The downside of travel on a motorbike with a camera is it must either be around your neck, where it can be a nuisance - banging into fuel tank every now and then - or tucked away in the rucksack. My Nikon D3500 is not a heavy camera, but its presence around my neck is not welcome while out riding. My Nikon Coolpix A is smaller and lighter, but it lacks telephoto capability. It's great for landscapes and architecture but little more. So my new Samsung Galaxy S20FE looked like a promising answer - not least because it has three lens built in, wide, ultra-wide and telephoto. On Wednesday, I left the Nikons on the działka and set off for a ride.
To my huge disappointment, only one photo I took actually registered on the phone's memory! I assumed that, just as on my Huawei P9 Lite, the simple act of touching the white button centrally located on the bottom panel under the image would capture it. The Galaxy S20 vibrates - there's the impression of the image coming into focus - but it turns out that this isn't enough. You need to ensure that the tiny icon to the left of the white button is filled with a thumbnail of the image. Only then do you know you've got your snap. Which means pressing the white button twice after an unlock.
So the following day I went out for another ride, having taken some test photos the previous evening. It's not all that intuitive! This time, I took the Nikon in the rucksack as a back-up.
Below: the other great plus for the Nikon is the ability to use filters. The circular polarising filter is an essential part of my photographic style, bringing out a Kodachrome-like crystalline blue from the skies. For me, this is an integral part of my sublime aesthetic.
Opożdżew, Nevada. I do like it when local wags play around with the road signs this way. Incidentally, the shot above was the reverse of this one, the one I stopped for. Also taken on the Nikon.
On the plus side - the Galaxy S20's size and universality mean that if I'm ever forced to leave the camera, for whatever reason, I will be always able to get a reasonable shot for the archives, even though it's not as perfect as my soul would like it. The pictures are qualitatively better than the snaps taken on my old Huawei P9 Lite for one main reason - three integral lenses rather than just the one, even if the process of shooting is more complicated.
The second day of my father's last visit to Warsaw
Karczunkowska viaduct takes shape
This time four years ago:
My father's return to Warsaw, 2017
This time five years ago:
My father's first visit to Warsaw in 40 years
This time six years ago:
What's worse - unemployment, or a badly-paid job?
This time seven years ago:
A return to Liverpool
This time nine years ago:
Too good to last (anyone remember OLT Express airline?)
This time ten years ago:
Poland's Baltic coast as a holiday destination
This time 12 years ago:
The Warsaw they fought and died for?
This time 14 years ago:
Floods, rainbows and hope
3 comments:
Michael,
With all respect to your Photo Mastery, these are NOT photos. They are just SNAPSHOTS. Where do you want to rush with a mobile phone “camera”? Are you chasing rabbits? Or swallows above your head? Forget it, stick to the knitting you do so well with your good old (5-7 years old SLR is “old”?!) Nikon puszka and słoik attached, not a fake lensy-thingy on the back of your phone. A mobile phone is a mobile phone, a camera and a lens attached is a tool to SEE the light an the frame.
Stay. safe and healthy,
Neighbour
@ Neighbour
From the top: snapshot, snapshot, photo/photo, photo, snapshot.
If it ain't .RAW, it ain't worthy of the term 'photograph'.
Amen.
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