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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-17 10:53:33

"What is an ocean but a multitude of drops." — David Mitchell
Final tweaks (version 11 by now) of the tone curve for digital negatives for my current combination of emulsion & developer: It's pretty impressive how even minute changes to black & white points of the curve have quite noticeable impact on the rest. I've also been experimenting with reducing emulsion from 8 8 1 drops to 7 7 1 drops, but that makes that 1 drop of contrast agent ~13% stronger (too st…

Two 6x4" kallitype prints using slightly different negatives of the same image. The bottom one is slightly too dark and has very little detail in the shadows, the top one has slightly blown out highlights and a more grainy look.
@chiraag@mastodon.online
2026-01-18 02:27:48

Question for Fedi:
What is the best way to get started with self-hosting PeerTube? I have an S3 compatible storage thing setup (Backblaze B2 - love it!), so mostly concerned about transcoding - I have a Digital Ocean droplet which is fine for websites, but not great for more intensive stuff. How intensive is transcoding and can I do that locally and just upload all versions to B2 and skip transcoding altogether?