Category: NZTekonverse -> Digital Imaging
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Canon EOS M100 evaluation of low light performance
One area of particular technical superiority of large sensor cameras (DSLRs and MILCs) is that they have a large lens which lets more light in, the result is much better low light performance than compact cameras. With this in mind I set about evaluating the low-light performance of the EOS M100 using trains as subjects.…
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Photography notes 03/2018
I used to write on this blog a lot about my digital cameras and photography. Back then I took a lot more photos and even had many thousands of them published online. However in recent years my focus for photography as a hobby has waned and I took down virtually all of my online photos,…
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New bits for “old” computers
As of today the new SSD for the bedroom PC (NUC) and the one for the “server” have arrived. The NUC has now got the SSD installed and Xubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) installed on it and the video clips now being downloaded over the wireless from the mediapc. The difference in sound level is quite notable…
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Why I no longer have confidence in Flickr
Flickr used to be a great photo site. It was started in 2004 in Canada, but it didn’t stay independent for very long. Yahoo took it over in 2005, and for quite a while it looked good. It was quite distinctive from some of the other photo sharing sites, and has retained a quirkiness all…
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Useless Flickr processes and tools
Today I found that Flickr has been flagging some of my own personal photos as “infringing content”. I only discovered this when I downloaded some albums from one of my sites and tried to upload them to another site. I then got a few emails about content being removed that had been previously marked as…