Simon's Blog

For reasons too boring and first worldly to mention I took my veteran A6000 out for a spin yesterday.(BTW Sony are still selling this camera and actually as a starter camera its very capable!). It took a few snaps and I was back into the swing of things. The image quality is first rate – in fact there are certain circumstances where only 24 M Pixel has its advantages.

The only real drawbacks are:

• The battery life is poor;
• It’s a bit fiddly to operate and
• The screen and EV are very ordinary compared to later models.

None of these really matter and if anything for an aspiring photographer they make the experience more rewarding. However, if you are coming from a smartphone world it is really like stepping back in time, not quite to the stone age but near enough. That is until you start working with the RAW images and you find there is so much more you can do with them. (Full disclosure my iPhone is set to RAW Max so they are the largest that Apple can provide – they’re great until you compare them with an image captured with a ‘real’ camera lens.)

Battles with the Master.

My frustration with our AI overlord continues. It seems not to understand why someone might use a comma. Also it must have been trained on American text because it really doesn’t like the use of language that could be described as ‘Unconfident’ or weasel words:

It also doesn’t like the word Unconfident which it claims is misspelt even though the AI uses it in its message box. (This sentence is loo long BTW)

So perhaps this is another arm of the American attempt to colonise the English language and yes it didn’t like the use of an s instead of a z. (That is ZED not ZEE.).

Good I’m starting to sound like disgruntled of Tunbridge Wells.

The next that the overload will want me to do is use its generated image:

ARGGHH !!!