Epic iphone failure: Iphone fails to record solar eclipse - Is it a sign from above it's time to short AAPL?

LetsRun.com wrote:

A LetsRun.com investigation reveals that the highly vaunted Apple iphone is incapable of properly recording a solar eclipse? Is it time to short AAPL?

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/08/epic-iphone-failure-iphone-fails-record-solar-eclipse-sign-time-short-apple-aapl/

Sometimes the stupidity of the people who run this site astounds me. Why would anyone care if their iphone could record the eclipse without a filter? That's obviously not the purpose of the camera.

sredlums wrote:

Will Spaghetti wrote:

One of the dumbest things I have ever seen posted on this website.

Easily THE dumbest thing posted here as far as I am concerned. What the actual F.

Was this supposed to be funny or witty? If so, you failed miserably. If it was meant to be serious it’s even a bigger fail. Damn.

It was supposed to get numbskulls like you to post a comment.

Once every couple of months Rojo comes on here with some PC problem that would never happen with a Mac. He gives the same disclaimer every time: "Don't tell me the solution is to get a Mac; I don't want one."

The Brojos really do have it out for Apple. At least rojo does. Not sure why. I think it's similar to what I see with my middle school students. If something gets popular (fidget spinners, bottle flipping, dabbing, etc) and 1 or 2 students decide they aren't into it early on, then those students NEVER join in on the trend. In fact, they grow resentful especially after they realize they missed the boat on something fun. Rather than admitting that they were wrong, they double down on their "convictions".

Same idea here.

You need to stop posting drunk.

LetsRun.com wrote:

A LetsRun.com investigation reveals that the highly vaunted Apple iphone is incapable of properly recording a solar eclipse? Is it time to short AAPL?

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/08/epic-iphone-failure-iphone-fails-record-solar-eclipse-sign-time-short-apple-aapl/

This proves that the eclipse was not real and likely a MSM-bourne conspiracy. The fact that you could only see the eclipse with special glasses means that THE GLASSES were an integral part of the conspiracy.

The iPhone was useless for imaging the eclipse. I was in the totality zone and tried to video it. It filled in the center of the sun during totality and thus didn't capture anything like what you saw by looking directly at it. In retrospect, I guess this shouldn't be a surprise as this is not what they were designed for.

Bingo, and it was supposed to be funny.

Yes, I like to "think different." I actually used to be an apple fanboy when Apple was the little guy. I bought all of the apple stuff right when it came out (orange imac) and found that buying it right when it came out resulted in it always having a technical failure.

The name LetsRun.com sort of came from apple. I was think Irun, etc. Then LetsRun popped into my head.

I can't believe this website is real sometimes.

The iPhone's inability to photograph the eclipse actually speaks to one of the biggest problems that I have with Apple products. They are all designed based on the assumption that Apple knows what's best and the user should have limited ability to work outside of Apples prescribed boundries.

In this case, the problem is not with the lens but shutter speed. I took a great photo of the eclipse with my real camera by setting it to manual mode and fixing the shutter speed to 125. You need to do this, or else a camera's auto-exposure settings will assume your photo is underexposed and use a much longer shutter speed (hence the big blobs of light you see in most eclipse photos).

I'm not an iPhone expert, but I don't think there is anyway to set the shutter speed manually.

rojo wrote:

Bingo, and it was supposed to be funny.

Wow. To be precise: 2 wows.

1: This was actually supposed to be funny? You are a professional website and you don't have someone that checks what gets posted and says 'Nah, this is too lame, even for Let'sRun, let's not post this'? Let me give you a tip: you should.

2: You have a website 'design' from the nineties (it's kinda cute because it is so butt ugly, I'll give you that), you have annoying ads, you have f'ing irritating pop-ups about your Facebook page coming up on EVERY post, and you have no problem insulting visitors of this site?

Wel, I like some stuff over here quite much (the Rossi thread before you killed it, the actual running news, some of the weird posts on the MB), but the balance is off. There's just too much dumb/lame/bad/annoying/ridiculous stuff going on, and the good isn't making up for it any more. I'll stick around for this thread (I'm only human), but I won't visit this site anymore after that. I am quite confidant I won't be the last to abandon his sinking ship.

Learn to use your phone. I got great pictures of the eclipse using my iPhone. You need to adjust the exposure - you know, the little sun slider that appears when you are using the camera.

sredlums wrote:

2: You have a website 'design' from the nineties (it's kinda cute because it is so butt ugly, I'll give you that), you have annoying ads, you have f'ing irritating pop-ups about your Facebook page coming up on EVERY post,

What ads? I never get ads on my desktop or laptop. And I've got AdBlock turned off. The only time I see ads is when I use my phone. So either quit using your phone for LetsRun or suck it up with the ads. Your choice.

mad men wrote:

sredlums wrote:

2: You have a website 'design' from the nineties (it's kinda cute because it is so butt ugly, I'll give you that), you have annoying ads, you have f'ing irritating pop-ups about your Facebook page coming up on EVERY post,

What ads? I never get ads on my desktop or laptop. And I've got AdBlock turned off. The only time I see ads is when I use my phone. So either quit using your phone for LetsRun or suck it up with the ads. Your choice.

These ads:

And this FB pop-up:

This is on a normal laptop, without any filtering of ads or particular extensions etc.

The ads are less obnoxious as the sometimes were before, when they covered up part of the thread content or slided in and out of view.

My iPhone did not fail to record and i am a android fan

Actually in this video you can see the iPhone reflection of eclipsed sun, which looks like a laser pointer bouncing around to the right of the bright sunlight. It’s small but you can clearly see it on a desktop computer.

The light from the eclipsed sun is still too strong for an unfiltered camera. Without a filter the eclipsed sun will look like a large, bright ball with a fuzzy edge. That’s what happened in this video. But you do get a clear reflection image of the crescent-shaped, eclipsed sun next to it.

Don’t short Apple.

sredlums wrote:

mad men wrote:

What ads? I never get ads on my desktop or laptop. And I've got AdBlock turned off. The only time I see ads is when I use my phone. So either quit using your phone for LetsRun or suck it up with the ads. Your choice.

These ads:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pwbhlc4gs3of1su/lr1.png?dl=0

And this FB pop-up:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9iwz3rit6zqwwd/lr2.png?dl=0

This is on a normal laptop, without any filtering of ads or particular extensions etc.

The ads are less obnoxious as the sometimes were before, when they covered up part of the thread content or slided in and out of view.

I get nothing like with any of my desktops or laptops. You may have your laptop infected with some adware. Try a cleaner.

mad men wrote:

sredlums wrote:

These ads:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pwbhlc4gs3of1su/lr1.png?dl=0

And this FB pop-up:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9iwz3rit6zqwwd/lr2.png?dl=0

This is on a normal laptop, without any filtering of ads or particular extensions etc.

The ads are less obnoxious as the sometimes were before, when they covered up part of the thread content or slided in and out of view.

I get nothing like with any of my desktops or laptops. You may have your laptop infected with some adware. Try a cleaner.

Yeah, nice try. I use a Mac, and I repair, install, set up and maintain Mac's for my profession. No, my computer is not infected, and yes, LetsRun does run ads on this website.

If you don't believe me, search for 'ads' on this website and you get this:

People have been complaining about the annoying ads on this website for a long time. Check it in Browserling if you like, to see how it is when shown from another computer:

Anyway, enough with this nonsense, my complaints are valid.

pear wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

A LetsRun.com investigation reveals that the highly vaunted Apple iphone is incapable of properly recording a solar eclipse? Is it time to short AAPL?

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/08/epic-iphone-failure-iphone-fails-record-solar-eclipse-sign-time-short-apple-aapl/

Sometimes the stupidity of the people who run this site astounds me. Why would anyone care if their iphone could record the eclipse without a filter? That's obviously not the purpose of the camera.

Wait, did they record this during totality or not? During totality, you do NOT need a filter. If they recorded this in Texas, well yeah.

sredlums wrote:

There's just too much dumb/lame/bad/annoying/ridiculous stuff going on, and the good isn't making up for it any more. I'll stick around for this thread (I'm only human), but I won't visit this site anymore after that. I am quite confidant I won't be the last to abandon his sinking ship.

See you in Kona. Tell Paulo how we can find you.