Best Time To Take Pictures?

Last Thursday I took pictures of my old Polaroids at 6:41 PM,why 6:41 ? Because sunset was at 7:41 PM. Now common,Stanley, you're not making sense, the reason is that:  one hour before sunset or even one hour before sunrise is when the light is all even out, no sources brighter or darker than the other.This actually however is the best time to take pictures of nature ,people at picnics outside, kids playing etc., cool weather....

...However, in my case (inside my house near a sunny north window), I use those times to take pictures of pictures with my iPad mini which yield better picture quality results than any other of my devices, but when I had transferred the taken pictures to my computer they were too big like 2000 to 3000 pixels each, and my photoshop software was unable to change the image size to 600 pixels as photoshop   gave me a program error message;  The images were simply too big.

So what am I going to do ? Well, this time I am going  line up my old Polaroids and take a video of them using my iPad mini  panning left to the right then make vidcaps  of the video, after it has being transferred to my computer. Using photoshop, sometimes the mp4 format has to be change to the wmv format  that can be done using the computer's windows movie maker.

Once the vidcaps are made I can use photoshop to crop unnecessary backgrounds and make other improvements.

There are videos of youtube that teaches people how to transfer pictures from iPad or from other sources to a computer, so I will skip that part.Of course one can use a cloud service like Google cloud which can be retrieve from any synced device. 

How did the picture of pictures turn out ? Well, not as a good quality as if one had use a picture scanner, all I can say "acceptable" 

          Click video below for Google's  free camera scanner.
         click here for Google's Camera Scanner
Oh, yes, I did get those large pixels images off my iPad..its hard drive would  have filled up in no time.
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Outlets and Outlets.

You're at the doctor's office and notice that their outlets have  horizontal slots; Well, that is a 20 amp outlet connected to a 20 amp circuit.  The hospital equipment 20 amp  plugs have one vertical blade, one horizontal  blade and a ground.  The wiring used  on the circuit breaker is 12 gauge with ground.The smaller the number the bigger the wire.

In modern homes kitchens and bathrooms use 20 amps, but why are there only 15 amp outlets connected ? Well, in some states it is acceptable to use 15 amp outlets on a 20 amp circuit if there are series of them and not just one or two.

HOWEVER, NEVER INSTALL  A 20 AMP OUTLET TO A 15 AMP CIRCUIT THAT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. 15 amp circuits are use mostly for living rooms and bedrooms. The wiring use for a 15 amp circuit is 14 gauge with ground, which is smaller than the 12 gauge.The wiring in the 14 gauge wire is easy to bend. The 12 gauge wiring will be  a little harder to bend.

20 amps which handles more wattage than 15 amps are for heavy duty appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines etc.

Now can one plug in a 15 amp appliance like a tv into a 20 amp outlet ? The answer is yes;  If the answer was no, the plug wouldn't fit in the 20 amp outlet in the first place.

Always make sure all connections to the outlets stay; If the blades are expose  even 1/8 out of the outlet that could easily start a fire.

One can change the outlets without any hitch just follow the instructions that came with the outlet(s). However, wiring  a house is a different story, when done call in an expert to check your work and make sure all outlets and plugs are UL listed (United States) and/or CA listed (Canada).