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an option to 'lock' the mode would be nice. firstly I often slip the camera between the various modes and end up taking panoramas, videos or time lapses when what I want is a regular photo. There are only a couple of things that trip me up with the iPhone. I more often than not point the camera/phone in roughly the right direction of something that has triggered in my brain, and then drag a finished image kicking and screaming into the world in post processing.Īmazingly that post production can be done right there on the phone, often within minutes almost certainly within hours of taking them, at any opportunity you have, sitting on a bus or waiting in a hospital.Īdd to that the ability to distribute through social media and you have a very compelling picture taking experience, well at least to my way of working. My shooting style for street photography has never been based around waiting with camera to eye waiting for the 'decisive moment', that elusive perfect composition.
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#Realistic concertmate electronic accompanist mac#
I am no technophobe, I used a Mac every working day from the mid 1980's, indeed I spent the first 10 years of this century working for Apple, presenting the latest and greatest in computer technology to the creative market. The established players have been slow to react and now are having to play catchup, but without the benefits of scale that Apple can do as they spread their costs over 10's or 100's of millions devices. The use of 'computational photography' delivers more often than not an appealing final image It is incredible how throwing computer horsepower and programming smarts at the problem has allowed Apple and I guess all the other manufacturers to leapfrog the traditional camera manufacturers. The difference in both quality, usability and functionality is quite astounding. I jumped 5-10 years in phone tech when I upgraded to this phone. It became very popular in the late 1990s among the circuit bending crowd after the first guide to bending it was published by Reed Ghazala in Experimental Musical Instruments magazine, though the SK-1 was being modified as early as 1987 when Keyboard Magazine published an article on adding MIDI support.I'm not a cellphone photography opposant, I even dare to think that my present gear of which, I hope, still can use for about 5 years, that it could be my last heavy DSLR.before I jump to a cellphone camera as my daily use gear. The SK-1 has been used by a few major recording artists for its simplicity and lo-fi sound.
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The Casio SK-1 is the predecessor to the Casio SK-5.
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The Radio Shack version of the Casio SK-1 is called the Realistic Concertmate 500. The SK-1 includes one pre-arranged piece of music, the Toy Symphony, which is played when the "Demo" button is pressed. The SK-1 was thus an unusually full-featured synth in the sub-$US100 home keyboard market of the time. It also includes a rudimentary sequence recorder, preset rhythms and chord accompaniment. It also features a small number of four-note polyphonic preset analog and digital instrument voices, and a simple additive voice.Īll voices may be shaped by 13 preset envelopes, portamento and vibrato. It has 32 small sized piano keys, four-note polyphony, with a sampling bit depth of 8 bit PCM and a sample rate of 9.38 kHz, a built-in microphone and line level input for sampling, and an internal speaker. The Casio SK-1 is a small sampling keyboard made by Casio in 1985.