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Sunset through the grass on Flickr.
While driving back to the holiday cottage we were staying in, the sun was just setting over the hills. I only had a few minutes to pull over, grab my 5D Mark II with 50mm f/1.4 and snap a few shots.
This one came out pretty well and is now living on my desktop as a wallpaper.
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“It looks like people who want to run Windows on something a lot like a MacBook Air are better served by just running Windows on a MacBook Air.”
The Asus MacBook Air, sort of – Marco.orgPhoto
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“New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.”
Steve Jobs (April, 2010)Article
My GORUCK GR1 saw action this weekend as a military camera bag at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth.
Using the insert from my Billingham Hadley Pro camera bag (which just happens to fit perfectly), I was able to carry my 5D Mark II, 50mm f/1.4, 16-35mm f/4L, 24-105mm f/4L and 70-200mm f/2.8L along with water, and my wet weather gear.
An extremely badass camera bag!
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Apple issued an uncharacteristic statement to All Things D today acknowledging that some iPhone 4S owners have been experiencing worse than expected battery life from their new devices. They stated that this was due to a few bugs in iOS5 that would be addressed with a software update ‘in the coming weeks’.
When I received my iPhone 4S, the battery life was noticeably worse than my iPhone 4, however I put this down to me using it more and messing around with Siri. Today, the battery life on my iPhone 4S is at least as good as on my iPhone 4, running the GM release of iOS5.
If you’re finding that you have reduced battery life on your iPhone 4S (or your iPhone 4/3GS running iOS5), these tips might help you. I don’t recommend turning off features that you’re likely to use, however there are a couple of things you can safely turn off that won’t impact your use of the device.
In Settings, tap Location Services and scroll to the bottom of the list. In System Services, turn off Location-Based iAds and Setting Time Zone. For me, this System Service was using the GPS constantly, presumably to monitor which time zone I was in. The disadvantage to turning these off is that you won’t get location-targeted ads and you’ll have to manually change your time zone (not a big deal for me here in the UK) – if you travel a lot, you’ll have to decide if it’s worth it for you.
It goes without saying that turning off Bluetooth and/or WiFi when you’re not using them will help, but for many people (myself included) this isn’t always practical.
Have you found anything else that improves battery life for you under iOS5?
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I shot a really quick time-lapse video of Orion rising over the trees behind my house. 84 exposures of 8s at ISO 800 and f/4.
Taken with my Canon 5D Mark II + 24-105mm f4L.
I think I need to shoot more frames next time.
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- Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Aperture: f/1.4
- Exposure: 1/50th
- Focal Length: 50mm
New Kindle by the fire.
