Vernon

Sketchbook bits from the last while. 🖋🐛

I've said this before but something interesting/funny/infuriating about Photo is that it takes almost nothing to get into (nearly everyone has some kind of camera and can be creative) but as soon as you get to a point where you want your gear to do something very specific it becomes so stupid because there's such a wide range of possibilities and ways to do anything, and ultimately there are a lot of tiny things that are annoying but don't matter but are still annoying? Anyway case in point behold my Contraption

I have been using this for a while and it works but there's one little, tiny part which Is Very Annoying which I have been hoping to improve literally since I put these objects together for the first time. Can u guess which part

Good Job! It's the tiny ebay rando brand EF mount to K mount adapter.

Technically it works fine, but:

1. It fits a little too tight
2. Since these things have to be so thin, the only way to get the lens off of the adapter is to press Hard on this sharp piece of metal (spring steel?)
3. Since the tolerances on the Bower/Samyang/Rokinon budget lens mount is slightly worse than it should be* The 'too tight' Problem is Worse

TLDR: I have to like stab my finger every time I want to

• Put this lens on a different adapter (e.g. normal x mount adapter when I need the full 85mm)
• Put this lens on my actual Pentax
• Put a different lens on the speedbooster
• Owchie yeowch I do not like it very much

So Anyway I thought I had finally found the solution because I found (and I need to stress this part) ONE un-labeled zero-branding or description adapter for Canon EF to Pentax K which was designed to be slightly too thick in order to have a normal lens lock lever on EBay...

...But I finally got it today and it turns out the actual mount part of the adapter is designed slightly wrong so it doesn't actually work fslkjdg

So yeah this is what photo as a hobby gets like sometimes. Look out

* [note: I don't have this problem w newer Rokinon lenses for x mount.]

1. elon saw someone posting about how all of the bots he hates steal API keys from official clients anyway;
2. he understands just enough about computers to know that the secrets on twitter's official apps should be rotated, so he stormed into the moderation office to order that;
3. this failed to get communicated to the product teams and it went through without their approval, under the idea that either the official apps don't use the API for anything loadbearing or that rotating the secrets should be an unnoticeably quick process;
4. that idea is very very false;
5. we're watching them learn this

Here's the error message I got when trying to DM.

The Twitter developer page says this about that error message (as error code 37 is something else, apparently):

Code 220
Your credentials do not allow access to this resource.
Corresponds with HTTP 403. The authentication token in use is restricted and cannot access the requested resource.

So yes, API keys were indeed restricted lmao

(Error code 37 seems to mean "Not authorized to use this endpoint" according to the Twitter Community forums, which is an inaccessible webpage which is conveniently cached in google search results though. More confirmation that it's API issues though!)