Chris Freitag

Product & UX, Photography, Apple Nerd

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The 18mm 1.4

My latest video is about the Fujifilm XF18mmF1.4 R LM WR and did I mention it was sharp? It's sharp. Sharp.

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I started my YouTube channel in October of 2022 and I have some thoughts on what I’ve learned in the last 6 months. I don’t have a large channel but it’s growing. And there’s so much more to learn.

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#disabletumblrlive

If the @staff would maybe just watch the the tiles that show up on people's dashboard, maybe they would allow us to permanently disable it rather than snooze it for 7 days at a time. I don't want to see the next mass shooter posing with his AR-15 on a Tumblr live tile.

It's vile. I'll never watch any of them. Ever. Let me turn them off.

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Photography along the Olympic Peninsula

In my latest #YouTube video, I share the images I took while traveling in Washington. This video was harder to make because I am showcasing my work and it’s much more personal than even my talking head videos.

I hope you enjoy it.

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The XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR Lens

I choke on saying all of that.

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Finding Your Photographic Style

Took me way too long but my next #YouTube video is up. This one took me down a different path than I intended, which was really fun. It was even called #cinematic #photography right up to the end when I changed it to Finding Your Photographic Style.

My guess is it won’t fare as well because I don’t talk about gear at all. This one is for love of the game.

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The XF27mmF2.8 R WR

The Fujinon XF27mmF2.8 R WR is a pancake lens that's perfect for travel and blending in for street photography. Not exactly the right lens for a company event but it was all I had.

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The Fujifilm X-T5

Why I upgraded. Or why I chose to upgrade. Or why I could justify this big expense to myself. Or why I told myself whatever lies I needed to so I could just go trade in my X-T4 and get my hands on this thing.

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The Most Popular Grocery Store In Each State (in 2022, based on foot traffic)

by @statspanda1

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this is blatant lying where is publix i have never even seen a fucking safeway i want to speak to the manager

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For real. I know Kroger exists in Georgia because I drive past them on my way to Publix, but I’ve never seen a Safeway this far east.

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Albertsons in WA/OR? Home of Fred Fucking Meyer? Not to mention Winco? Even the HEB in Texas has me side-eyeing it as Kroger has a very strong presence, at least in So. Texas/Houston. Aside from the fact that Albertsons has the highest prices of all the chain grocers in PDX.

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I suspect this image is a troll. Or perhaps the caption is literal and this survey only included foot traffic - people who drove cars to the store were disregarded (this could explain the Trader Joes thing, because their parking lots always SUCK)

I don’t recall ever seeing a HyVee in Minnesota (it’s Cub Foods. Duh.), and uh, Massachusetts is Market Basket country, ffs. Also last time I read about this Fry’s only had like two stores left so the Arizona thing seems unlikely too.

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This is all bogus data, but for what purpose I don’t know.

There is literally not a single Safeway location here in the state of Florida. Not one. That’s a fact.

Also this is straight-up Wegmans erasure and I will have none of it.

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Not even sort of true. I know more people who shop at Trader Joe’s than Sprouts in Colorado. King Soopers is our Kroger-purchased grocery store.

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X100V Made Me Better

I made this as a companion to my blog post from September. It has had a profound affect on me, but not because it's an X100V. It was the right camera for me when I needed it.

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Get Out There

I did not want to go outside this morning. It’s cold and there’s snow everywhere. Not just snow, but that weeks-long snow that’s been scraped and salted, and is brown from the filth of the streets. I hate that snow.

I dragged myself out anyway. I took my Fujifilm X100V and a travel tripod and phone mount in case I wanted to give vlogging a try. First, that word is just the worst, vlogging. And second, I can not just walk around the streets talking to my video camera because I respect other people. I’ll find another way to talk to the camera.

And it was worth it. Even if I didn’t have such fantastic light and the photos were no good, it’s still worth going out because I can’t learn and improve if I don’t go out.

I’m happy with these. And I get to say to myself that I did this, I have these photos now. Because I went out.

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I keep coming back to this but we never asked *how* Big Brother had all the methods of surveillance in 1984, we just accepted the premise.

But the prequel will be about an unchecked tech industry falling all over themselves to collect more and more data because that’s the pot at the end of the rainbow.

Speaking of the pot…

https://uncrate.com/withings-u-scan-home-urine-lab/

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Why Glass?

Look at my home page on Flickr.

Now look at my home page on Glass.

This is the best way to show you the difference. But it's equally dramatic seeing the home feed of Instagram vs Glass on a mobile device. If you love photography, the question is "why not?"

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Best of 2022

I made a 1 minute 40 second video of my favorite #photography in 2022.

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there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter

tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks... that website still lives on

truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that

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Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy? Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988) dir. John McTiernan for @comicbookvillain

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One of my favorite Christmas Movies ! ! ! ! !

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Now it’s Christmas

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What’s fun about making these videos is that I’m in control of what I want to say, how I want to say it, and use whatever methods and design choices I like.