B&H deal: Lightroom 3 for $ 149.99! Act quick!

Well, here’s a deal! B&H Photo are offering Adobe Lightroom 3 for only $ 149.99 — that’s 50% off of the regular price! However, the offer is only valid until tomorrow, Oct. 4th, 11:59 a.m. eastern time, i.e. 15:59 UTC.

Lightroom 3 is certainly one of the best RAW editors as well as workflow solutions there are currently on the market, and appeals both to professionals and amateurs. If you don’t own it yet and are looking for a powerful RAW workflow software for both Windows and MAC, or if you’ve been wanting to buy it but the price tag kept you off — then here’s your chance at a really great deal! Act now as long as the offer is valid!

October 3rd, 2011, 8:20 pm | | Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

Quote of the day

I would not select the Canon [1D Mark II N] and a few L lenses for a fun walk across a city. I’m not into recreational weightlifting.

– Kirk Tuck

September 28th, 2011, 10:33 am | | Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

I guess I’m equipped for a little while … except …

My current stock of film and film cameras. This’ll keep me busy for a couple months, I guess :-)

Top left: Black-and-white negative emulsions. Lucky 100, Delta 400, Tri-X 400, T-MAX 400.

Bottom left: Colour negative emulsions. Fuji Reala 100, Fuji Pro 160C, Ektar 100, Fuji Pro 400H, Portra 400, Portra 160VC, Portra 160, Portra 800.

Right: Colour reversal emulsions. Elite Chrome Extra Color, Ektar E100G, Ektar E100VS, Fuji Pro 400H, Provia 400X, Astia 100F, Velvia 50, Velvia 100, Provia 100F.

To say it with Alan Parsons: “Try anything once.”

The only drawback at the moment is that my Yashica is denying operation, some electronics failure I guess. I will either have to take it apart or have it taken apart. Maybe I can fix it myself, but if not, it’s going to be expensive … So, no shooting b&w film at the moment. (You can’t use a Zeiss lens on b&w film. Seriously. You can’t.)

August 14th, 2011, 10:21 am | , , | Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

Site statistics: most searched keywords

I’ve got a plugin for my WordPress installation that records all the traffic going through my website. One feature is that it records the keywords by which Google searches are redirected to my website. Here are the current top five keywords as of today, August 5th, 2011:

  1. “leica x2″ — 314 redirects
  2. “35/1.2 version ii asph nokton” — 119 redirects
  3. “efixmedia” — 112 redirects
  4. “helios multifinder” — 92 redirects
  5. “pentax 25 1.4″ — 85 redirects

Wow! 314 people looking searching “leica x2″ were redirected to my site, and that because of one single April fool’s prank post I made this year … Obviously, the Leica X2 is in high demand already!

Also interesting is that so many people seem to be looking for that crappy Helios Multifinder. Sorry, for using that word, but it really is crappy. So don’t bother looking for it …

EDIT: To put things into perspective, the redirects for “leica x2″ are since April this year. The redirects for “helios multifinder” are since early last year.

August 5th, 2011, 10:25 pm | | Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

Helicopter landing

Here’s the video of the helicopter landing in front of our house. My memory card went full halfway through, so unfortunately I couldn’t film its takeoff.

August 5th, 2011, 3:18 pm | , | Uncategorized | One comment |
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