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I don't see any difference between the images, other than a greenish cast to the one on the left?...

Kinda hard to see what advantages this brings vs. the XA7 (if you don't mind skipping the EVF... I don't)

It seems that Fuji, at least, may be following the "foundry model". In the comments on an article posted here a while ago about webcam updates for cameras, there were suggestions that Fuji's low-end cameras are completely outsourced. They are in fact designed by an outside company, Xacti (formerly Sanyo) to Fuji's specifications, but they use completely different firmware and a completely different sensor.

I googled a bit to try to confirm it, but neither company has ever mentioned this relationship publicly, and there is only speculation in comments sections. It would explain a lot about those low-end Fuji cameras, though.

There was also speculation that Xacti was making cameras for Panasonic. So, it seems as if Xacti is already serving as a camera foundry in some capacity.

G-d damn complicated. Doesn't Eastman still make film in Rochester?

What about Eastman Kodak?

Turning your room into a camera obscura sounds like so much fun, but if I did I think I'd use a digital camera to make a timelapse of the changing light.

Also, experimenting with cyanotyping is a very easy and cheap way to get into printing.

Those metal reels are a real pain - I've been practicing and practicing and just can't get the hang of them.

Fuji GW690. Massive negs, fantastic lens. Looks like a clownish jumbo-sized Leica.

Always great to have more options for film! I'll definitely be picking up a box or two of this to run through my old cameras.

What I don’t get about climate and science denialists is where the anger comes from. Sure, science gets things wrong sometimes, but overall the track record is excellent. Listen to them, stop burning fossil fuels for a while, and if it turns out they were wrong, what’s the problem? People who used to work on oil rigs now work on wind farms. What is there to get angry about?

Does the out of range syncing work outside the app?

Looks like it’s still made in Rochester, NY, on the original manufacturing equipment. See: https://www.popsci.com/inside-kodak-factory-photos

I had no idea you could install a split prism into modern DSLRs. Sounds like fun!

How do people use manual lenses like this on DSLRs without manual focus aids? I tried using an old MF Nikon lens on my D7500 once and trying to focus with the viewfinder was hopeless. I ended up using live view and magnifying the image. That was cumbersome enough with a tiny old 50mm f2, I can’t imagine doing that with this 5lb beast.

Many people spent decades coping with film and are tired of it. For me, film is new. I like it because:
1. Process. I love mechanical things. Typewriters, etc. Now, old cameras. You can see how they work by looking at them. Their metal heft, their sounds. The forgotten craftsmanship. They were very refined devices and there is an unfamilar but visceral pleasure in them.
2. Classic films. Their look can’t be duplicated. They represent the refinement, over decades of ideas on saturation, temperature, contrast, etc. They’re masterpieces of the chemical engineers that created them.
3. Serendipity. With a digital camera I can take a hundred pictures and throw away 99 without a second thought. That makes it easy to find the one picture that represents what I had in mind when I pressed the shutter, which is good. On the other hand, when a roll of film comes back, I look at each one with greater attention. Sometimes I find something valuable that was not intentional at all.

All nice pics. I could use some insights on what “storytelling” means in this context, though. Some of the animal and people picture seem to have a kind of story (feeding time, working, going places) but what story do the desert or lake pictures tell?

Unbelievably stupid comments here. This video was shot on iPhones; probably mostly watched on iPhones or competing smartphones. If any of you geezers were a few decades younger and had ever held an iPhone, you’d notice that they’re easier to hold with the long dimension oriented vertically. That’s why this video was shot vertically.

For exposure you have f2.8 equivalent, but for depth of field and light gathering you have an f4.5 ish equivalent lens if you mount a 40mm f2.8 lens on APSC.

The article states that the iPhone images were taken with the 52mm-equiv camera, not the 28mm-equiv camera, of the dual-cam iPhone. So, perspective distortion should be very similar as the Nikon 58mm lens. Yet, the distortion looks obviously higher in the iPhone images to me, too. Did the iPhone perhaps choose to use the wider camera, and DPR didn't notice?

Weird that they would update a DX lens over their other FX lenses. It must be a good seller for them.