Long Way Home - The Canon 100D - a shooter for aviation photography? In this adventure: I’ve got to stop looking at odd routings and thinking they’re good ideas Sleep? What’s that concept? Off to Heathrow T3 Lounging around Heathrow T3 AA99 London Heathrow to Chicago O’Hare The Hyatt Regency O’Hare The Nutella Cafe Fooding Around Chicago The Canon … [Read more...]
Apple’s eSIM in the new iPhone. Helpful or limiting?
If we dial back to earlier this week, Apple released its latest versions of its iPhone range - with some odd names: Apple iPhone Xr (the single rear camera "budget" model with a LCD screen, and multiple coloured casings) Apple iPhone Xs (the follow-on from the iPhone X) Apple iPhone Xs MAX (the updated version from Boeing with better aerodynamics and new engines the … [Read more...]
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Exploring Lisbon with a Canon 100D/Rebel SL1 – Europe: Start Voting Now!
Europe: Start voting now! Exploring Lisbon with a Canon 100D - Travel Technology In this musical spectacular... Who wants to go to Eurovision? Where did my wallet go? Off to Birmingham Airport SN2038 Birmingham Airport to Brussels National Airport Some time at Brussels Airport SN3819 Brussels National Airport to Lisbon Airport with the AeroSmurf Into … [Read more...]
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: SkullCandy Ink’d Wireless Headphones – Springing to Chicago
Springing to Chicago - SkullCandy Ink’d Wireless Headphones Here we go... again (in more ways than one) Off to Heathrow Terminal 3 Oneworld Lounges (Cathay Pacific and American Airlines) AA87 London Heathrow T3 to Chicago O’Hare International The joy of US immigration Intercontinental Chicago - Magnificent Mile Travel Tech: Life with a Canon 50mm … [Read more...]
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: The Canon 50mm f1.2L – King of the Red Rings? (Springing into Chicago)
Springing to Chicago - The Canon 50mm f1.2L - King of the Red Rings? Travel Technology with Kevin Here we go... again (in more ways than one) Off to Heathrow Terminal 3 Oneworld Lounges (Cathay Pacific and American Airlines) AA87 London Heathrow T3 to Chicago O’Hare International The joy of US immigration Intercontinental Chicago - Magnificent Mile … [Read more...]
Travel Technology: One reason to buy a Sandisk Extreme Card – Free recovery software!
When it comes to buying memory for my cameras or tablets - I'm not fussy the majority of the time (providing I stick to the big retailers and I'm using the right card for the job). However, once a year - I try to get a Sandisk Extreme memory card on the cheap (from a known retail source/online place - and normally, not eBay). This example set me back a total of £13 from … [Read more...]
Travel Technology: Back to film with the Holga 120N
Time for something different this week in Travel Technology - we're going Lo-fi. And I mean lo-fi. Most of you know that I shoot with Canon kit and autofoucusing lenses. All things that allow for photos to be done quickly and allow you to knock out quality pictures. But sometimes, a Digital Camera is the poorest tool in the world to learn with. Why? A digital camera … [Read more...]
Back to the Future – the Nokia Bananna phone returns (8110 4G)
Nokia (or rather HMD Global who hold the rights to use the Nokia name for phones) is back again with another retro handset for you... and this time, there's a few interesting features. Introducing the Nokia 8110 4G Nokia 8110 4G - Image, HMD Global/Nokia Those who are old enough to remember - will remember this last time around when it was introduced in 1996 (and was … [Read more...]
Nokia to update its “new” 3310… with 3G!
Time for some none-airplane news, and focusing on the HMD Global's biggest selling handset to date - the Nokia 3310. Whilst the device has been selling well, there is a major issue with it - and that it will only work on 2G wavebands. This is a problem as countries are in the process of switching off their 2G networks to release bandwidth for 4G networks (so your wizzy … [Read more...]
400Gb in a Sandisk MicroSD card? Check…
A lot of us have storage problems when using our digital electronics (a great example is the joke that's my hard disk... actually - let's not go there... the SSD install still haunts me). But in more portable devices (such as phones and drones) are demanding more and more storage. Sandisk however are here to the rescue... with a 400Gb MicroSD card. Sandisk 400GB MicroSD … [Read more...]
