Subj : Burning pixels
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Sep 01 2024 09:55 am

I've been cooped up in the house recently (working from home,
bronchitis, and an ear infection - didn't want to go into my office with
a hacking cough). My wife and daughter were off on a pedicure and hair
salon day, so I went out to, as I'd say in the past, "burn some film",
shooting street scenes.

Instead, I planned on burning pixels. Had to choose between my retro
high-end digicam (Nikon Coolpix 995) a newish mid-level pocketable
(Pentax MX-1) or a point and shoot Canon. Decided to bring the Pentax
and my phone, a Moto G Stylus with a decent camera. I picked up a
clip-on circular polarizer for it, I shot at a museum with plexiglass
covering everything and wanted to remove the reflections.

I don't know if I'm lacking inspiration, just tired, out of practice or
seen it all before in my 'hood, but I ended up spending the afternoon
taking one picture of an alleyway I've shot before - and I took it with
my phone. It came out of the phone nicely, did a little tweaking with a
photo app on the phone, and it's good *enough*.

I picked up a Pixel 8a a few weeks ago, wanted something newer with
supposedly one of the better cameras in the Android 'verse. I compared
the two and, while shooting with gcam on both devices couldn't see $400
worth of difference between the two. As much as I thought I wanted a
smaller phone, I missed the larger screen of my moto. I returned it
after a week.

I miss having a camera as a separate device (and miss having a
viewfinder) but I may give up on carrying a camera for a while and see
what develops. Pun intended.


 
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