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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 09:02:08 No.4494969 View View Reply Original Report

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Lighting thread
Let's talk about lighting.

> Broncolor: 3000usd per flash head, the power pack is 15000
> Profoto: basically the same as broncolor
> Aperture: 1/5~ of BC and PF
> Godox: 1/5 ~ 1/10 of the BC and PF

Do high end lighting gears really worth it?
What's the catch on 20k worth Broncolor studio set(excluding modifiers) when 1k Fomex flash set can shoot the same bi-color light?

Back then the chinese slops actually were trash so one might needed to invest a lot of money on it but today it doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 20:01:29 No.4495051 Report

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>>4494970
No, it's a real thing but not all companies can make it right. I wish godox improve thei design

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 20:30:09 No.4495054 Report

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is cob led that bad? I see videos saying that because the spectra is so bad it is
further is neewer that bad? should I pony up for an aputure? All this in reference to skintones

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Anonymous Sat 24 Jan 2026 03:14:20 No.4495083 Report

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>>4495051
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM5ME4o79bE
Para vs Beaute dish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=femBzU9-hXI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfRMZBO3rgE
Broncolor para vs cheap slops

I think for now it's either buy 7k Bron para 133 (with focusing tube) or just use Beauty.

I hope godox will make the same quality good for under 1k.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Jan 2026 03:15:22 No.4495084 Report

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>>4495054
>is cob led that bad?
Yes. It's for zoomers to intensify their rooms crappiness. It's a meme.

Real problem is integrated leds cannot be fixed individually when one of them is broken.

For the other one's case, if you stamp few leds and they out of service then you can fix those certain ones, not just replacing the whole LED board.
And the consistency of light doesn't matter since you can use diffuser and etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIWxpBhAOo

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Anonymous Sat 24 Jan 2026 17:09:46 No.4495138 Report

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>>4495083
You don’t need a new one
just buy used and slap godox ad1200 or 2400 flash head on it

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Anonymous Tue 26 Aug 2025 18:40:02 No.4462866 View View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Who the fuck likes this focal length? What is its purpose?

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Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 14:43:04 No.4488798 Report

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>>4488753
>>4488756
Word, I'll creep up closer. Or shoot wide landscapes. Also the wider lenses for this camera are expensive. If I can't make 28mm work I'll probably just go back to shooting 50 and 135.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 20:28:56 No.4488870 Report

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>>4488725
i'll see you in court.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 10:44:02 No.4488934 Report

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>>4488750
Get 28mm vision in your mind.
It usually can be acquired by getting closer to subject and observing the environment before shootong.

Wide angles are difficult because our vision is usually much narrower.

But some dudes mentioned about
>muh zooming with your feet
It's a meme. If you make a change in the distance between camera and the subject, you will get different result. It just doesnt work.
On this matter, i recommend to think of composition based on the distance between you and the subject, rather than focal lengh of your lens and the subject.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Jan 2026 11:43:25 No.4495117 Report

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>>4462866

trash at my sensor and i got no swabs

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Anonymous Sat 24 Jan 2026 12:32:52 No.4495120 Report

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>>4495117
Here, i got the shits removed for you.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Jan 2026 22:52:25 No.4493776 View View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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>solves 90% of your color grading problems
>makes muh colur basedence a complete meme
>never talked about on this board
go figure

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 14:21:39 No.4494989 Report

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>>4494963
Were you using mixed lighting? Like ambient in addition to your strobes?
It's pretty trivial in LR or C1 to fine tune specific colors, if you're spending more than 5min trying to fix this, you need to learn your programs better

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 15:00:28 No.4494993 Report

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>>4494989
>Were you using mixed lighting?
this right here

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 20:37:25 No.4495055 Report

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>>4494968
apparently I trained my eyes for days to see the slight blue cast as white
I mean it just looks like a higher K value at first glance, and then correcting it to white makes it look like I switched to 3200K from daylight
>>4494966
I mean I picked all over the plain white bg as the basis for white balance, then hovered over several points of it and confirmed the dot is in the center of the vector scope
>>4494989
no, two identical strobes in soft boxes, although I may have had some bounce off the walls as they are blue
im sure it's fixed it's just my eyes won't go along with it
it looks fine to me today

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 20:54:20 No.4495058 Report

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>>4495055
If you are so cagey about the picture, at least post rhe vectorscope?

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Anonymous Sat 24 Jan 2026 11:32:12 No.4495116 Report

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>>4493854

My NEC is auto profiling and correcting all the time with internal sensor.
I'm on sRGB to not deal with software discrepancy nonsense, good enough for me.

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Just lost my film virginity

Mirror !8pAWUYKYOo Fri 16 Jan 2026 00:16:23 No.4493929 View View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Rate my snapshits

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Anonymous Sun 18 Jan 2026 19:46:07 No.4494330 Report

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Gonna steal some of these photos

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Mirror !8pAWUYKYOo Sun 18 Jan 2026 21:12:07 No.4494349 Report

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>>4494330
Awesome, but let me know what you liked so I know what to shoot more of.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Jan 2026 21:57:10 No.4494359 Report

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>>4493988
i keep coming back to this one, composition is unsettling in a good way, like you're looking through the eyes of something in the woods stalking the townsfolk

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Mirror !8pAWUYKYOo Mon 19 Jan 2026 07:34:07 No.4494431 Report

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>>4494359
Thanks anon, appreciate it.

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Mirror !8pAWUYKYOo Sat 24 Jan 2026 00:36:43 No.4495073 Report

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2026 04:35:08 No.4493962 View View Reply Original Report

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Both of these images were taken with a Sony Mavica.

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jan 2026 17:25:15 No.4494163 Report

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>>4494045
I wish I could have been in the Woolsworth building that day at the top and had a 4k or 8k Digital Camera with 120 zoom that doesn't exist. Like a Coolpix P1100 or a change out 800mm or higher.
this way you could have seen more details to say whether squibs were truly used or not. but such cameras outside of real film didn't exist.

the other thing is showing up 2 weeks prior where all kinds of funny construction just happened to be going on with floors closed down.

hide a camera and record their conversation. the Art Students from Israel as well

I dont blame Israel but im pretty sure Israeli Secret service and the CIA helped the Sauds pull shit faggot shit off.
You calling me a liar?

PS nice shots for the shit cameras they had back then

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jan 2026 17:38:13 No.4494167 Report

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>>4494163
I've thought about being there with my camera so many times it's unreasonable. It's the only nearby event worth taking a picture of in my lifetime, and it had to happen while we were in an awkward in-between period for imaging. Some of the only footage from inside the towers was taken on early 0.3mp webcams and abysmal 2001 camera phones. It's priceless but complete shit quality.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Jan 2026 04:17:40 No.4494220 Report

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>>4494145
Because its hard to be certain he actually did anything wrong. If he was found guilty, just shoot him. Torture does nothing, and usually leads to them just saying whatever in order to make the pain stop. False confessions, fake info etc.

Basically no one wins and its completely inhumane and regarded.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Jan 2026 05:16:58 No.4494229 Report

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>>4494220
>Basically no one wins
False, lot of the time the guy holding the bucket of water is enjoying it.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 23:09:46 No.4495064 Report

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>>4494229
I don't think we should promote that behaviour.

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You doing it wrong

Anonymous Sun 04 Jan 2026 21:00:54 No.4492136 View View Reply Original Report

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Give me your most abstract images related to cameras.

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Anonymous Thu 15 Jan 2026 18:25:59 No.4493902 Report

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>>4493901
WHY ITS ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE AAAAAAAAH

Oh its a Leica III,forget it.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2026 05:11:47 No.4493968 Report

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>>4493901
dat sexy nazi SS serial number!
>Want!

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 20:14:20 No.4495053 Report

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 20:53:52 No.4495057 Report

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>>4495053
that dog has too many cameras

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 21:42:24 No.4495060 Report

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>>4495057
Impossible.

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Which compact cameras take better photos than modern flagship phones?

Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2025 00:05:52 No.4489617 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4494530 >>4494588

I don't want to buy a new flagship every two years. I just want to have a nice pocket camera and keep my midrange for a while. My old olympus pocket camera lasted for almost a decade.
Preferably nothing more expensive than $700

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jan 2026 22:09:24 No.4494183 Report

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>>4490178
i can sing this in my head but i dont remember what its from

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Anonymous Sun 18 Jan 2026 04:15:38 No.4494219 Report

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>>4490075
Digital? Unlikely. If you want to try film, there are many options

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Anonymous Tue 20 Jan 2026 01:34:48 No.4494530 Report

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>>4489617
I want to punch her boobies
>if you know what I mean

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Anonymous Tue 20 Jan 2026 11:18:29 No.4494588 Report

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>>4489617
Sony ZV-1 not big shots but is a great video camera

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 20:47:23 No.4495056 Report

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for strictly photos it's not 1:1 as modern phone software averages frames for low light (and for this definition it's like normal indoor lighting not crazy full frame pulling full detail in the darkness)
I mean you could do this manually with a compact in post but only if nothing moves
so the still small 1/1.5? sensor punches above its size in phones and is basically on par with 1" or more now
tldr just sensor size now, 1"+
which leaves you with rx100 series and ricoh gr and zv1F for extant
actually that one sony action cam too
I wish panasonic still made their compacts
for video though you can just go with similar sensor sizes as long as bitrate is good enough

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Is it wrong to look at pictures of others from a thrifted digicam?

Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 16:24:19 No.4489096 View View Reply Original Report

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I just got an old digicam and the previous owners didn't delete all the photos. I took a peek and some of the pics are actually kino.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 22:23:02 No.4494929 Report

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Mine had a few videos from a kid filming his father and sister during christmas, it is kinda heartwarming, really made me feel like shit, its still on the card so i should probably delete it.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 03:59:44 No.4494950 Report

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I specifically buy used memory cards and cameras to recover the photos. I have a whole 'Recovered' Folder on my external HD.

I bought a 5DM2 that had a whole sleazy "lesbian milfs from Des Moines" shoot on it along with some sort of coffee marketing shots for a regional gas station.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 05:37:45 No.4494959 Report

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I used to have 2 or 3 mildly hot photos that got left on a camera I had bought but I think I lost em when my stupid ass drive died

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 17:02:50 No.4495006 Report

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>>4489096
I'd even check the card with Recuva to see if any deleted kino can be rescued.

Found some boring travel pics on one memory card I received, unfortunately no femoid lewds.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 17:44:01 No.4495014 Report

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Back when thrift stores were full of cheap digicams I bought two cams with pictures still on the internal memory. On one camera there were 2010 snapshits of some boomers chilling in their yacht, smoking and drinking. The other cam had one mirror selfie of a redhead woman, probably from ~2010 as well.

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a buncha old stuff

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 22:10:58 No.4487074 View View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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started looking at photos i shot back in 2008-2010ish and decided to do a dump.

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Anonymous Sun 11 Jan 2026 22:14:21 No.4493405 Report

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Great thread and lovely photos.
What were these taken on?
>>4492523
> I scan now with a Sony a7 and macro lens
Even med format? Seems so clumsy to stitching several photos together of the same frame. I do 135 with a macro adapter and 120 on a flatbed for now.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2026 03:08:01 No.4493958 Report

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>>4493405
Hey thanks! The 6x6 is a mix of Bronica SQ-A and Mamiya 6. The 135 is a mix of Canon AE-1P and Stylus Epic.

I don't really shoot 6x6 anymore. I do scan 120 rarely and don't find stitching necessary. I've printed up to 16"x16" from single frame scans of 120 that look great.

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jan 2026 21:05:00 No.4494177 Report

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>>4487081
This one is wonderful

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 07:22:10 No.4494871 Report

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great shots, love it

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 15:07:58 No.4494995 Report

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>>4494177
Thanks anon, that's one of my favourite people photos I've shot. He's now in his mid 20s and a pretty cool guy.

>>4494871
Appreciate it anon

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 02:50:30 No.4494840 View View Reply Original Report

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You gotta stop when it's red.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 05:59:44 No.4494961 Report

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>>4494840
>light turns red
>all traffic grinds to a halt
>only lets two cars out
>green light
>three cars get past through the intersection because the faggot in front can't fucking drive like a normal human being
>light turns red again
>this time it's one car
>traffic backs up further
>huge congestion now because of it

you know i think i finally understand s to why road rage is a thing.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 10:03:51 No.4494971 Report

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traffic light posting

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 10:33:56 No.4494977 Report

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 11:09:12 No.4494978 Report

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>>4494971
>Traffic Light, JAPAN :3:3:3:3:3:3

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Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 11:49:04 No.4494985 Report

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>>4494977
Very nice
>>4494971
How do I know if I go or not?

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