Category: Nerd stuff
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Charging a Sony WH1000 Mk3
I own a Sony WH1000 Mk3. Like (apparently) many others, I have wondered how to get the thing to charge. Liker so many of us, I wondered why, very often, the charging light would go on for what? 10? 15? seconds, and then turn off. After suspecting cables, power supplies, and eventually things like ambient…
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On how we deal with time
The concept of time, how we perceive it, and what we can do with what is given us. The day before I started writing this, someone talked about “killing time”, and was then asked by someone else what that actually means. This set off a train of thought… and like trains of thought tend to…
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The Poor Man’s Home Photo Studio
I have a little budget-on-a-shoestring photo studio setup here. It went through several stages, mostly stages of woe, until I settled on what I use now. I started out using various cheap RF camera triggers, and corresponding receivers for the flash units, a flash meter, two secondhand flashes, cardboard home-made light shapers (soft box, snoot,…
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How I photograph paintings – on a budget
As you may have read somewhere else, my beloved is a painter (she’ll deny it, but it’s true). She works with oil on canvas, and has recently also picked up aquarels. My task is to photograph her pictures as accurately as possible, for her portfolio web site. Mind you: this is not a howto! What…
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The Gear Factor
No, this is not the eternal Canon vs. Nikon debate… if only because I avoided that route altogether (more on that later). This goes into the question itself — does it matter what gear we use? Without further ado, here’s my version of The Answer: 1. It depends on the photographer’s personality Some of us…
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Polymorphism, inheritance, and interfaces
Someone had trouble figuring out why .NET comes with all these interfaces for collections, so I thought, let’s write a concise blog post about that. Okay, that was a joke. I don’t do concise. And then I found out that I needed to explain interfaces, and polymorphism, and therefore inheritance, as well. So, rather than…
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Heavy machinery
On how the Dynax 7 refuses to give up its crown without a fight In a prior article, I summed up the difference between the Minolta Dynax 800si and the Dynax 7. The Dynax 7 is my favourite Minolta autofocus film camera, with one caveat: it appears to have a well-earned reputation for dying horribly…
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How to not get hacked
(yes… I’ve been happily splitting infinitives since before you were born, most likely) Some time ago, I wrote this little article when there was a slew of people with hacked Facebook- and Instagram accounts. It occurred to me that the vast majority of these people made the same mistake: using the same password for different services.…
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Making movies–the sequel
Seeing some stuff on Youtube, I was recently inspired to get my action cam stuck to the helmet, to be able to document the odd ride. I plan to do more of that – not just on the motorcycle, but also on bicyle rides. Editing videos In order to take scenes from the camera and…
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The Battle Of Wide-Angle Forest
Recently, I felt the need to extend my wide-angle range for my manual-focus Minolta cameras. I had an MD 35-70/f3.5 (the third version, non-macro), but I wanted to extend in the direction of a 24mm. Some time ago, I had a Vivitar 24mm, but I sold that together with an XM. Which I regretted… Initially,…