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  • Samsung's Galaxy S9 phones inch out iPhone X for top Consumer Reports ranking

    foggyhillfoggyhill
    1983 said:
    I use an 8 Plus and overall I’m very happy with it. The only two things I count against it pertain to its camera...noticeable and distracting levels of noise when shooting video in low-light (in good light it’s great!) and not enough sharpening in photos, with a watercolor effect on details at high magnification.

    Apart from those I can’t think of anything else wrong with it, except maybe it’s now rather dated looking front aspect (especially in white) that none the less ergonomically has always worked very well.

    I handled an S9 recently and like it’s forebears with that wrap around screen, still feels uncomfortable in the hand to hold from the sides. There’s still a noticeable edge/sharpness where the screen glass meets the chassis/body IMO.
    Shooting video in low light, especially at high frame rate, always gives a crappy result on smartphones, and even on normal video cameras, that's why there is a market for video led clip on lights for smart phones and DSLR. Use the lowest frame rate possible if you want to shoot in low light (24fps).

    Shoot raw to see if it's the lens providing the "water color" effect (sometimes it's the jpg encoding that does it). Likely it's the lack of sharpness of those little lens in smart phones that are at issue (in DSLR, there is a whole fetish about lens sharpness). Smart phone lens / sensor combi will have more distorsion than bigger lens.

    I think people have actually accepted the hype that smart phones are as good as compacts or DSLR's. They are not even close in non ideal situations.
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Russia demands Apple pull Telegram for iPhone from App Store

    foggyhillfoggyhill
    On android they can side load it, so not going to help much.

    Though, anyone using the app likely would be under immediate KGB (or whatever name its called) scrutiny, so use will go down to near zero anyway.
    An org wanting to hide something in Russia should roll up their own app and embed their crypto traffic into the "noise" of a video feed or something
    (sadly, that means only the criminals and foreign spies can truly do it).
    If you outlaw privacy and encryption, only the criminals, hackers and the likes will have it, that's the same argument as in the US.
    muthuk_vanalingam2old4funolswatto_cobra

  • April Fools: get ready for the worst jokes in the tech industry

    foggyhillfoggyhill
    ascii said:
    foggyhill said:
    Welcome to the post truth "journalism" (most sites are as far from traditional journalism as can be so I'm using this term derisively for sure).,
    Doesn't Daniel's picture from 1894 make you think that maybe journalism has always been like that?
    Modern journalism happened after that, in reaction to the abuses that occurred with the likes of Hearst
    though there were obviously various newspapers that had a better reputation than others regarding to
    the quality of their news in the 19th century. So, there were *some* standards, though they weren't

    The problem here is that most people these days producing "news" are not adhering to any precept of journalism at all.

    That actual news organizations are competing in the same space with people that can invent and spread crap all day long is a big part of the problem.
    These includes actual political forces coordinating and influencing national medias (that couldn't happen before for technical reasons).

    So, it just went for circle from

    Some good info floating in a sea of shit  ---> Mostly Good info ---> Good info floating in a sea of crap.
    muthuk_vanalingamGeorgeBMacwatto_cobra

  • 2018 iPad now for sale at Apple store, in-store pickup available at most locations in US

    foggyhillfoggyhill
    LoveNotch_n_AirPods said:
    Much hay has been made of the higher refresh rate on the iPP being important for smoothness when using Pencil. I'm wondering if it feels a lot less smooth on this iPad. I barely use my budget iPad from last year, which is my first one. I wanted Pencil features, but not willing to pay for iPP for the amount I'd use it. I'd pretty much solely use it for digitizing my bullet journal without having to scan pages from a dead-tree Moleskine. I'd consider trading in my "old" iPad for this, if it's not much worse than iPP.
    The first Ipad pro didn't have promotion 120, so I think it's response is like that one, which was pretty adequate.
    LoveNotch_n_AirPodsLoveNotch_n_AirPodswatto_cobra

  • Watch: iPhone X vs. Galaxy S9+ video quality compared

    foggyhillfoggyhill
    foggyhill said:
    It is not surprising that you'd get underexposed and crappy video from very high frame rate, people don't often consider how high speed photography requires much more light to look good. Basically only usable in noon sunlight without an extra lghting right.
    The iPhone X does a much better job of maintaining proper exposure throughout its various frame rates. 
    I agree, but at a high frame rate, you never get a real good video from a cell phone in general unless you have very good light, just various shades of crappiness. Apple is just a the high end of that range.

    Outdoor shooting with no shades (or not heavy clouds) is probably the best thing for that kind of shooting (or with a lighting kit when indoors).

    It's like people going into a cave and then complaining about grainyness in their video.... Come on! Yet, many people on mac rumors do these non nonsensical comments.
    muthuk_vanalingam