iPhone Forever
By Michael Erlewine
Well, I don’t know about forever, but my iPhone has been part of my Apple connection along with my iPad, and then there is my Apple Watch which I need for heart monitoring. As for computers, Although I have had many Apple products from the beginning, Apple-IIe, Macintosh, iMacs, Max Pros, etc. I still prefer and use the Windows PC for my computer.
Anyway, I got my new Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max and have painfully transferred all my files from my old iPhone 14 Pro Max to the new iPhone. Margaret inherits my old iPhone, and I traded in her iPhone 13 Pro Max. So, good cameras all around.
Why does it take hours on the phone with tech folks every time I get a new piece of hardware? I can see that every company is going nuts trying to prevent rip-offs this way and that way. Someday they will be able to protect us and themselves, I hope. Recently those 6-digit passcodes have made it much easier to verify ownership.
And now I am at the liberty of exploring the iPhone as far as cameras and photos are concerned. It’s going to take some time to get the new phone sorted, as this is kind of fiddley stuff, as most of you may know.
Will the iPhone 16 Pro Max do the job and be any kind of substitute for my big camera systems? I say yes and no, which is kind of like saying to some degree “it has to.”
I want to hike the trails, and at almost 84 years of age I don’t see me carrying the big cameras, tripod, and camera bag more than a mile (and back). Yet, I can carry the iPhone as far as I can carry nothing.
The quality of the photos varies with the cameras in the iPhone, with the most recent 16 Pro Max, offering three front-facing and 1 rear-facing.
Main (Fusion) Camera: 48MP with a 24mm equivalent lens (f/1.78 aperture). Raw file.
Ultrawide Camera: 48MP with a 13mm equivalent lens (f/2.2 aperture). Raw file.
Telephoto Camera: 12MP 5x telephoto (120mm, f/2.8).
Front-facing camera: 12MP (f/1.9).
Even with the iPhone, I have to minimize the weight of the iPhone, a water bottle, and a compartment for snacks or whatever. To do this I tried out a waist band that will hold the thermos of water, the iPhone, and a pouch, but no go. It’s too much like a girdle, not that I ever wore one. LOL. It restricts my mid-torse from flexing. Not good.
I’ve settled on an old small messenger bag, which I can carry all day and not tire. In addition, I have built a notebook of dozens of trails, bogs, lakes, and marshlands all over Michigan, which Margaret and I will explore. We keep it in the car.
If we go by car and there is little hiking, I can bring a large camera system and a tripod. Yet, I cannot leave the large system in the car and then hike. Too many car breaks-ins. If there are trails and hiking, I will bring my iPhone 16 PRO MAX and do the best I can with photographs, certainly good enough for most online blogs.
The bottom line is that at my age I have to roll with the flow and take care of myself. I still have my large camera systems for studio work or places where we don’t have to hike far. I can live with that or will have to.
In other words, I am no longer devoting my time to being anywhere around the political refrain that is unceasing, IMO. I have hears enough, all around.
Let nature be my source. I believe whole-heartedly with what is called in dharma terms “The Lama of Appearances” to be my guide, as it always has since I was a child. Nature does not blink but tells it like it is. I can synch to that.
[Midjourney graphic prompted by me.]
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