcreates 10y ago

Thanks! Loved writing it - I've been a tech writer for over 10 years and something just snapped with me. Feel so much better now I'm disconnected and back in the driving seat.

iamatworknow 10y ago

I think working with computers breeds a sort of contempt for them and you start looking for alternatives. One of my hobbies is photography, and lately all I've wanted to do is shoot film. My big DSLRs can do some amazing things, but there's something about being limited to between 12 and 36 images, advancing the film by hand, controlling every aspect of the exposure, and standing at my kitchen sink for half an hour developing each roll that makes rattling off a thousand images in a blink then sitting in front of yet another screen a lot less appealing. I'm already sitting at a computer for 40 or more hours per week, why add another if I don't have to?

jff 10y ago
Plus, unless you're buying a $5000 medium-format DSLR, your 35mm film camera has a larger "sensor" size than the digital camera. And if you spend $100 and buy a medium-format TLR, well, now your negatives are 6x6cm and holy crap that's a lot of detail.
- iamatworknow 10y ago
  Hah, definitely. Just ordered some rolls of 120 Velvia and Provia today for my Mamiya, in fact.
  - jff 10y ago
    I haven't tried those, I'm a big fan of Portra 400 in my Yashica-mat
    - iamatworknow 10y ago
      This will be my first time with slide film, actually. I'm really looking forward to it because I love the high contrast and saturation that those films in particular produce. Of course Portra and Ektar are great color films that I love as well, but I want that extra punch.

dredmorbius 10y ago

Quite a few tech people have been exceedingly critical of the industry for years and decades. Many of the best people. RMS, Cliff Stoll, Thompson's "Trusting Trust", Peter G. Neumann. Hyman G. Rickover, if you want to look at nuclear power.