Normally, most non-techie persons wouldn’t be aware of the in and outs of the smartphone industry. But the Samsung Note 7 battery exploding fiasco of 2016 was so widely reported that it even became talking points for persons who couldn’t normally be more bothered with techno-trends. I wasn’t ever planning to replace the Samsung Note 5 with the 7, since I didn’t need the new features nor did I especially like the more curvy form factor. But the Note 5’s battery has started to become less effective in the last 5 months now – so I reckon a change of phone late this year might be necessary.
Ling is still using her Samsung Note 3 with a relatively still new battery, and Facebook friends with her will see that she posts a lot of pictures and notes on things that fascinate her, including plants, cooking, nature and our two kids of course. The Note 3 offers a fairly good resolution for its sensor type, but like most camera phone sensors and their accompanying lens, suffer also from distortion, noise and other optical imperfections. One thing that Ling has which makes all these normal limitations less significant though is framing. And this is one thing I have to hand it to the wife – she takes more compositionally interesting shots than I do! One could of course attribute it in part to that the Note 3’s camera lens is pretty wide-angled, but I think it’s more that she has that photo-gene that I lack.
So, here’s a small selection of pictures from her camera, and why I especially like them. The aspect ratio of the Note 3’s camera is also quite different from what I normally shoot with on the m4/3s, and there’s no cropping of the pictures below.
Aw, thank you for the compliments, dear :)