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Some quick thoughts on Stage Manager on iPad OS 16

Jason Snell on Macworld explains the issue from the point of view of multi tasking and windowing on an iPad.

But for me, that misses a quite big point.

The implementatioin of Stage Manager includes the long awaited implementation of full second monitor support. Up until now a monitor connected to the iPad would only offer a letterboxed mirror of the iPad screen.

The Stage Manager, which I quite enjoyed, in the public beta, fully opened up that monitor as a real second screen, including the option to switch on / off the Stage Manager for that screen.

Perhaps I’m strange, probably, I thought the full screen support much more exciting than the multi tasking. Though I do have a two screen work set up, I mostly single task on a computer.

While it is, perhaps, understandable, that Stage Manager needs a M1 iPad, the full screen support should not.

And I thing it is somewhat strange, that the full screen support is not really mentioned in any of the reviews I read.

#iPad #stage_manager

New camera

Over the last few years, basically since the iPhone XS, I took a lot of pictures with just the phone and “neglected” the big camera.

So, when we went on our cruise around the Baltic a little while back, my big camera came out of my bag at the last moment and stayed home.

Overall, the right decision. Again I took some great pictures on the iPhone and was happy not to lug the big camera around.

But, there were few times, when the “reach” of the iPhone just wasn’t enough to capture the detail, or to compress the view. And I started thinking about the middle ground between an iPhone and the big camera.

A quick look at my bank account showed that, again, this was clearly not the time to buy a M10, expecially, since, while the camera is smaller than a DSLR, I wouldn’t want to carry around several different lenses.

This also excluded mirror less system cameras and really left me with only 3 cameras to choose from:

  • CANON G7 III
  • SONY RX100 VII
  • LUMIX LX100 II

Another downside of iPhone photography, the lack of a view finder, eliminated, for me, the CANON.

Which through a combination of pricing, reviews and availability led me to the LX100 II

At the moment it is really difficult to find any of these cameras in stores or online.

Anyway, now the happy owner of a LX100 II, which does what it should.