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First impressions: Zeiss Touit 32mm f1.8 on the Fujifilm X-M1

I recently received an old digital Fujifilm camera from my sister. It’s the Fujifilm X-M1. The camera is in a very good condition, aside from the LCD, which already has vignetting and color cast. It’s still ok for composing, but I can’t rely on it anymore to judge colors.

I decided to buy a new lens for it 🙂 I’ve always been fascinated by the Zeiss Touit 32mm f/1.8 lens, but previously I don’t own a compatible interchangeable lens camera for that lens. When I buy cameras for myself, I deliberately bought fixed lens cameras like the Fujifilm X100 and the X70.

Receiving the camera from my sister was a good excuse to finally buy the lens. A few days ago, I managed to find a secondhand copy online, and I just received it a couple of nights ago.

Filter kopi kain

Singkat cerita, filter kopi dari bahan kain adalah filter kopi favorit saya saat ini.

Dulu ketika saya baru mulai hobi kopi, saya pernah nonton video dari James Hoffmann mengenai filter kopi kain.

Tapi waktu itu saya merasa belum cukup pede bisa berkomitmen menggunakan filter kain. Jadi selama ini, saya masih pakai filter kertas kalau bikin kopi. Barangnya mudah didapat, mudah digunakan, bersih-bersih jadi lebih mudah (tinggal dibuang saja bersama ampas kopi), dan hasil seduhan kopinya enak.

Jakarta Coffee Week 2024

Jakarta Coffee Week (Jacoweek) kembali hadir di tahun 2024 ini di Indonesia Convention Exhibition, Bumi Serpong Damai, pada tanggal 1-3 November 2024. Ini adalah tahun kedua saya mengunjungi pameran kopi ini.

Secara keseluruhan, Jacoweek 2024 ini tetap seru. Sepertinya tahun ini Jacoweek semakin banyak dihadiri oleh tokoh kopi internasional; dan semakin banyak juga brand peralatan kopi yang menjual produk mereka di acara ini. Namun di sisi lain, beberapa tenant ada yang sudah tidak menawarkan sample brew kopi lagi. Trunk Coffee contohnya, ketika saya mengunjungi booth mereka tahun ini, mereka hanya menawarkan untuk mencium hasil grind biji kopi yang mereka jual.

Filter comparison: Tiffen Glimmerglass 1 vs Freewell CPL/GMIST (1/4)

Not too long after I got my hands on a Fujifilm X100VI camera, I bought a Tiffen Glimmerglass 1 for it; and it has stayed installed pretty much all the time.

Recently I was made aware of a new filter/lens hood combo from Freewell. The filter is a CPL and mist filter combined into one.

In this post I simply want to share some comparison photos taken with the two filters.

65:24 aspect ratio.

I’ve been fascinated by the 65:24 aspect ratio for quite some time.

Photographer Jonas Rask has written a series of blog posts about his experience using Fujifilm TX-1, a film camera that shoots in 65:24 ratio. Basically using 2 frames of 35mm film format at once for each photos.

The photos from the blog posts are very unique and beautiful in my opinion. Here are some examples from his blog:

Fixing the Annoying Table Cell Height Bug in Obsidian

Do you encounter this bug where when you’re trying to edit a cell in a markdown table, and the cell height gets really large like this?

Talen coffee dripper, a handmade brewer crafted by an artisan in Thailand.

Earlier this year I had the chance to finally visit Thailand.

For coffee, I only managed to visit Factory Coffee and Talen Coffee. In this post I want to specifically share about my experience with Talen Coffee and the dripper they sell.

Talen coffee dripper from Thailand.

After some frustrating troubleshooting, I found out that the root cause of my particular case was…