Podcast
You won't see me in front of a camera often, but I was honored to be invited on the Happy Snappin podcast (by James Warner) and really enjoyed talking about vintage digital cameras as well as a bit of infrared and other photo related stuff...
Happy Place
Most of my day is spent at this desk. Since this image I have been forced to include the ugly work PC here as well, thus the cable management was an even bigger challenge than this. Click the image to see some of my previous workstations (they were not always this clean). Alternatively, click here for more info about the mini PC, with a custom 3D printed fan shroud that allow 140mm fans to cool a 3080Ti GPU inside a sub-13 litre case...
Audio Reviews
I used to review headphone audio gear, but these days I never seem to have enough time. If I start them up again, I have a good backlog of items to go through:
DACs & Amps
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Sony UDA-1
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Hifime USB-C
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Topping D90SE
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Monoprice Monolith THX
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Dayton Audio HTA200
Headphones
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Sony WH-1000XM4
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HyperX Alpha Wireless
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Sennheiser HD600
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Beyerdynamic DT1990
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Audeze LCD-2
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Sennheiser HD800
Squirrel Photography
Did you know that if you squirrels are great for holding a pose? Yeah, good luck with that :P. I have been rather obsessed with photographing Eurasian Red squirrels since the pandemic. I now have so much content that I gave them their own tab.
Photogrammetry
Lately I have been getting in to photogrammetry (making 3D models via batches of photographs). Making mostly tree trunks, with the idea of finishing the upper branches and foliage in SpeedTree, for use in real-time game engines.
Experimental Photography
I enjoy many other multi-image photographic stitching techniques, like stacking, HDR and panoramas, but "Bokeh Panoramas" have long been one of my favorite techniques. I made a Facebook group for the technique here, if you're curious, feel free to join...
Camera Dials
I had an idea to improve physical dials on a digital camera, so made this 3D model. I wanted them to work in a more tactile way. It would show and allow the user to change all manual settings as well as various levels of automation and limitation even when the electronics are switched off. I need to improve the model and texture it... one day...
Entertainment
Here are some of my favourite things to watch and play...
Movies
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The Thing
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Aliens
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Empire Strikes Back
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Mad Max Fury Road
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The Martian
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The Winter Soldier
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Seven
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Ghost In The Shell
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SuperBad
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Kiki's Delivery Service
TV
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Fringe
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Always Sunny
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The Orville
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Angel
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The IT Crowd
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Star Trek: TNG
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Breaking Bad
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Cracker
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Lost
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Rick & Morty
Games
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Halo
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Half Life 2
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The Last Of Us
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Dirt Rally 2
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Black
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Red Alert
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Crysis
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Resident Evil
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Drive Club
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Carmageddon
Lightweight & Budget
I recently decided to see how much subject isolation I could get out of a small, light and reasonably priced camera (& lens). I knew this could be interesting, but even I was blown away by what you can get for 700g and €500...
€500
€2000
CCD vs CMOS
I had owned CCD cameras years ago and not noticed any downsides with CMOS camera in the years since. Any conversations about CCD images looking nicer I had long since dismissed as fanboyism, but I had to rethink this after photographing squirrels in the forest with a Nikon D1. It was time for me to do some more scientific testing...
Future Projects
Making racing games & designing racing routes in 3D, through city streets has developed an interested for infrastructure and city design. The more I look into ideal urban design, public transport, responsible social spending, eliminating polution, sustainable happier shared spaces, green energy etc. the more I want to design my own cities from scratcgh. I am planning to design mini dioramas in realtime 3D engines like Unreal 5 to show how this could work.