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2. June 2023

Nikons Mirrorless Camera Ecosystem

Updated: 2023-06-02 To Z or not to Z … . The Z-series of Nikon cameras is the change from lens-reflex to mirrorless design in the Nikon camera ecosystem. Its this design change that Sony made years ago and where other camera manufacturers found their niche to survive against the big DSLR duopoly (Canon/Nikon). Since in a shrinking market the profits...

Fotografie/Lens Tests/Nikon/Workflow

27. March 2023

Is AI or Deep Learning killing the job-market for creatives?

Short version: kind of! – I believe partly YES! With the appearance of ChatGPT, Midjourney (using discord). DALL-E-2 and Stable Diffusion (open source) Deep Learning (DL) (some are AI) concepts seem to take over some of the markets for creatives (other models are clearly specialized on specific markets: BioBERT, camemBERT, BioNeMo – https://hbr.org/2022/11/how-generative-ai-is-changing-creative-work ). Btw this collection will be quickly...

AI/Review/Workflow

19. June 2020

The Near Infrared Adventure

Some shots with the IR converted Nikon D800. The conversion was done by lifepixel.com and the D800 came in right within the Corona lockdown time window – right in time to do some tests and to find out how to handle the NIR Raw files. In short: a different world! Thinking in Near Infrared is totally switching away from the...

Near Infrared/Workflow

25. April 2020

Grading Images – Capture One, Lightroom Classic and what Wacom has all to do with it …

Corona Contemplations In winter I usually try to find some time to concentrate on some creative unpaid projects that I started in summer capturing images but where I didnt manage to get the post processing and image grading or stitching or overlays done at all. So I usually have some raw jewels sitting in my archive that I have to...

Review/Workflow

27. March 2020

SARS-CoV-2 Cartograms

Europe: death rate per 1000 infected persons in Europe based on data from the European Centre of Disease Control and Prevention. (https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea), status: 29.03.2020: Cartogram reprojected data using ESRI vector base dataset for Europe. Update with data from 29-03-2020. Legend removed for quicker upload. The data is slightly distorted since not all federal states report infection numbers regularly on a...

Covid19/Workflow

26. December 2019

On-Speculation Shootings – a 2019 Review

Between the Years Contemplations I Some thoughts about On-Spec Shootings. 2019 was one of the years where I did intentionally reduced the amount of “on speculation” photo shoots. Most of us started that way – doing shoots that you hope someone recognizes and where you can sell some images later – given that you have the right contacts – the...

Regatta Fotografie/Wellenfotografie/Workflow

30. April 2019

Capture One 12 vers Lightroom 6 & Classic

Capture One 12 vers. Lightroom 6 & Classic: The big non-destructive RAW editor competition: Capture One 12 vers LR Classic. The debate is hot and ongoing – especially since Adobe went subscription only with LR. Being a LR guy I tested Capure One now for a while and found it to be much faster (than LR) and much better...

Fotografie/Review/Workflow

31. December 2018

Tilt and shift photography – visual creativity unleashed

Tilt and Shift Photography – Visual Creativity Unleashed Since winter is the time for some contemplation – and since I thought a lot about these PC/TS lenses: here a short report about my work and ideas with this lens concept. If you are constantly searching for new ways to visualize – than the Tilt/Shift lenses (or “Perspective Control” – PC...

Lens Tests/Nikon/Review/Workflow

24. October 2018

Danish Open – Freestyle & Nikon D850 Firmware 1.03

Tested the new Nikon D850 firmware 1.03 shooting the Danish Open 2018 – Freestyle Windsurfing competition, an event at Klitmöller/Denmark. Pretty good occasion to check if the system freezes I had all these last months are now history for this camera with the new firmware. My main annoyance with this (apart from this problem) great DSLR. And yes: I had...

Regatta Fotografie/Review/Wellenfotografie/Workflow

10. May 2018

Jack of all trades – the D850 experience

The Jack of all Trades – the Nikon D850 A more recent version of this article is available in the review section: https://www.sailpower.de/?page_id=7794 In short: very speedy package with perfect autofocus system, buffer and sensor res are great. Weakness so far: random system freezes and AF in video. Random freezes seems to be fixed with firmware 1.03. Update 21.10.2018: the...

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