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11. August 2024

The Nikon Z8 Workhorse Experience

Z8 menus in deep space mode ;-) Some subjective notes about my experiences with the Nikon Z8. Take from it what you like – your needs may totally differ from my needs ;). First upload: 11.8.2024 (corrections: 14.8.24 & 18.8.24), Update: 12.12.24: added Smallrig cage recommendations. Update: 17.09.25: updated comments about battery usage and MB-N12 battery grip and firmware V3....

Fotografie/Nikon/Review

2. June 2023

Nikons Mirrorless Camera Ecosystem

Updated: 2023-06-02 To Z or not to Z … . The Z-series of Nikon cameras is the change from lens-reflex to mirrorless design in the Nikon camera ecosystem. Its this design change that Sony made years ago and where other camera manufacturers found their niche to survive against the big DSLR duopoly (Canon/Nikon). Since in a shrinking market the profits...

Fotografie/Lens Tests/Nikon/Workflow

30. April 2019

Capture One 12 vers Lightroom 6 & Classic

Capture One 12 vers. Lightroom 6 & Classic: The big non-destructive RAW editor competition: Capture One 12 vers LR Classic. The debate is hot and ongoing – especially since Adobe went subscription only with LR. Being a LR guy I tested Capure One now for a while and found it to be much faster (than LR) and much better...

Fotografie/Review/Workflow

10. May 2018

Jack of all trades – the D850 experience

The Jack of all Trades – the Nikon D850 A more recent version of this article is available in the review section: https://www.sailpower.de/?page_id=7794 In short: very speedy package with perfect autofocus system, buffer and sensor res are great. Weakness so far: random system freezes and AF in video. Random freezes seems to be fixed with firmware 1.03. Update 21.10.2018: the...

Nikon/Review/Workflow

3. January 2018

Happy New Year 2018

Happy New Year 2018! I can only hope that 2018 will be as successful as 2017 has been for what I do. ’17 was just a fantastic year with lots of events that basically triggered new events and created kind of a chain-reaction for new contacts and event shooting requests. This was a year full of great sailing events and densely...

Kalender/Regatta Fotografie/Segel Kalender/Workflow

24. December 2017

Year-End Coastal Meditation

2017 was also pretty much a year of testing techniques and discovering new perspectives. I spend a lot of time to find out how create new perspectives with copters under various circumstances on water. The most recent copters are a perfectly stabilized platform and this has some potentials for new visuals. The successful Mirabaud 2017 shot is likely one of the best examples....

Copterphotography/Drohnenfotografie/Workflow

19. October 2017

Adobe Lightroom goes Subscription-Only!

Puh – this was bad news yesterday: Adobe published that Lightroom will be a subscription only software in the future. Lightroom 6.13 will be last stand alone update of Lightroom. Subscription based software licensing is a no-go for me. I will definitely move away from Adobe in the next two years. With support of the D850 in Version 6.13 I...

Workflow

14. August 2017

Preparing for the German Classics

Right back from our Scandinavia tour! Shot a lot of these fantastic landscapes at the west coast of Sweden and than also some in the North of Denmark. The mixed weather was kind of cool for doing all sorts of things photographically – from under-water towards copter night time and sunset shots and also using slomos at the coast. I...

Copterphotography/Drohnenfotografie/quadrocopter/Wellenfotografie/Workflow

13. June 2017

Copter based motion-time stacks

Some of the new interesting perspectives of copter based regatta and yacht photography clearly come with time series visuals – or as I would rather call it: “motion-time stacks”. Its not new in sports photography and with fast cont. autofocus and high speed cont. shooting speed we have seen it in motorbike sports, skiing , swimming and especially with athletics...

Copterphotography/Drohnenfotografie/quadrocopter/Regatta Fotografie/Workflow

19. May 2017

The new MBP “late 2016” – a mixed experience …

Have really fully settled on the OSX operating system and Apple hardware and in the last years I was indeed very satisfied – not necessary in terms of performance but clearly ergonomics and usability of the Apple ecosystem is working and most important it just lets you concentrate on doing things. Thats clearly what I learned to appreciate – and yes...

MacBook Pro/Workflow

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