The Beko is the Mr. Turkish Coffee machine, doing for Turkish, what Mr. Coffee did for the American cup: You add fine-ground coffee, water, sugar and optional spice choice to the pot, press a button and less than four minutes later you have Turkish coffee.
But I’m seeing a lot of complaints on Amazon that the Beko Turkish Coffee Maker stopped working after two months. I’ve had mine for four years and it still functions fine, making a morning pot every day. I also had the first version of the Beko that I passed onto my son and it functioned fine as well.
Liberate your iPhone camera with the Apple Watch Camera app.
The Apple Watch Camera app is a really useful photography tool. It’s a simple remote control for your camera that works up to 30 feet away. It consists of a viewfinder, shutter button, 3-second timer and thumbnail of last image shot. But there’s more. You can tap the screen to change the focus and exposure, or hold the display to flip front and back cameras, control flash, shoot in burst mode or shoot in live mode. You can also use the crown to zoom.
Moment’s Slow Shutter modes vs Live Photo’s Blur mode.
3 ways to take motion-blurred-images.
Recently the Moment Pro Camera app added Slow Shutter modes for still photography. While a slow shutter technique can be accomplished with the blur mode in the built-in Camera app’s Live Photos, there are limitations. Moment’s Pro Camera app gives you more control over the blur and and has two modes: Blur and Light Trails, that give you two different blur techniques. (If you’re a serious iPhoneographer, the new modes may help justify the $6 price tag for the app.) This article will help you understand the difference in the Live Photo Blur and the Moment Blur techniques, so you can choose the best one for a specific look or shooting scenario.
Moment has some nice case options, but it seemed to me that the four still photography lense accessories would fit in a neater space than the separate-pocket approach. After all, a mobile phone “field kit” should take up minimal space and be pocketable. Provided you have lens caps on the Moment lenses (I also use the Rear Lens Caps) they can stack safely. I started experimenting with a padded PVC tube, which gave great protection, but decided I needed easier access. Emptying the tube to get to the bottom lens took three hands. A clamshell design seemed the best bet.
A concise guide to Moment add-on lenses for the camera on your phone.
Why use an add-on lens for your phone?
Every day, more of us are migrating away from DSLR, mirrorless and point-and-shoot cameras and depending on the ever-better cameras on the phone in our pocket. That’s because today, there’s not much difference in the two: The big camera manufacturers have shrunk sensors and put controls on the screen, essentially making their mirrorless offerings more like phone cams. Meanwhile, the phone manufacturers like Apple, Google and Samsung have enlarged their sensors, improved image processing and opened up their systems to photography apps that do things big-camera hardware never will.
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