Tag: updates
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Updating The Wet Ware
We are forced at intervals in photography to update things. Note the use of the word ‘ forced ‘. These compulsions are most often associated with operating systems. Whether they’re on a desk or in a lap or pocket, they all work well until someone decides that they are to be found wanting…and decrees that…
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The Constant Update
This is v 3.5 of this post. You should install it in your brain and trash the previous versions. Two of the pleasing aspects of life on Earth are the fact that the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west, and gravity makes things fall down. People have grown accustomed to…
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When The Kaizen Bus Has Long Gone
One of the delights and terrors of my Fujifilm mirror-less cameras has been the ” kaizen ” … continued care the firm takes to update the firmware inside the cameras and lenses via electronic files. I downloaded them off the net, followed instructions, and was rewarded with bug removal and increased functionality for all my…
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The Unauthorised Version
The unauthorised version of anything is bound to cause trouble…mostly with the authorities. This is perfectly true in photography. We can get factory-approved instruction books galore that tell us how to do what the designers want us to do. And we are only courting disaster – or worse; success – if we deviate from there…
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The Perils Of Pauline
I’m thinking about the silent-screen heroine…not our federal politician. And how she used to be left at the end of each episode clinging to something, about to be devoured or crushed. I’m not sure what interval was required to film and distribute the next chapter…I’d like to say a week, but that might be too…
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Leave The Damned Thing Alone
A recent meme on Facebook said it all to me. Showed a picture of a Coca-Cola bottle with the note that there was to be a new flavour introduced. And angrily went on to say that if they weren’t going to put the cocaine back into it they should just leave the damn formula alone.…
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One Year Of Paying Pain
I cried into my pillow a year ago when I contemplated paying Adobe for the use of Lightroom and Photoshop on a subscription basis. But I had two new cameras and they needed two new versions of RAW decoded and I was forced to do it. I was thow’ed in the briar patch… Given that…
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First Release Pictures Of The New Schadenfreudflex
Every time I am incautious enough to wander into the internet forums I find a new reason for regret. Last night was no exception. The Fujifilm company has just released firmware updates for a number of their digital cameras. They are one of the few firms that do this for goods that have been on…
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