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Mamiya Six Photos

Works fine in daylight but a bit hard to focus under lowlight or indoors.

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Dream camera

Finally bite the bullet with a Mamiya Six, a rather obscure variation with the Copal shutter B-1/200s

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Infrared Trichrome

Hugin can align images better than I can by hand on GIMP

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Zooming into Spring

Honestly it's fixed 100mm.

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Focus stacking

Turns out one can focus stack in postprocessing.

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2024

This one's gonna be good.

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Yunnan

Should have done this more.

Maybe get a car too.

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Holidays

As busy as any working day with all the gathering

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Making a choice

It's so hard to tell, whether not making a choice is a better choice

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Reorganizing life

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Time, money, energy

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Desk clock

My new California dial Bubble back build has spent more time sitting as a desk clock than being on my wrist.

Which is probably fine, consider it a convertible.

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More DIY watches

AF macro ring works, but XT-20 doesn't have focus stacking so it's a blurry mess.

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Seafood

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Jelly fish

Kinda hard to nail the focus.

Stereograph would have been cool.

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Let's crank up the fire before life gets dull

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Light at the end of the tunnel

The tunnel seems neverending and is only getting darker.

The baggage gets heavier too.

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I assemble watches

That's why I am not taking photos.

Also my eczema is healing. For the second summer god doesn't want me to go out.

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Summer

Red filter.

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450mm equivalent

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Good times

Good glass really work like magic.

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Stable Diffusion

Impressionistic photo.

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IMAX film

So shooting IMAX film on medium format actually gives me less image per frame due to the sprocket holes.

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Losing its handle to aging

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Zooming in

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Shanghai GP3 100

This film pushes well up to ISO 400. I don't really need the 400 version if I can push it any time I want.

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Midjourney Photography

Add something and change something, rather uncontrollably.

Good tool for image play.

Spits out interesting image but not photography.

It's lacking the experience.

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Impressionism via Midjourney

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Coins

I love money.

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Film vibe with a phone

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Stuff I saw on the street

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Going candid

Definitely can but not sure if I did

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That guy on the right

He knows the drill.

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Rollei RPX 400 is the flattest film base I have ever used

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TLR selfie

Achievement unlocked.

No more TLR.

No more convertible with reduction mask.

There was only myself shooting this photo.

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Cyanotype

The chemical I bought didn't work so digitally.

The key is to cut off both ends of the curve, invert color, crank up temperature, then invert back.

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Lubitel 166U

Not sure how to focus properly. Maybe I don't need to.

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Hidden folks

Blending right in.

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Film price

I just realized I can get 20 rolls of Shanghai GP3 for the same amount of money I spent on Lubitel 166U.

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大阪 Osaka

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宇治 Uji

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出雲 Izumo

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米子 Yonago

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鳥取 Tottori

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湯郷温泉 Yunogo Onsen

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厳島 Itsukushima

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広島 Hiroshima

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There is no road

There are footprints left by others, but there's no a perfect way to go.

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Japan Trip (2019)

Maybe I like looking forward to it than actually going.

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Waterfall

Sometimes things look more 3D in black and white and I don't know why.

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Even Semi Leotax

A triplet can do this. Meanwhile I am somewhat disappointed by corner sharpness of Tessar.

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Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens

The kind of things middle-age women get crazy about.

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Very wide and very long

Stitching panorama becomes quite easy with Hugin.

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Excited looking flowers

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Edge sharpness

Not sure whether it's misaligned lenses or just how Industar-24 works.

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Free space

A photo stream of my own allows me to post my photos freely.

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Post-processing

As long as there's good light and composition, most other things can be post-processed pretty well.

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Getting back to work

The last day of a long holiday is always hard.

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Dreamlike

Some scenes just look perfect if I stay away and not looking at it the second time.

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Looking forward to

Trip to Japan in 3 weeks.

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Autumn leaves in black and white

I like the perceived depth along the road.

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My Friend

Sometimes I hope he look beyond a shadow.

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Afternoon in Lamma Island

Surreal scene of total darkness outside despite the bright afternoon sunlight.

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Suspicious people

Crank up the suspiciousness with Luminar AI.

I couldn't help it.

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Autumn leaves in Tsing Yi Park

Stitched together a couple photos because even 100mm is too long for park landscape.

Ended up shooting birds like those middle-aged people. Lovebirds included.

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Christmas and New Year

Developed the roll of Shanghai GP3 100 shot during late December.

In respective order: Lamma Island, Pokemon trading card unboxing, Tabletop game day, Cup noodle before New Year sunrise.

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Parents parenting

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Sunrise on June

Feel the silence and summer morning breeze.

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Mount Rokko, Hyogo, Japan

Two edits of the same photo, not sure which one is better.

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Leaning on

The state of nature is we are all alone. Yet we can also choose leaning onto something, thereby making some of us less lonely.

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300mm

Stacking hills looking almost cartoonish.

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Nostalgia

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Bulk loaded Kodak 5294

Bulk loading is fine as long as they make sure it's usable up till the last shot. I could maybe treat this as a half-frame shot though.

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Taiwanese rain tree

We've got three of these downstairs, all starting to turn yellow as it gets cold.

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First sunrise of 2023

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Last sunset of 2023

Goodbye 2022!

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Tai Tong autumn leaves

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