2013 in review

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 55,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it...
Photographing minerals

Photographing minerals

The son of our neighbors next doors is seven years old and collects minerals (“treasures of the soil” as he calls them). When we visited them a while ago I suggested to photograph his treasures along with some of his Lego figurines. The idea was very...
Why I chose a D610 over a D7100

Why I chose a D610 over a D7100

One might have derived from my last post that I am looking for a new camera. And that is totally true. Recently I bought a Nikon D610 as my secondary camera. The D610 replaces my D300s , so now I will have two full frame cameras in operation (D800 and D610). The...
Gear sale: D300s, MB-D10, Manfrotto 322RC2

Gear sale: D300s, MB-D10, Manfrotto 322RC2

I went through my gear to decide what could be released onto the second-hand market. I found three nice pieces of equipment which I would like to sell, so drop me a line if you are interested (I am shipping within Europe only). 1.) Nikon D300s body with two extra...