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.

 

More Golden Retriever pictures

August 30th, 2011 by Simon No comments »

Such a fun dog!

 

7D – ISO 200 – 1/800 s – f/2.8 – 85 mm

 

7D – ISO 200 – 1/800 s – f/2.8 – 85 mm

 

7D – ISO 200 – 1/800 s – f/2.8 – 85 mm

 

7D – ISO 200 – 1/800 s – f/2.8 – 85 mm

 

7D – ISO 200 – 1/1000 s – f/2.8 – 85 mm

Berlin

August 18th, 2011 by Simon No comments »

 

Bundestag Station. The probably most useless and least frequented line 55 stops here.

 

And that’s why nobody uses it. No direct connection to the rest of the undergrund system.

 

“When I grow up I’m going to be a bus!”

 

Not Berlin but close: Tropical Islands

 

Yes, that’s a crane down there. And not a toy one, a real crane!

 

Stop SOPA