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  • Severance Unboxing

    2022-04-10 Severance Unboxing 1 — Title Slide

    It was a lot of fun to host another Hemispheric Views live event this morning. This time, Jason was unboxing an official AppleTV+ Severance gift box he had acquired.

    The event featured Severance talk, Severance sound clips and music from the show - even some Defiant Jazz.

    There were many amazing goodies in the box. You can see some photos of the items at the Hemispheric Views photo album.

    My thanks to our One Prime Plus members who joined in the event and helped make it a success!

    → 10:27 AM, Apr 10
  • I can’t figure out why Flickr has two different types of Pro badge. One is black with a square surrounding the word Pro, and the other is blue with a pink underline.

    → 8:13 PM, Mar 22
  • I’ve been exploring Flickr again. I’m still a Pro, so I should try to get my money’s worth.

    → 8:43 PM, Mar 21
  • Camera Comparison

    Today I pulled my old cameras out from storage.

    This was prompted by my trial of Glass, and the reminder that my Flickr account still exists.

    I haven’t had much time to do anything with them, except charge the battery and try to reset them back to a state where they were taking jpegs and letting the camera intelligence do the work.

    In a sign of how long they’ve been sitting around for, every camera needed its clock reset. I also seem to have lost some SD cards - does anybody know where I put them?

    I took two photos with each camera from roughly the same position. It wasn’t too scientific, so don’t necessarily read too much into the results, but it’s kind of interesting.

    My cameras are (with links to relevant pages at DPReview:

    • Panasonic DMC-LX3
    • Panasonic DMC-GX7
    • Nikon D7000
    • iPhone XR

    Shot 1: Sound Panels

    LX3

    LX3

    GX7

    GX7

    D7000

    D7000

    XR

    IphoneXR

    Shot 2: Tchotchkes

    LX3

    LX3 ball

    GX7

    GX7 ball

    D7000

    D7000 ball

    XR

    IphoneXR ball

    Findings

    Each progressive generation gets better at capturing light, leading to brighter images. The iPhone and its computational photography has to be the greatest revolution in photography since the digital camera was born. Keep in mind that I’m using an iPhone several generations old, and that some of the greatest advancements since this model have been low light capture.

    It was nice to pull out the old cameras though, and I think the D7000 and GX7 in particular still offer some value in terms of a change-up from typical iPhone shots.

    At this point, the LX3 probably needs to be consigned to use only for outdoor shots with reasonable light.

    → 5:46 PM, Aug 20
  • Exploring Glass encouraged me to revisit Flickr. The latter is technically better (despite the bugs and UC mishmash) but people are active on Glass. If I could have only one, it would still be Flickr. Why can’t that site be more successful? 📷

    → 9:47 PM, Aug 18
  • Crowning Around

    Me and my boys. Benji refuses to smile for any photo.

    → 10:16 PM, Mar 20
  • Giraffe at Perth Zoo

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    It was amazing to be able to see the giraffes at Perth Zoo close-up yesterday. They have big heads!

    → 8:57 PM, Mar 7
  • Who does Flickr? I use it as a storage location, but I admit I don’t have a community over there. Now I’ve ditched Instagram, I wish it had more people and everyday photos in addition to the ‘high art' that tends to be its focus.

    → 9:57 AM, Feb 2
  • Coffee shop visit with my baby boy.

    → 9:42 PM, Apr 16
  • Our second boy is entering his Lego play phase. I’m thankful my wife colour-coded our massive stockpile of Lego to simplify reconstruction efforts.

    Beginning a build

    → 9:24 PM, Jan 30
  • We are enjoying the quintessential Australian summer caravan park holiday. Holiday feels

    → 8:38 PM, Jan 12
  • My 2019 Goodreads Year in Books
    Goodreads

    → 1:33 PM, Jan 2
  • Gingerbread Cubicle Testing the @johnjohnston Flickr linkr bookmarklet. Many years ago, this happened to my office cubicle.

    → 3:03 PM, Dec 22
  • Park Within the Lines

    Park within the lines.Park within the lines.

    → 4:28 AM, Mar 6
  • Gingerbread House Cubicle

    Roaming through my Flickr history, I came across this gem.

    We really smashed the Christmas decorating out of the park this year, as my cubicle was transformed into a gingerbread house.

    Gingerbread House CubicleGingerbread House Cubicle
    → 7:42 AM, Mar 4
  • Testing Flickr

    Just trialing an embed from Flickr, as I determine whether to re-activate my Pro account.

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    → 7:16 AM, Mar 3
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