After enjoying The Expanse (Amazon Prime Video).
I updated my phone screen background to

Very nice Martin. Ive heard good things about the g7 and g8.

In this link if you scroll down you'd see a photo I took and posted where pretty terrible camera quality is seen in automatic mode (the picture with a car at an intersection).

forums.androidcentral.com/lg-v30/905250-camera-everyone-talks-about.html


Tbh I wish I could find the link I saw with someone complaining that their LG v30 phone makes everything look like foam. They showed a picture of tall grass in a meadow and yes it looked bizarre and just like foam when you zoom in.

Is the G7 better in this regard? My 2014 Galaxy S4 took better pictures than my LG tbh in auto mode.

Oh wow 😅 sorry for the waste of time. I've edited it just now. My typing with this phone is legendarily bad. I've had to go back and edit maybe every text and post I've made with it since 2018.

Wow thats great to hear about the G7 camera😍. Tbh maybe im not using tap to focus enough. I'll try that and look up Photoshop Elements. And I'll go look at your photos posted in the forum.

Thanks Paul.

I re-read that entire thread in which I posted that picture years ago and, as Martin just mentioned, tapping focus is important. Which I'd failed to do, except maybe in my early days with this phone. (Having just tried it now I do remember hearing that sound when focus is found, often. Maybe i just stopped using it)

But tbh I've never once gotten a photo that looked right in auto mode. Though I came from Samsung phones which I believed had really great cameras.

I've actually remembered something I wanted to mention earlier. This is regarding using gadgets while at work, for entertainment/communication not for work.


One time my supervisor who was 46 at the time, and not a smartphone user, borrowed another supervisors smartphone and took a walk around the shop (CNC machine shop). Every head was pointed down at a phone, 6 or 7 people iirc.

Not one person even looked up to notice he was filming everyone to prove a point. Not one.

Hmm. I could 100% never get a picture like that with my v30 phone even in manual mode.

Needed to phone the vet about our Digby - when I get back home from the dog walk....

Realised I was carrying the phone in my pocket
!
Rang the vet while walking around the fields
Still getting the hang of this new fangled *mobile* phone
If I'd know I would have bought one years ago

To many people are tied into gadgets way too much, they are a tool designed by humans to be used as such, not self-reliance, if I don't post my social media shite in the next 30 seconds I will have missed that window of opportunity by 25nS

Last evening Anne & myself took the chaps out for their Christmas party, next to use was a table of six people obviously doing the same thing, however a solid 60% of the evening was spend staring at phones or txt'ing FFS social interaction and communication skills are being sucked away from humanity. What really made me laugh was being starting the main courses they all took photos of the food and posted on FB to see who would obtain the most likes

Oh, the average age last night was silver surfer territory over 65!

Last weekend we went away for Anne's birthday and while having a cosy intimate meal for two, the couple next to us spoke maybe three times during the meal and spent the rest of the time looking and interacting with small screens. Who said the art of conversation is dead?

Now, lets look at the positives, phones tablets, have many, many features and 'apps' which produce a stunning Swiss army knife of possibilities which only a few years ago you would need a whole bag of tricks for.

Crickey I use the phone camera more than my proper mirrorless one!, its easy covienent and fits in my pocket, a win, win really.

However, let us not lose sight of the human aspect.

If you add up how many devices you actually have at home attached to your network whether wired or wireless it will surprise you.

Tech is clever, smart, right size and makes our life easier (on the whole, but not always) but humans are social animals we need to interact with one another!

Future tense possibility

Smoking hot flame haired power tart CEO of smug girl industries (women have equal rights to be the boss) contacting her bit of rough on the side for a steamy encounter.

'Hi Jez, up for some fun later'

Jez the local waste of space do-little influencer who's YT channel racks in 30K a month due to his 2M clueless drone like followers with monobrows and L’Oréal men expert face balm, touches his left ear to activate his cereal cortex real dimension hard wired 'app'

"Yeah babe, we can schedule a quantum encounter for 8.45 this evening? I will be attending a product launch for bed R us in Skelmersdale, so are we going for the full lube up and orgy for 8? or just the basic Amazon riverside package?" I've got the new AI controlled 56Thz entanglement upgrade from Mylon Task, its just so rad babe? whadda you fink?"

Who said romance and courtship is dead?

I'm not dependant on gadgets.  I could still turn the house lights on and off manually, if I wanted to.

I would say that I am dependent but if all of these newer fancy gadgets were taken away I guess I'd just need time to readjust to normal life again.

Actually remembering people's phone numbers or writing them down. Watching one thing at a time sitting in front of a television. Having to go the library to send emails etc.

Physically going to the ATM to pull out cash. Printing directions from Mapquest before taking a long trip.