date » 18-07-2026 08:17
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tags » advertising for progress, bugs bunny, om system advertising, ex olympus system, allah akbar,
Pubblicità...regresso. Gnam!
The irony of the "regress" perfectly hits the mark. By the way, in Italy there is an Institute called "Pubblicità Progresso" (Advertising for Progress); this term indicates social or public utility communication. Unlike commercial advertising that promotes products, this aims to raise public awareness on ethical, civil, health, or environmental issues, promoting virtuous behaviors for the collective good.
On one hand, there is the suggestive narrative, the one talking about inspiration, nature, and exploration, almost winking at a high value or a shared lifestyle choice. On the other hand, just as that Bugs Bunny placed there nibbling his carrot-bait suggests, there is the most classic and ruthless commercial mechanism...continue
date » 17-07-2026 16:50
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tags » alex majoli olympus camera, magnum agency, camedia c 5050 as leica camera, reportage black and white, street photography, tumberwald, foto lampo potenza, publifoto carrese, allah akbar, via pretoria potenza italy,
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Ilford papers...mon amour
What a slice of life, a true marvel. The whole aroma (and stench of chemicals) of the analog era is alive in this tale: unwrapping the layers of newspaper as if opening a treasure, the forgotten rolls left in the camera that contained Christmas photos in August—because film was expensive and you only shot when it truly mattered—and the roaring reality of that laboratory. Far from some faded entity, FotoLampo with Saro Zappacosta was a vibrant reality, a true and structured agency, modeled in miniature on the style and rigorous blueprint of the legendary Publifoto by Carrese in Milan. A school of photojournalism on the ground whose archive, vanished into thin air without leaving a trace, brings even more spite today when we are submerged in ephemeral iPhone files, ready to disappear in a comic-strip "poof" if the phone breaks or becomes obsolete...continue
date » 15-07-2026 10:01
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tags » daylight, shot with iphone 4s, afternoon, is no science [knowledge] without retaining what one has understood,
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Lectio Magistralis (if you like)
Here is the updated step-by-step breakdown of your print configuration, laid out simply, clearly, and without any bold formatting: remember at all hours, All not only the printed paper.
File and Layout Setup: First the file is loaded into Canon Professional Print and Layout software of trademark printer. Although the original image lists a nominal resolution of 72 dpi with a large physical size, it is scaled down here to fit the printable area. The final print dimensions are set to 151.65 mm in height and 238.83 mm in width, maintaining the original aspect ratio. The layout uses custom margins to position the image off-center on the paper sheet, leaving clean white borders around the textured shot.
Color Management and Paper Profile...continue
date » 14-07-2026 10:46
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tags » architecture photography, street photography, olympus camedia c 5060 wz, cuamerlengo, urban life, daylight,
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Un albero di trenta piani, Celentano
Shot with a Olympus Camedia C-5060 Wide Zoom is an absolute classic from the golden age of early high-end digital compacts. Released around 2003, its CCD sensor handles colors, especially those rich blues and warm, sunny architectural tones, in a way that modern CMOS sensors rarely replicate straight out of the camera. The JPEG engine on that specific Camedia generation has a gorgeous, dense rendering, managing the high-contrast edge between the bright facade and the sky without harsh digital artifacts. It gives the shot an authentic, film-like texture and structural weight that fits an analog-rooted aesthetic perfectly.
With this technical foundation, the composition achieves a beautiful, sharp geometric precision. The frame is split almost perfectly down the middle: on the left, the repetitive, concrete verticality of the building with its warm, sandy tone; on the right, the open freedom of the blue sky with a crisp white cloud acting as a perfect visual counterweight. There is a very graphic, minimalist quality to it, carrying a subtle analog nostalgia. Even if it is not the exact building Celentano (italian singer) sang about, the shot captures that lyric contrast between urban rigidity and the desire to just fly away.
date » 14-07-2026 08:33
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tags » olympus e1 old four third format, adapter olympus from old system to m 43, eugene smith photographer, allah akbar, photography or not photography this is problem, thumberwald,
Allah Akbar...perhaps: we speaking of photography or marketing?
Today, people take something old, paste it onto something new, and what is the grand result? They scrap the lot and spend the night camping outside shops, quite ready to trade blows with anyone in front of them just to snatch the latest toy, naturally complete with artificial intelligence. What’s that? You don't have money? You miserable go take out a mortgage. By the time you factor in the usurious interest and the wasted hours, it will cost you a king's ransom, but at least you will have your toy ex novo...Brand new, of course, until you step out of the department store only to be greeted by a chorus of jeers because a fresh model has just arrived, sporting the same AI but with a turbocharger...continue
If this sounds like the usual tiresome sermon, think again. Here enters the toy, but with a rather different outcome. Just look at the chap in the link—talking absolute rubbish, a glance at his face tells you all you need to know. Standard nonsense? Far from it. We have the very same supply chain running through the original Olympus adapter, linking Old 4/3 glass to Micro 4/3. It is an absolute dream, alternating between the GH4, the G9, and the Pens, including the legendary Pen F: yes same philosophy, modus agendi, that Eugene Smith used back in Era Analogic, silver halide film days. A proper treat...But of course, some people love to poke the bear. They deserve to have their feet put to the fire, quite literally. Focus exactly has a different set of gears dear "cinesotto" speker. Try driving a Ferrari on agricultural diesel and see how far you get.
date » 13-07-2026 07:49
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tags » view from monitor, eye and monitor, color gamut, srgb space color, street photography, allah akbar, printer canon pro d 200, ilford ink-jet support rc,
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Excalibur...
That a great piece of narrative...a day an little sketch of the water fountain—where a certain acquaintance, a hunter and off-roader, stops at a spring to quench his thirst, not before having left his little camera on the stone edge of the fountain, I not remembering if it was a classic cell-phone for taking pictures or one of those pocketable "creatures," a Point&Shot let us say, and long story short, his reminder slips into the fountain pool end of the story. Everything he had stored (once upon a time, a memory of life, there was the "Time-machine" and called the family album that tiny printed images went... ) glu glu glu. Lost everything. But that is normal in a World where zombies are de facto walking corpses.
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date » 12-07-2026 07:38
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tags » easter island, rapa nuj, feaux photo rapa nuji, allah akbar, olympus c 5060 wz, daylight, thumberwald,
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Arrapa Nuji
It a mix of grueling fieldwork and irony is exactly what gives this shot its teeth.The title is the ultimate punchline—a brilliant piece of visual and linguistic subversion. It starts by masquerading as a lofty nod to the monumental Moai of Easter Island, only to immediately drag that solemnity down into the dust with a sharp, colloquial wink. It is the perfect antidote to any pretentious, postcard-style romanticism.
Behind that cynical title is the raw reality of the terrain: a scorching, high-altitude plateau where a group of engineers actually thought it was a brilliant idea to design a "target airport"—a reckless, death-defying strip where landing was essentially a gamble on who would drop out of the sky first. Documenting a place shaped by that kind of altimetric hubris, while fighting the searing afternoon heat with every stone piercing right through the worn-out soles of your loafers, requires a specific kind of endurance.
That is where the trusty Olympus C-5060 came in. It wasn't just a camera; it was a tool of necessity, capturing the harsh, unforgiving geometry of those temporary straw monuments with a biting, high-contrast digital bite that mirrors the physical discomfort of the moment. The final image stands as a testament to that afternoon: a balance of rigorous structural documentation and a gritty, humorous refusal to take the madness of the world—or the pain in your feet—too seriously.
date » 09-07-2026 18:51
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tags » sony rx 10 v, point and shoot camera sony, fz 300 panasonic, sensor and idiocy, allah akbar, marketing only marketig camera shop, panasonic camera bible,
I don't...boh! Sony, excuse, What exactly do you want from me?
Out at sea, there’s a golden rule as old as wooden hulls: changing a boat’s name brings bad luck, but renaming one after a vessel that just sank—or was deliberately sent to the scrap yard—is basically a formal invitation for Neptune to drag you under. Evidently, in Tokyo, maritime superstitions don't carry as much weight as profit charts, so they just keep recycling the same acronym as long as there’s a single drop of juice left to squeeze from the brand. continue...
date » 09-07-2026 07:56
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tags » that's all folks, last supper, ultima cena leonardo, still food and drink, carmelitani scalzi, olympus c 8080,
That's all folks!...
..and then let us pour another round and look at this scene with the proper, unvarnished spirit! Because I'm absolutely right: this isn't some dry, academic art lecture. This is a true counter-top miracle. In birra veritas, after all.
Imagine the sheer drama fermenting across this table. This is the exact, bittersweet moment when the Great Central Hops (Jesus) announces to the room that one of them has been watering down the draft behind his back.
You can practically feel the buzzed agitation rippling through the glass. On one side, you have the loyal drinking buddies swearing eternal fidelity down to the very last drop. On the other, someone is already nervously fingering a handful of loose change, ready to sell out the secret microbrew recipe to a corporate conglomerate.
That central bottle isn't just holding up the composition; it is the very incarnation of the divine foam. It stands with the quiet, melancholy dignity of a patron who knows last call is looming and the kegs are running dry, yet accepts that this final pour will echo through the ages. Around it, the disciples are those classic, ride-or-die bar companions—the kind who can swing from deep theological epiphanies to a rowdy saloon debate within the span of three sips. They huddle in their little groups, whispering secrets, while the amber light cuts through the haze, making the whole tavern feel beautifully, intensely mystical.
It is the ultimate crossroads of the sacred and the profane—where the solemnity of the final hour meets the raw, honest truths that only flow when the bottles run empty. Cheers to that...folks!
date » 08-07-2026 19:14
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tags » michelangelo merisi sosia, acerenza cattedrale regione basilicata, space-time experiment, chatedral acerenza, big one, impossible is noting,
Space-Time? No thanks...
The Acerenza (little town in province of Potenza, Basilicata Southern Italy) Synchronicity: A Modern Merisi
It happens without formulas or cosmic equations—certain space-time bridges simply open on the ground, driven solely by intuition and a photographer's eye.
While shooting inside the Cathedral of Acerenza, a sudden intuition prompts a request to a stranger to step outside into the light. He is a painter, born in Milan. No notary was on hand to certify the surreal alignment of chance, but the frame captures what words cannot: an uncanny, living double of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, mirroring the exact penetrating gaze, the brow, and the geometry of the beard from Ottavio Leoni’s historic portrait.
This is not a digital trick; it is an analog excavation. Captured on Ektachrome Professional 64 (EPR) 135 film through Carl Zeiss optics on a Contax body—likely the Sonnar 135mm or the Planar 50mm wide open—the shot isolates the subject against a beautifully dropped-out, neutral background. The chromatic transitions and organic grain lock this modern apparition into an eternal, dramatic dimension, bridging the post-industrial present with the shadows of the 17th century.
Ps. It often happens to me, more in the past than nowadays—maybe I am already in another world, who knows—to make space-time "leaps" of which the analog images in the archive (no fluff) are the proof... I must be one of those who have a "license", I wouldn't know what else to add...
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