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  • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgtopics@lemmy.worldAnyone?
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    3 months ago

    You mean firing everyone in power, repealing Citizens United and blocking corporate money from elections, and then electing young leaders who don’t have an ulterior motive and actually want to drive progress and improve things?

    I’d be down with that but good luck actually pulling that off.







  • I was actually using an FD lens adapted to a Micro 4/3 camera at the time, a Canon FD 70-210mm f4 lens to be exact, and was new to running manual glass then, I just thought it was a cute shot.

    Prior to getting my first ILC, an Olympus E-M5, which sadly has since died of a stuck shutter, I was using a cheap Cybershot (which I put back into service as a backup and I’m presently using it until I can get the sensor for the E-M5’s replacement, a Panasonic GF2, cleaned).

    And to be fair, that cheap Cybershot, an H300, really isn’t that bad for what it is other than the fact that it’s fully autofocus and it doesn’t support shooting in raw formats and is limited to JPEGs only.





  • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlUSA’s presidents have all been awful humans
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    4 months ago

    Carter was a pretty good person, at least post-Presidency, can’t really speak on how he was in the White House though.

    Reagan, otoh, was irredeemable all the way through, given while he was in the White House, that guy effectively destroyed the middle class, created the current disaster that is unaffordable post-secondary education, and created the current credit score system among other atrocities, not to mention that whole Contra business.

    Yes, really, if it weren’t for Reagan, there wouldn’t be a massive and progressively-widening gap between the bottom and top of society, it would still be possible to get affordably educated, and people wouldn’t be getting completely screwed by bad credit.

    For a perfect foil of everything the US has stood for for at least the last four decades, look at most of the EU having universal healthcare, having an actually regulated education sector where for-profit grift schools like University of Phoenix or even the late ITT Tech or EDMC and its subsidiaries, wouldn’t have ever been allowed to take root to begin with.








  • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgOPtopics@lemmy.world[OC] 'Bird snuggles' (repost)
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    5 months ago

    Canon FD 70-210mm f4 adapted to an Olympus E-M5 at the time, and I also added a Kodachrome 200 film sim haldCLUT to it in RawTherapee.

    Assuming such a ring exists, I could probably attach an M42-FD adapter ring to my current lens adapter (which is now being used with a Panasonic GF2 as the camera that snapped this pic has since died of a stuck shutter) and use M42 glass without having to get a new adapter, which the adapter used in this shot is a Fotasy FD-M4/3.