The blog of a Leslie Wong
In the spring of 1983, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the release of the 1933 film King Kong, Harry Helmsley, the owner of the Empire State Building, decided to hang a King Kong balloon on the building above the 86th floor. Two of my friends (Joe McNally, John Roca) and I chipped in to rent a helicopter so we could take some photos of it.
There were problems fully inflating the balloon, but it was still a memorable image.
Similar to the iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro lines, the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max camera has three lenses. The iPhone 14 Pro, Max main lens is 24 mm vs 26 mm in the iPhone 11, 12 & 13 Pro. The telephoto lens in the 11 and 12 Pro is 52mm. In the 13 Pro and 14 Pro, the telephoto lens is 77 mm. The lens focal lengths in the Apple specifications are the equivalent focal length of a 35 mm camera, not the actual focal length.
12MP Ultra Wide: 13 mm, ƒ/2.2 aperture with a 120° field of view, six‑element lens:
48MP Main: 24 mm, ƒ/1.78 aperture, second-generation sensor-shift optical image stabilization, seven‑element lens:
12MP 3x Telephoto: 77 mm, ƒ/2.8 aperture, optical image stabilization, six-element lens:
Apple includes a 12MP 2x Telephoto (enabled by quad-pixel sensor): 48 mm, ƒ/1.78 aperture, second-generation sensor-shift optical image stabilization, seven‑element lens, 100% Focus Pixels, which isn’t an image produced from a 48 mm lens but by taking 12 MP from the center of the 48 MP sensor and then doing some image processing on it:
These are my 2022 Strava bike stats on my Eddy Merckx Professional. It seems I’m going downhill compared to my 2021 Strava stats and my 2020 Strava stats. It’s definitely connected to age and maybe fewer days of good biking weather.
Last July, I was fly fishing the Silver Creek, “A unique spring creek with abundant wildlife… one of the most spectacular natural places in Idaho.” (1)
I took the photo below with my iPhone 13 Pro Max while I was fishing.
I’ve been trying out OpenAI and DALL-E, “a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.” (2)
For the prompt, I took some text from the Nature Conservancy’s description and added some details, “A unique spring creek trout habitat, Silver Creek in the summer is one of the most spectacular natural places in Idaho.” This was one of the results:
Footnotes: (1) Silver Creek Preserve – Nature Conservancy, Fishing Idaho’s Iconic Silver Creek; (2) DALL-E, DALL-E Wikipedia entry
March 21, 2023: Image Creator from Bing was released today and I used the same prompt that I used for DALL-E. I don’t know why Image Creator by Bing made this super-saturated unrealistic image:
