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Rick's Aviation Photos @rickplanephotos.bsky.social · 18m

Trip: 2024-07 - Toulouse 🇫🇷 Filename: PXL_20240706_115844951.jpg #random #aviation #photo #avgeek ✈️ 🚀 🛩️

Sadly this makes current AI more similar to someone like me who tends to write long sentences and multiple paragraphs. 😅

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 47m

To be honest I feel like nowadays it's true the opposite, a short answer is a sign of a human. LLMs tend to use 20 words to express concepts that can be often easily said in 5. I mean short and generic responses were a classic sign of an old style scripted bot, but now the gameplay is different

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 1h

It would seem Elon Musk desperately wants to be a real-life James Bond or maybe Tony Stark, but he can't manage anything more sophisticated than Spy Kids.

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 1h

Last month I went '70s, for my return to Imola tomorrow I'll go '90s. #plasticfantastic (Surprisingly for someone born in that decade -barely- and with very 1980s music/aesthetic tastes, I do not own any '80s cameras. But I have the '50s and '60s covered.)

Two 1990s Canon film SLRs laying on a bed cover, next to a camera bag.

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 2h

Also I'm trying to keep the sensation of underwhelminess because if I start liking them too much it can get awfully expensive 🤣

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 2h

Thanks! A few of them didn't (some just blurry, others measuring errors, like I didn't realize the camera was metering for the sky), but once I get the positives back I'll try to scan them myself and see if I can improve them

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 2h

I do think it's a also a traditional/nostalgic German thing, if I'm not mistaken it was Bismarck that said something like "you can judge the courage of a man by the number of dueling scars on his cheeks"

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 2h

Thanks! It better be for what it costed, both in term of money and time 😅 I have just the scans for now, can't wait to get the positives back and check them out.

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 3h

BTW this is the same car from last year, here's a side view:

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 3h

Alfa on Velvia (Imola, 19 September 2026) 📷 Minolta XD-11, MD Rokkor 50mm f/1.7 🎞️ Fuji Velvia 100, lab dev/scan #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #35mm #FilmIsNotDead #imola #racing #motorsport #carsky #vintage #alfa #AlfaRomeo #Milano #Turismo #TouringCar #Alfa75 #Superturismo

Color film photo of a 1992 red Alfa Romeo 75 touring car, covered in sponsor stickers, seen from the front while parked inside a pit garage in a racetrack.

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 3h

Yeah that's what I'm looking forward to!

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 3h

Anyway there are a few nice ones, a lot of underwhelming ones (metering errors on my part). Mostly also the colors are meh (and they were scanned on a Frontier SP-3000, that's what that lab uses). I guess I'll try to scan them myself when I'll get the positives back, I'm holding judgement for now

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 3h

Apparently "they skipped a line" while checking for the address to send out those scans. It happens (I reported it mostly just because of the possible privacy violation of getting other people scans) Mine just arrived, downloading them now, the trepidation resumes 😊

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 3h

Shit the worst possible thing happened (well, the second worst, the worst would be them informing me that they ruined my roll) They sent me someone else's scans. Just sent them an email to report that.

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 3h

Uh I've just received a mail with a download link from the lab Suddenly I'm excited to see how I botched my first roll of slide film ever, let's download the scans

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 4h

(funnily enough no one really uses these, you used to get them with fancy gift-box-style pieces of Parmigiano, in real life people just use a regular knife. If I'm not mistaken their real usefulness is as pry tools when you're opening a big wheel of the thing)

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 4h

If my life was a video game, this would be the starting weapon

A hand holding a Parmesan knife, the blade is engraved with a mock seal of the Parmigiano Reggiano consortium

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 6h

I developed a couple of rolls yesterday evening, a roll with random photos taken over a week and another which was a test in pushing Foma 200 to 800 (which failed, at least looking at the negatives, we'll see how they scan) Still I think I'll try again with a more known developer (tried using SPD)

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 6h

Turning point. (Porto Levante, 7 March 2026) 📷Minolta XG-2, Kalimar 28-200mm f/4-5.6 🎞️Agfaphoto APX 100 @ EI200, HC-110B #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #monochrome #BWPhotography #35mm #podelta #field #dirtroad #road #turn

Black and white film photo of a uncultivated field with a dirt road on it. The dirt road is turning left as it gets closer to the viewer. In the distance, trees blurried by the fog.

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🦇bat-ilda jay @wavesounds.bsky.social · 7h

minolta CLE/fujicolor 100/c-41 #filmphotography #streetphotography

person walks out exit from housing estate through gap in building, framed by a concrete square

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Rick's Aviation Photos @rickplanephotos.bsky.social · 20h

Trip: 2025-09 - Porto Levante 🇮🇹 Filename: IMG_20250919_204805_163.jpg #random #aviation #photo #avgeek ✈️ 🚀 🛩️

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 20h

This means I'd gave to use a leader retrieval tool if I want to avoid cracking open the cassette to reuse it, and that contraption works once every five times at best.

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 20h

I was considering using 2 EOS bodies on Saturday, my beloved 100 and a 300, but the latter is one of those Canons with the autorewind I hate It does that thing where after you load a roll it pulls all the film out, so at the end the final rewind is practically istantaneous and it cannot be disabled

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 21h

Plane! (Seattle, 9 August 2026) 📷 Canon EOS 100, EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM 🎞️ Kodacolor 100, Axelcolor C-41 kit #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #35mm #Seattle #United #airliner #plane #jet #avgeek #aviation #embraer #regionaljet

Color film photo of a jet airliner flying in a slightly cloudy sky, seen from the ground below.

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 22h

I'm safe from your wrath I guess, I'm a big person into tech but I'm not in Big Tech

static.klipy.com

Quixy Says Phew!

ALT: Quixy Says Phew!

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

L’Airbus à l’aéroport de Bologne

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

Waiting for the train (Seattle, 8 August 2026) 📷 Canon EOS 100, EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM 🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400 @ EI800, Axelcolor C-41 kit #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #35mm #Seattle #Link #lightrail #Station #sculpture #decoration #transit #ColumbiaCity

Color film photo, taken late in the evening. In the foreground a dark ornate circular structure, part of a sculpture on display at a light rail station, in the backround a building and a sky with sunset colors.

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

Since it's a charity shop I assume that by buying one of these you'll give a hand to people in need… by taking one for yourself 😅

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

This came with a roll of respooled Fomapan 400 I bought from China, last year I bought a few rolls using Taobao (an ecommerce site which is China only) using a shipping service to try them out. Also it was a full custom metal cassette (brand new, not a reused one with a sticker on it)

On the left a weird Chinese new metal film cassette roll near a Fomapan 400 regular metal cassette on the right

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

Same here, apparently you have Northern Italy climate now. 😶

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

Sorry but I had to, sometimes my urge to produce satire is too high.

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

Introducing Generic Container, a perfectly cromulent 135 film container Generic Container came free with a roll of premium respooled Fomapan 400, and is made of durable alumin[i]um If it's good for Concorde and iPods it's also enough to protect any roll full of underexposed blurry shots of cats 🐈

A metal 135 film canister next to a black plastic film cassette holder from an old bulk loader

A metal 135 film canister next to a FED-5v Soviet rangefinder camera

Close up of a metal 135 film canister held by plastic measuring calipers

Close up of a metal 135 film canister bottom shown in an artsy way

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

Just checked the high speed train my parents took, apparently they left just a few minutes ago from the station and it's 94 minutes late I dropped them at the station around 2 hours ago, I guess they had the time to take a very long breakfast It's a nice start for their trip to Naples 😅

Screenshot of a train timetable app showing a Frecciarossa High Speed service from Venice to Naples, currently 94 minutes late

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

Woke up early to take my parents to the train station for their trip to Naples I'll now try to squeeze in another 45m-1h of sleep before work starts 😴

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

"TWA 517, do you want to report a UFO? Over"

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

I'm told they have two wheels, still they appear not to fall over. Sorcery!

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Rick's Aviation Photos @rickplanephotos.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Trip: 2026-08 - Seattle 🇺🇸 Filename: IMG_9388.JPG #random #aviation #photo #avgeek ✈️ 🚀 🛩️

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

Yamaha I'm not familiar with them, unlike you I'm barely competent at listening music, I don't even think about making it ;) (unless you were talking motorcycles, another thing I'm not very familiar with)

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

It's not always true (for instance the EOS 1200D is better than the 1100D, which is better then the 1000D) Of course pesky Canon didn't use numbers in the US naming of all EOS cameras like they've always done in Europe, but if I'm not mistaken they started doing it with mirrorless cameras

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

Almost forgot, of course I have a model of the damn car 😊 Canon Racing Porsche 956, finished 8th place overall at the 1983 24 of Le Mans

A hand holding a scale model of a Porsche 956 Group C sports car with a Canon sponsor livery. In the background a blurry bookcase with other car models

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

It's clearly your fault for not having applied the Canon EOS Digital golden rule*, when buying an early '90s Nikon film SLR, ma'am 😜 *(the higher the number in the model name the shittier the camera is)

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

General advice, I'd say. A lot of people from a lot of countries tend to misbehave while abroad, and Japan does not help sometimes being a different (yet beautiful!) culture, with some of its customs that wouldn't be immediate to an average European or American

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Riccardo S. @sacco.ciarpa.me · 15/10/2026

Here's the full poster these are from, it's the latest of the various Tokyo Metropolitan Government attempts to educate uncultured Western tourists like myself 😜

A poster full of "Hello Kitty" illustrations, named "How to Hello Tokyo", dedicated to foreign tourists visitng Tokyo and Japan

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