09-XII-2017.

Trying out the new flash around the house. Found some use for the strobo function - actually discovered that it's a toy I always wanted. Didn't do much with it, needs to be pointing at the object but not the background, so the remote will come handy. Managed to shoot snowflakes with a sixtuple image of each, with visible rotation (yup, the larger ones can be seen turning while they fall).

But for what I want to achieve I need something like a multiple exposure with me and the flash inside the scene and a remote so I can trigger from inside the scene. The next day I found out that I can do that with the phone (the Coolpad e501 that she passed to me, having decided that she hates android and its insatiable battery of apps which always want your attention*). Can, sort of, but it's impractical. Using remote puts the eos70 in liveview mode, when it doesn't fire the flash. Well, not really, the little screen is off. Except it goes on at some point... with a dozen exposures I managed to fire the flash only once. So I'll have to get a remote. Started looking at that guy's shop website, but he seems to have just various two-station gadgets, instead of the simple key fob that canon uses. And there's not a single price on tripods, says "call for price". Yeah, right, I'm so good with remembering numbers over the phone.

Installed a fresh version, after 28 years, of blockout, for linux. Incredible. The scoring is not exactly the same, but close enough. Still, the old top 10 lists can't be compatible. So move on and make new ones.

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* a couple of months later we just gave that phone to Arpi. I had bought her a simple nokla 216 or some such. Should have gone for one with something better than a VGA camera, but on the other side I added a 8G (or was it 16) micro SD card to both it and the old coolpad, assuming I'd take it over. But I didn't like it either, so we passed it on.

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Mentions: Arpad Gunaroši (Arpi), blockout, eos70, nokla, in serbian