Ramblings

I guess I really am over iPhones

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In summary, I’m really not impressed with the new iPhones.  Not that I’ve ever really liked the iPhone that much, but I’ve always at least thought that the new one each year was an actual upgrade.  Make no mistake, shipping ARM64 in a phone of all things before anyone else has even put it into… Read more

Lightroom

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I’m worried for Aperture – it’s ageing, slow to get RAW support updates, does some nasty, funky shit with colours in NEFs, and can’t do some fundamental corrections (like geometric distortion). So I finally decided to download Lightroom and give it a shot.  Thoughts on this: Adobe requires you make some stupid user account in… Read more

New iMac’s SD card slot

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I find it odd that I haven’t seen or heard a single comment about the latest model iMac’s SD card slot being on the back, buried amongst the inaccessible ports.  People complained quite vocally about it being merely on the side.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

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In a word: clusterfuck. I really enjoyed Modern Warfare.  It’s one of my favourite FPS’s of all time.  It was fun, challenging, had an interesting storyline… it was “realistic” but not to the point of losing the whole point of the game – to be a game, a form of entertainment.  Alas, Black Ops is… Read more

Amazon’s lying product listings

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I bought some extension tubes from Cameta Camera, via Amazon, about two weeks ago.  The product page was titled: Vivitar Professional Metal Macro Automatic Extension Tube Set of 3 for Nikon (13mm, 21mm &  31mm) I suppose I should have caught on that something was wrong by the fact that the description for the same… Read more