Among all of the multiple overlapping crises of the last couple of weeks, my ancient iPhone 13 died. Something broke in the connecting/charging port so that I couldn’t plug it in to charge. Which was inconvenient at first, then critical when I realized that all of the 2FA codes I need to access accounts at work (like, payroll) go to that phone. I got a short term solution to survive the next day (and get payroll entered and paid) but the long term solution was to upgrade my phone to an iPhone 17.
I sort of wanted to do that for a couple of reasons, one of which was the much-improved cameras on the iPhone 17. You might notice that I tend to take a lot of pictures.
Tonight The Long-Suffering Wife called me to look out to the back yard, where the 99% full Moon was rising.
Okay, that’s pretty, a normal picture. What about wide angle views?
Again, very nice, similar to the iPhone 13. But I hear that the telephoto capabilities are where it really shines. The iPhone 13 went to 3x zoom and was a bit on the grainy and pixelated side when blown up that big. The iPhone 17 goes to 10x zoom and it’s supposed to be pretty good quality.
Oh, my, that’s spectacular. A little bit of color swimming up through the haze near the horizon. But when it rises just a bit to get above that?
Very nice, and I even caught a plane, what is probably a cargo jet just taking off from KVCV, SoCal Logistics over in Victorville.
I’m impressed!
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 
i’m curious, try turning off all AL settings in the camera settings on the iphone 17, then take a photo of the moon again, and then if you want too, update this blog post ,
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