Awesome! Yeah personally I’ll always buy via services like MPB or something. Just to know that I can send it back when there’s and issue. I’ve had 2 times now that there were some issue with what I ordered. In one case I sent it back for free and got a different copy of the lens that was perfect. In the other case the sensor of my new body was dirty and I was allowed to use a cleaning kit on it first without losing warranty. That fixed it, which saved me quite some time and effort with the whole sending back and getting a new one adventure.

Good to know that this lens is great. I also have a micro 4/3 camera and I might invest in one of the primes at some point. Currently I only have the 2 basic Olympus zooms, the 30mm macro (which is awesome) and some vintage glass, but a small modern prime would probably do wonders.

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Yeah that’s probably the best idea. If it’s widely regarded as a more sharp lens then it may just be a faulty copy.

Lovely shot. Very pleasing colours, kinda look like a film scans or something. I assume this is edited and not sooc?

As someone who had to deal with a dirty sensor recently I can’t help but notice that there are some spots on the sensor or lens tho. The biggest one is a blurry piece of dust or hair above the row of trees in the sky, between the reed and the transmission tower. nd there also appear to be some smaller spots in the ice. You can probably remove them with a rocket blower from the lens or sensor.

Awesome! I only noticed that it was happening just before I wanted to go to bed, and I wrongly assumed that I had to use long shutter speeds which ruined most of my shots. But I got something decent from my balcony at higher iso and faster shutter speeds. I also have some with red but I missed focus on all of them.

It is very difficult. I tend to let it collect until I start running out of clean stuff while hoping for the gnomes to do it for me. But they never actually do so :(

You’re probably aware, but Bitwig studio runs natively on Linux. And tools like yabridge can allow you to run many VST plugins as well. Though it remains a bit of a hassle compared to Windows. I’ve for instance lost access to a NI plugin because their new all-in-one installer/verification program won’t work on Linux

I did so at the start of 2025. It was meant mostly as an experiment, to see what I needed before switching permanently. But I kinda just kept going. I think I’ve booted windows like 2 or 3 times across the year to get something off of it or to run test something that didn’t work on Linux. I’m kinda considering to just wipe it, or wipe it and install it on a separate partition so it can’t mess with shit anymore. Maybe put it on an old disk in my spare parts PC (if that is possible with the TPM bullshit) to isolate it further.

It does feel like that yeah. But honestly it would probably still be pretty fast if the GPU driver support didn’t cease. Being on the integrated GPU has made the thing age another 10 years, that piece of shit was already horrendously slow when the Laptop was new

Looks like he’s just toying around with it in some project. Why would he take other’s words for it when he can just test it himself? Try it out, see what happens, draw conclusions.

There’s a lot of mindless hype and a lot of mindless hate around these tools. Makes sense to try these tools and form your own opinion

Haha. The video is a bit pessimistic tho, I know people who work at companies with Haskell running in production (who are happy with it). Personally I have used monads, and I’ve wished for their functionality in other languages like Java, but I couldn’t reasonably explain what they are.

Also, as someone who know just about enough German to understand some of what they’re saying, it’s always quite hard to follow these videos. My brain doesn’t understand it when it hears “Das war ein Befehl!” and the subtitles ramble on about something completely different

Jokes on you, I’m into that shit

Yeah this. I never really cared for them, and tbh a lot of those reaction videos are very over the top or fake. But I kinda latched onto the more grounded ones this year. It allows me to rewatch some of my favorite content “with others”. Obviously it’s not as good as doing so with friends, but getting friends to watch all this content is kinda hard. If they care, they’ve probably already seen it or it’s just very hard to plan something like this. And if they don’t care then watching together won’t be fun anyway.

Last year has been quite stressful and sometimes I just need some “mental fastfood”. Reaction content is that. There’s no stress, I know exactly what will happen when. There’s just the joy of seeing someone else watch or play something awesome for the first time. It kinda makes it feel like I’m seeing it for the first time with them. And some of these people actually see or know things that I wasn’t aware of when watching. Or they come up with interesting theories about what’s gonna happen next.

Might as well be a Dutch dialect at this point haha. It’s funny how the platt/plat dialects are kinda similar.

Yeah. They/them feels quite natural, but compared to that all Dutch alternatives feel a bit forced. Maybe it’s better just to find something new, but good luck teaching those to people.

Things don’t need to be true to be insightful, but many viewers will feel disrespected if they get served something fictional that is presented as something real. I have no issues with a photoshopped or AI generated image of it’s clearly marked as such, they can be gorgeous and insightful all the same. But when something looks (partially) fictional but is presented as a real thing, it feels incredibly deceiving. Capturing a one in a million moment has great value, but photoshopping or using AI to mimic such a moment makes it all worthless.

The butterfly was probably just being goofy, and the light weird. But if it was photoshopped into the picture then the picture would absolutely not have the same value to me and presumably many other viewers. A large part of this photo’s allure is the fact that the photographer got such a rare moment perfectly framed. If it turns out to be faked then that would be a major deception.

Another Rabbit Hole is “how much editing is too much” ofc. Personally I obviously don’t mind colour adjustments, sharpening, some retouches etc. Even moving the butterfly ever so slightly around to get it perfectly aligned with the eyes would be kinda okay. But if it’s significantly moved, enlarged, or just straight up pasted in it would be an unacceptable deception imo.

I decided to go through his insta. I couldn’t find the specific photo, maybe he hasn’t posted it yet. But none of his other photos that I saw on his insta look this sus. So he was probably just unlucky with the timing making the shot look photoshopped. I can’t imagine someone with such a portfolio risking an egregious Photoshop like this. Animals can be a bit derpy sometimes, I’ve shot quite a few bird pictures recently and I’ve definitely noticed this.

It’s just that you can’t really trust anything anymore nowadays. If it looks fake, that’s often because it is. Even after seeing his insta I cannot help being a bit sceptical, but based on his portfolio there’s really just no way a rational person would fake this.

Yeah many of them are a bit too heavy on the editing for my taste as well. Some editing is always required to get something beautiful, but many of them look a bit too unreal to m. Still great photos, and obviously some hard work

The butterfly looks so weird in the photo, almost like it was pasted in later. It looks like a butterfly just sitting still, but then cut out and pasted into the air. Wings folded, legs in seating position. Might just be a coincidence though, maybe it just flapped its wings like that and had its legs out to land.

If it’s not photoshopped, it’s really an amazing shot.

I have no idea how it compares, but I did develop my own film for the first time using a plastic reel with Fomapan 100 medium format film. I had some practice with a 35mm test roll before and honestly had little issue getting the 120 film on the reel. Maybe 120 film is easier tho because of the piece of folded over tape at the end.