Millennial quiz: What have you got if you’ve got Sick Puppies next to Puddles of Mud with Twenty One Pilots?
How do you do fellow kids?
The moon over Baja tonight was so beautiful. Here it is captured by three lenses. Ones an iPhone 14 Pro’s 24mm lens, another is a Canon RF 35mm, and another is a Canon RF 70-200mm cropped.
Researching places to stay and this is the third sentence in the second paragraph in Wikipedia:
In 1968, five Swiss artillery shells accidentally hit it, damaging a few chairs that were sitting outdoors.
I’ve never flown Delta Air Lines, but Britt did last week, and a friend here in Baja is a frequent flyer with the airline, both, unprompted, cited the seat-back entertainment as one of the reasons they would fly them again.
Customer satisfaction win for Delta.
My first look at the 400 megapixel mode on the Canon EOS R5
I’m a sucker for megapixels, because as much as they really don’t matter to most people - and they really shouldn’t - for me they often mean I’ve got room to crop. More pixels collected means more pixels you can delete, a post-production version of digital zoom if you like.
Other, smarter, and different, people will have different reasons for wanting more pixels, so I’m not here to pass judgement on the feature, just to share my first thoughts and two images I’ve made with the feature.
The feature is actually called IBIS High-resolution shot, apparently, it how it works is that instead of using the stabilisation for stabilising, it uses it to take a bunch of photos whilst moving the sensor, then composes one big image out of it.
So that’s why shooting handheld isn’t a great idea, partially because IBIS (In-Body Image Stabilisation) isn’t enabled, and partially because the collection of photos isn’t all taken at once, they’re taken sequentially.
So as you’ll find in my first demo, the palm trees moving in the wind didn’t quite make it through to the 400-megapixel image in the best quality.
Below you can download the original raw or jpeg, along with the full-resolution jpegs as exported from Lightroom, plus if you want to play with the files yourself you can remix them in Lightroom online.
🪟◾️ El Pescadero in regular 44-megapixel mode - 21.2 megabyte CR3 raw file, 29.8 megabytes processed JPEG from Lightroom - remix it in Lightroom online.
🪟⬛️ El Pescadero in 400-megapixel mode - 122.7 megabytes JPEG original file from the camera, 285.2 megabytes processed JPEG from Lightroom - remix it in Lightroom online.
🍌◾️ Banana in regular 44-megapixel mode - 27.1 megabytes CR3 raw file, 41.4 megabytes processed JPEG from Lightroom - remix it in Lightroom online.
🍌⬛️ Banana in 400-megapixel mode - 85.1 megabyte JPG original file from the camera, 213.6 megabytes processed JPEG from Lightroom - remix it in Lightroom online.
Get the Canon EOS R5 firmware update to 1.8.1 on the Canon website, and reports said you’d need to use Canon’s EOS Utility to import and read the files. That hasn’t been my experience. They’re just regular, really big, JPEGs. If you open up the CF or SD card in Finder, it’s the same file list, and Lightroom handled them fine, if not a little slowly.
So is it worth it? Let’s zoom in. Here’s a close-up of the same banana peel scar in the two images.
If you need a really good photo of a banana then I reckon this might be the feature for you. But if you need a really good photo of a palm frond…
Maybe a medium-format camera is what you need instead?
Ronald Sharp via James Clear’s excellent email, on how friendship transforms us (or any great relationship, really):
It’s not about what someone can do for you, it’s who and what the two of you become in each other’s presence.
“Now this being so, how much happier and better would the world not be if only it could be purged of women?”
From a March 28, 1912, letter to the editor of The Times, signed by C.S.C., one of the doomed. Who turned out to be Clementine Churchill. via Letters of Note
📷 Mirror (@Rori)
Now you’re just a music playback medium that I used to know.
(Found in an op-shop in 2017)
I’m feeling bullish on the new group-messaging app and platform, Wavelength, After reading John Gruber’s review, then using it and joining a group, I think it could replace group chats in other places, but also serve as a platform for new conversations.
If you’re interested, I’ve started a few group chats:
- The Frequent Travellers Society, because I like to talk about travel.
- The Celebrant Institute, you wouldn’t believe it but it’s for celebrants.
- The Apple Nation because I follow Apple like a sport, it’s my favourite hobby.
Jump onboard if you’re interested!
Eleven years ago I asked Britt to marry me, and honestly, it would still be my best idea yet.
I’ve written the story into my Rebels Guide draft chapter on proposals and how I think you should approach asking someone to marry you, now on the blog.
Over a decade ago Vinod Khosla wrote a series of blog posts about artificial intelligence, the forecasts hold up today, and the headline basically tells the whole story: ‘Do we need doctors?’ and ‘Do we need teachers?’
📷 Slice (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @meandering)
Last week Goldie grabbed a big knife off the kitchen bench when I wasn’t looking.
Number of times a well-regulated militia has been required in the USA this year: zero.
Number of times a school student has been wanted to not be shot at this year: way too many.
Dropped a new draft chapter of the Rebels Guide to Getting Married today: choosing a person to marry.
Thinking about the Coolangatta boardriders today
Ted Gioia on becoming a Substack shareholder and why the rest of the business isn’t run like this. Why don’t the creators own the platforms?
“I’d love to live in a world in which the major record labels were owned by musicians. Or the Hollywood film studios by cast and crew. Or those five huge publishing businesses were controlled by writers.”
📷 Prompt (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @moonmehta)
I cannot imagine living in a community where the word “another” preceding “school shooting” isn’t cause for rioting in the streets and major societal change.