The installation of electronic communications apparatus under paragraph 75(2) of schedule 3A of the communications act 2003.
Here is a picture of the rights a person has to object to a phone mast installation once its already been installed at a site. I believe this notice, or a very similar worded one, will or should be present at all public phone mast sites in the UK. It should be visible on the electrical cabinets [those off-white electrical boxes usually at ground level] that power the tower.
This particular notice is from Hutchison 3G UK Ltd ["Three"]. And the site in question is in the UK. Address: Chester Road SW - B35 7EY. Cell reference: BHM654. More in this area. Please see the picture above enlarged at full size [around 1.5mb] to read the whole statement. I left the image big so you can read it quite easily. Open image in new tab.
The networks that use this 5G phone mast are: Hutchison 3G UK LTD ["Three" three.co.uk] and EE LTD.
Basically, if the criteria is met, a person / business / land owner etc has the right to complain [under paragraph 77 of the code] within 12 months of the phone mast being installed. After that time period has gone, it states the circumstances in which a court may uphold an objection are significantly more limited. So, in most cases, after 1 year you're out of luck, and the mast is there to stay.
I bet you have seen lots of video footage of this snap camera, and I will include a video in this post with examples of the video recording at 1080p. But for this post, I wanted to share some sample pictures that have been taken by me with the MHS TS10. Sony Bloggie MHS TS10 Snap Camera 1080p. Also included is a video below. Just a few clips compiled together on a wet and windy day to show an example of what to expect when filming. What is the Bloggie. The Sony Bloggie MHS TS10 [4GB built-in storage space] is basically a touch screen video recorder and picture taker rolled into one, an old "snap camera" as they were called, and it looks a lot like a really small smartphone.
In 2023 It is considered as old tech, but it can record in 1080p @ 30 fps, and also in 720p @ 30 or 60 frames per second. Pictures can be taken while recording video [only 2mb in size], and pictures can be taken on their own @ 2mp, 8mp and 12 megapixel. Picture quality is just about acceptable depending on the lighting conditions. Glare is quite bad, and a lot of the images seem a bit washed out.
Charging is done by a full sized USB. There is a little press-it-to-flip-out USB connection at the bottom of the device. Sound quality is fairly good. Although there doesn't seem to be any way to adjust the sound level when in video recording mode. And the "portrait" mode is very thin and small. There is one example clip of portrait mode in this video, the rest are landscape - holding the Bloggie sideways.
Please Note: I bought this camera / picture taker because I wanted something that was small and could take decent video footage. I then started getting into making some shorts for some of my YouTube channels and wanted to use this device to make more. However, it does not produce them in a way that is accepted by YouTube as a Short video. The aspect ratio is very small and old. As a result, YouTube does not recognise the videos taken [portrait mode videos] as shorts. So if you are considering buying this device with the expectation of making some shorts to upload to YouTube, don't bother. It doesn't work for that.
Other than a few shortcomings, that we should expect from a device that is now well over 10 years old, this is a great device for people who don't own a smartphone, don't want to own own one, but want to go under the radar, blend in and look like everyone else pointing their "phone" at stuff and recording things. Which is now much more normalised and accepted than pointing a stand-alone camera in someone's direction. The Bloggie can be much more discrete than using a normal, instantly recognisable camera.
When it comes to the latest model, I don't think there has been any new releases of the MHS range for over 10 years. It seems to have been left at the roadside due to the massive rise in people using smartphones, which for the most part leaves the Bloggie as not needed, almost obsolete for smartphoners. As I'm sure you are aware, the best smartphones these days can take both 1080p / 4K video and snap very good quality pictures. But as mentioned, this is still a good little device for non-smartphone users. If you can find one for sale for a cheap price, buy it. I paid £6.50 for mine from eBay UK.
I have now upgraded to using a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact for taking pictures and recording video. I blend right in even more! It even has 1080p @ 60fps and 4K. I don't actually use it as a smartphone at all, it has no SIM card inside. But It's great as a picture / video taker if wanting / needing to travel light. So, at the moment, rather than carry my old "dumbphone" and a camera, I'm carrying two phones. I'll still use the Bloggie though, just not as much.
From what I could see online there's not many sample pics for the FujiFilm FinePix S8650. So I thought I'd post a few. The FinePix S8650 is a good camera overall, with 16 mega pixels and a decent 36x zoom. It takes normal AA batteries. This has its good and bad points. But, to be honest, I do prefer a camera that comes with its own rechargeable battery. It's just more convenient for me. These pictures are straight from the camera but have been made smaller. No other editing or enhancing has been done. I will add though. Filming video with this camera is OK, but not great. The autofocus seems quite slow, but the quality is pretty good. However, it is an older bridge camera, and was never really anything more than a basic entry level model anyway, so don't expect too much from it in that regard if comparing it to some of the 1080p / 4K capable bridge camera options available today. It does have a bit of potential for snapping some decent pics though.
How are my Birding skills. This Crow [or is it a Raven?] visits my garden everyday for food. And he is very clever. Any hard bits of food he comes across, he dips them in the water bowl. And sometimes, depending on how hard the food is, he leaves them in the water for around a hour to soften it up.
Pigeon at a far zoom
Elderberries
Black and white cat on a fence. He's a good little hunter for mice this one.
What do you want from me, more food? One of the many Squirrels that live in my garden and gets fed nuts most of the day. I keep promising not to feed them but always end up giving in.
Not really sure whether to blame the adapter or just its age. I'm not sure how old it was, as I think it came included with an older digital camera I bought a few years back. But yeah, a word of warning. Check the plastics of the adapter every now and then to ensure that it hasn't become loose / broken. Because that's exactly what just happened to mine. The plastic at the top where the connectors are has broken away and made the SD card adapter become stuck inside the camera. I tried to take it out but it would only budge enough to release itself from the spring clip that secures it inside the camera. So I pushed it back in hoping it would become unstuck, but it didn't do the trick. In the end I had to forcibly remove it from the slot.
The tops gone
The result: the camera is broken. The connector pins inside the SD card slot of the camera have been bent out of shape, and now the camera won't even turn on. With it being in such an enclosed space, there's not much chance of bending them perfectly back into shape and reconnecting them without opening the camera up. And even with opening the camera up, I don't think it will be easy and there's no guarantee of being able to repair it. I might try and fix it as some point though when I get some time. Shame really that it broke, because I liked this camera. The Samsung WB500 has served me well over the years. Was working just fine before this. Taken out by a dodgy SD adapter.
Inside the cameras SD slot. All bent out of shape.
My own fault I guess. I should have checked it more thoroughly beforehand. Anyway, I'm just thankful that it was an adapter and not a normal SD card. At least I can easily take the smaller card out of the broken adapter and save all the images that were on there. If it would have been a normal card that had broken like this it would have been much more difficult to extract the pictures from the card. And normal cards, mostly the cheaper ones, do break exactly like this adapter did, so be careful.
