Just an obscure corner of the ‘net where I post random stuff – at the moment my focus is on photography, IT and SEO and maybe a bit of quantum physics.… Read More

XQD and CFExpress

I’m very eager to migrate over to CFExpress. I have had to replace a couple of XQD cards and they are very expensive these days. While I’m waiting, I did a bit of research into the history of the XQD format. XQD The format was jointly developed by Sony, Lexar, and Sandisk as a replacement… Read More XQD and CFExpress

August 9, 2019 rob sheppardLeave a comment

Bash: Some Date Functions

Some of the date functions I have had to use recently in bash shell Get Current Date today_date=$(date ‘+%Y%m%d’) (in format YYYYMMDD) Get Yesterday yesterday_date=$(date -d yesterday ‘+%Y%m%d’) (in format YYYYMMDD) Get Day of Week dayOfWeekNumber=$(date +%u) (1=Mon) dayOfWeekName=$(date +%A) (Friday) Could pass in a specific date: dayOfWeekNumber=$(date -d”20190821″ +%u) or a variable: dayOfWeekName=$(date -d”{dateToCheck}” +%A)… Read More Bash: Some Date Functions

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SQL: Difference Between UNION and UNION ALL

UNION removes duplicates, UNION ALL does not. UNION thus requires more resources.

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Concerns over the Leica Q2

Here are the things I’m concerned about before I can say I will invest in the Leica Q2. … Read More Concerns over the Leica Q2

March 19, 2019March 20, 2019 rob sheppardLeave a comment

Have Leica broken Back Button Focussing on the Q2?

In his write up of the Leica Q2, Jonathan Slack describes how the small “zoom/lock” button on the back of the camera (near to the thumb indent) can be assigned the following functions: Digital Zoom, AEL / AFL, AEL or AFL. He then goes on to describe how when the the AFL function is chosen,… Read More Have Leica broken Back Button Focussing on the Q2?

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