Apple Steps Up

 I know this may be premature, but the iPhone 14 has made major improvements in panorama photography. I have been using the ‘pano’ feature—the only phone that has it—for years. But, the older phone cameras were not good and the pano had no features. Now, the iPhone 14 has an unbelievable 49MP camera and the pano feature allows zooming. I know this sounds trivial, but the lack of zooming was a showstopper. Anyway, a few weeks ago I took the pano shown just to check it out. My judgment is based upon printing it 60” long. It looked great! My future travel plans do not include taking along my Sony A-7. That’s sad, but technology evolves. I started with a Hasselblad until SLRs caught up, in my view. Now, maybe I will leave that behind, too. Only time will tell. 

Revised Picture Centering

 As I mentioned previously, a difficulty with floater framing is centering the picture. I posted about the use of shims to center the photo as I inserted screws in the rear. But, now I’m trying to glue the photo in from the front and inserting screws later. This way you can visually center the photo before the wood glue dries.

Panoman’s NFTs

 I have created 5 NFTs—non-fungible tokens—in the OpenSea application. It was first necessary to purchase Ethereum cryptocurrency, in my case using the Coinbase app, and transfer it into my coinbase wallet. I originally bought Dogecoin, but couldn’t figure out how to use it. Now I have 5 completely unique NFTs that I own. After my Ethereum purchase, I put my NFTs up for sale. The ‘dirty little secret’ of the sale is the high so-called ‘Gas fee’. It is a mining fee paid to programmers that make the Blockchain work. In order to make money selling NFTs, they must sell for more than the gas fee, which can be several hundred dollars.🤞