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HOW TO RECOGNISE IT AND REGAIN CONTROL YASMINE JACOBS
WE ALL know how it goes: we scroll mindlessly through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Swiping, scrolling and doubletapping on your friend’s engagement post and memes. But those well acquainted with social media know that it’s not all good news as reports emerge of rising death tolls and suffering. But we are unable to stop scrolling. The phenomenon of seeking out and reading bad news has been dubbed “doomscrolling”. Psychologists say the need to collect information during a crisis is hard-wired into human biology. Although not a new phenomenon, there has been such a reported spike in doomscrolling during the Covid-19
pandemic that the word has been added to the dictionary. Despite sleep issues or mental health problems and anxiety due to uncertainty, many of us have become addicted to scrolling through our phones. When we get caught in the doomscrolling web, we tend to disconnect from our reality and loved ones. Before you know it, it becomes a bad habit –
one you will have a hard time stopping and with terrible consequences. Many people are feeling trapped during lockdown. Add this to a sense of helplessness due to facts and figures of doom. Lockdown has given people too much free time, often spent on doomscrolling. To put an end to it and find peace of mind, implement boundaries over personal use of
the internet and social media. Using apps or a stopwatch, limit the times you are connected. Alternatively, set times in the day to check the internet or social media. Close the tabs. Turn off notifications on your phone so you won’t feel compelled to look through updates. Pick up good habits – exercise, cook, write in a journal and check in on loved ones. | IOL TECH
Smartphone cameras have revolutionised photography FLOYD MATLALA
IT’S been just over two decades since digital cameras were introduced on mobile phones. from the inception of the VGA camera which was perceived to be amazing decades ago, to a high megapixel smartphone camera that com petes with DSLR cameras and produces high resolution images, the innovation has stood the test of time and proved to be the focal point of every smartphone on the market. Let’s take a trip down the memory lane Remember the world where pictures were not instant and a time when people could not even imagine carrying a powerful camera around that fits in their pockets? Today, smartphones are constantly introducing new features. It would be wrong to talk about the evolution of a smartphone camera and not talk about the picture quality that keeps on surprising consumers every time there’s a new phone on the market. We take a look at four smartphones that portray a perfect picture of how far we’ve come.
Vivo Y30
The Y30 offers a quad camera experience. The rear primary camera is 13-megapixels with an f/2.2 aperture; there’s a second 8-megapixel camera with an f/2.2 aperture; a third 2-megapixel camera with an f/2.4 aperture and a fourth 2-megapixel camera with an f/2.4 aperture. It
comes with digital zoom, auto flash, face detection and touch to focus. The front camera sports an 8-megapixel camera for the ultimate selfie experience.
Huawei P40 Pro
With 50MP on the main camera, 12MP telephoto, 40MP ultra-wide and 32MP on the front camera, The P40 Pro has to be the best camera phone around. The main camera’s lens is a pretty standard f/1.9 aperture on paper, but with a huge sensor size (for a smartphone) and OIS, combined with Huawei’s mighty electronic image stabilisation, it’s still a low light star. This phone can pretty much see in the dark, even in automatic mode – something that no other non-Huawei phones can do.
iPhone 11 Pro
The primary camera features a 26mm focal length, perfect for grabbing everyday snaps. The ultra-wide camera takes a step back so you don’t hav e to, getting more in the frame with its 13mm focal length. As for the telephoto camera, it zooms into your subject with a 52mm focal length which is perfect for portraits.
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
It starts with a 108MP primary camera sensor, and more than 200 mega pixels across the front and rear cameras, then there are those smart new shooting modes to talk about, a 12MP ultra-wide camera and finally there’s that huge zoom – 100x Space Zoom.
