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Vegas has really fallen off over the last few years; it's yet another victim of enshittification. It used to be an adult playground where you could go and gamble and carouse to your heart's content, with free booze, cheap meals, free public spectacle (like the Mirage volcano or the Fremont St. experience), but now everything is so bloody expensive. They are charging $30 - $40 just to park at some of the properties there, there aren't really any good free shows left, and everything is up-charged. You know the economy's in shambles when casinos can't make enough money off of people gambling, and have to subsidize their income by charging outrageous prices for basic hospitality services.

This is a composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 70mm HR-Digaron-W lens, each made with the back shifted up 15mm, and then with the individual captures shifted 18mm left and right, respectively. The result is two "side-by-side" 4x3 vertical images, with just enough overlap to allow them to be stitched together into a single 5x7 horizontal frame, yielding a total of about 270 megapixels.

The equivalent field of view on a "full frame" 35mm camera would be roughly that of a 26mm lens.

@mattblaze@federate.social that was a great typo