just put a piece of paper on top of the scanner and boom it fixes the light angle problem. still gotta remove the lights from the scanning head though it washes out the image .. and maybe gotta look into writing custom scanner firmware to actually control exposure cuz once those clouds went away i was just getting pure white captures (oh wait i could just make an aperture for the lens. lollll). this shot turned out nice though

a few shots later and the auto focus motor in my 06 tele zoom lens died... and because of the way Q lenses are... can't even manually focus it
x . x
well, good thing we just picked up a solder setup...

like. the obligatory one. right? maybe a little dirty of me to have done but hey. it's The Graveyard Shot

somethin a little different

shot at f22, 1/8000.

dithered to 1bit because it's not like any individual pixels had any meaningful data on their own. filesize as very lossily compressed jpg? 20mb+. filesize as a lovely lossless gif? 4mb. lol.

I wanna try this out with some abandoned architecture in good light like this. should look quite nice.

my pinhole experiments return in the form of... just taping some tinfoil to the Q and poking a hole thru it with a needle thats wayyyy too high diameter (yet, tighter than my last attempt by a nice margin). the results? incredibly beautiful (especially in video! will share whenever i decide what to do with that footage).

3 yellow filters stacked, doesn't quiiiite darken the sky more than foliage, but it does get close! this is also an evening sky so a little more turquoise than a deep blue. i guess my dream for this look would be like. an industrial machine-vision longpass filter that blocks nearly all blue light. still neat though

colored using DT's colorize and split-toning modules

trying out something with darktable, extensively tweaked local contrast tool as basically the only edit.
trying out rawtherapee again, comfy
trying out ART, it's interesting but not sure if i'd want to use it over RT

i could probably do an entire month of just editing the backlog. ended up focusing todays no-sleep energy on a newsletter my friends and i are starting so backlog it is.

did not expect nature photos to hit with this camera but hey its nice

made a telephoto pinhole lens out of a film canister with a hole in it held up to the pentax q. gotta figure out a way to attach it to the body without outright taping it on so i can take more practical photos with it.

quality-wise this is probably all i'm gonna get, since the q's sensor is so teeny tiny. (although there are optimizations that could be made in regards to the size of the hole vs desired resolving power and desired light).

one of the bigger restrictions on this setup is that the q can only expose for 2sec max on the electronic shutter so there is an upper end on how small the hole can be to get any picture at all.

it's not black&white!

got intentionally lost on a trail

playing with framing

i did a lot of color fiddling to take what was a very flat image and give it some pop while keeping the overall saturation nice and subtle