It is a good weekend indeed when I accomplish everything I list out to do. Errands were done, a book was read, and the piano was practiced. While sometimes it is good to do absolutely nothing on weekends, I have to say it’s a nicer feeling come Sunday evening when the two days have been spent towards action. I guess that’s just how I am wired.
Now that I have my new MacBook Pro, I was finally able to put together my annual calendar (shoutout to the Apple Photos app and the Motif plugin). Made up of photographs I took throughout the year, the self-made calendar is what I give out to friends during Christmas. It isn’t exactly cheap at about $25 a copy (altogether), though cumulative speaking it is cheaper than buying individual gifts. Not that my friend group does that anyways. This year we’re doing a white elephant gift exchange, with a limit of $30.
It would be cruel, wouldn’t it, if I put my calendar into the white elephant pile. “Sorry guys, only one copy this year. Fight it out!”
After nearly a decade of making these calendars, this is the first year that every single photo was taken with an iPhone. The cameras in the iPhone 12 Pro and the iPhone 13 Pro are simply that good. I bet if I didn’t explicitly tell my friends the pictures were from a smartphone, they would not suspect otherwise. Smartphone camera technology have come a tremendously long way indeed. All hail the gods of computational photography, bending the rules of physics.
Perhaps then I should sell my Sony A7R2 full-frame camera. I honestly have only used it once this year, and otherwise it’s sat on the shelf collecting dust. Are there a huge demand for used cameras due to the global chip shortage, similar to the used car market? I’ve read the waitlist for the newest Canon full-frame mirrorless camera is six months!
Yeah, probably not. Once I can properly travel again, I would prefer to take the Sony with me. For the truly beautiful and breathtaking stuff, I still want the “proper” camera. For now.
Stainless.