newton:~ chammann$: locate fancontrol

The front plastic panel is a bit shoddy, but it’s running well. And LOUD!

Fished myself a server out of the ‘bay, an IBM eSeries xServer 345. Two dual-core Xeons 3.2,

Swan Rising

Swan Rising

The Leica M Gestalt

In the 90-ties, Leica M cameras came in these spiffy, red velvet-lined presentation boxes. Just had to do a bit of Skript-Fu on that.

A film-loading Leica has it’s own Gestalt.

Fetish Fone

There’s something Lost in Translation here. Or, to drag in another movie pun, it’s a Shame.

So, a new iPhone. The sixth iteration, curiously numbered 5.

This Machine Photographs People

The Ricoh GRD IV camera is a fluke on the market of small-sensor, compact digital cameras. It is made for photographers

A Simple Box

The little camera that could… dwarfed by it’s lens

Nikon did something audacious with their D3200:

On the Edges

Today I want to talk a bit about framing. Not about the process of putting a picture in a frame, but about taking an excerpt of one‘s surrounding and making a picture out of it. In photography, they way you do this determines the quality of your art. Together with pressing the shutter at the right time, of course. Photography is easy *1), you just need to get two things right.

Think Different!

Turning a Slogan on it’s Head

Just to set the record straight: I know this is wrong usage and the second word should be adverbial. „-ly“, you know. Apple

I Dreamt of the Bechers Tonight

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Error Circle

A smurf tied up in the forest

Sometimes there are so many errors in an image that quality comes round again to being, dare I say, good? Example in case above. I had expired