Smart Phone Camera Trick

I used an iPod before. The only feel good experience was when I sold it, it retained quite good resell value.

Apple products have good quality. I sold many dozens of iPod, iMac and Macbook when I worked in retail. I only hate iTune, which is the most excellent marketing tool for Apple----not a good utility for me.

You buy a microwave, a printer, or a chopping board, once you paid and walked away the manufacturers have already lost your contact. You buy an iPod, everyday you use iTune you are being ‘poisoned’ by Apple un-knowingly. It is just brilliant.The only problem is I hate marketing twist. I am a very old man, I don’t have time to waste on ad/marketing material. That is the reason I don’t watch live commercial TV. You spend 2.5 hours for a 1.5 hour movie. On that ratio, if your life expectancy is 80, you will spend 32 of 53 waking years on watching ads!Back to Apple. Amazingly, there are so many people like to offer free marketing for it. There are always rumours for iPhone4, 5, 6...on newspapers or various websites, Steve Jobs has a little sneeze is big news too.Some time last year, there was a New York Times or some similar big-shot photojournalist using iPhone camera to cover Middle East war! Yeah, I read his feature and a dozen photos on a quite serious photography website (may be Exposure Compensation).Different medium has its own special features, that’s why somebody still insists on shooting film. There are Holga, Lensbaby, 4X5, and Polaroid. Each gives you the unique character that others hard to provide. But iPhone. What the............what!A simple $200 snap shot camera can do more and better job than an iPhone. All those fancy effects you can get them from legally free software download from the net. Obviously that journalist was riding on Apple’s fame to get his fame, or just happy to be another free human billboard.If there is any fun thing for a phone (I am using Google phone), I recently found out it may be the panorama function. It is handy and quick. Of course you can achieve better result with photoshop handling DSLR big RAW files. I tried, it took quite some processing power. And, to be honest, these type of extreme panorama only fun for a limited time. You try a few times, then I am sure the novelty wear out pretty soon, why bother with fast machine and big RAW.