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| 99 year-old hands. (click to enlarge) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 24mm equivalent (48mp DNG) |
These hands belong to my mother-in-law. We had the privilege of celebrating her 99th birthday with her last Thursday. She is quite a remarkable woman and I told her I looked forward to celebrating her 100th birthday with her next year. I have infinite admiration for her. She has always treated me as one of her own and I've treated her as my own.
She still has a solid mind about her. She is weak from heart failure but can still get up and get around on her own. She refuses help to get up from a chair or table. Her hearing is her greatest loss. I would estimate she has about 25% of her hearing remaining. Losing hearing can make someone feel isolated and not part of conversations or events. Loss of hearing can lead to depression. The most difficult aspect of hearing loss is communication over a telephone.
When I look at a person's hands, I often wonder what those hands may have created. I often wonder where the hands have been and what they have experienced. I wonder what pain and what pleasure the owner has experienced. I wonder what stories they could tell.
Do your hands tell the story of a life well lived? If not, there is still time.
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Dennis A. Mook
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Great photo. Hands say so much
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DeleteDennis, wonderful photograph. It would be interesting to get your impressions of the iPhone 14 Pro Max & the 48mp files.
ReplyDeleteJust how good is it ?
Thanks for the compliment and question. I could probably write a magazine article length treatise on the camera, its capabilities and quality of the iPhone 14 Pro Max cameras. But there are lots of things out on the Internet about it. Briefly, it is good for what it is. Unless I give up my passion for photography, even if the iPhone is version 20, I don’t think it will take the place of a dedicated camera for me. A dedicated camera just has so much more versatility that is not related to razzle-dazzle computational photography. Computational photography isn’t bad, I’m just a traditionalist. Recently, I made identical images with the 48mp 24mm equivalent iPhone camera and an OM-1 (20mp) with the 12-100mm f/4 PRO lens set for 24mm equivalent focal length and drew a couple of conclusions. The iPhone resolved finer detail. That was expected. The sensor has more resolution. I could read a sign in the distance with the iPhone image but not with the OM image—even if I upscaled the OM image to 48mp. Second, overall, the micro 4/3 image just looked better. Less artificial. That’s just my eyes and my subjective judgment. Yours may be completely different. Third, I like making photos. I use manual exposure and even manually focus quite often. I don’t get any satisfaction out of pointing a phone toward something and it does everything for me. That’s not photography to me. Finally, and this is just my gut feeling from what I’ve seen, if enlarging images very large, say 20X24”, I believe the iPhone image will fall apart. Listening to Scott Bourne who with Jefferson Graham have an iPhone Photography podcast, Bourne said the secret with large iPhone enlargements is printing them on canvas as the canvas will hide the defects. That says much about how well the images will hold up. I mainly use my iPhone for record photos and once in a while to record something artistic. All that said, the iPhone will get better and better with future generations. It’s another tool in our photographic toolboxes and has a legitimate place, in my opinion.
DeleteThanks for your observations Dennis. Much appreciated & very helpful.
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