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My name is Sascha Losko. I am a biologist working for a bioinformatics company in the Greater Munich Area, Germany. More…
Recent blog entries:
■ Nikon D4 announced!
■ Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines — New Gallery
■ Thinking differently — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
■ St. Jacob ("Scots Monastery"), Regensburg
■ Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
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Nikon D4 announced!
Nikon has officially announced its new professional DSLR, the Nikon D4. A competitor to the Canon 1Dx (which presumably will hit the market about a month later than the Nikon D4), the biggest change here if compared to Nikon’s old D3 line of cameras are its new video capabilities. However, there are quite a number of new and improved features to drool about:
- Nikon FX-format CMOS sensor with 16.2 effective megapixels
- 91K-pixel RGB sensor for metering, white balance, flash exposure, face detection and active d-lighting
- ISO Range 100-12,800 (50 – 204,800 with boost)
- Multi-area mode Full HD D-Movie 1080p(24/25/30 fps), 720p (up to 60 fps)
- Improved high-speed image-processing engine EXPEED 3
- 51-point AF system with better performance in low-light situations and with smaller apertures (f8)
- Dual card slots for CF card compatible with UDMA 7 and the new XQD memory card (just announced by Sony).
- High-speed continuous shooting at approx. 11 fps in FX format without AE/AF and approx. 10 fps with AE/AF
- Glass pentaprism viewfinder with approx. 100% frame coverage (FX format) and approx. 0.7x magnification
- Approx. 921k-dot, wide-viewing angle, 8-cm (3.2-in.) LCD monitor with reinforced glass
- "Sub-selector" for horizontal shooting and "Multi selector for vertical shooting" joysticks/buttons
- Button illumination for better handling in low-light situations
- Virtual horizon that detects both "pitching" and "rolling" directions.
- New shutter unit tested for 400,000 cycles; shutter speed up to 1/8,000 s and flash synchronization up to 1/250 s
- Build-in Ethernet port allow to hook up to your network
- New optional Wireless Transmitter with a/b/g/n Wi-Fi support
- HTTP mode to remotely control the camera with any Internet enabled device (iPhone/iPad optimized)
Joe McNally has hands-on experience already, visit his blog for more!
The announced price is about U.S. $6000. Now, let's wait what the still unannounced Nikon D800 is going to offer…
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines — New Gallery
Saturday, 22 October 2011 ■ Stored in: Photography
Recently, I joined a local photo club „Blende 1“ here in Munich (have a look at their members galleries). What I really enjoy are the excursions this club organizes on a regular basis. A few weeks ago, we went to an oldtimer air show near Stuttgart in Sothern Germany. The biennial „Hahnweide Oldtimer-Fliegertreffen“ is one of the largest oldtimer meetings in Europe, and a great event to dust off your long lenses. I added a new gallery to my collection, just click on the photo below.
Greetings from Hahnweide!
Greetings from Hahnweide!
Thinking differently — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
Saturday, 08 October 2011 ■ Stored in: General
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Apple, Inc.
St. Jacob ("Scots Monastery"), Regensburg
Wednesday, 07 September 2011 ■ Stored in: Photography
We visited the UNESCO World Heritage Site Regensburg, one of the most well-maintained medieval cities in Germany. I particularly liked the church St. Jacob, which goes under the name „Schottenkirche“ (Scots Monastery). St. Jacob is quite famous because of the northern portal with its mysterious images. We were lucky, light flooded the church and I got some nice shots…
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
Thursday, 25 August 2011 ■ Stored in: General
The man who pioneered the idea of a personal microcomputer in the late 70th, refining it by introducing the graphical user interface to "… the rest of us" in the early 80th — who these days, ironically, works quite successfully on making the very same concept of the PC obsolete — has resigned his post as CEO of Apple.
Jobs in 1996, the year he returned to Apple:
In 2007, Apple introduces the iPhone, in 2010 the iPad. These days, we certainly live in interesting times again. Steve Jobs hands over the now most valuable company in the world in terms of market capitalization to his successor, Tim Cook. Steve Jobs remains at Apple, taking the position of Chairman of the Board.
Steve Jobs on creating products:
Lot’s of „obituaries“ are starting to show up on the internet. If you want to read one, read this one on Infoworld. Written by someone personally screwed over by Steve Jobs, I think the respect that article shows can’t be argued with by simply insinuating „fandom“.
Jobs in 1996, the year he returned to Apple:
- "The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade."
In 2007, Apple introduces the iPhone, in 2010 the iPad. These days, we certainly live in interesting times again. Steve Jobs hands over the now most valuable company in the world in terms of market capitalization to his successor, Tim Cook. Steve Jobs remains at Apple, taking the position of Chairman of the Board.
Steve Jobs on creating products:
- "Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. … To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that."
- "Focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."
- "People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully."
- "There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love: 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will."
Lot’s of „obituaries“ are starting to show up on the internet. If you want to read one, read this one on Infoworld. Written by someone personally screwed over by Steve Jobs, I think the respect that article shows can’t be argued with by simply insinuating „fandom“.
