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More snow and cameras

Posted on February 27, 2011February 23, 2017 by Ian C.

At least when it snows again, it re-colors the piles from ugly brown to pristine white! Perhaps 3″ so far (started falling in the night) and a few hours to go yet …

Still comparing cameras, and today the Sony A55V DSLR came out on top; it’s wider field of view gives a much better impression of the weather and today it got the white balance / color better than the HTC Inspire 4G phone camera …

The HTC Inspire added a very strange “warm blob” to the middle of this picture, no idea why; but a second shot did the same – somehow the camera’s color correction went crazy this morning!

The Essex river, still frozen

Posted on February 23, 2011February 23, 2017 by Ian C.

I took pictures this morning of the still ice-covered Essex river, at Farnhams. As well as impressive river view, the pictures compare the camera in my new HTC Inspire 4G phone, with my new Sony A55V DSLR camera – amazing, but the phone does a really good job here …

Essex river pictures by camera phone:

The same view with the Sony gives a wider image, but the lens clearly curves the horizon and the camera white balance is a little off, giving too much purple to the ice:

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I also took a quick video panorama with the phone camera:

Full moon behind trees

Posted on February 17, 2011February 23, 2017 by Ian C.

Tonight’s full moon (well, tomorrow morning precisely, but pretty close!) looked spectacular – but as always, very difficult to photograph! I quite like the “through the trees” picture though …

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