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Updates Re: "Broker" According to the "Asia News Network", Kirokazu Kore-eda's movie "Broker" has won the top prize at the Munich International Film Festival (per Song Seung-hyun of the "Korea Herald" "‘Broker’ wins top prize at Munich International Film Festival". According to "Far Out"...

About the Lilacs in "Comment #6" I have not been bothering with "detail crop" versions of images from the Xperia 10iii lately because I think I have posted enough for people who wonder whether this is a good camera/phone to buy. Put simply the Xperia 10iii does a "pretty good job". It is not...

I have been quite busy lately, and I expect that is not unusual "here", but for the end of May, the Cannes Film Festival ran and I was hoping to avoid being distracted by it, but that was at best, an unlikely possibility. If you have read my previous postings, you might have run across my...

Some of the replies reminded me of my B&W days. I enjoyed it all back when I did it, but I would hate to try it now. My darkroom was a small basement washroom (no bath, just sink and toilet). If I was careful I would move around just enough to get stuff done. I recall setting up stop on the...

Back when I was taking monochrome pictures on film, I did my own developing and printing. At first, I treated exposure as a constant, defined by ISO (actually back then it was ASA, but it is essentially the same thing). The film box told me what ISO to use and I would target the correct...

Another Attempt at "Horse Chestnut" After failing to get a good photo of the "Horse Chestnut" blooms, and being curious and a bit annoyed, I decided to give it another try. This time I went "manual", HDR "OFF", and tried a few things. What I found was that reducing the exposure EV=-1 and -2...

Spring 2022, 2nd Set: The first four pictures from this set are a continuation of my set of Spring pictures. Sony seems to be promoting this year's Xperia 10 iv as a "point and shoot" camera. It is closely related to this Xperia 10 iii that I am using, so I thought I would consider how this...

This set of Spring pictures was taken with Android 12. I made minor re-adjustments as noted. The out of camera files were fine, but I was being just a bit fussy. I do not intend to post detail crops this time. All are resized down to 1600 (height or width, whichever is the "long side"). I...

I thought that it would be a good idea to make some frame grabs from a run of the GFXbench. This turned out badly, but I did get some sample frames to upload. In general, the image titles indicate fairly clearly from which benchmark series the frame comes. The indicator "C1" shows highest...

GFX Benchmark Part 2 This is the rest of my results of my "GFX Benchmark" run: Low-Level Tests Tessellation ES 3.1 | Adreno (TM) 619 | 2394 x 1080 674.1 Frames (22 Fps) 1080p Tessellation Offscreen ES 3.1 | Adreno (TM) 619 | 1920 x 1080 1,508 Frames (25 Fps) ALU 2 ES 3.0 | Adreno (TM) 619...

While 3D rendering is generally thought of as a "gaming feature", that was not where the technology started, and there are other possible uses. Personally, I thought that it would be a good way of creating backgrounds or environments for photography. I never got around to using it that way...

More Perspective about the Xperia 10 iii with Android 12 In order to put my feelings about the Xperia 10 iii with Android 12, I am posting a couple of videos by other people which relate. First, I have noted that the Xperia 10 iii is essentially a "Full HD" video camera. In this regard, I...

The Sony Xperia 10 iii with Android 12 as a Photographic Device: General stats: The zoom range, in theory ranges from "12mm F4.0" equivalent ultra-wide to 54mm F4.0 (telephoto) which is digitally zoom-able out to about 4x for Full HD video, (or about 2x for stills). Video is limited to 30 fps...

Android 12 on the Sony Xperia 10 iii Today, (Apr 21, 2022) I received and installed my Android 12 upgrade. There are some small visual differences in the interface, but nothing major so far. Apparently there is a "privacy" upgrade which allows the phone to make less precise reports of its...

This is a short note on the current update state of my Xperia 10 iii. On Mar 23, 2022 I installed a firmware update resulting in "62.0.A.9.11 release-keys". The firmware immediately prior to that had created a bug in the charging system. That previous firmware stopped charging from occurring...

If I understand what was said, it should not be a matter of "no 5G" but rather, at worst, not having the new frequency bands working near airports. 5G also uses the older bands that were/are used by 3G and 4G. Those will still work. Also, it sounded like the aircraft signals were probably...

Well, this is the first I've heard of 4G LTE going away this soon. I expected 4G pre-LTE to go away with 3G since it was a small "upgrade". Anyway, here is a bit more news. It seems that the 5G roll-out is also hitting an unforeseen snag: "Gravitas: Why pilots flying to America are afraid of...

I have known about "radioactive" lenses for quite a while, but I have never looked into the situation before. I have watched three videos completely (which I am linking here), and there are more that I have not watched thoroughly. These three seem to be fairly presented (not panicky, just the...

I use the VLC video playback viewer. It captures JPG, PNG and TIFF. I have only used PNG, so I do not know how good a job it does with JPG. As for the size, it captures in the screen size of the source. This includes anamorphic adjustments. So if your source file is 4:3 but is defined as...

I see that the "Dune" mini-series has been removed from YouTube. Maybe it is on Netflix. Today, I almost bought the Villeneuve Dune movie on DVD (or Blu-Ray -- I could have bought either), but since I have read the book, seen the David Lynch movie and seen the mini-series, I decided to put it...