7D – ISO800 – 1/200 s – f/6.3 – 600 mm
Coldness has arrived
February 6th, 2012 by Simon No comments »Winter had been very warm (5-15°C) this year until some days ago. Now daytime temperatures are rarely exceeding -10°C and at night the thermometer hits -20°C or less. I never saw so much ice on the Saale.
7D – ISO100 – 1/250 s – f/8 – 10 mm
7D – ISO100 – 1/6400 s – f/1.4 – 30 mm
Iceberg in sight!
7D – ISO200 – 1/2000 s – f/4 – 150 mm
White ice crystals on clear ice
7D – ISO – 1/ s – f/ – mm
Thin sheets of ice covering the whole river
7D – ISO200 – 1/ 800s – f/4 – 150 mm
7D – ISO200 – 1/250 s – f/5.6 – 21 mm
7D – ISO200 – 1/250 s – f/5.6 – 50 mm
7D – ISO200 – 1/160 s – f/5.6 – 150 mm
7D – ISO400 – 1/500 s – f/4 – 150 mm through the window
Sun and snow
January 15th, 2012 by Simon No comments »Tübingen, December 2011
7D – ISO100 – 1/640 s – f/2 – 85 mm
7D – ISO100 – 1/1000 s – f/2.8 – 85 mm
Yellow dots aka apples on the white tree
7D – ISO100 – 1/500 s – f/2 – 30 mm
What happened friday night?
November 5th, 2011 by Simon No comments »
Saturday morning on a bridge over the river Saale in Jena.
7D – ISO100 – 1/1000 s – f/2 – 30 mm
Fall has come
October 19th, 2011 by Simon No comments »Not much time to take pictures but there will be better times 
7D – ISO200 – 1/1000 s – f/4 – 300 mm
7D – ISO200 – 1/1250 s – f/4 – 300 mm
7D – ISO200 – 1/2000 s – f/4 – 300 mm
Upgrading external hard drives
September 8th, 2011 by Simon No comments »I have several external USB hard drives for multiple backups. Of course hard discs are getting bigger every year – as do the files from digital cameras.
So I was wondering if I could just swap the “old” discs for new, bigger, more efficient and more silent ones.
The short answer is: Yes, you can but there are some limits.
I have bought a Seagate Barracuda ST2000DL003 (2TB, SATA) – very silent and doesn’t get too warm even after transfering 100GB+.
I wanted to replace the 500GB drive from a Western Digital Elements WD5000C035-000 but it doesn’t seem to work. I then tried to replace the 1TB drive from the WD10000E035 and it works! The 1TB WD drive also works as a replacement for the 500GB drive so everything went well.
In short:
2 TB Seagate SATA drive works fine in a WD10000E035 but NOT in a WD5000C035 case
1TB WD Caviar Green works in a WD5000C035 case
I would be interested in reports about other “upgrades” because I didn’t find anything on this topic on the web.
