• Miss Brainfarts
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      610 months ago

      So basically, what you’re saying is that I did in fact have my first kiss already?

      • @[email protected]
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        710 months ago

        Make sure to practice safe info dumping. Make sure your partner has plenty of water and snacks as you go on yet another tangent that’s vaguely associated with what you were originally talking about.

            • Miss Brainfarts
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              So I’m currently pretty obsessed with using old vintage lenses for photography and videography, because they offer so much character over their modern alternatives.

              See, modern lenses are perfect. Correctly rendered colours because the glass is engineered to perfection, the image is uniformly sharp, and generally true to real life.

              And don’t get me wrong, that’s important for many scientific applications, where an unbiased recording of what you observe is paramount.

              However, for creative purposes, modern lenses can be pretty damn boring, because they are so perfect.
              Imperfections are what brings a creation to life, what makes it feel organic. And they offer so much potential for creative work.

              Many of these old lenses have a very soft image when shot wide open, some even introduce heavy blooming on sharp edges, which gives the image a super dreamy feel.

              Others have spherical abberations so strong, they distort the unsharp background to the point that the word swirly bokeh became a thing. Such a great effect to frame a subject, draw attention to it, everything revolves around it style.

              But even with these quirks, many old lenses are still capable of shooting tac sharp images when stopped down a bit, and are in no way behind modern lenses in terms of image quality.

              My current favourite for pure quality shots is the Pentacon auto 50mm 1.8 multi coating, a prime kit lens that came with several Praktika camera models like the for the time very affordable MTL5B. This model has seen many parts produced under not so great conditions in Cottbus Prison, by political prisoners of the German Democratic Republic.

              Since they’re completely manual, you have to go over every setting yourself, which helps tremendously with familiarizing yourself with your camera, the lens itself, and just how photography works in general.

              So this, and the fact they’re also so cheap second hand, make them a great choice for not just professional photographers or videographers, but also for beginners who are still learning, and might not have much cash for fancy equipment.

              Some of these lenses have made appearances in big movie productions, such as The Batman. That movie sees my favourite lens being used in some scenes, the soviet Helios 44-2 58mm 2.0, alongside some other model from Jupiter. To match the look between the different lens models that were used, the studio even modified their grotesquely expensive anamorphic cinema lenses to be more in line with the Helios.

              Fun fact to close it off:
              The Helios 44-2 58mm 2.0 is by far one of the most mass-produced lenses ever, being spread over multiple different production facilities and receiving several revisions over the years.

              • @[email protected]
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                210 months ago

                I gotta admit I know absolutely nothing about photography outside of ‘click the little button and magic happens’ but I read every word. Now I kinda want to pick it up, but I need to stick with my current hobby at the moment.

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                  The fun begins when you learn how to make the magic happen yourself^^

                  Well, if you ever do get into it, I can’t recommend vintage lenses enough. Having to shoot manual mode is wildly outweighed by the fact that you pay 50 bucks for the lens, instead of 500.

                  And shooting manually allows for maximum creative control anyway :D

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      As a man I’m so afraid of being a mansplainer that I just don’t talk about much. Then women ask me why I’m so quiet all the time

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      Also, censoring the handle without censoring the display name is pretty much pointless 😄

  • @Mog_fanatic
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    That sounds kinda heretical to me ngl

  • @Sylvartas
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    I don’t blame her, that’s a very real risk. I managed to go almost 3 weeks after getting with my current gf before talking about wh40k

  • @t_berium
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    The Emperor protects. You’ll see.

  • Flying Squid
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    I’ve never played Warhammer. She can kiss me. If my wife says it’s okay.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      10 months ago

      “I’m gay, but only if I find the right dude.”

      Is how that reads to me because I guarantee there is a guy out there who would be like that. Not me… I don’t know all that much about Warhammer. But someone else.

  • @Researchgrant
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    Showed this to the wife, and then asked her if she knows about 40k. She said she’s knows about Warhammer and is 40k better quality…

    • @AnUnusualRelic
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      It’ll be a while before GPUs can do warhammer in 40k though.

      • I Cast Fist
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        Hopefully the standard template for 40k GPU won’t be lost in the dark age of technology, as has happened with text-to-speech tech

    • @BloodSlut
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      610 months ago

      sorry, i only have tips for being an estrogen angle

    • Miss Brainfarts
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      310 months ago

      I’m currently working through that process myself, what do you need to know?

      Depends on the country though

      • Baut [she/her] auf.
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        310 months ago

        Awww, that’s so nice!! Actually I am in a relatively good spot, just have to wait a few more months…

        • Miss Brainfarts
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          Hell yeah, I’m happy for you <3

          I’m in a similar position, though at this point I don’t know when I can actually start. Might be a few months from now, might be end of next year.

          It’s moving slowly and with uncertainty, but it’s moving, and that’s the important part for what we’re going through^^