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I've been stepping out, Tumblr. It's not me. It's you. Who? You know who. The thing is, you take me for granted. Instagram shows me affection. I get likes, and I don't even have to ask for them. Sure, the presentation is shit, the thumbnailing insulting, and the interface is carefully tuned to thwart my use case. But I feel like Instagram sees me, even if it's just in meaningless, fleeting glances. Look, maybe I'll do some cross-posting.

#instagram #jumping ship #partialsight

Initially, you don’t worry about what traveling is for, because it’s obvious. Somewhere new! Adventures! Beautiful things! Take pictures! Beautiful pictures! Then you get older, and it may occur to you to wonder what the hell you’re doing on this street in a city you’ve never been in, where

I wrote this. Read it. If you dare.

#partialsight #self promotion #travel #olympus #italy #puglia

The Yashica Electro 35 series of rangefinder cameras were produced in great numbers in the 1970s. The internet hive mind, filled with whatever ideas percolate through the collective consciousness of people interested in running film through old cameras, has judged them and largely found then

You ever hear a lot of good things about someone, but then when you meet them you’re like, “I dunno, this guy’s kind of a jerk?” I wrote a camera review about that over at partialsight.

#partialsight #electro 35 #camera review #35mm photography #yashica #believeinfilm

The next guy who called him “Casper” was taking a beak to the eye.

#paris #pigeon #35mm film #believeinfilm #leica #animal thoughts #imposed narrative

Krupp (not to be confused with appliance maker Krups) made artillery for the Nazis, among other things. Though if we want to be strict about it, Leica made cameras for the Nazis, too. None of those cameras blew anyone up, but still -- it’s worth noting, in acknowledgment that nothing is simple or clean. Even Krups, which made scales before realizing what people would pay for a fancy coffeemaker in a post-war world, probably helped the Nazis weigh things. My father-in-law noticed that under the right illumination the Krupp logo looks like a skull.

#krupp #history #logo design #photographers on tumblr #original photographers