Taxi to the terminal zone

[hirez]

... The problem with this shiny new Nokia is that the camera's too good. Some number of months ago, I was seen on Deathboy's LJ in the company of an opinion that went along the lines of  'Yes, the camera in the 7250i is a bit average, but it lends this otherworldliness to the images of the objects that it captures. It seems to drag them out of baseline reality and give them a wee twist. If the quality were better it would just be taking snaps, but as it is...'

Thus the new one is pretty reasonable at snaps. You have to really abuse it to expose what's really going on, which may or may not be the work of the Ministry of Continuity, but there we are.

I don't want to see things as they are, I want my machines to reveal the other layers of reality.

Comments

[neilh.livejournal.com]

What model of Nokian telling bone have you acquired?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Nowt special; a 6230. But the camera's just good enough to be 'nice'. I liked the Lomo-ness of the other one.

[neilh.livejournal.com]

Hows the EDGE? (is anyone in the UK supporting that, or are they cutting straight to the 3G chase?)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how I'd tell. Voda's GPRS is spottier than O2's at work, but that's immaterial since on O2 nothing ever worked anyway.

I've been a bit lax in getting the IMAP client to work. I've probably loused the connection settings, since you've to hand-enter the things separately.

[ Sigh ]

Still, never mind. Lj2me and azure work.

[neilh.livejournal.com]

Data rates, mostly, I think that runs something like 115up/56down, but it'll need network support for that.

But they still charge by the bit so faster just means you can run up bigger bills quicker.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, it's why I use coarse-grained B&W film and a fixed lens in a lot of my shooting. Of course I can just switch films and lenses and have a completely different set of capabilities if I feel the need...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I sort-of-wanted a Lomo in days of dotcom. In fact, I did bag a free Lomo-action from, um...

[FX: Digging]

... Uboot.com, so that's an odd lump of swag right there. I've never managed to get to the end of the first roll of film. I suspect the feedback loop is too long.

On the other hand, the phone does films at terrible resolution. Hm. I wonder what video-furtling s/w can cope with 3gpp files...

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Is that the one with the four lenses?

I remember at the time Lomo being a cool and retro brand, but in those dark days I was shooting with a Sony.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That's the fellow. The 'Lomo Action' according to the webshite. I should shoot off the rest of the reel to see what happens.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

There's a Nokia free download that handles most of that sort of format conversion. Will dig out and forward in case it works.