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…

When the AirPods were finally out in December 2016, I got my order in for the first batch. The cabled EarPods always fit my ears well, so they've got that going for them. While they don't cover all use cases, they worked…

Another social network. Open. Decentralized. Getting a bit of hype lately. I'm there. Dipping my toes in. As [email protected] -- giving it a fair shot. I'm a fan of open and decentralized, so I wish it all…

Anchor.fm just released version 2.0 of their app. They claim it's a new form of radio and I have to admit, it's quite nice and it lets you build your own virtual radio station. It lets you record snippets and publish the…

For some people travel causes a lot of anxiety. What if you forget to pack something? What if you miss a flight? Many what-ifs.. even with me. For example I have a habit of double-triple-quadruple checking if I have my p…

I took this shot of ice bubbles on Lake Baikal in Siberia last year when we did a photo tour there with a group of great people. Tomorrow I will take off for yet another photo tour to Siberia and during my preparations t…

Google's Project Tango was the first to market and others will follow in the consumer space very soon. 3D sensing is a critical component of the future of computing. It will not only allow facial recognition on a complet…

When years ago I found the first episode of Cowboy Bebop, I had to watch them all. In Japanese, with English subtitles. I had tried an English dub, but it lost so much authenticity in the voice acting, the original was b…

Update: making progress, the list now includes tipsfromthetopfloor.com (took a bit longer because I had to make sure there was no interruption or side-effects on the podcast delivery). Once I'm back from Russia, I will g…

 Jonathan Pie's take on who is to blame for Trump winning. I'll just put this here. It made me think. Strong language, but I think it touches right where it needs to. "How d…

Update 2017-02-17: seems that Magic Leap isn't quite as far as they made seem. Some current perspective here. I'm still 100% in on AR/MR though. We ain't seen nothing yet... No, I'm not talking about the US elections, I'…

...either that or my photography is boring. Enter: Keegan, the photo coach. Keegan is an AI that will critique your photos and give them ratings. I uploaded a few of my favorite pictures to test it: Keegan doesn't like d…

Im August wird Psychologe Alexander Waschkau gemeinsam mit mir hier in der Viewfinder-Villa mit einer kleinen Gruppe Besucher und Besucherinnen ergründen, was es mit Bildern auf sich hat. Wie und warum sie funktionieren…

Many bloggers, podcasters will happily use affiliate links to make some money. I don't, because it puts 100% of the risk onto your shoulders and none on the advertiser. Here's how affiliate advertising works: 1. You sign…

"Oft reicht die andere Straßenseite nicht aus, um so viel Distanz zwischen uns und das Gebäude zu bringen, dass es komplett aufs Bild passt. Als Fotograf fragt man sich da spaßeshalber schon mal, warum eigentlich die Dyn…