Stuck In Customs

Here’s the Pixel 6 Pro doing a really decent job of capturing a detailed portrait. Pretty close to DSLR quality… certainly close enough for sharing for social media at least.

The Pixel 6 Pro and Portraits

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• Date Taken2022-09-22 16:49:05
• CameraPixel 6 Pro
• Camera MakeGoogle
• Exposure Time1/191
• Aperture1.9
• ISO105
• Focal Length6.8 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

I was looking for a totally different shot to share today and stumbled across this one and it really appealed to me, so I’m sharing that instead. A Nikon D800+Fisheye lens from a helicopter. Not so flat earth!

A Random Fisheye

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• Date Taken2013-06-12 01:53:35
• CameraNIKON D800
• Camera MakeNikon
• Exposure Time1/8000
• Aperture2.8
• ISO1250
• Focal Length16.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

Another from the Pixel series, this time the “4” which was a great little device.

The Pixel 4

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• Date Taken2020-01-24 18:27:35
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/1600
• Aperture6.3
• ISO400
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

The DJI Phantom was my first drone and I’ve had a bunch of others along the way. One which stands out was the Inspire, a huge monster of a quadcopter which had a cool articulated/motorised thing going on when you switched from take-off to flight mode. It was awesome to see. At that point it was looking like quality meant size but more recently DJI have done awesome work in making tiny drones. This is a shot from my Mini 3 Pro which weighs just 249g or something crazy like that!

Quadcopters Pt.2

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• Date Taken2024-02-07 20:01:06
• Camera
• Camera Make
• Exposure Time
• Aperture
• ISO
• Focal Length
• Flash
• Exposure Program
• Exposure Bias

While I’ve been walking through my past cameras, I talked a little in a previous post about my move to the Pixel series of phones from Google and shared an image from (i think) one of the earliest models. I talked way back about how I could see mobiles taking over from “real” cameras and I do certainly find myself using my later Pixels more and more… although sometimes through necessity, such as this trip to Madagascar where the airline lost my bag containing my a7R III, so all I had for a few days was my Pixel 3 XL.

Pixels Pt.2

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• Date Taken2019-10-02 21:27:53
• CameraPixel 3 XL
• Camera MakeGoogle
• Exposure Time1/30
• Aperture1.8
• ISO724
• Focal Length4.4 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

Just before the start of Lockdown here in NZ I had some time to play around with the a7R IV. Ultimately, I didn’t move over from my a7R III but it was a pretty awesome camera. Just not the leap I needed but it was a good excuse to head out for a hot air balloon ride to find some interesting test shots. 🙂

The Sony a7R 4

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• Date Taken2020-03-01 08:50:18
• CameraILCE-7RM4
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/2500
• Aperture4
• ISO160
• Focal Length34.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias