Last week review 44-2024

Weekly review 44-2024 and it is unusually warm for the end of October, sometimes 20° is perhaps a bit more than the “Golden October” 🙂

This week we have another photography topic, namely taking and editing panoramas, especially single-row panoramas. These can also be taken quite well freehand if you follow a few basic rules.

Of course we set the exposure, white balance and ideally also the focus to manual so that the deviations between the images are kept as small as possible, which also makes the software a little easier later. Otherwise you take a not too extreme wide-angle lens and take photos in portrait format.

For later processing and composing we can of course use Lightroom, but also Photoshop CC and e.g. Luminar NEO, which usually produce quite good results without much work. If you want to go deeper you can download the free open source tool Hugin, for example, which can also be used to put together spherical panoramas.

Hugin is very flexible, but sometimes a bit slow when editing with lots of individual images, but it is free and available on Linux, Mac and Windows.

A message this week puts me in a good mood that Thunderbird email client is now available on Android. I will of course take a look at it and install it on my Samsung tablet. I have been using the K9 client there until now. Especially if the Android version offers the same functionality as on Windows or MacOS, that would be a big step towards a uniform email client. The only thing missing is a version for iOS or perhaps better iPadOS.

I have been using the Thunderbird client on Linux and Windows for quite some time and recently also on my Macbook AIR. There are reports that they are also working on a version for iOS, but of course they cannot give a definitive release date yet.

All in all, another very eventful week. I hope you like the articles and look forward to your questions and comments.

ciao tuxoche