Owl on June 1st, 2009

Many people complain that the iPhone doesn’t take very good photos in low light. I disagree. I do have to concede, however, that the iphone doesn’t take very good pictures in the dark. There’s a health club in the park land opposite my house. Once, I imagine, one of England’s Stately Homes, it has an [...]

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Owl on April 30th, 2009

Sorry, but it’s very nearly impossible to set up the iPhone 3G to take a bad photo by mis-setting the settings. There aren’t any. Controls for speed, aperture, focus and other doorways to photographic disaster are non-existent on the iPhone 3G. All you’ve got is a shutter button and that’s it. I did have a [...]

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Owl on March 17th, 2009

I’ve always been fascinated by tiny cameras. In days of yore, when I was working as a travel copywriter for British Airways, I had a state-of-the-art Pentax SLR. Oh, but that camera was heavy! I took to lingering by the windows of photographic shops, ogling the exquisite miniature SLR that Pentax brought out shortly after [...]

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Owl on February 20th, 2009

Photographer. (Pointing camera at X.) “Smile please.” X. “Cheese.” Photographer. “Good. Lovely. Er… Oh, wait a minute…” (Fumbles with camera.) “Funny. I could have sworn that button was the flash.” X. “…Cheeeeeese…” Photographer. “Can you move a little to the left.” X. “Cheeeeeeeeeee… That enough? …..eeeeese.” Photographer. (Scowls.) “Can’t you look a bit happier?” X. [...]

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Owl on February 8th, 2009

Iphone or ipod. Oh dear. How do you choose which to use for doodling, drawing or painting? Both iPhone and Ipod Touch can give artists and simple scribblers a simply magical sketchbook. Both put artistic expression literally at your finger tips. Even when the Iphone App Store first opened its doors there were five or [...]

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