On October 23, armed with a new(-ish) iPhone to take photos. In all all PC/Unix environment, getting photos off an iPhone is somewhat of a challenge, getting them over a cable is unreliable and there is little if any free software to do that, and it simply cannot copy a file to a USB drive out of the box, you have to buy a proprietary hardware dongle from Apple to add a USB anything. Then and only then can you copy something to a USB drive. We used a program (on both android and iPhone) that did let you copy files across, but A) the (new) Lenovo tablet rebooted after it had processed some number of files, which of course means copy them again and after about 5 go rounds of this, the program stopped working saying we've hit the 200MB transfer trial limit. So much for copying 3000 files, it ended up taking days just to get 300 photos of the iPhone.

That was no fun. But what was fun is using an iPhone to take pictures in a fish store. I've been doing this for 19 years now and have used a Kodak DC-800 and then a Canon DSLR. Then we tried a Sony A1011 and then a small Kodak pocket camera. Perhaps I should go back and annotate which are which. The iPhone is pretty nice as a camera and works, perhaps better than most others in terms of exposure and color. It is not as good as the Canon with a good lens though. But it's good enough that it pretty much makes up for the disaster of actually getting files off the thing.