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The iPhone 12 has an excellent camera. It has three lenses, each with a zoom factor; 0.5 (wide angle), 1 (normal) and 2.5 (zoom). The phone also has the facility for a 12x digital zoom. Now, there are times when I do use the zoom, but it becomes very useful obvious, very quickly that thereContinue reading “690 – Nikon D5300”

It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, carrying the DSLR with the 18-400 lens, and a good shoulder strap. There is no doubt that the camera produces a better quality picture than the iphone, but I don’t wish to run the phone down, because the camera is really good. Todays writing isContinue reading “689 – Using the DSLR”

For two days now I haven’t gone for a walk, although I did get out for a brief cycle ride this afternoon to Alverstoke. I’ve spent a bit of time in the garden, clearing up the spilled birdseed and cutting the grass, I’ve done the ironing and last night we went out for a lovelyContinue reading “688 – I ain’t done Nuffing”

One of the books I am reading at the moment is Platform Souls by Nicholas Whittaker. The book describes his life, the part I’m reading at present, as a kid. Some of the antics he got up to were, to be honest outrageous. I had no idea of the depths of devotion that kids hadContinue reading “687 – Trainspotting”

I’m a nosey person. I like to know what is going on. I also like to help. I think that’s where my involvement as the Exhibition Secretary at the St Neots Camera Club started it all. I quite enjoyed doing that although it got a bit stressful at exhibition time. So many people wanted aContinue reading “686 – Committees & things”

There is a lot of wildlife in town, birds are mostly easy, they are everywhere, there are the really common ones; starlings, pigeons, and I’d say sparrows, and I use the word common in that there appears to be a lot of them. At the back of Trinity Church there a load of pigeons andContinue reading “685 – On the Wild Side”

I took this picture because I wanted to talk about the window, not because I was particularly interested in it as a picture. But the more I look at it, the more I like it simply because there is so much character in the window. What I wanted to talk about originally was just theContinue reading “684 – It’s just a window”

Whilst out for my morning walk this morning, I was very aware that over the last few walks I had been thinking about video and to a degree taking photos as quick grab shots that were both dissatisfying and did an injustice to the hobby. The epiphany (and really it was a realisation rather thanContinue reading “683 – Not really an Epihany”

When I was 9 or 10 years old I spent a lot of my summer holidays in Swanage. I would do a lot of walking, the lighthouse, Durlston and the Globe, Peveril Point, the pier, and very occasionally,, the amusement arcades, when I could con some money out of my Mum. Up on the Downs,Continue reading “682 – Bowls”

Having had very nice day, up until late afternoon I hadn’t managed to get out for a walk. We needed a few birthday cards posting, and it needed to be in a postbox that would be collected in the morning in time for the afternoon forwarding. Taking the opportunity for a walk, I said thatContinue reading “681 – A quick walk”