I like circular polarising filters. I hate glare, and I like strong – but natural – contrast. So until recently I used them a lot. The only downside, I figured, was the loss of light. Sometimes my photos using the filter seemed a bit soft, but I assumed that was because of the slower shutter… Read more
Officially, Apple claims that you can store your last 30 days of photos in iCloud via Photo Streams. This is true only if you don’t have very many. If you actually take a lot of photos, iCloud boots your arse out and doesn’t let you use Photo Streams anymore. At all. 24/09/13 6:54:08.457 PM PhotoStreamAgent[305]:… Read more
Sure, Aperture, I’ll get right on that. Will deleting this buggy “Aperture.app” help? [ This happens periodically, randomly. The only solution of which I’m aware is to restart Aperture and try again. ]
Standard internet disclaimer applies: I have one copy of each of these. The Nikon 50/1.8G performs exactly as everyone says – very, very well. The Nikon 18-105, on the other hand, is possibly a bad copy; lots of people think theirs’ great, I think mine’s crap (not just versus a prime like the 50/1.8 –… Read more
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
I had some obvious reservations about it based on what was presented publicly, but I wanted to give it some time and actually use it for a while to see what was just a mistaken gut reaction and what I could get used to. Long story short, it’s far worse than even I thought. I… Read more
I like my Nikon D5200. But it has some bugs. Serious ones. For example: Hard-hang the entire camera This doesn’t appear to cause any permanent damage, but you will either have to wait a couple of minutes for it to finally recover on its own, or yank the battery to hard reboot it. The only… Read more