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You live in Utah, you are the NSA
For iphone light meter app, which sensor does it use to measure the light?
I have a light meter app, and it's always spot on and agreed with my Sekonic in good light.
It's good in case you ever lose battery power mid-roll.
But, but...it uses the cloud.
I was seriously considering trying his VC LED head, but asked him (offline) about the possibility of a non-smartphone interface. He was pretty adamant that if you wanted one of his heads, you were going to use his Bluetooth smartphone interface. He seemed a bit enamored over the novelty of writing software, I think.
I lost that novelty decades ago, but he appeared more interested in the software angle than the light source angle. All my attempts (and everyone else's in that thread he started) to convince him to offer a non-smartphone interface went nowhere. So I never pursued it any further and so no sale was made.
Another case of the high tech tail wagging the dog...
Ken
snip* Quit hating on technology for the sake of being contrary.
And if you know the name of the SOB who wacked my arm with their sideview mirror as I walked next to the road, because they swerved as they were fiddling with their cellphone, PM me.
I don't have an iphone
Was he driving one of those new-fangled horseless carriages??
I find it interesting that the more successful I get the less I want to be "empowered by technology". I used to dream of the ultimate smart phone and the fancy car I could buy when I made enough money. Now I'm dreaming of being successful enough to not need a car or a mobile phone. I guess I realized that these things are (to me) the trappings of servitude.
To everyone, whether they realise it or not.
"We work to have leisure, on which happiness depends" (Aristotle). The trappings such as fancy cars (payments) and "smart"phones (constant disruption/distraction) destroy leisure and peace of mind.
This effect is a real problem, but I think it's a mistake to blame the trappings for it, as you rather reliably and prominently do when the topic of cameraphones comes up.
Personally, I clearly gain leisure and peace of mind from having a phone---whether the "smart" aspects are a win over just voice and SMS, I'm not completely sure yet, but SMS works drastically better with a smartphone than it ever did with the old feature phones. Just the time saved in extra trips to the grocery store, because I get the message that says "We need garlic!" while I'm there rather than having to go back for it afterwards, is probably enough to make the device a net win.
I don't find it to be a compulsive source of distraction. Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe I got that stuff out of my system when I was a lot younger and computer networks were a novelty. I think you have it backwards, though; humans *find* distractions, and if you take one thing away we'll find them in something else. Hence the perennial series of moral panics over new distractions, going back to at least classical Greece and all sounding much the same in spirit. Our cave-dwelling ancestors no doubt flipped their hirsute lids over how much of a time-wasting distraction this "language" crap was.
-NT
You're correct in that I was not as clear as I should have been. The gadget itself is not responsible, it's our use of it that determines it's influence on our existence.
It's those @#!*% kids, is what it is! ;-)
You're correct in that I was not as clear as I should have been. The gadget itself is not responsible, it's our use of it that determines it's influence on our existence.
In the instance I related above, it was someone else's use (misuse) of a gadget which nearly made me into a statistic. I loathed cellphones before that, though.
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