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Is it photography any Editorial Killer iPhone Featured Product

more?
I decided in this issue to highlight
Despite coming into an already
Flashguns developed market in 2007 the a product which I think is different.
My research into smartphone
iPhone has become the most popular This issue on page 26 it is the Kraken
housings got me thinking. On land the I was delighted to read Phil smartphone but it has killed a lot of Ball to Ball arm QD adaptor which
vast majority of us take pictures with Rudin’s review of the Backscatter products in it’s path. allows you to Quick Disconnect a ball
our phones; all we do is press a virtual
Mini Flash MF-1 and it’s SN-1 Snoot. Calculators, sat navs, compasses, joint arm.
button and we get an image. In the Not because it was an excellent review voice recorders, the list can go on I am always on the lookout for
main we don’t think about apertures
(which Phil’s always are) but because and does, to a certain extent, include products that improve life and the
and shutter speeds and, even in most the powers that be at Backscatter have cameras; but not, to any significant Kraken adaptor certainly does that but
scenarios, focus. We just ‘take a shot’. called it a flash rather than a strobe. extent, underwater cameras. Why? if you think a certain product makes
Then there’s the fact that there
They say the English and the Well I think it’s because most of a difference please let me know and I
are now cameras which allow you Americans are divided by a common the housings are not controlling the will highlight it.
to refocus an image after it has been
language but not when it comes to functions which would make it an Ideally it should do something
taken not to mention phone apps sidewalks and pavements, boots underwater camera killer. that nothing else does (until it is
and computer software which will and trunks, fannies and fannies and On land, for photography the copied!) so thinking caps on and I
transform your image with another
comparatively recently flashguns and iPhone sucks ergonomically, but if look forward to hearing from you.
touch of the virtual button. strobes! you housed it with handles and a good
They allow us to do things
Sure we can have different words shutter release you’d be part way there
that photographically were either for the same thing but not the wrong but for reasons which I think Apple Peter Rowlands
impossible or certainly only possible word. You see, a flashgun creates a are to blame, nearly all housings peter@uwpmag.com
after a lot of time consuming work.
single pulse of light and a strobe emits do not control the Pano or SloMo
Colour correction, unsharp masking multiple pulses as in stroboscopic. functions on the camera and to my
and solarisation are three that spring to
When underwater photography mind those two functions could well
mind but there are dozens of others. evolved from disposable flash bulbs become an underwater camera killer.
So my point is the photography to the wonders of an electronic
part of image creation has changed Wide angle vistas without the need for
flash that’s what we continued to a wide angle lens? 1080p HD video at
beyond all recognition. Fortunately the call them. But somewhere down 240fps? Perfect.
photographer’s eye is still important
the line I think it’s fair for me to Just as the iPhone entered an
in terms of composition but there are accuse the Americans of calling them already developed market so too could
apps which will warn you that the strobes (which is actually short for an underwater housing manufacturer
horizon’s not straight and I’m sure it
stroboscopes!) by providing something which
won’t be long before they’ll be able to So I say good on you Backscatter. exploited all of the amazing functions
flag up a composition warning.
I hope you’ve started something which which the iPhone camera is capable
At that stage, will it be will catch on with other manufacturers of.
photography anymore?
:-)

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