Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

That last one seems to have some odd white dots on it, not sure if the lens is dirty, or if that was the exceedingly strong sun catching on spray from the surf.:)

The white dots are tiny spray particles which have got onto the lens. Raindrops are larger and even posh cameras get them. Keep lens clean with specs cleaning cloth, not shirt tails!

Modern compacts around £100 are so small and automated they go in your pocket and get seriously good results. Worth treating yourself at Christmas, especially if you plan to put pics on a web site where something better than a phone cam will still make a difference, especially close ups.

As for where to store the pics, Photobucket is the permanent side of Tinypic, and if you sign up you can keep albums there for free. My stuff is there and they don't spam me, like another one I used did.

lostinrates

PN, you are a very, very good photographer! I'm seriously impressed. Geting the right thing in frame is impressive to me...and you've really done that.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

The white dots are tiny spray particles which have got onto the lens. Raindrops are larger and even posh cameras get them. Keep lens clean with specs cleaning cloth, not shirt tails!

Modern compacts around £100 are so small and automated they go in your pocket and get seriously good results. Worth treating yourself at Christmas, especially if you plan to put pics on a web site where something better than a phone cam will still make a difference, especially close ups.

As for where to store the pics, Photobucket is the permanent side of Tinypic, and if you sign up you can keep albums there for free. My stuff is there and they don't spam me, like another one I used did.

I will only be using them "stamp sized", so 2" square, mostly. Having a phone enables me to "snap" more than using any camera I've seen, because it's so common to see people snapping stuff with phones I won't look odd

Unfortunately, yesterday, the battery completely died... and in my efforts to remove the images from the phone I completely forgot to charge the phone up again, so it's now on charge... which is annoying as I'd have gone out again today if it'd been charged and easier to get the pics off. Not sure how long the battery will last, it didn't last long yesterday, but it probably wasn't fully charged. All more things to discover/play around with. Also, unsure if leaving it on "camera mode" on the car seat for half an hour made the battery drain, or not.

That one's a 1MP camera on that phone.

silvercar

You can get in car chargers for most things on Ebay. Probably for less than a fiver.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

You can get in car chargers for most things on Ebay. Probably for less than a fiver.

I need a card reader too probably ... and a card that fits in it, the one that's in there doesn't seem to work.

It's endless... I am really just trying out the idea of a phone camera, so wasn't planning on investing time/money in it until I knew if I'd actually use it, or if it'd never get used. It's not until you have something you think you want that you find out if you'd really do the things you said with it

Davesnave

The number of pixels is only half the story. The size of the lens for light gathering and the quality of the sensor are the other two parts.

Here is a close-up I snapped on the windowsill a couple of days ago. The camera is old and only 3 mllion pixels, but it has a big lense, which allows me to do most stuff without the complications of flash:



I just did this on 'auto macro.' I can faff about if I need to, but mostly, I don't bother.

PasturesNew

I do have a "proper camera" as it were.... somewhere. Not seen it for months, I know I've not left it anywhere/lost it in a shop but it's just not around. But my stuff's in boxes/bags and scattered around the place ... and my dad faffs with things and randomly takes things and moves them about .... we used to "lose" things for years when I was growing up, then he'd produce it and ask "did you want this? It's been in my shed for ages so I thought it could be chucked out now". He kind of steals/squirrels things away and has no sense of other people having possessions, it's like once it's in his house it's his and he can randomly decide to move things into his shed.

lostinrates

DH, wearing a red carnation has just made a drop off for the boss around these parts. He says she is as lovely in person as she appears on line I can't wait to try the returning jelly!

The chooks went on strike this weekend a bit.Also I'm finding some eggshells in the field and my guess is one of the feralsor a fox is chowing down on fresh farm egg everyday. Poor little hungry scavengers. Pretty sure its not a badger because some of the shell fragments were quite high up the haystack.

edit: AND I think I'm succeeding with drying oranges and orange slices! BOGOF nets, £1 for a dozen! Not bad for christmas decorations

PasturesNew

You could make those orange things/nets into stuff to sell next year.... you could be one of those "middle class women who sets up lifestyle companies, that never make a full time living, but sells !!!!!! to other middle class women because it's a must have". Remember the doggy poo bags?

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

You could make those orange things/nets into stuff to sell next year.... you could be one of those "middle class women who sets up lifestyle companies, that never make a full time living, but sells !!!!!! to other middle class women because it's a must have". Remember the doggy poo bags?

You might be surprised what makes money. I have a friend who owns a business that simply makes medicine labels for the NHS... he creams in a huge amount of money for a business you'd never think could make anything.

The world is a strange place.