I shot this test video using an App called Luma. It’s great for stabilisation and has a few nice effects too. I edited the video together in iMovie – previously i was using Sony Vegas pro which was a mutha fu*king nightmare and take forever. Well no more!

The camera is one if my most used things on a smart phone so I couldn’t wait to try it out. The standard iPhone camera is really good for outdoor shots and general snaps but for pictures with tricky lighting I find that it’s a bit lacking. Taking photos of Pip indoors it tends to blow out the white highlights in her fur. So I’m trying some third party apps and the first one is camera+

Standard iPhone camera:

Camera+ using separate focus and exposure lock:

I think camera+ does a much better job in this situation. It’s easy to do, just tap your finger on the screen to bring up a + sign on the focus ring. Click the + to bring up the exposure ring and then move this to wherever you want to expose from. I took an exposure reading from pips white fur around her nose and focused on her eye. More tests coming soon.

I never thought that i would leave Android and i thought that if i ever did i’d miss it … well i did leave and i don’t miss it!  Ok maybe some things i miss.

Getting my iPhone was a complete fucking farce though.  I bought it on PAYG via Vodafone (BIG mistake) with the intention of putting my contract Sim in it.  I ordered through their website on the 20th October and i didn’t hear a thing from them – 2 weeks of calls, online chats, forums posts, constant lies, mis-information and a tweet or two they eventually say “oh … we lost a load of orders and yours was one of them – would you like to re-order?”.  Hell. No.

So i bought it direct from Apple, communication was great and it arrived when they said it would.  Some advice, don’t deal with Vodafone, their customer service is shocking – just check out the forums.  By the way, i then spent 2 days trying to get Vodafone to transfer my number to a micro sim – again, they were useless.  Couldn’t do it.  So i walked into a shop and they did it in 2 minutes flat.

Anyway, the phone.  WOW!  I can’t get over how heavy and solid it feels – last time i felt like that was my first Blackberry Bold.  The screen is amazing.  Incidentally i was using a Samsung Galaxy S2 (which my hubby now has) and i know that the S2 is considered iPhones biggest Rival … personally, as a device i prefer the iphone even with its smaller screen.

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You know that post i made a couple of posts down? The one where i wasn’t going to get an iPhone 4s? Well i bought an iPhone 4s. White 32GB. Oh well! I got it from Vodafone but i think they’ve been a bit overwhelmed because it seems they have misplaced a lot of our orders – i rang the other night and they said they hadn’t a fecking clue where it was so lord knows when my phone will turn up. Hopefully before the iPhone 5 is released.

My perfect phone would be an Apple device, running Android with Apple’s APPS and a slide out Blackberry keyboard. I love my Samsung Galaxy S2 but the android Apps are mostly shite in comparison with Apple apps. I think the Camera looks as good as the Galaxy and i need a new iPod so i thought feck it, why not.

As for project 365, i’m starting taking a photo a day – every single day for the next year (link on top of blog). Thought it might be interesting to have a year long flashback right in front of me to glance at – i thought when it’s done i’d make a montage poster out of it for the office wall. Hmm.