Fake “night mode” news for iPhone 11 Pro

A friend pointed me to this article from Peta Pixel about the iPhone 11 Pro’s Night Mode being a liar.

https://petapixel.com/2020/01/02/iphone-11-pros-night-mode-isnt-what-you-might-think/

It seems that the Night Mode on the iPhone 11 Pro fakes it when using the Telephoto lens.

Basically when using Night Mode on the telephoto x2 lens what is actually happening is the phone digitally zooms using the X1 lens and take the photo with that not the X2 lens.

I have personally noticed a big difference in video quality in low light between the wide angle and telephoto vs the X1. Only the X1 lens look reasonable with video in low light.

No major issue overall but for Apple to fake it is a little misleading from Apple who are normally good with stuff like this…. remember “ prone to micro aberrations”? PHIL GB

A Winning Lottery Win

Whenever somebody goes public after winning the lottery I can’t help but check out who has won. The main reason for this is that feel the need to “asses” the winners, whenever I judgemental deem them as not fit to win I always think that it “should have been me”.

Nothing better then when it seems like the winner deserves the win. A storey recently about a builder that won then a few days later was spotted finishing off some work he had arrange for one of his customers…

I just love the idea that even with all that money he would care enough to not want to let a customer down. Leave me with warm fuzzy feeling and makes me even happy that they won.

With that in mind – here is a brilliant winner.

Nobody makes mix tapes anymore

One of the guys at work was talking to me today about different (Modern) R&B tracks he likes… I’m not a fan of the latest R&B tracks however I am a big fan of the old 60’s, 70’s R&B so he suggested he makes of a list of track he thinks I would like…..

MIXTAPE Tara Hunt

With a list or tracks you got a playlist and in the currently world of having just about every song ever available to you at all times it’s so easy to pull together a playlist and share it with somebody. The problems is that nobody seems to do it.

I remember in the late 80’s early 90’s I would regularly make a mix tape for myself, make them for friends and more importantly in the late 90’s it was a way of telling my girlfriend(s) how you feel about them…. it’s now a bit of a lost art.

I can’t remember the last time I made someone a mix tape and having realised that… it feels a bit sad.

I’m going to change that and make my wife a mix tape (aka Playlist) as soon as possible. I’ll update this post with a link to it once done but I encourage everyone to make one person you know (at least) a playlist.

https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/mix-tape-for-emma/pl.u-A4J9T25XNz4

PHIL GB

2020

I always get a burst of creativity at the start of every year, the buzz in the air to do something more productive with your life often drive me to “give it a go”…

The only problem is that most of the time I ether quickly run out of ideas or the reality of going back to work means I can’t find the time to actually put the effort in that is needed to do what I want to do.

For example… I have just setup a new wordpress blog despite have my own self hosted WordPress blog that I could have easily use if I could be bothered to actually fix a database error on the server…. oh well.

So what have I done so far that has any kind of creative flare…

2000 vs 2010 vs 2019

Not exactly all that creative but as everyone else was getting involved I thought I would too. How I have changed over the last 19years… mad.

My Hyperlapse of our family New Year’s Day walk.

Bit of a tradition to head out for a walk on New Year’s Day and having got a DJI Osmo Mobile 3 from Santa (I ask him for it) I thought I would try out this new feature while trying to get used to my new bit of tech. I’m hoping that I can start to use this little bit to techno wizardry to help improve the quality of my videos. As always I have no project to record with my new tech for the idea behind asking for it was to ready myself for my inevitable “Start of the year creative spell”.

I just need to hope that this year I put in a little more effort and come up with something that was worth the effort… watch this space…. or not. PHIL GB