[Leica] August 29th Apocalyptic Dysphoria; Pictures on your watch.

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Mark,

I have to admit that I have gone part way down that route.  In order to 
conveniently use text messaging, I recently purchased an iPhone. Now, 
the camera is quite good, but I don't like the images as they come out 
of the camera.  I run them through my editing workflow like any other 
camera images, except they are jpg, which limits the process.  Finished 
images are pretty good.

Now, the second part.  I have my LUG gallery bookmarked.  If I want to 
share an image or two with a friend or relative, I just open up my LUG 
gallery and touch the thumbnails along the side until I find what I 
want.  It has been quite useful, and, on the iPhone 6 screen, the images 
look pretty good, though limited in size.

Incidentally, my grandson's wife has an Apple watch, and likes it. I 
haven't asked if it can do images.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/29/2015 8:33 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> One of the rare occasions in which Brian got involved in a thread way way
> back in the turn of the century or millennium  we were talking about the
> demise of craft and print making and how things were going the way of the
> jpeg and people not showing you their prints but showing you their jpegs on
> a small screen like from an iPod. (a thing which played music)  Someone
> joked maybe it was me that soon we'd be viewing each others pix on our Dick
> Tracy wrist watches and that was shot down as being too Apocalyptic
> Dysphoric. I wonder if its still in the archives?
> In the past few years when the iPhones took over and those screens became
> the main viewing ground for seeing sobodies photo work; it was looking bad
> but it got worse. The Apple watch came out and I've not seen one in person
> yet. But I was wondering if you can view pix on them. I just checked.
> You can.
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> http://www.apple.com/watch/built-in-apps/
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> "the smaller 38mm Apple Watch has a resolution of 272 x 340, while the
> larger 42mm Apple Watch has a resolution of 312 x 390. "  they are about
> 40mm's in height.
> So things will get dumbed down even further. Or they already have.
> If things can get worse but I think it would have to start with the Apple
> iGlass.  Little high tech eye glasses.
> So when it used to be people were really listening to you talking to them
> instead of their little earphone  ( just happened in the apple store) now
> its not just not you they are listening to. They're not seeing you either.
> They are watching the readout. What Arnold saw in T1.
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> * The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from
> strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes
> self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to
> pull the plug.
> Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
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