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iPhone and DSLR

I love photography. In fact, I’ve been taking pictures since I was given my first camera (an Olympus OM 1) in the sixth grade. Yes, that long. Over the years I had a succession of film cameras but made the switch to digital about ten years ago. Since then I’ve pretty much had Nikon DSLRs and, on occassion, Canon point and shoots. I’ve captures thousands of images with those cameras . . . and some of them are even pretty good. Well, a few at least. Then, the iPhone came along. It was a phone, a way to send text messages, a web browsing device and, amazingly enough, a pretty good camera. And over the years the iPhone cameras have gotten better and better. Now, they’re really good. Of course, people still use a DSLR. I do, especially when shooting Max. He moves pretty fast and the quick focus of a DSLR and Nikon lenses (especially the amazing 50mm 1.4) comes in handy. But most of the time, I find myself using the iPhone 6 to take photos. I’m not alone. People are using the iPhon...

AT&T Will Restrict Heavy Users In Fall

AT&T ’s representative Jackie Vettorino confirmed that the company will start a networking plan for heavy wireless users in the near future. This decision follows the Verizon ’s plan, which the company has already implemented back this February, right before the launch-date of the Verizon iPhone . As for the Verizon’s network plan, it reduces the information throughput speeds for the 5% of the subscribers consuming an extraordinary amount of data. Normally, the restriction only lasts until the next bill is issued, but reduced speeds could also overflow the next billing cycle. Now the system of another Internet service provider, AT&T, is supposed to work just the same, decreasing speeds to customers who go over the limit of data until the next billing cycle. However, the most important part is currently unknown – what the limits would be. The media cited the figures of 12,000 website views, 12,000 e-mails, 4 streaming movies and 5 hours of streaming music being enough to br...