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"Windows _still_ does that crap! (at least the version I reluctantly have to use at work). If you rotate an image, it does way more than change the EXIF orientation tag's value (which would be simple!), judging from the quite different file size afterwards. It also "proudly" overwrites your camera software's name with "Microsoft Windows Photo Viewer" - ugh!"
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That sounds terrible indeed - and re-inforces my unwillingness to let anything Microsoft near my pics.

Bambi's mildly ridiculous, seriously ignorable (and i'm not a paid social activist).

Tommy and Krisak, thanks.

Sorry, non-native speaker's question to native English speaking software geeks:

Were you surprised about Affinity's expression "persona" for something that used to be called "working mode" (DPR) or "module" (in Lightroom)? Or is "persona" actually used in other softwares for varying working modes? (I knew "persona" only from theater and psychology contexts.)

Were you surprised about the expression "studio" for the filter panels on the right hand side? It could have been called "panel bar" or something. Or is "studio" just a regular expression in the software world?

Thanks + sorry.

"At least it's not quite as daft as those people on Facebook who spend 10 minutes making a video of themselves holding cards with words (...)"
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Sounds like your looking for informative videos on *Facebook*?

Apart from lower compatibility (for now), are there other catches of HEIC?

"His voice gave me a headache like listening to a road drill."
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Thanks for the warning. Didn't even start the video then (not even mute, as i sometimes do).

Crazy voices seem to be all over the place in online videos, especially in online videos of a certain provenience.

So far i didn't encounter so many crazy voices in professional documentaries on TV, that's at least my impression.

But a calm, unexcited voice-over is harder to come by these days. Often they also don't care to pronounce clearly to a general audience and without side-noises of all kinds. They just drawl away.

Just one more reason to stick to written information. (Professionally written information, such as DPR *in text*.)

Najinsky and Mike, thanks for your insights! (I should have held my tongue and done a spot of research...)

Still i wouldn't upload any photo to convert it, for a whole basket of reasons.

"There are a lot of advantages to the HEIC format"
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And i have a lot of prejudices against storing my snaps in an Apple format - and against converting my snaps via web upload. Who'd do this?

"Since I don't do subjective when I can avoid it, I didn't mention what I thought when handling them, which was 'the Murami is really smooth to turn, noticeably so compared to the others.'"
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Sounds like you should do subjective sometimes.

Allison, thanks.

But apart from the aperture bracketing with city view (2 series at the end of the gallery, no bokeh), there isn't a shot at f2,8, right? I looked at the cocktails with bokeh, but they all seemed to be at f3,5 and slower. Or maybe i missed something.

"Here's a side-by-side spec comparison (...)"
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After that frontpage announcement, i *really* hadn't expected a click-by-click slideshow.

Interesting what's frontpage nowadays.

" I agree with you about the over the top processing the average person goes for that sort of thing"
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+1

"Personally, does this decision affect me? No. I don't use the Google Drive app."
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Thx 4 letting us know, Kaso.

Thx all, now i know.

Is something wrong with my connection, or does this Throwback text really end after about 6 lines?

"Its predecessor's built-in flash has been omitted, but an EF-X8 accessory flash is included in the box."
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Sweet.

"the design aesthetics of this camera is quite beautiful. It will likely be one of the most physically attractive cameras on the market!"
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Well, if you think so.