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gregpak

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Rhymes with "rock." Actual human comic book writer, filmmaker, photographer. 35mm Love Letter, Mech Cadet Yu, Planet Hulk, Darth Vader, Ronin Island, Princess Who Saved. Get vaxxed, get out the vote. He/Him.
#Comics #ComicBooks #writing #AmWriting #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter

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gregpak, to BelieveInFilm
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For real: the #BelieveInFilm, #FensterFreitag, #SilentSunday, #BloomScrolling, and similar hashtags on Mastodon genuinely make my life better. Thanks to everyone who started them and everyone who sustains them.

gregpak, to BelieveInFilm
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That funky condo at 101 West 14th St. in NYC, shot with a cheap but pretty awesome Sears rangefinder that's a near clone of the Ricoh 500 RF. An incredibly compact rangefinder with all manual focus and exposure that you can read and set without taking your eye from the lens. Not bad!

Sears 35rf, 40mm f2.8, Fujifilm 200.

gregpak,
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@mcnees ha ha i was thinking minecraft but yes

skinnylatte, to cycling
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6 months ago when I had my beloved Rivendell bike stolen, everyone told me: it’ll turn up in a couple of months. I wanted to believe them but I wasn’t sure I did!

Few things in my favor: my Riv Road Standard was a custom frame in 1995, the size and color doesn’t really exist at all so it was very unique. If you see it, you know it’s my bike. So almost exactly 6 months to the day I got a Reddit message from someone saying they have my bike!

gregpak,
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@skinnylatte Amazing! Congrats!!

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Just a little light reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_invention

skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm
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I took a photo of my friend at lunch time today on my film camera and I sent her a scanned copy by 6pm. If I had taken it on my DSLR there was no way you could have paid me to load the SD card in my computer and send her a photo in the same time. I just personally enjoy the whole film / dev / scan process, and find it an essential part of my creative practice!

#BelieveInFilm

gregpak,
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@skinnylatte Among many other things I love about shooting film, I like having maybe two to six shots of a given scene to pick from instead of twenty. The fact that I've done more precise thinking and choosing in the field makes the later process of picking and editing shots easier and more fun.

gregpak, to BelieveInFilm
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Two shots of the Chelsea Market building in NYC.

B&W: Canon AT-1, Canon nFD 35mm f2.8, Kentmere 100.

Color: Canon New F-1, Canon FL 55mm f1.2, Fujifilm Fujicolor 200.

I generally dig B&W for architecture, but I see the virtue of color for showing off the red brick, yellow signs, and blue sky here. Interesting to see the big difference between the 35mm and 55mm focal lengths. The 35mm gives more information from this angle, for sure.

Which do you prefer?

35mm color vertical photo of the upper part of the Chelsea Market building. Big tower on the left with the Chelsea Market sign and cow logo at the bottom; funky windows on the right.

gregpak, to BelieveInFilm
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The calm before the storm at Hudson Yards. Two days before the NYCC.

Nikon FM, Auto Vivitar 20mm f3.8, Fujifilm Fujicolor 200.

gregpak, to random
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@pfefferle Greetings and thanks for your work on the ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress! I had a question, if you don't mind. I tried it months ago but stopped because it seemed to create a profile that I couldn't edit and I wasn't able to delete posts or the profile itself. Just curious if that's changed and if there's any way to delete/edit posts and the profile itself? Thanks!

gregpak,
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@pfefferle Thanks so much for the response! Is deleting of the account something that will be enabled eventually?

gregpak, to BelieveInFilm
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I'm used to a 28mm or 24mm as my wide angle lens. 20mm really is something else altogether. Fun!

Nikon FM, Auto Vivitar 20mm f3.8, Fujifilm Fujicolor 200.

anildash, (edited ) to random
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Roughly 1/3 of all sites on the Internet just entered the fediverse. You can’t stop an idea whose time has come. https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/wordpress-com-blogs-can-now-be-followed-on-mastodon-and-other-federated-platforms/

gregpak,
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@anildash Anil, can I ask if you've tried this out yourself? Back when it was first announced, I gave it a shot and was kind of horrified to discover that it basically created an account that I couldn't edit or delete. Deeply strange -- just wondering if that's changed/improved, if you happen to know. Thanks!

gregpak, to random
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It's #WorldMentalHealthDay. These last years have been monumentally stressful. If you're suffering and have ever considered seeking professional help, I highly recommend trying it. I went to therapy for the first time in 2021 at the age of 52 and it was one of the best choices I've ever made.

gregpak, to Bloomscrolling
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Canon New F-1, Canon FL 55mm f1.2, Fujifilm Fujicolor 200.

glennf, to random
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Backronyms are insidious. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backronym Siri is not an acronym—it's just a name! https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/10/05/woman-named-siri-has-had-to-change-her-name-since-ios-17 But the human mind desires patterns and stories. About 99% of the stories you’ve heard that XYZ is actually Xavier's Young Zebra or whatever (like f*ck is not F.U.C.K., sorry) is false, an artifact of bringing order to the chaos of philological evolution.

gregpak,
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@glennf ok G.L.E.N.N.

amy, to BelieveInFilm

hey peeps… how do you scan your film?

i’m thinking of diving back in for the first time in years

gregpak,
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@amy I use a Plustek 8200i. The Silverfast software is a little hinky, but it works for me and I'm pretty happy with the results!

gregpak, to BelieveInFilm
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NYC.

Minolta X-370, Minolta MD Rokkor-X 45mm f2, Fuji Superia 400.



(Yes, I'm a day early, but it's past midnight in Germany, right?)

skinnylatte, to random
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My parents gave me the camera they used to take photos of each other and of themselves when they were going out on dates at 15 years old (50 something years ago)

Probably needs some work, but cool!

#BelieveInFiIm

gregpak,
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@skinnylatte Amazing! Is that a Seagull?

gregpak, to BelieveInFilm
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Someone just bought a seemingly pristine Hasselblad in its original box for $2110 at ShopGoodwill. https://shopgoodwill.com/item/178460478

gregpak, to BelieveInFilm
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This one kind of confuses me. A Vivitar 55mm macro lens with a Nikon AI mount that's almost at $115. That's as much as the actual Nikkor 55mm macro sometimes goes for, isn't it? https://shopgoodwill.com/item/178324029

gregpak,
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Oh, I see the attraction - it gets to 1:1 magnification by itself, without an extra tube.

gregpak, to random
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US residents, time to get your next round of free COVID tests! https://special.usps.com/testkits

glennf, to random
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Using Ethernet over an iPhone at full data rates is some rush.

gregpak,
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@glennf weird that reminds me of the roman empire

Gargron, to BelieveInFilm
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I was very delighted to discover there’s an active and thriving community on Mastodon a while back. There’s a whole cluster of hashtags where you can find lovely analog pictures, like , , and more.

gregpak,
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@Gargron The #BelieveInFilm community is literally the best thing about Mastodon for me.

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Boosted!

gregpak,
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@tikistitch Definitely have read about folks having trouble. I was lucky and didn't have any issues.

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