Notices by Marcus Jenkins (marcusjenkins@mastodon.social)

@glynmoody The city I live in is pretty old, too. Admittedly there's a lot of, mostly ugly, new stuff. But I would be delighted if the government would limit the number of visitors!

#murcia #overtourism

Boy, the presenters on #GBNews really are the what you might scrape from the bottom of your shoe.

Here Darren #craftywank Grimes shows his support for genocide. MASSIVE Palestinian flag - about 4cm x 2cm. Well, Darren, *you* might think that 4cm is massive, others might disagree with you. 🤏

#palestine

@goatsarah @Valdis Ha! I got mine for just over €1000, delivered, in all-black. I thought it was expensive at the time.

"Poor man's Leica"

Or

"Rich TikTok-er's bling"

@goatsarah @sangster Absolutely, but looking at all the sales of X100 since the TikTok craze when it started selling for more secondhand than new, I think that's the period of the 95% auto-only.

You and I are in the 5%. My X100V (that I bought just before the craze) is always in manual exposure and sometimes on manual focus. My little Nikon point and shoot or my smartphone for auto snaps.

I'm a disappointed with the result of the big build-up to the #Pentax17. I totally get what they've made, something for the swarm of TikTok users buying the Fujifilm X100 - trendy, pricey, but full-auto like an old Olympus half-frame.

It's not for me. If they bring out a 17M fully-manual with a 35mm equivalent lens, continuous focus ring with 'proper' distance markings, perhaps f2.8 or brighter, a film box end holder, no +/- dial, an aperture ring, let me know.

#photography

I would bet that 95% of those who've bought a #Fujifilm #X100 never switch it out of full auto mode and would be better served with a smaller camera with a simple film recipe dial, shutter release and no viewfinder. And probably a zoom lens.

It's not to say that those people are making bad photographs, but I just can't help feeling that they bought the wrong tool for the job.

#photography

@goatsarah @jon I would absolutely *love* to be able to travel corner-to-corner, coast-to-coast on the Iberian peninsula by sleeper train. Perhaps this will come back, one day. For example, get on a train in Alicante or Murcia at 10pm after an early supper and wake up in Galicia or Lisbon 👌…

RENFE axed all the sleeper trains.

Public services should not be run according to how much shareholder value they can generate.

#sleepertrain #trenHotel #renfe #spain

Dear Portugal 🇵🇹

Some neighbourly advice - if you let the fascists in, they might hang around for 40 years, fucking up your country and shooting people they don't like. Ask us how we know.

Love & hugs

Spain 🇪🇸

PS Didn't you have some of those assholes running your country around the same time? It's amazing how we forget our mistakes!

#fascists #fascism

Portuguese election too close to call as far right surges
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68526833

I would argue that Spain's current system of *having* to see a public health system doctor to get even one day off sick is counterproductive. Here I am, #covid test from last night clearly positive, in the doctor's waiting room with octogenarians and small children. I've been here an hour because the doctor's running late. I called the surgery ahead of time and, yes, I *need* to see the doctor in-person. We have masks, of course.

#spain

In UK you can self-certify a few days' off sick before you need to see a doctor.

They are thinking of doing the same in Spain but there's strong push-back from businesses saying "some people will only work two days a week, every week". Fine, give everybody up to, say, 10 days a year total of self-certified sick before having to see a doctor. Because, damn, the current arrangement is crazy.

#spain #baja

@rombo Its first flight between London and Dubai. Not a surprise.

#stopburningstuff #bigoil #londongrad

@PCMag With the API that used to be free I used to be able to use an app like Plume to access the #birdsite. I also had some scripts that occasionally posted some useful information. Now the API itself costs money to use and not seeing ads on the official app / on the web is hugely expensive. And the platform is open to people formerly banned.

#LoveWhereYouWorked #xhitter #SpaceKaren

@goatsarah I have too many old Pentax manual focus lenses. Some are just delicious in full frame, like M 85mm f2, K 50mm F1. 2 that aren't so usable with a smaller sensor, even though I have the adaptors.

The TTArtisan stuff is fun, just take care with the focus markings. In my experience ∞ isn't ∞.

@goatsarah Quite. I have an XE-3. A very good tool, indeed. But that 'industrial' vibe of the Nikon F5, the Canon P, 🤤. The new Fujifilm and those old 35mm place you in charge of the light, the focus, the moment, the composition (of course),…

The only other analogy I can make is with woodworking tools. The old British Record planes had the right weight, the right feel, quality for several generations…

Having said that Fujifilm has made awesome cameras that take this on board. The X100, X Pro and X E series are a joy to use.

#fujifilm #x100v #xe3fuji

The question whether a film camera is worth applying some hack to make it digital is coming up again recently.

My old Nikon F5, Canon P, Rollei 35, Pentax KX — all beautifully crafted tools *that still work*. No Lithium battery degradation, no end-of-OS-update life, no zero day vulnerabilities. They. Just. Work. And beautifully.

I would LOVE a good "digital 35mm cassette".

#photography #35mm

Neither BBC News nor any other British broadcast media gave any coverage of the HUGE Rejoin EU demonstration in London yesterday. This is a combination of state editorial control (BBC bosses are Tory party donors), media mogul control (more Tory party donors) and news being an advertising business, not a public service.

Ironically we have to leave it to France state news channel to report on it.

#RejoinEU #Brexit #tories #france24 #bbc #ToryDonors #ToryDictatorship