Which body do you have? The 17mm 1.2 is comfortable on the larger-bodied om1, but people say it’s a bit big on the the smaller Olympus bodies. The 17mm 1.8 is tiny though and fits nice on the om-3 style bodies

Thanks. I got a different copy from KEH rather than eBay – lo and behold! this shit sharp lol

I took a look at the interior of the lens by shining my phone light through the back of the lens toward the front, and I saw quite a bit of …erhm… smearing? on the front element of the lens. I’m thinking it may just be a bad copy. Initiated a return

It’s an olympus OM-1 mk ii

(thanks for taking a look btw)

Yeah, no settings changes camera-side. Just swapped the lenses and kept em wide open. Both are straight out of camera.

Edit: You gave me the idea to just take a quick look at the RAW files, just in case it is something with the camera post-processing. The 25mm RAW is definitely sharper than the 17mm, so its definitely a lens thing

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https://interesi.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/technopoly.pdf

Tech is a tool, you don’t need to connect with it in any transcendental way. According to this guy ^ Neil Postman, you may feel this way because we live in a TECHNOPOLY

I’m an admin and using an SSH key is the most common way we log into servers.

Also the most common way I log in to self-hosted servers.

So I’ve been seeing some discussion online about how Apollo has solved some user’s problems with virtual display

Do you mind me asking what you’re running? I’m on Ubuntu 25.10 w/ Plasma 6.4 running wayland, and I’ve had issues forever setting up a virtual display. I’ve just accepted that I have to go with whatever modes the edid my monitor/dummy hdmi plug offers, which means I havent been able to stream 1260x800 or 2560x1600 to my steamdeck (so it is black-barred)

I guess Plasma 6.6 is going to add the ability to add custom modes via kscreen-doctor, but thats at least a few months out I think. I’d much rather use a native virtual display if apollo is magically able to do that.

If you just discovered Steam Link and you’re not married to it, you could use Sunshine as your gamestreaming host and Moonlight as the client. you can set it up so that you can launch Steam Big Picture on your host and play any games that are listed under your steam, even if they are non-steam games.

Thank you so much! you pointed me in exactly the right direction and now I have a couple edited photos I think I’m happy with it. The trick was watching Boris Hajdukovic’s Diffuse and Sharpen video – seeing him go do his initial edits with Color Balance RGB module gave me some confidence and the idea to just not worry about sharpness – get the colors right – then fine tune the sharpening on the church.

So I did that, then I masked the church and did some manual Diffuse and sharpening there (rather than using the presets - I think one of my issues was i would experiment with a preset and it would reset my mask and screw me all up!) and – well looking back now, maybe its a little oversharpened compared to the OOC jpg, but its not too bad to me!

I did remove some of the atmospheric haze too as you suggested and I think that helped quite a bit.

If you do find time to take a pass at these please let me know! I’ve added my “final” edits to the album in case anyone is interested. “Final” because I think I need to take a break from this image lol.

Will be watching more of Boris’ videos! Thank you again

Thanks! Yeah, me too Re: the endless rabbit hole of editing. For one thing, I very much hate the editing process! I too want things to look natural, but I’ve been watching the “Darktable Landscapes” Youtube channel and I’m amazed at what he’s able to do with some of his rawfiles, especially his use of masks.

Usually I just stick with the OOC jpegs because I find them good enough, but in this particular shot I’m using a long lens and teleconverter, and since the subject is so far away there’s a bit of haze and not a ton ton of detail. So i figureed it’d be a good candidate to practice editing and see if I can make a better image than the OOC jpeg… but I’ve been feeling like I just can’t! When I zoom in to bricks of the church in the OOC images, they seem a lot cleaner and sharper than my edited raw files, and I’m having trouble sharpening in darktable without making the image look twice baked.

I haven’t tried rawtherapee yet but I’ve heard its a bit less cumbersome than Darktable – I think I’ll try that and see how it does. Thanks again!

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I use navidrome to stream music from my desktop. Symphonium is my android client. It costs like 2 bucks but it’s real good. Lots of different UI options.

I haven’t done it myself since Im the only one using it…but I think in order to have somewhere your family can login and download music … That is a separate application from navidrome. Lidarr, Jackett, and somehow connect to qbittorent…I haven’t done it yet but I think that’s probably the route id go

I figured “frame” refers to glasses, but looks like people are thinking it’s a box of some sort.

Edit: oop I see you already mentioned that in the post body

There are a lot of language learning resources on the site i use. I did a whole Michel Thomas advanced audio course for portuguese that helped me learn the basics. What’s the title of the french book your friend is looking for?

I’m sorry:(( I’m dumb.

I have Dredge already, and I had bought Animal Well for $18 last night. That left Inscryption as the final game in the bundle. Steam dynamically prices games in the bundle and since I already had two games, I saw the bundle as $7 and got confused.

I literally just refunded animal well, waited for the refund confirmation, went to rebuy animal well in the bundle, and saw the bundle was now priced at $24 (because I still already have Dredge).

Sorry I got your hopes up :(

Bah. Bought Animal Well for $18 last night, but just saw now it was included in a bundle for $7.

Edit: praise steams refund policy

Edit2: Jesus christ I’m an idiot

Damn.

Idk about curated playlists but I use soulseek to share files with my friends.

I like the same genres, I can recommend you some albums I’ve been liking if you want

Can you recommend me a starting point? For someone who has no experience with these games, or any Japanese games besides Soulsgames and RE4 remake.

Feel free to roast me in the process.