Comments for Colin Devroe https://cdevroe.com Photographer. Darkroom printer. Blogger. Antiquarian. Reverse Engineer. Art curator. YouTuber, lol. Senior Product Manager at NerdPress. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Comment on Zhenyi Tan releases Technotes by Zhenyi Tan https://cdevroe.com/2025/07/01/zhenyi-tan-technotes/#comment-351 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:44:54 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/07/01/zhenyi-tan-technotes/#comment-351 … liked this!

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]]> Comment on Warning: Gmail affected by Google Drive space by Thomas Brand https://cdevroe.com/2016/07/06/warning-gmail-affected-by-google-drive-space/#comment-329 Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:42:45 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2016/07/06/warning-gmail-affected-by-google-drive-space/#comment-329 @colin Apple Mail also shares space with iCloud.

]]> Comment on V.H. Belvadi on Markdown in a note editor by Lukas Fuchsgruber https://cdevroe.com/2025/06/04/belvadi-markdown-notes/#comment-326 Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:04:32 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/06/04/belvadi-markdown-notes/#comment-326 … liked this!

]]> Comment on Andy Adams on photographer’s websites by Darren https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/27/andy-adams-photographers-websites/#comment-233 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:23:50 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/27/andy-adams-photographers-websites/#comment-233 As someone who began with film on a Pentax K1000, I agree with your commentary. I adopted to digital a while ago and cannot agree more with your take on Instagram (I left all of Meta last year) and joined a service called Glass and absolutely love browsing the photographers I follow there and discovering new ones. It’s a great community of photographers.
All the best to you.

https://glass.photo/silverhalide

]]> Comment on Andy Adams on photographer’s websites by MKHardy Photography https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/27/andy-adams-photographers-websites/#comment-232 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:11:10 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/27/andy-adams-photographers-websites/#comment-232 … liked this!

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]]> Comment on Diversions #9: The garlic of March by slskier1988 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/13/diversions-9/#comment-202 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:53:38 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/13/diversions-9/#comment-202 … liked this!

]]> Comment on Diversions #8: Icy gin film by Chris https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/05/diversions-8/#comment-190 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:43:23 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/05/diversions-8/#comment-190 Thanks for sharing that link about how Longquan celadon is made. I hadn’t heard of it before.

What a painstaking process. It could probably (mostly) be automated, but I’m glad it isn’t. Such love and care—and a beautiful, handmade outcome!

]]> Comment on Does my blog need to support ActivityPub? by Matthew Guy 🇨🇦 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-184 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:48:16 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-184 … liked this!

]]> Comment on Diversions #8: Icy gin film by MKHardy Photography https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/05/diversions-8/#comment-182 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:21:04 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/05/diversions-8/#comment-182 … liked this!

]]> Comment on Does my blog need to support ActivityPub? by Dale Reardon https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-179 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:28:05 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-179 @colin Depends whether you want 2 way interaction through the Fediverse – ActivityPub plugin can bring in comments & let people talk either on blog or Fediverse & across the platforms so depends on your goals I guess

]]> Comment on Does my blog need to support ActivityPub? by BeAware :fediverse: https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-178 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:02:21 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-178 In reply to Nitin Khanna.

@nitinkhanna @colin Fediverse isn't a good sample size of the general population. We're VERY tech-oriented here for the most part.

]]> Comment on Does my blog need to support ActivityPub? by Nitin Khanna https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-177 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:10:22 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-177 @colin @BeAware tell that to the hundreds of feeds I follow in FreshRSS.

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]]> Comment on Does my blog need to support ActivityPub? by Tech Cyborg https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-169 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:30:10 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-169 … reposted this!

]]> Comment on Does my blog need to support ActivityPub? by algo https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-167 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:22:13 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-activitypub/#comment-167 … reposted this!

]]> Comment on by Chris https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/26/8461/#comment-161 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:16:22 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/26/8461/#comment-161 I loved it too. My kinda movie.

]]> Comment on by Keith https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/26/8461/#comment-160 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:31:57 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/26/8461/#comment-160 @colin Agree! I saw it three months ago and I still think about it often.

]]> Comment on What software should be by Mark Pitblado https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/25/what-software-should-be/#comment-158 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:53:28 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/25/what-software-should-be/#comment-158 I share your journey, used to always be excited for what is to come. Now I just assume that it will be worse than what we already have. Sure, better at making profit, but worse at being useful to everyday people.

Constantly learning new things (when we don’t have a say in when it happens) means that we never have time to master what we use day in and day out. If there’s no good reason for a button to change location, just leave it be.

]]> Comment on Thinking about my use of color film by Colin Devroe https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-155 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:42:45 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-155 In reply to Chris R.

I may send out a roll of color or two for processing by someone else just to see how I like doing that. I can’t even imagine!

]]> Comment on Thinking about my use of color film by Colin Devroe https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-154 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:41:58 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-154 In reply to tf.

tf thank you for sharing this. I’ve listened to that interview in the past. BW and color are indeed _very_ different.

I think Tony on Mastodon really nailed it in his response to me… it is about the feel of the camera. And to me, the iPhone isn’t anywhere near as good as a modern digital camera yet. But, aside from that, I prefer to use a camera body.

Thanks again for stopping by and sharing your perspective.

]]> Comment on Thinking about my use of color film by Chris R https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-153 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:41:22 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-153 People are different of course, but I suspect that 35mm is my most used focal length, if I discount the early periods when all I had was a fifty. So I think for the purposes you describe a X100nn would be a good pick. Better than a GFX, I’d guess! (That’s gotta be larger and heavier…) A second hand XT with the 27mm would be another option.

Not that I’ve used any of the cameras discussed! I only have film… I do send my occasional C41 out for dev/scan, and E6 out for dev-only. Depends on price/turnaround, I suppose. I have quick, well priced UK options for both of those.

]]> Comment on Thinking about my use of color film by tf https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-152 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:15:17 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-152 For me there are two kinds of photographs I take: there are the self-documentary ones (holiday snaps and such), the purpose of which is to record something, and there are the self-expressive ones, that are less about capturing something out there and more about communicating something from within. I have now come to the realisation that the former no longer requires a camera, but merely a phone; my excellent digital camera is gathering dust because it can’t offer me anything the phone can’t for this type of a phtotograph, destined for a screen of some sort. The other, expressive, photography, requires a more concerted and deliberate effort, and an equipment to match, and for me that has become B&W imagery and film. I did for a while try to shoot at least the occasional colour film during the autumn, but come to realise it doesn’t work for me. B&W and colour need a whole different way of thinking and working, and I can’t do both well at the same time. I first thought it was just me, and so was rather taken aback by Clyde Butcher’s blunt assertion on the Matt Payne pocast that nobody can do both well, they are just too different; it’s worth reflecting on. But the two overriding questions for me are (a) what is I am after here, and (b) does it bring me joy? The rest are implementational details, and in constant flux. (The Butcher interview is rather entertaining, and well worth a listen, if you havn’t hear it, https://www.mattpaynephotography.com/gallery/photographing-the-florida-swamps/)

]]> Comment on Thinking about my use of color film by Colin Devroe https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-151 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:43:02 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-151 In reply to Jack Baty.

Thanks for stopping by Jack. The Zf looks fun. I was going back and forth on wanting lenses – but I suppose I should? So maybe the XT series for me?

My thought on having a fixed lens is that it truly would be grab and go.

]]> Comment on Thinking about my use of color film by Jack Baty https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-150 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:39:29 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/02/12/thinking-about-my-use-of-color-film/#comment-150 I just had the same internal conversation. Or similar, anyway. I rarely shoot color film, but I’ve been almost exclusively been shooting black and white. Almost no digital. My hit rate from a manual rangefinder is pretty good, but it takes /work/. I was thinking of something fun to carry around, and save film for “serious” work (portraits, etc.) I tried taking my original Fuji X100 out, but it’s just so slow to use. Started shopping for an X100VI, but ended up just today buying a Nikon Zf. I really wanted full frame and interchangeable lenses are a bonus. Plus, the autofocus is just so fast! (The guts are from the Z8).

Anyway, yes, digital for color snapshots seems like a good idea to me today too :), which ever camera you choose.

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]]> Comment on Making social choices by Darren du Nord https://cdevroe.com/2025/01/09/making-social-choices/#comment-126 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:03:53 +0000 https://cdevroe.com/2025/01/09/making-social-choices/#comment-126 @colinExcellent points. Thanks for federating your WordPress blog.

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