More fun with the new camera phone. Trying out the slo-mo video capture feature. This one is quarter speed, not sure if that is a fixed setting or whether I can adjust it. Bonus! It uploaded the video to Youtube right from the camera over wifi.
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Stir Fried Camera Fun
A very tasty noodle dish with shrimp, chicken, and broccoli – two photos from two cameras of the same dish under the same conditions taken about a minute apart. Top is from a Nikon D7000, second is from the Samsung S6. I ran the first picture through a Snapseed photo editing app with filters that look to be doing the same basic thing the built in “FOOD” mode does for the photos taken by the Samsung.
I bought the Snapseeed Windows PC software just before Google bought them out. It’s no longer available for the PC but they do offer it as a free app for Android phones and tablets. It’s a pretty good editing app due to ease of use more than anything. I’m sure Photoshop will do more but the learning curve is much steeper.
Patio Panorama – Gadget Post
I upgraded my phone and discovered a panoramic photo feature built in. I downloaded the photo to my desktop and resized it. Phone is a Samsung S6, this is the first result after a few tries to learn how to do it despite the lack of a good explanation in the help section. The gallery app provides a slow pan when viewing the image on the phone.
I’m happy with the new phone so far but it’s not that great a leap from the last phone, a Samsung S4. The new phone doesn’t have a removable battery or a slot for an SD card but it does have a ton more internal memory (128GB) than the miserly 16 GB I had on the S4. There are some nifty work-arounds for limited memory in many Android devices:
This is an OTG (on-the-go) mini Micro SD card reader – a mouthful that means you can plug it into the phone and use the material you put on the card. The device comes with an adapter so you can plug it into a regular USB port on your computer to load with songs, movies, photos, or whatever.
I have this one loaded with a bunch of music, it will work with SD cards up to 128 GB capacities – enough for four or five HD movies. Cheap OTG adapter cables are available to use with regular USB card readers but I like these because they are easier to use.
