flipthefrog

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by flipthefrog 3y ago
My kid was obsessed with the 1930s Disney cartoons, including the black and white Mickeys, from age 2 to 5.
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
While a lot of scanners advertise crazy high resolutions, this is often just marketing mumbo jumbo. They only resolve details at half or a quarter of the claimed resolution. See www.filmscanner.info for tests of the resolution on many scann
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
This simply isnt true. A DSLR with a sharp macro lens is a lot better than a flatbed. A dedicated filmscanner like those made by Nikon and Minolta 15-20 years ago, is very slow, but the quality is even higher
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
Wonder what to use for MongoDb. "Mongo" is a nasty slur for a person with Downs syndrome in Norwegian
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
Tmax and Delta 100 have 150 lines per millimeter, and it's even way higher for certain specialty films like Adox CMS 20 with 250 lines. Though you probably need a drum scanner to resolve to that level. For general use, a high quality s
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
You're obviously thinking of Helios 44 and other Russian lenses, but there are also many outstanding m42 lenses, including Pentax Takumars.
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
The principles of photography were known earlier - Niepce's breakthrough was managing to fix the image so that it didnt fade. Photography could have existed much earlier if someone had figured out how to make fix
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
Autochrome was a much earlier process used around the turn of the century. These are most likely Kodachrome, a legendary slide film from Kodak with a very particular, pleasing color palette, whose colors hardly fade for decades.
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
Just for comparision, this is the quality Super 8 is capable of when shot on a good camera and professionally scanned and digitally stabilized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nh9BTMWj9M Obviously rather expensive to do it
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
That was my first thought too, Kodak Gold is not supposed to look this bad. Converting color negatives is actually quite hard. You can get good results with software such as Negative Lab Pro (Adobe Lightroom plugin), but getting anywhere cl
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
Choosing when to click the button is a pretty essential part of photography. "I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to “trap” life — to preserve life in the act of living. Above all, I
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by flipthefrog 3y ago
Just take photos of strip malls, parking lots, and multistate chains then. They'll look great in 40 years, like William Eggleston or Stephen Shore's work does today
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by flipthefrog 4y ago
My 13 year old wanted a cd player for christmas, and now she wants a cd burner. She wants to own music, but thinks vinyl is too expensive and snobby
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by flipthefrog 4y ago
One very good streaming service for classical music is idagio.com I can only hope that they won't offer auto generated playlists the way Spotify does. No matter what you listen to - Stravinsky, Stockhausen, 12 tone music, baroque, oper
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by flipthefrog 4y ago
Film isn't linear the way digital is. 30% under exposure doesn't give an image that is exactly 30% brighter, but may show up more as less shadow detail, compressed mid tones, etc. Also, negative film can handle a huge amount of ov
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by flipthefrog 4y ago
If the goal is to scan xpan, why not just get an old CoolScan or something eqivalent, and stitch together the scans
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by flipthefrog 4y ago
No, your top priorty should be washing the film thoroughly to get all the fix out after developing. Then store it properly in a dark and not to warm and humid area. That way, it will last for centuries (at least for black and white) and can
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by flipthefrog 4y ago
PlusTek and Epson are absolutely nowhere near the quality of discontinued scanners like FlexTight, Nikon CoolScan and Fuji Frontier. Modern scanners claim high DPIs, but the real resolution is far below. What good is scanning at 6400 dpi if
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by flipthefrog 4y ago
A C>oolScan V is worth a fair amount of money already, and will only increase in price. Send it to Frank Philips, who repairs CoolScans more or less full time. You can find him on the FaceBook CoolScan group
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by flipthefrog 4y ago
The baby thing is from an interview with the firefighters wife in the Nobel Prize winning book Voices from Chernobyl. I dont remember how its depicted in the series, but in the book, it is clear that this is the woman's personal belief
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by flipthefrog 4y ago
Its an amazing book. The author, Svetlana Alexievich, won the Nobel Price for literature a few years ago, the only journalist that has ever won it. The book consists entirely of interviews, and opens with an interview with the wife of the
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by flipthefrog 4y ago
If you select the track and start dragging it, like when addding it to a playlist, it will show the commplete title