My favorite source for rumors on anything Nikon is www.nikonrumors.com (well, pretty obvious URL if you ask me…). What is that website ? Perhaps I should explain the nature of rumors websites first. A *whatever*rumors dot com page collects bits and pieces of...
A few weeks ago, middle of August, there was a helluva thunderstorm here in Aachen. Rain rain rain amassing to a flood of epic proportions. When the rainfall started we just returned from a walk into the city. I was amazed by the sheer force of the rainfall. And I...
I was writing about hot pixels in a previous post. Now here is an example on how this looks like and why you don’t have to worry. When selecting a photo in Lightroom for the first time, you see a preview for a few seconds while the picture is being rendered. I...
Oh my goodness, my camera got a hotpixel. What’s a hotpixel ? To explain that I…absolutely have to do this in German, taking a bow towards the Feuerzangenbowle and a German Star Trek parody “Wat is enne Hotpixel ? Da stelle mer uns mal janz dumm....
In the last post I was ridiculing the sharpness of the 8 mm Samyang lens at wide open apertures. To illustrate the problem I have made a few test shots at different apertures. The focus ring has not been moved between the shots, only the aperture has been closed step...
Today the mailman delivered the repaired Solmeta N2 geotagger unit from China. The port has been replaced and the unit is working again. All in all this adventure lasted six weeks, which is quite good considering that the service is located in China (far away I mean...
