StressedTechnician

Recently I got myself an iPhone 6s Plus.

Some first thoughts are up on my blog channel at stressedtechnician.com/iphone-…
Generally they are very favourable, however the one thing that lets is down is on the photo side of things.

Not the physical camera, but Apple's built-in camera app. It really does annoy me in the way it does (or doesn't) work, however there are plenty of other camera apps to play with in the app store.

It does also highlight that despite how good it may potentially be, it is still no substitute for a good quality point-and-shoot.

I've a Panasonic TZ10 and a Samsung Galaxy S2 and have used them both quite extensively, so I thought I'd do a bit of a 'compare and contrast' of the results.
My thoughts on this are up on my blog stressedtechnician.com/camera-… at my stressedtechnician.com site.

I do like YouTube, but it has been irritating me intensely recently.

YouTube makes a big fuss about people mis-using copyright material, yet YouTube and its associates are quite happy to claim other people's material as theirs!
A few thoughts about that :- stressedtechnician.com/irritat…

Just back home (Glasgow) after a great time down in London; main reason for going - the DeviantArt Picnic Meet.
Not too sure how many were there, somewhere between 400 and 500 people, mainly late 'teens early 20s, but a few quite  a bit younger, some a fair bit older, but everybody just joined in.

Was so nice to re-establish contact with already known characters, so nice to meet new people; I really cannot emphasise enough how friendly these meet-up can be, for anyone who has never been to one - go!

Went down to London for a week recently. Got down there at the tail end of that period of rioting. However all I saw was Londoners (and tourists) all just getting on with life. The reason for heading down from Glasgow; to attend the three days of Summer in the City YouTube Gathering (SitC) and also have a few days in London of just being a tourist.

SitC was good. I don't know how many attended over the week-end, perhaps six or seven hundred. A bit of Hyde Park, a bit of Regent's Park and a bit of Jubilee Gardens; and in the evenings some music sessions. Nice to see some familiar faces and nice to make some new contacts. For a few people this is the only time throughout the year that they get the chance of face to face meetings with their internet social contacts, especially when these people are located in different countries.

One area that seem to have become a surrogate home for many YouTubers is Camden. An interesting area of shops and markets, lots of food places and the canal going through the middle. Walking around there the day after SitC had ended and I was bumping into many I knew, all just winding down. Although not really my style of clothing, heading off into The Stables market area and a wander around CyberDog is always fun. A few years ago if someone had asked me if I'd like to live in London I'd probably have said 'no', however I've going down there to Gatherings over the last three years my attitude to the city has changed, and if I could afford a property there, then I would happily move there now.

Back to SitC - an amazingly friendly get together. Yes, with that number there there will be personality clashes and the like, on the other hand it is so large it's easy enough to avoid those you may not wish to see. No barrier to gender or age, many there in their early teens, others there retired. Spread across Friday - Saturday - Sunday some just turned up for one day, but what did surprise me was the numbers there at the start on Friday lunchtime. Walking into Hyde Park and seeing in the distance this huge crowd of people was just amazing. I'd expected (and we got) large Saturday numbers, but to see so many there so early at the start was great.

This was the third SitC and at least this time YouTube bothered to send some representatives which was nice. Provisional dates for 2012 are for the 17th - 19th of August. I hope to go.