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iPhone 3G S experiences
iPhone 3G S (photographed with Nokia N95 8GB) I promised to post my iPhone experiences at some point so here they come, even if in rather short form (realities of busy life these days). The key points...
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Bird table in the night
Lumiyö / Night with snow, originally uploaded by FransBadger. These days you can find pretty nice bird tables, like this little house we have now in our front yard. It was originally designed to be...
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Canon EF 70-200 mm L
My old Sigma tele-zoom lens is pretty useless nowadays, particularly in cold (the mechanism gets stuck, and you cannot zoom even by using force). I went shopping, and got a Canon EF 70-200 mm L — my...
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Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta
Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta Another new piece of software that I have been testing lately has been the new free Beta version of Lightroom 3: For the development of this latest release, we’ve focused on what...
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Considering migrating from Flickr to Picasa
There have been several recent (and not so recent) improvements in Picasa web service that Google owns, making it serious challenger to Flickr, which I have long used. (See a list from here.) There is...
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Going for Canon EOS 550D
It was five years ago (time really flies!) when I got my previous Canon SLR, EOS 350D. The photos from the very first session should still be here. The body is still working fine, there are only a...
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Testing the EOS 550D
EOS 550D, originally uploaded by FransBadger. Ok, my new SLR arrived today (sans VideoMic & Eye-Fi card, those will arrive a day or two later), and it is time for the first impressions. Firstly,...
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EOS 550D with RÖDE Stereo Videomic
EOS 550D with RÖDE Stereo Videomic, originally uploaded by FransBadger. Continuing blogging about my experiments with the new Canon EOS 550D: my first tests with the video audio point out that there...
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Summer is here
Summer is here Originally uploaded by FransBadger The exact point when summer starts is hard to define, weather and calendar both playing their tricks. When your summer vacation starts can set a...
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Fixing crashing iPhone’s camera app
iOS 5 and the new iPhone 4S are not without their bugs, even while mostly being on the ‘it just works’ department. One rather nasty one that just jumped on me is the iPhone camera & camera roll...
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4K Ultra HD monitor
Samsung U28D590D.Sharper is better. I just booked the last remaining unit of Samsung U28D590D, an Ultra HD, 4K monitor from the local PC store (a display unit) at nice, 320 euros price. This is...
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Sony RX100: pocket, meet camera
Photography is an interesting thing – many interesting things. Take cameras, for example. For some people, cameras and lenses appear to mean perhaps more than the actual photographs they are supposed...
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Photography and artificial intelligence
Google Clips camera (image copyright: Google). The main media attention in applications of AI, artificial intelligence and machine learning, has been on such application areas as smart traffic,...
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Microblogging
My updates about e.g. Diablo3, or Pokémon GO, will go into https://frans.game.blog/. I decided to experiment with microblogging, and set up three new sites: https://frans.photo.blog/,...
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Life with Photography: Then and Now
I have kept a diary, too, but I think that the best record of life and times comes from the photographs taken over the years. Much of the last century (pre-2000s) photos of mine are collected in...
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Learning to experiment
I have been recently thinking why I feel that I’ve not really made any real progress in my photography for the last few years. There are a few periods when some kind of leap has seemed to take place;...
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The right camera lens?
Currently in the Canon camp, my only item from their “Lexus” line – of the more high-quality professional L lenses – is the old Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L USM (pictured). The second picture, the nice...
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There is no perfect camera
One of the frustrating parts of upgrading one’s photography tools is the realisation that there indeed is no such thing as “perfect camera”. Truly, there are many good, very good and excellent cameras,...
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Lens trumps the camera?
It is sort of interesting to think that maybe cameras have already got “good enough”? By this I mean that the capabilities of the camera body are no longer the real bottleneck in photography....
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Going mirrorless (EOS M50)
I have today started to learn to take photos with an ultra-compact EOS M50, after using the much bigger SLR or DSLR cameras for decades. This is surely an interesting experience. Some of the...
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