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About a year ago I got a fancy Canon Pro 200 photo printer.

It is so rare to hold a piece of true high tech in your hands: Modern cameras cram almost physics-defying sensors and lenses into a consumer-affordable device1.

I've been feeling unmoored lately.

So I was annoyed with my Apple computer, and decided to try Linux again.

Yesterday, my wife wanted to use Discord on her Apple laptop.

When we render a photo, we mimic the psychovisual effects of image brightness.

My reading goes in phases; the last phase was a lot of phantastic Science Fiction.

I've been printing my own family calendar over the last year.

My friends and colleagues often complain about Windows 11.

One of our Pixel 6a phones recently had its battery bricked by a mandatory software update.

What's in a perfect lens?

In the world of photography, there is one brand that stands apart from the rest: Leica.

At most companies I have worked for, there was some internal Python code base that relied on an old version of Python.

Meta just invested 30 Billion Dollars into AI accelerators1.

Even though I did read some fiction last year, non really stuck with me.

For the last dozen years, I have used Emacs as my text editor and development environment.

From January 2021 to the beginning of 2023, I worked on a legacy code base at Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg.

I was an Apple fanboy some years ago.

Around this time of the year, I usually write a blog post about my favorite books of the last year.

It's that time of the year again when all image editing programs come out with new versions.

You know what I like to see when I import photos from my Fujifilm camera into Darktable?

A while ago, I bought an RNI film pack for Capture One.

Hologrammatica In the last years, I have almost exclusively read books in English.

When I recently installed Windows 11 on my desktop, my photo editor Darktable suddenly got much slower than it used to be.

When I bought into the Fuji system, I selected the XF 18‑135 f/3.5‑5.6 R LM OIS WR as my main zoom lens.

With version 3.0, my favorite photo editing software Darktable started the journey towards a scene-referred editing pipeline.

Some of my photographic lenses are reknown for their outstanding sharpness, others are said to be mediocre.

Chickenhawk Most first hand accounts of wars I have read are written by a somewhat amateur author.

About half a year ago, my second child was born, and all that precious free time I had used for photo editing evaporated.

My Pixel 2 phone received its final software update the other day, and its battery took the occasion to really show its age.

Most cameras have the option to capture raw images, i.e. un-processed image data right from the image sensor.

A common trope in discussions about cameras on the internet is: “sensor size trumps all”, and as a corollary, “smartphone cameras suck”.

After years of using Linux on my desktop, I decided to install Windows on my computer, to get access to a few commercial photo editing applications.

Assembling scientific documents is a complex task.

This semester is weird.

This video series was produced in the spring of 2020, during the COVID19-pandemic, when all lectures had to be held electronically, without physical attendance.

It bit me again: I got software envy.

To quote Wikipedia: Open Source Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software in which source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for

This video series was produced in the spring of 2020, during the COVID19-pandemic, when all lectures had to be held electronically, without physical attendance.

Sapiens More than any other book this year, Sapiens changed my view of the world.

Darktable is my favorite RAW editor.

There was a time, maybe from 2009 to 2011, when Apple computers were glorious.

A few days ago, a new version of Darktable was released.

We went on a once-in-a-lifetime vacation this year.

Our first stop in speech analysis is usually the short-time Fourier transform, or STFT1: Top: an STFT of speech (it's me, saying: "Es war einmal ein Mann").

A periodic signal has a harmonic spectrum.

Now that I am officially a failed scientist, I might as well talk about my research in public.

As part of my PhD, I am supposed to publish three papers.

So I bought a new camera.

A common internet wisdom about photography is that bigger camera sensors capture more light.