The real geek chat is over at MeWe in the PSC forum. In case you're not a member, see mewe.com/group/5bbc47... and, if you join MeWe (all free) and want admission, quote my name and this BlueSky recommendation in the admission form etc. 🙂
Don't take this the wrong way, BlueSky fans, but I'm not getting much engagement here, even less than on Twitter/X. I'll leave my account open here, but I won't post often etc.
2026 ‘Technospectives and imaging decisions’, by me, in order of shooting:
Lumia 1020
Nokia 808
808 to 1020 😎
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youtube.com/watch?v=xyVj... - wow. In 2026. And I thought *I* was geeky for old Symbian 🙂
See my latest video for an 808 look, by the way!
It’s also rubbish, of course. Bit of a scam epidemic. I cut them off immediately now by saying that they need to go through ‘security’ with me if they really are from Three. Eg what’s my postcode? This is where they hang up.
Sigh. What a world we live in, eh?
Deluge of Three network phone spam…
I get a call every other day from a random UK number claiming to be from Three and wanting to interest me in a ‘new contract’.
…and arrive home exhausted, I think you should get more credit than only 10% of your daily exercise. Just saying! 🙂
Apple, add dog walking please!!!
There’s a huge flaw in the Apple Watch ecosystem, in that they have all these wonderful sports represented, but not dog walking. When you’ve been dog walking for an hour pulling on the lead and being pulled by the lead in and out of muddy puddles in the rain…
Testing uploading my portrait videos to BlueSky...! Will the aspect ratio be preserved?
PSA for followers in the UK. GiffGaff are giving away £10 of credit for free SIMs activated by the 31st January from affiliate links like mine 😎
www.giffgaff.com/orders/affil...
I.e. you get a SIM free in the post and £10 of credit gets added to your account when you activate it.
I've updated my index of all my YouTube Shorts from the last couple of years. If I do the sums then it's two videos a week every week. Takes some doing... (ahem!) 🙂
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If they’d had AI video in my history classes at school 50 years ago then I’d have taken more interest!!
This channel is amazing.
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Jigsaw to infinity
(iPhone 17 Pro Max, auto, with minor privacy cleanup)
Some new videos from me. Retro and super-retro!!!
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and, more currently, youtube.com/shorts/blbz_... 🙂
stevesrantsnraves.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-... - how did it take me this long to realise this about iOS? #duh
Heading into the white stuff
Just over a mile straight up.
8x full auto on iPhone 17 Pro Max
I just invented chicken and marmalade on toast! 😀
Is this the real life or is this just fantasy?
Night into day, people AI-cleaned away, Reading station at 10pm from the iPhone 17 Pro Max on full auto. Impressive.
It’s fine, and might even reduce red eye - though I’ll admit that I rarely shoot with flash. I’ll need to test this properly at some point.
An exercise in Clean-Up
The hotel in Sonning, cross crossed in reality with phone wiring across the road, as you can see if you go there! But here shown after multiple strokes in Apple Photo’s Clean Up tool. Very impressed. Is it as good as Samsung’s or Google’s Magic Eraser tools? Debatable. Still…
With cutting edge (ahem) graphics, I present…
(For phone imaging geeks!)
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Well, it’s no Panasonic compact or Samsung Galaxy K Zoom, but hey…
The moon this evening from my Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max. Not bad.
iPhone 17 Pro ‘Scratchgate’ - Steve Litchfield responds!
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For iPhone Air there’s Apple’s £99 gadget. For everyone else there’s this!
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Nokia Lumia 1020: a ‘technospective’ … Six years ahead of its time?
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Ha. Microsoft blinked. Bet they do again next year too…
So the deadline for half a billion Windows 10 users was approaching. And Microsoft gave in. As they had to. Users just need to dive into Settings and ‘Enrol’ in Extended Security Updates etc. All free.
My iPhone 14 Pro Max 1TB has a new battery and is three years old. The time seems right to live more riskily and go case-less for the foreseeable future. Feels so much smaller and futuristic.
But I’m not leaving it totally defenceless - loving my favourite @xtremeskins.bsky.social skin!
www.windowscentral.com/hardware/sur... - a good summary from Zac. I have both Duo and Duo 2 here and they both still seem futuristic.
iPhone 17 Pro Specs and Features… Tempted. Almost tempted this year after the zoom hardware change… 🙂
I'm still doing videos, note...! 8-)
