On this journey through Rajasthan I packed quite a lot of equipment. To name the major items: D300s with the 17-55mm f2.8 lens, D70s with the 70-300 f3.5-5.6 lens, Samyang 8mm f3.5 lens and a SB-800 flash I am happy to say that I made good use of all items. Both...
A few days ago the cable for the geotagger died. The plug broke, exposing the fine wires which contact the socket in the tagger. Solmeta offers replacement cables for USD 12 plus shipping of USD 15. I wanted to order two cables (since they break so easily), not happy...
I am currently on the road heading for Bikaner in Rajasthan, India. On my D300s I have my Solmeta N2 geotagger for GPS localization. The tagger itself performs well, long battery life and quick position finding after switching it on. But one weak point is now...
Friday I am going on a three-week trip to beautiful India. A colleague from work is Indian and he gets married. that’s a whole week of celebrations with over 400 guests. After that we will travel another two weeks through Rajasthan. We are pretty excited ! My...
You might remember the Belfoca Junior I posted about earlier this (errr, last) year. It is an old bellow camera with a stunning 6×9 format (that’s centimeters, 60×90 mm !). It was the camera which still had an old exposed film inside which I got...
I forgot to post an update in time, but here is how the issue was resolved: After resetting my iPhone as told by the support, no improvement could be observed. Battery still went dead in standy in under eight hours. So I called up the support again. They acknowledged...
