In recent years, my DSLR has been a Pentax K10D. It is in many ways an excellent camera, but it also has its weaknesses, and since the model was launched in 2006, it is in many ways outdated by today’s standard. In fact, Pentax has launched four new top models since K10D. Finally, I thought it was time for a replacement, and have bought a K-5 II. These are some of my first impressions after a few weeks of use. The target audience is primarily other Pentax users, who might be considering an upgrade.
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Turkey
In April I made a short trip to Turkey, as I was invited to speak at the European Museum Academy’s presentation of the Micheletti-award in Bursa. A few travel photos are now on Flickr.
Autumn in Italy
A couple of photos from a (far too) short trip to Milan, Bergamo and Brescia: Milan, a view from the cathedral roof Evening in Bergamo Brescia, view from the fortification More photos on Flickr.
Detroit – still alive
Now the sweet bells of mercy
Drift through the evening trees
Young men on the corner
Like scattered leaves
The boarded up windows
The empty streets
While my brother’s down on his knees
My city of ruins
My city of ruins
Come on rise up! Come on rise up!
Bruce Springsteen
With publications such as “Ruins of Detroit” og “Detroit Disassembled”, the Motor City has become quite en vogue lately photographically. Admittedly, the ruins from the city’s grand industrial past are spectacular. Especially when you, as the authors of the above mentioned books, have had – or simply taken – the opportunity to climb in behind the plywood barriers and barbed wire, to take a look inside.
Teignmouth
During easter, I had the opportunity to stay a couple of days in Teignmouth with my familiy. Not knowing anything about the place in advance, we chose it since it was conviniently situated for exploring a bit of southern England. It turned out to be very nice. Very British – but in a charming and … Read more
Virtual spring
I’m seriously tired of winter, cold weather and darkness. As a small reminder of what spring actually looks like, I found an old photo from the garden, and chose it as my PCwallpaper. It helped raising my spirit a bit. If you would like a daily greeting from better days to come, feel free to download the image in 1920×1200 pixels here.
Cool scanning
One day at work, I stumbled upon an older Nikon film scanner, that someone had given up getting to run under Windows 7. It was a Cool Scan IV ED, for which Nikon have not made drivers since 32-bit Vista. That was of course a challenge I could not ignore. A little googling revealed a few ninja tricks, and soon the scanner was running fine on a 64 bits Win7 system.
Lee Miller – portræt af en tid
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