What you see above is the output of a flash card testing tool called f3read. File 15.h2w is where the corruption sets in... Let's step back. About a month ago a friend of mine enthusiastically told me how he ordered a su…

Ich diskutiere gerne und über viele Themen. Besonders zum Beispiel über die Elektrifizierung unserer Mobilität. Dabei bleiben entsprechende Gegenargumente nicht aus. Der Strommix in Deutschland sei viel zu schmutzig, der…

🇩🇪 Ich poste hier mehrsprachig. Manchmal auf deutsch, manchmal englisch. Das entscheide ich aus dem Bauch. Je nach dem, ob ich denke, dass der Artikel interessanter oder relevanter für eine deutschsprachige Leserschaft i…

Heya, I will hold a free webinar on the challenges of Wide-Angle photography on Oct 3 2018 at 11am Pacific Time. Can't make that time? Register anyway, because that way (and only that way) you will get access to the free…

My apologies, dear followers, for putting this here. I hate to use my platforms to write about things like this, but we've just been through the most ridiculous car rental experience of my life and by putting this online…

Es ist Sommer und es ist heiß. Zumindest so heiß, dass mein Studio mit Fenstern in Richtung Osten schon morgens hübsch warm wird. Das einzige was hier hilft ist Durchzug, egal ob durch offene Fenster oder mittels Ventila…

Jochen Möller hat's entwickelt, Firma Dold hat es als Selbstbaukit für einen guten Preis in ihren Shop getan und wir haben jetzt eins davon in der Viewfinder-Villa stehen. Der Zusammenbau hat ca. 20 Minuten gedauert, als…

A few impressions from the Canon New York City Tilt-Shift Architecture and Street photography workshop.

We spent the weekend at Berlepsch Castle in Germany to hold a photo workshop. It was the third time we were there and Boris had organized models, a modeling coach and a wonderful location ("Rittersaal"), the most beautif…

I just returned from an amazing weekend teaching Tilt-Shift photography in New York City. The workshop was organised by Canon Live Learning, a division of Canon Inc. who made this a wonderful experience for everyone. Thi…

It's not often that I get an opportunity like this. In May 2017 we chartered the Noorderlicht, a 100 year old two-mast schooner, to sail with a group of 16 photographers around Svalbard (aka Spitzbergen). We had an amazi…

Kodak is building their own blockchain. Or rather KodakOne is. With their own token Kodak Coin. Let me try to explain why I think this is an interesting move. I don't believe they are building their own blockchain, but t…

When A-list YouTuber Casey Neistat announces he wants to do a podcast, you know podcasting was the right thing to get into 12 years ago.  In his video update Casey Neistat says he needs to "figure it out first" ... no, w…

Update: the two major sticking points right now are field of view and multiple focal planes. The first one is definitely not big, according to a piece in Rolling Stone magazine. The multiple focal planes are crucial to a…

Das Weitwinkelbuch ist jetzt im Handel, viele Exemplare sind bereits bei den Leserinnen und Lesern angekommen und was macht man da als Autor? Auf Amazon den Refresh-Button klicken und auf neue Rezensionen hoffen. Und dav…

Our house is partially automated. We started with lights and a couple of power outlets, then recently began to adda few thermostats into the mix. That's the extent of it. No locks, no blinds. Our automation system of cho…

Ein Mal im Schlelldurchgang 🙂 (hier im Handel)

Ideas take time to take shape. This one began dawning on me a couple of years ago when a friend of mine showed me a picture out of a good digital camera that was all bent out of shape. When I looked at it on my computer,…

Update: It's two days after the keynote. I was wrong. And so was Robert (Facebook link). I still have no doubt, that we'll get to that vision within the next year, but Apple is playing this the Apple way, e.g. slowly. Ea…

There it is again. I've seen this article in about a million versions and it's always about the same thing: why shoot film when you can emulate its look with digital means. sigh What these kind of articles completely dis…

Die leidige Geschichte mit Formulor.de kommt zu einem halbwegs guten Ende. Nach einigem hin und her hat Formulor jetzt endlich nachgebessert und neue, passende Teile sind heute bei mir angekommen, deren Maß innerhalb der…

Seit zwei Jahren ist mein Audio-Interface das ein MOTU Ultralite AVB. Quasi alle Podcast-Episoden von z.B. Tips from the Top Floor, Happy Shooting oder Curiously Polar während der letzten 2 Jahre wurden darüber aufgenomm…

Ich muss mal kurz Dampf ablassen. Sehr konkreten Dampf. Es ist überhaupt kein Problem, wenn eine Firma, bei der ich in der Vergangenheit immer wieder tolle Dinge bestellt habe, mir aus versehen Ware schickt, die nicht de…

Just one of the many use cases for AR > 🤔 measuring a kitchen shouldn\'t be this satisfying...like, at all 🤔 → app by \@SmartPicture3D 📏 pic.twitter.com/eztjNbDVyL > > --- Made With ARKit (@madewithARKit) July 12, 2017

This dramatically changes the ordering process (and puts new requirements on kitchens regarding exact reproduction of said food). And if you want to lose weight, just sit there and watch the images and have a virtual mea…

Of course, what Robert Scoble says isn't set in stone and sometimes it's helpful to have a grain (or a shovel) of salt at hand, especially when he gets really really excited about something. Like AR lately. I'm positive…

Last year when Monika bought an old old lens, I started a project to attach it to a large format camera. Problem was, the lens didn't have a shutter. After some discussion on the Happy Shooting Slack, Jochen Möller (of f…

I'll just leave this here. Make sure to watch both videos.

I've been delaying the new car decision over and over again but it was getting obvious that I needed to do something. My old car was 12 years old, the repairs were picking up and the clock was ticking. But even with the…

https://youtu.be/72N3or0ZgMU If Pokemon Go was the last time you've looked at Augmented Reality, look again. With the iOS 11 announcement at this year's WWCD, Apple introduced ARKit, which is their take on Augmented Real…

Despite initial appearance, this guy does one of the most brilliant and fun card routines I've ever seen. Maybe there's even a little life lesson hidden in there somewhere 😀

Let me put on my prediction hat for a minute. Over the next 10 years, our mobility will see profound changes. We will not own cars anymore. Instead, we will call a car, it will arrive and take us to where we want to go,…

What happens if someone hands you and 27 photographers the keys to an entire bumper car ride? Well, ... this: Guess I'm now an officially certified bumper car choreographer. Haven't had this much fun in a long time. Ten…

Traveling always bears the risk of getting stuck somewhere for longer than anticipated, missing a connection flight or getting in some other form of trouble. If you have a ship going at a designated time and no way to ca…

... subtitle: quantity equals quality. Yep, I know, sounds wrong. But the way to becoming good at something is to produce lots of crap first. I look back at my photography 20 years ago and it was worse than my photograph…

Creating a new podcast and getting it online can be super easy if you use a service like libsyn.com -- there are also many wordpress-based solutions (Podlove Podcast Publisher for example) but having done this podcasting…

Today's tools (like Apple's Clips app) make it incredibly easy to document the things you do. And having things documented adds more perceived value. Look at the last four days in my life: there was a two day photo works…

Well, stair must be one of the most boring things, but here's an interesting showcase for how to use AR in a construction context. Spacial awareness means our devices will be able to do so much more than they can do now.

It started with Monika and myself standing outside in the garden the other day, looking at how several plants of lemon balm were taking over the herb section. So I decided to brew up an infusion. Lemon balm, mint, glass…

Photo: Samuel Zeller Benedict Evans is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, an investor company who has their money in a good number of well-known tech businesses. And in Magic Leap, who I've written here about before. He j…