#set 355

Dice Set #355: Borealis Cosmos

Bonus: Photos with Old Phone's Camera:

Old Phone's Camera (Galaxy S10)

New Phone's Camera (Galaxy S24)

Same lighting conditions, roughly same distance (As best as I could eyeball it, per usual, lol)

Ran out of nighttime to keep doing more photos of my new sets

(Got through three of them just here this morning - I knew it was probably getting too late to really do many, but I wanted to at least get some done.

I like having nighttime so that I can totally get the most dramatic effects from the lights I have - And especially with me not having blinds/curtains here, the morning light definitely becomes noticeable)

I probably won't do the 1:1 comparison for all of my new sets, but I was curious

It's interesting - yes, the new camera is 3 MP more by default, but the (presumably optical?) zoom default (3x instead of 2x) and dimensions are also different - Not to mention, I'm sure there's different image processing going on

If I was a more technical/savvy photographer, I might grouse about that and disable everything that doesn't let me control my own settings 100%. But I'm just a dumb-dumb when it comes to that sort of stuff, so I suppose if it wants to pretty-up my shots (and seems to know what it's doing) - Then, fine by me.

I really like the new default dimensions - It was awkward taking photos with the right half of the frame going into the UI and, like, I don't really need a full, huge landscape-scale photo length, generally.

Guess I'll have to see how I feel about that when it comes to taking photos out in the real world, though.

I am gonna have to find and get used to the new proper angles for shooting given the new dimensions, though. Or just actively crop photos when they're unbalanced. But I'm lazy.

Supposedly, the new wifi home kit is on its way. After nearly a month of them not responding with more than useless chatbots that ignored everything we said and closed the support tickets the second we looked away (Seriously, if you have any other options, go with someone other than starlink, because it might quite literally take an act of calling down the regulatory authority in your area to get them to actually do their jobs).

While I might not have wifi again yet, I've got enough data that I feel like I can run updates, catch up on some youtube and post extra pictures and stuff. Y'know, when the mobile data signal isn't throwing some sort of tantrum. And even then, it's pretty unpleasant and inconsistent to rely on.

Anyway, here is my overdue post for my

DICE MAIL!

(Woo-oo!)

From earlier this week

Sets 353-358 have finally arrived!

Yes, four of them are chessex lab sets from the latest batch (Borealis Cosmos, Festive Hydrangea, Nebula Fluorite, and Marble Calcite)

The other two sets were ones that looked neat when I was placing the order - On the left is "Grey with White Irregular Pattern" (I'm just gonna call it "Grey Irregular"); On the right is "Multi-Colour Mix" (I'm calling it "Multicolour Splats")

*****

Haven't done a full photo session yet - Not like I was able to post anything for a bit, there. Not like I'm gonna post a whole ton of photos right now anyway.

Plus, after this whole fiasco with relying on mobile internet and my mobile device, I've realized that I definitely should upgrade my phone - It probably won't fix network issues, but might have better hardware for maintaining a signal and whatnot.