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China

zaphod — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:33:25 +0000

Only two days left to pack up the gear…

If you want to follow our China trip, please visit http://vierfrankeninchina.blogspot.com/

Canon 7D hands on review

mogh — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:27:56 +0000

Good stuff:

new button on top called “M-FN” for storing FEL data and other stuff. good placement

On/Off Switch Finally on top … accidently switching your camera of with your Jacket is past tense.

Movie Mode Switch

Body Design is very “grippy”

viewfinder grid and 19 Affpoints work fine

Remote Flash works finally without a bulky ST-2

Not so cool:

“M-FN” Button a little small for big hands (not my problem though)

“M-FN” Button to set the AF point modus is totaly out of the normal Menue setting routine (it had to get something important that button huh ;-) why not the thumbwheel / main wheel as alsways ?)

thumb wheel lock button is still misinterpretable but thats just me as a Designer complaining

18MP means more noise, means bigger files, means lesser write performance (that red light at the back wont go of for a long time if something worth shooting comes around)

they could have made the viewfinder information bigger – and more info

remote flashs are fired by small flash – could get messy in diffucult light sittuations why not infrared ??? anyway i would like to see a real radio remote flash system from Canon in the future

Bad Stuff:

Coolie Hat / Joystick or however you want to name it is heavily restricted in its new function to move through menues – the thumb wheel is the menue master now. (i would like to add the coolie hat in the camera functions to move through menues)

Raw / Jpg switch is for people who shot JPG and ocassionally want to shot “one” !!! RAW … no other function is programable …. (only different sizes) I would rather have this as a switch button …

on the old Canon bodys the light on the top LCD could be set to auto if i remember , that switching on of the light is getting on my nerves

I somehow have the feeling that the Canon 500D had the best Interface graphically spoken – resulting in ergonomics. the 7D is a little bit cluttered again.

Pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mogh

Thorsten geht zu RedBull!

Administrator — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:01:08 +0000

Thorsten

http://thorstengehtzuredbull.blogspot.com/

Thorsten wants to get a new job… the hard way…

Fagget Fairys

mogh — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:34:34 +0000

There are only so many Records I bye these days … but the new Debut from Fagget Fairys From Denmark was worth the buy I cant stop lisstening.

Its the right amount from everything, Rumbling Breakbeat, weird sounds, nice exotic vocals and on top a little bit balkan beats, Just as I like to ride my horse ;-)

We saw them back in Juli 2007 in Vegas Copenhagen, just a few months after these two met and startet to make music together, I just recall to have broken feat from all the breakbeat dancing then. They definetly move your feet.

go and listen
http://www.myspace.com/faggetfairys

over and out

Arrr!

zaphod — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:42:31 +0000

Robert Templeton did it again

mogh — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:49:40 +0000

He just recompiled and fixed the old and shabby Advanced Atom Array which I guessed would never be resurected, but he did it in favor for the C4D Community.
Big thanks again to Robert Templeton
Kuroyume’s DevelopmentZone for recompiling and fixing the the R11 and x64 releases. (stop by his site and give him a hug – paypal donation …)

get the Advanced Atom Array plugin on the C4D-Plugin link on the right …

regards mogh

C4D Updates

mogh — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:41:38 +0000

First of all i did a little modelling for a friend. A handsome bike Helmet. and since some people asked for a mini tutorial here it is.

Secondly the all mighty kuroyume did a x64 recompile of the AVT & Flanger maker plugin – yipppieh!
And since this was a good occation, I made a new Icon for AVT to fit more into the new C4D Sheme.

regards mogh

There is a new page in town

mogh — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:39:16 +0000

Yes after several years of ideling www.janweigand.de occupies a functional portfolio of myself.

The site is coded manual by hand, no special program was used in the prozess. It uses Javascript and PHP for convinient use and maintainace. The special minimizing and maximizing acordion effects are coded with Adobe Spry Ajax Framework The Image displaying is done by Shadowbox.js by Michael J. I. Jackson.

This site can also be viewed in different colorshemes controlled by css style sheets.
Feel free to look around but don’t copy anything without asking me.

CERN LHC

zaphod — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:39:24 +0000

Yesterday me, a friend and his colleague visited the doomsday device in Geneva.

I didn’t expect so many people to find something boring like physics so interesting ;-)

People stood already in line when we showed up at 9:30, half an hour after opening.

At about 12:30 we were at the front of the queue and got tickets to visit the LHC tunnel at 16:00 ;-(

So we went out for lunch an checked out the other sights on the CERN campus.

After some more queuing at 16:00 we finally got in. All in all it was very impressive, but a bit short for all the waiting time.

When we got out, the queue for the ATLAS detector seemed reasonably short. So we decided to give it a shot. After about 20 minutes we were in the next batch of people to enter the caves.

They showed us a presentation and a 3D movie, and then we took the elevator down to the cavern.

It was an absolutely gigantic apparatus. The most complex piece of technology in the biggest man-made cave.

Check out the pictures:

Creative Commons

zaphod — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:39:46 +0000

I’ve been using the Creative Commons license for my photos for quite some time now.

Yesterday I was informed that one of my images has been used in a film.
The picture they used can be seen at 2 minutes 17 seconds.