https://lovetheindies.com/p/contact-sheets

The 65×24 aspect ratio has been a fave since the late 1990s, when the XPan arrived. Now I can scratch the itch with an app. Find out more about & download the 65×24 app by Heliographe here.

Going panoramic with the 65x24 app - Japan Photo Blogs | Photographer in Tokyo, Japan

https://blog.alfiegoodrich.com/portfolio/personal/going-panoramic-with-the-65x24-app/

David Lynch on Cooking Quinoa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-ewdJYJc

Meteor Night: Night Sky Synthesizer

https://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpiece/

The “SparkCat” malware scans photos for crypto wallet info.

iOS App Store apps with screenshot-reading malware found for the first time

https://www.theverge.com/news/606649/ios-iphone-app-store-malicious-apps-malware-crypto-password-screenshot-reader-found

I started designing visual/interactive things in the mid 00s and those were my greatest influences - which I still think about all the time even today

(yes, i've always found portable consoles to be so much more interesting than home consoles, with the exception of the GameCube)

What are some social platforms (past & present) that have inspired you?

I've been using Letterboxd since 2014 or so and love it
I don't use Are.na as much lately but that was a good one
Lines (iykyk) has been a constant inspiration
Once upon a time Flickr was a special place too

Redesigning the Preferences pane for trichromy.app ; sketching out some icon based menu directions.

I conceptually like the idea of having every setting captured in a single visual, but maybe things are easier to parse when split out as separate icons.

I absolutely love how this full print within a contact sheet by Yusuke Nagata looks. His newsletter is awesome, check it out for the full process & more https://lovetheindies.com/p/contact-sheets

The 0.7 update for 65×24 is coming later this week, and it's bringing support for RAW capture, TIFF as a save format, and more.

The price for the one-time full feature unlock will also go up a bit, so if you haven't bought it already now's a great time :)

The latest https://65x24.app update brings TIFF+RAW capture to all iPhones, back to the 6S & 1st gen SE - with some new UI refinements for those devices with smaller screens.

It's always fun to shoot with vintage phone cameras, and rediscover their distinct look and rendering.

Sad to see everyone here saying their goodbyes already - we still have over 5 weeks to go before the switch to read-only! 

Let's make them fun and share lots of cool stuff!

Modular synthesizers have been some of my greatest inspiration in interface design for a while now.

Perfect case studies in having to balance legibility, technicality, usability, creativity, all in a super constrained surface area.

The iPad is 15 years old today.

As much time has elapsed between the first and latest iPad models as between the first Macintosh and the iMac G3.

Legendary photographer Alfie Goodrich has been a regular user of the 65×24 camera app for a while, he just shared a gallery of shots taken with the app on his website. Stunning work 🤩 

https://blog.alfiegoodrich.com/portfolio/personal/going-panoramic-with-the-65x24-app/

You may not like it but this is what peak software development looks like

Check out 65x24.app on your iPhone: a free XPan format camera app packed with advanced features

Making good progress on projects, although I did get derailed for 3 hours today writing scripts to back up 350GB of high resolution glass negative scans from the Library of Congress web API

Sunset at sea.
Location unknown, captured between 1905-1913.

Trichrome photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, original glass plate negative scans shown on the right.

Shot on iPhone 12 mini // Processed with AgBr

Releasing next month: AgBr, a black and white film emulator for iPhone/iPad/Mac built in collaboration with @nuevo.tokyo 

We've been experimenting with what a digital editing tool inspired by analog processing can feel like.

Excited to keep the journey going in public soon.

The truth is building ethical software - no tracking, ads, nagging popups, predatory subscriptions that rely on ppl forgetting to turn off auto renew - you’re leaving lots of money on the table

The hope is that over time user goodwill makes up for it, but there’s no guarantee.

Glass factory in Borjomi (Georgia)

Trichrome photograph taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky between 1905 and 1913 (original glass plate negative scan shown on the right)

The smoke and shadow from the person walking along the rails on this one make it so beautiful.

Oh yeah Goodreads was another good one in its early days. Too bloated nowadays unfortunately. 

I've been trying Storygraph, but not loving it as much I want to. Haven't tried literal.club but that's another alternative in that space.

Photo Tools is a series of free, lightweight photography utility apps that each aim to do a single thing, and do it well. They get out of your way so you can focus on what matters.

Two are out and free to download, more will be released this year. phototools.app

I've had a habit of selling my old hardware when I stop using it but that's led to a lot of regrets over the years

I wish I still had my lime green Pebble

The Kaufman posographe is an analog pocket computer for photography from the 1920s. As you adjust various tabs matching your shooting conditions, tabs for exposure settings move accordingly.

Update 0.7 for https://65x24.app, a panoramic camera app for iPhone, is now live on the App Store. 

This release brings two features long requested by our advanced users: support for saving photos as lossless TIFF, and RAW capture.

It's really interesting that on the surface, social platforms are all vaguely the same but small implementation details change a lot

One thing I love about posts.cv is that the Highlights tab is so well curated that I never really felt like I had to actually follow anyone

A random idea I had a while back - having a simple mapping from base64 to easy to remember concepts that can be displayed as emoji/kanji/english (or any language, really).

Not sure if this makes any sense or would be useful 🤔

Fisherman on the Iset river, 1910

Trichrome photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, original glass plate negatives shown on the right

RIP David Lynch, a filmmaker and artist in a category of his own. Celebrate him by following your creative flame to wherever weird places it leads you, and cook some quinoa tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-ewdJYJc

This is the first day of our last month of Posts, let’s make it an awesome one

Building my own tools has been super satisfying. I get to control the entire experience, I know exactly where the data lives, and I know I'm not going to get blindsided by pricing/feature changes, or that the products aren't going to die/enshittify because of some VC acquisition.

On top of my main photography software projects, I've been working on a few web apps over the past year.

One of them is a Pinterest/Arena style visual pin board for my own design references. It's still pretty basic but it's been super useful.

Might open it up someday.

The Photos app in iOS shows a little bit of EXIF metadata - but far from everything!

Want to see it all? Or want to do something ~advanced~ like copying the GPS coordinates? Just open EXIF Inspector from the Share menu and you’re good to go.

Get it from phototools.app

Portrait of Pinkhus Karlinskii, 84 year old supervisor of the Chernigov floodgate on the Mariinskii Canal (now Volga-Baltic Waterway)

1909 trichrome photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Digital composite by Walt Frankhauser, original glass plate scans shown on the right

Been thinking a lot recently about what it means to make software with strong ethical values. 

Started putting together a little charter of sorts, mostly as an exercise in communication for myself. This is a living document, I will update it as I move forward & figure stuff out.

I swear Sketch limiting their license to 2 installs when I need to use it across 3 machines will be the reason why I end up writing my own design tool

AgBr.app, the black and while film emulator @nuevo.tokyo and I have been working on, is on track to release next month for iPhone/iPad/Mac

Been getting great feedback from the beta testers, very excited to share it with everyone soon~

Made a little website for an old side project of mine over the weekend.

Every time you refresh the page, a uniquely generated, animated starry night sky.

meteornight.com

The Xerox Star (1981) had such an interesting keyboard - featuring dedicated keys for Copy, Find, Undo, various formatting properties, and more.

My favorite thing about it has got to be the orange Stop key

Posts.cv shutting down is so sad, the people here have been so great and there are so few wholesome little social corners like this on the internet.

Any efforts to put together an alternative? I'd love to hear about them and get involved.

I am obsessed with extremely high resolution scans of classical paintings.

Ghent Altar Piece by Jan Van Eyck
https://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpiece/

There are malware apps that, when given access to your photo library, scan every screenshot for passwords etc. 

Never trust apps that request full access.

https://www.theverge.com/news/606649/ios-iphone-app-store-malicious-apps-malware-crypto-password-screenshot-reader-found

Is there anything worse than social media apps that flash something interesting when you first launch them, only to refresh their feed, making the thing you were interested in disappear and unfindable forever 😩

Today's hardware design inspiration: Yamaha TQ5 (1988)

Small devices forever (pictured: Olympus Pen F half-frame film camera, iPhone 12 mini, mechanical pencil for reference)

So you should view this fleeting world - 
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.




Goodbye Posts, I will miss you.

There'd be no market for it but man, I'd love a dedicated MP3 player designed with 2025 standards.

USB C, support for microSD XC, bluetooth audio + 3.5mm jack, WiFi, modern battery, great functional UI, beautiful hardware design.

I might have to talk myself into making it.

One of my favorite obscure camera accessories 

Underwater housing for the Polaroid SX-70 by Ikelite, produced in the 1970s

That little compartment in the front for pictures is so cool

I just registered posts.club, where I will be listing ongoing initiatives to keep the community here going beyond posts.cv's shutdown on February 28th.

If there's anything you'd like to see added there, please let me know!