How To REALLY Fix the Menu Problem
I really want someone to switch camera setup to interactive screens online which you then transfer to the camera. That way everything could be explained adequately and systematically. Cameras are just too complicated now for paper manuals and mazes of menus. But that s a different post for a different day. Me, yesterday
Okay, here s my idea. I can t believe I haven t written about this before, because it s been in my head for years. But apparently I haven t.
The best way to fix the menu problem would be with an interactive setup/tutorial website that transfers your chosen settings to your camera.
About That Carters-Bidens Picture
The picture, which is making the rounds to an impressive extent, is an excellent example of what s called
perspective distortion. The picture has gone viral all over the world because of an optical illusion that makes President Biden look like a giant next to a diminutive Mrs. Carter.
It originated as a tweet from the Carter Center. No photographer is named; possibly it was a functionary or employee of the Center using a camera that has a wide-angle lens. It s even possible it was a smartphone camera. Phone modules are getting very wide now, which is historically an interesting development an amateur who had an ultrawide as wide as 24mm in the 1970s would probably have been the exception to the rule (28mm was the standard wide angle). Certainly anyone who had anything wider than 20mm in those days would have been rare. But the iPhone 12 Pro Max has an ultrawide lens of ƒ/2.4 with a 120° angle of view, which is equivalent in field angle to a
Sony A6600: Is the Price Premium Worth It?
First, I know I joke about how it rains every time I get a camera to review, but it s a little freaky and I really don t like it. I have the A6600 here for a week, and the last three days have been more or less constant rain. I left my tea mug outside yesterday morning and this morning there s an inch of rainwater in it. I ve still been shooting every day, but
dang, cut it out.
Sony is just about to replace its high-end APS-C camera. According to various rumors, none confirmed, the new camera will resemble the A7C in design and have a higher-resolution sensor. Can we assume it will sport the latest Bionz XR processor, and therefore inherit the overhauled menu system that debuted on the A7S III? Don t ask me; there s nobody in here but us chickens. But that would certainly be a sound move, as the current menu system is of the HM type. (HM:
Dans les champs de l observation le hasard
ne favorise que les esprits préparés.
(In the fields of observation, chance
favors only the prepared mind .)
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I had one of those days yesterday. Let me describe it and see if you know what I mean.
I ve got one hand in my pocket, and the other hand is
taking a picture (with apologies to Alanis Morrisette)
I had an hour to kill while my snow tires were being swapped out for my summer tires at Trombly Tire and Auto. So I brought the A6600 and Sigma 30mm Contemporary along, with my rain hat and a camera bag just in case I got caught in the rain, and I wandered around town for an hour and took a bunch of pictures. And all except one turned out, as we quaintly used to say. That is, they were sharp, clear, and well exposed.
Packaging for the Asciiware Sphere 360 PlayStation controller (photo courtesy of Hock Wah Yeo)
When Hock Wah Yeo was hired by the game publisher Velocity, the head of the company gave him an unusual order: “Scare me.”
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Let’s say you go to the store and buy a video game. What does it look like? Chances are, it comes in a plastic box, roughly the size of a DVD case, and there’s a logo on the top that tells you what platform it’s for Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo. It’s easy to understand, and it’s easy to fit on shelves. Retailers like it. The platform owners like it. This is the way it’s been for decades simple, predictable, and safe.