Are you using something to hold your camera, like a tripod, and some kind of jig/fixture to hold the film in place? Ideally you wouldn’t need to touch the camera and the film would be positioned consistently between shots. Without some kind of setup scanning will be very fiddly as you need to be perfectly centered/squared/etc.

Could the camera possibly be moving some between shots? Are you shooting wide open?

As for focus changing with lens rotation, that would indicate something in your lens lacking axial symmetry. An uncentered/decentered element, an element that’s not ground just so, etc.

Seconding the cat suggestion. Our cats love to lie under the grow lights - it’s nice and warm.

I wonder if pre-shooting, or whatever canon calls their implementation of this feature, would help? Granted, a long exposure should catch it too, but unless you’re constantly going to be taking long exposures…

Excellent content as always. It’s always fun when your gear encourages you to get other gear - flashlights, camera lenses…

I got morbidly curious about this thing. AliExpress.us turned up no hits. DuckDuckGo turned up this listing, but it doesn’t look like they ship to the US. It’s also $41.25. Scrolling down to the more to love section revealed what looks to be the same knife, but for $18.47 with US shipping. Closer inspection makes it seem like you get two for that $18.47.

One costs just $6.43.

So, the joys of shopping direct from China. Also why I’m wary of buying direct, lol. What the heck are you really getting? At these prices it doesn’t really matter, but it irritates my “don’t be a wasteful slob” sensibilities.

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Some level of rotational play on lenses is normal, but one wouldn’t normally put enough torque on the lens for it to be an issue. It sounds like the focus ring is a bit stiff? It might loosen up some with time, but I have not ever used any TTArtisan glass.

Simply rotating the lens relative to the body shouldn’t impact focus. Focus is all about the distances between elements relative to the sensor and rotation shouldn’t change that.

If you’re looking for opinions it might be worth popping over to something like Fred Miranda or DP Review if no one else here can chime in. Sadly, the fediverse is somewhat small and those sites have big/active forums.

Same, but I do have some level of worry regarding portability. My solution isn’t local or self hosted, as I was looking for easy and works across Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/iOS. I do not look forward to needing to change to a new password manager in the future, but given the way everything seems to be going it seems likely that I’ll have to at some point.

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Spot on answer.

While I totally agree with you, it really does seem like we’re moving back towards the era of centralized committing, at least for mainstream computing. More and more “desktop” applications are really electron apps with a good chunk of the compute happening server side. That’s before you start to consider the many browser based word processing products, etc.

So much the same. In this market I would rather stick around with the devil I know beii have a good reputation and network. I don’t want to be the new person somewhere else should things go sideways. Grated, I am very much on the chopping block at my current employer given the waves of layoffs and “performance frings” that have been happening…

I saw the title and community and thought it was you. Then I saw the user name and was surprised.

There are a bunch of us lurkers out here I suspect, so keep up the good work! I appreciate the design/engineering that goes into things like knives and flashlights, but I don’t really have a need to collect a bunch. But content like this, and yours, makes it much easier to choose which things to try vs which to skip.

I mean, I’m happy to post a “but sure recommend me an x” post. I could probably make two: one for a knife and one for a multi tool.

You’re going to have a heck of a baller Voron for 2.5k. My Voron, even with some CNC aluminum parts sprinkled in, was way less than that.

Oh, I wasn’t trying to say trees can’t help. I was only saying that we also need to go on a massive carbon diet.

Stuff you should know listener?

I got curious and will attempt some math and duckduckgoing.

A forest can remove between 4.5 and 40.7 tons of Carbon Dioxide per year per hectare during the first 20 years of tree growth. Sauce

Humanity is currently generating around 40 billion tons of CO2 per year. Sauce

So now some simple math: it would take between 1 billion and 10 billion hectares of forests, depending on their maturity, to keep up. 100 hectare = 1 km² sauce, so this means 10 to 100 million km² of forests.

Earth’s total surface area is 510 million km². sauce.

Of that, here’s a quick breakdown:

Sauce

So 10ish percent of the 510 million km² of land on earth, or around 5.1 million km² is a good candidate for tree planting. That’s not enough if we want to sequester all the carbon produced by humanity. Without getting to net zero global warming will continue. The best we can do is slow it down. More disconcertingly, our appetite for energy is only increasing. The good news is that we’re really starting to see large scale wind and farm operations ramping up, but there are still a lot of power plants scheduled to come online in the next two decades.

It depends who you’re trying to protect. Joe consumer doesn’t know what OpenWRT is.

The stock market is a psychopath. If you’re not actively growing you’re dying, so stable/steady profits and no year over year growth = stock plumits. That’s why companies that are profitable, but hit a saturation point, start to try to squeeze. Gotta make the almighty line go up. It’s all very short cited, but executive incentives are nearly always short term.

A random orbit palm sander, or really any other sander that’s round, will do just fine.

Same

Glad to hear it!