date » 20-04-2026 17:11
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tags » artificial intelligence architecture, street photograhy, panasonic s1, umidità relativa, architecture photography, daylight sun set, italian architecture, kemal babdrach, olympus point and shoot c 5060 wz,
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De Intelligentia Artificialis
Since I have no prejudice between the "living" and the "dead"—the former understood as real data (I will stop with the quotation marks, or it will be a tragedy, however necessary) while the latter is AI.
Let me explain: there is a glimpse of the historic center of this land, barely recorded on old road maps of Italy, which the eye tends to straighten every time I pass by. Thus, the problem is solvable with those damned things called view cameras; specifically, after leveling it on a tripod, through Tilt & Shift movements, everything "straightens up." So be it, local traffic aside. But we have been in the Digital Era for twenty years (not E.F., but E.F.D. That is to say, the first Era is that of ruspante Fascism, made of caricature and papier-mâché, like the film Scipione l'Africano... indeed of that Ventennio and how it tragically ended. And since everything "recycles," that capital D in the Littorio style stands for the current Digital. Everlasting Fascism of which, coincidentally, the Fellini of Amarcord speaks, as he does in the book "Making a Movie" published by Einaudi Italian Publisher).
Let us come to us, then. The glimpse that, to be honest, I could very well capture with the fifty-millimeter (Tilt & Shift) on the Panasonic Lumix S1 in full Full Frame; but it is another era and I would no longer know how to do architecture like that: years pass, atmospheres and the gait change, the elderly step that no longer holds the same head of twenty years ago (daje with the Ventennio!). So? After giving the file—alongside the original shot—to Google's AI Gemini (may God preserve it. Amen), the result ends here... then maybe I’ll come back to it, and yet the chords are what I was looking for. But radio silence is mandatory.Ps. It is a galactic piece of nonsense to say that the "machine" has "capacities" that are, if not superior, let’s say intellectual, to those of the Humanoid who believes himself to be God and wants to play the part: machines do not drink, they do not eat... they give numbers, perhaps good for the Bingo, but nothing more than that—at least for those who have a holistic vision of the surroundings: they are machines for making stock market "forecasts" and what else?
date » 19-12-2025 12:03
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tags » follow-focus, panasonic S1, panasonic L-mount adapter, yashica 55mm analog macro lens, android tablet, digital still life, digital photography, digital sensor,
Top view close-up of my Panasonic camera S1, fitted with a superb 55mm macro lens by Yashica (1970s) adapted for digital use and capable of rendering extremely sharp detail. Attached to the focus mechanism (the left side of the lens) is a follow-focus system, which eliminates the need to touch the lens directly. The lens is wrapped with a special silicon knurled ring that interfaces perfectly with the follow-focus, enabling micro-adjustments that would be nearly impossible to achieve by free-hand. An excellent solution—one that literally came to me in a dream. Yes, sometimes I dream, because I know how to imagine solutions that turn out to be exactly right.
The follow-focus or not follow-focus...
Let’s be clear: certain tools genuinely help us. What are they? Simply put, they are devices that assist with manual focusing, especially when working with non-autofocus lenses. They become even more valuable— as shown in the image—when analog-era lenses are reused on digital camera bodies via the appropriate adapter. And if a lens was already excellent in the Analog Era (as discussed earlier), you can be confident it won’t disappoint in a digital context.The entire setup is supported not by a full rig, but simply by an L-shaped bracket, with multiple mounting holes. A small rod attached to it holds everything securely and works flawlessly. Even the USB-C cable, which transfers images to an Android tablet used as an external monitor, passes cleanly through the bracket.
Ps. I used a macro lenses Yashica (on S1 Panasonic Lumix) because I need sharpnes in still life images tout court, hovewer procedure is not recommended for making a videos. Vice versa attached (via adapter) the old Four Third Macro 35 mm equivalent on M43 Lumix GH4, an big piece of lenses.
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