I know we all know this but I think it is an important fact to restate: The iPhone camera, whichever version, is not as good as a ‘proper’ camera. What Apple are really good at is the software that handles the data from the image or images. However, what they really are good at is being the best camera at hand if you are travelling light – then with a little tweaking they can produce some very acceptable images.

Of course in this world of encroaching AI the line between a computational iPhone image and a computational Adobe image from a Sony is blurred more and more as each version of the latest software from Adobe is issued. I find myself using the AI assistance more and more and it actually helps me make the images I want to make. I’m not talking about content creation but rather things that in the old days were the domain of dodge or burn and other dark room tricks I never really mastered. Oh thank goodness for modern digital image production.

So after lunch we ended up in Canary Wharf. We took the Liz Line out of central London and spent a while walking through the foreign land of gleaming towers. It seems that we can make infrastructure work in this country so long as it is in London – the Liz Line is a wonderful way to get about and it is very busy. It was also overdue and way over budget yet here we are and London is better for it. Enough grumbing!

Canary Wharf is the antithesis to central London and the Liz Line station is just the latest example of this. The station was created in one of the old docks and is now a five storey office block/shopping mall. Everything is shiny and brand new – very much in keeping with keeping everything else on this man made temple to high finance and greed. It is Gordon Gekko on the banks of the Thames in a way that the City of London just isn’t.

Canary Wharf was made for the super wide on an iPhone (I’m sure Android phones have just as wider or perhaps wider lenses but I’ve never owned one so I couldn’t say). Very tall buildings on a very bright day. Of course I could have used my Zeiss super wide on my Sony but I didn’t have it with me as I was travelling light. The best set up I have found for this is a 40 mm on my Sony and then the iPhone covers the wider end. It is light and useable provided you ensure that the iPhone isn’t pushed too hard. Also I have noticed that people usually ignore someone snapping with their smartphone whilst they sometimes look at you gone out when you use a ‘conventional’ camera or is that just me?