One low light trick I use in low light conditions (I don't like flash in crowds and because it flattens the image):
Set the 2-second timer. A lot of camera shaking comes from the act of pressing the shutter. That shaking is gone after 2-seconds. Doesn't work for action shots, but your shutter is open too long for decent action shots anyway.
Bonus tip for arms-length self portraits. My Canon ELPH has a little silver logo-button on the front. When I see my reflection in the logo, I can compose the shot. Fun for vacations.
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Frankly, I want to hear about the other projects that won the URI Outstanding Intellectual Property award this year:
"Single Switch Automated Page Turner"
Now those are inventions I can use!and
"Novel Bisubstrate Antifungal Derivatives"
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One low light trick I use in low light conditions (I don't like flash in crowds and because it flattens the image): Set the 2-second timer. A lot of camera shaking comes from the act of pressing the shutter. That shaking is gone after 2-seconds. Doesn't work for action shots, but your shutter is open too long for decent action shots anyway. Bonus tip for arms-length self portraits. My Canon ELPH has a little silver logo-button on the front. When I see my reflection in the logo, I can compose the shot. Fun for vacations.
Just curious, what do you mean by fragile?
I wrote a script like this too. On linux, you can eliminate the audio out/audio in cable with aumix.(on Windows, totalrecorder is decent)
/dev/dsp -t raw - | /usr/local/bin/lame -x -m s --preset standard - whatever.mp3
To record from the line:
aumix -i 1 -l 90 -l R
To record from software (like webcasts)
aumix -i 1 -x R -w 75
Then launch sox or whatever recorder.
I use sox:
sox -v 1.0 -s -w -r 44100 -c 2 -t ossdsp
Extra scripting gives scheduling, break long recordings up at the top of each hour (can't even hear the break) etc. etc. Sky's the limit.