On the Road Again!

It seems only yesterday that we were in the apartment in Kissimmee and Claire's Samsung S6 phone wouldn't charge. Okay. A First World problem as the saying goes. It was just coming up to two years old.   A bit of wiggling of the micro-USB cable had little or no effect. So we found a phone shop in Kissimmee Old Town.  They had it for a few hours and determined that the charger slot and the motherboard had a problem. It would charge on the QI plates they had in-store. I googled and it apparently is a known but ignored by Samsung problem. With loads of forums and technology pages explaining the weakness.  In the end she bought a rather expensive charger dock as the S6 charges through its body....  Finally at home I bought another one from eBay that worked as well but is flat.  She then decided as her contract had run out to get a new phone and S6 was condemned to a life in a drawer. She now has One Plus 5 phone. Much better and still...

This Sunday we had an early run to Sissinghurst to see what the gardens look like coming out of the winter. It was also a good opportunity to test the new Samsung pocket cameras and also the tea-rooms. The latter passed with shining colours, the flapjack a little sugary and the coffee about right.  The WB30F camera needed a little messing about to get a panoramic picture to work, but the macro looks pretty good. Pano Test Shot - back of shop and countryside The Tower The Tower picture was taken before the weather turned fr the worst and the rain and grey skies came about. The colour looks okay The Gift Shop The Gift Shop was taken a little later once it had rained and the sky was still grey and overcast.  The colours again look okay. First close-up picture Both the zoom test pictures were taken about 10 minutes apart, but with the weather changeable, the results are still quite. good. The magnolia flowers were taken with the digital zoom acti...

So after all my faffing about to try and get the DSLR to "talk" to the tablet, Claire jumps right ahead with the purchase of this small compact camera.  It has WiFi built in. Not only can it be connected to any available WiFi, and still retain the home WiFi credentials, has a local send system where the camera becomes a WiFi hub and a smartphone can connect and with an app copy selected pics over! You can email and Facebook straight from the camera if you want as well. Damn.  Maybe time to get one if there are any left. Sainsbury's had them at £59.95, half price. Maybe we should have bought two at the weekend!! It is a superb little camera, slips in the pocket and takes 16mp pictures.  The zooms look good with both optical and digital. The size means it is ideal for a bike jacket! The pix taken at The Red Pig near Winchelsea, some of them were taken with it, others on the iPhone. Looks good in white but they do it in black and also metallic red. ...

Macro Messing , originally uploaded by InvictaMoto .   Playing with the Samsung S85 Compact. Initially I was playing with the newly bought SanDisk Eye-Fi card. But sitting in the living room there are a limited things to take, so I wondered how the macro element worked. Choosing the flower icon puts the camera in macro mode and it focusing pretty closely to a few everyday objects. The camera is 8.2MP. Almost anti-diluvian by today's double figure MP ratings! Samsung S85 8.2MP Compact Camera   Another couple of photos taken in macro mode....