Photog stuff
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Poder ver tantas fotos juntas do Eduardo Gajeiro num mesmo lugar é ter um enorme flashback para o Portugal do último século.
Details from today.
You know when you search for something in YouTube and the algorithm thinks “Oh, you like this kind of thing? Say no more!!!”?
My timeline is full of GFX 50R videos! And other medium format stuff too…
Why did I suddenly start thinking about buying a Fuji GFX 50R?…
Food for thought after Sunday’s election day here in Portugal: the left should always be anti-fascist, but should never be just anti-fascist…
Se não se postar a foto do boletim, será que se votou mesmo?
Pensamento do dia!
My problem with camera wrist straps: I’m always loosing them… Bear in mind that all my straps have quick releases.
I might need to include some spares when I buy the next one.
Ainda a propósito destas sensações que o Ricardo Costa fala: há dias alguém que certamente se achava “imigrante de bem” dizia-me que Portugal tinha de pôr ordem na imigração por não tinha gostado de ver homens de turbante… …e africanos também…
Domingo a terminar em “beleza”, o mote foi a manifestação de hoje no Brasil. Uma conversa acesa com alguém a tender para o bolsominion, mas que mora cá, sobre a imigração em Portugal. A conversa teve direito aos chavões comuns, desde “eu não sou racista, mas…” a “eu até tenho um amigo preto”, mas há uma frase que me ficou na memória:
“Só uma revolução, só uma pessoa com muita firmeza para melhorar isso.”
Qual é este fascínio de muita gente numa figura messiânica, num salvador para resolver os nossos problems? Não é necessariamente um problema de esquerda ou direita, nem de se uma pessoa é religiosa ou não (se bem que neste caso…), que hoje em dia encontrarmos dogmas em tantos lados, mas faz-me pensar que é por isto que ainda vamos tendo ditadores e que não podemos baixar a guarda…
It’s 2024 and the people who run giveaways on Instagram seem to have trouble in finding format different than:
All giveaways are like this, every single one of them…
“It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best."
Despite travelling I’ve started to grow a kind of love/hate relationship with it, and this article kind hits the nail on many of my dilemmas. At some point I thought that travel makes us more tolerant, by having a wider perspective and experience other realities, and while that’s not wrong it isn’t as straightforward as I once believed. Often is more self-centred that people like to say (and I’m including myself in it…), both for the one who travelled or those back home: the questions usually are more in the “what have you done?” than the “what’s it like?”, and I don’t really like love talking about myself.
Random shots from last week, lingering in my camera roll
The two kinds of roads you get at Trás-Os-Montes.
É quase 2024 e ainda continua a haver gente a dizer que Sistelo é o “Tibete português”…
Always having a camera nearby
Sunday mornings where it would felt much better to stay in bed, but glad I didn’t! Hiking at Tapada de Mafra, my mate Bruno’s idea.
Monday morning commute
In the latest video of Framelines (https://youtu.be/Sd41x2vp0fM), Josh Edgoose goes on a small tangent from the main topic: lenses should use the full-frame equivalent focal length, not the real focal length.
Why should the full-frame equivalent be the base reference? I understand the conventions and all that, but feels weird to put a focal that’s not the actual focal length, and, more important, it gives the sense that full-frame somehow is the “right one”, and the others orbit around it, which for me isn’t the case (all sensor sizes have their place, from tiny smartphone sensors to large format).
If it’s to get an universal measurement, then I’d rather jump head first to thinking in lenses in terms of field of view angle, and not focal length, something I’d loved lens makers displayed more prominently.
…aaaaaand one more trip around the sun…
