That’s the already the second post summarizing several hours of reviewing many websites and playing with different software packages. And it’s not an easy task as there are now so many different approaches and philosophies of route planning: biking/hiking or flying; it may vary for certain Alpine regions and rapidly change over time as Open Street Map is catching up. At the end of the day, I need just a perfect track loaded to the Garmin and a printed map that I can use as backup. (Show me more…)

While planing our Transalp trip next summer I discovered a new way to transfer maps to my 60CSX (Show me more…)

Here comes a do it yourself tip for a portable striplight (basically build from a standard scientist equipment). Just insert a white or silver paper into a transparen poster roll by leaving a 5 cm gap between the paper ages for light outlet (my one comes from a company called “Rumold” and can be bought at Amazon although I bought mine 10 years ago at Theresienstrasse/Munich). Then insert the flash reflector into the upper aperture that’s it. Setup time is <1min, costs are <15€, weight is approx 440 gram including paper, effective light outlet 92 cm.

I couldn’t resist to buy some of these praised flash (and camera!) triggers from an ebay shop in Hongkong. Pocketwizards have been out of reach for me, being sold in .de at incredible prices here in Germany. But pride goeth before a fall – these new devices simply work. Here comes my first picture here where I clamped a SB-600 on a RF-602 (56 gram) on a Gorillapod (45g) – with the gorilla being certainly at it’s limit.

Just a minor warning (Show me more…)

I just returned from Brugge where we could get a panoramic view on vitamin D research – just click to see the full resolution if you have been also there ;-)

The scientific program is otherwise online; what is not being online are some remarkable moments in time honoring Roger Bouillon and Anthony W. Norman with a lifetime award. (Show me more…)

Doing science photography now with more professional equipment, my earlier Picasa way is being outdated. Working then with Adobe’s Bridge to organise my pictures, I think I will have to update now either to Aperture or to Lightroom. Playing with both trial versions, I see advantages for Lightroom: higher speed, better preview compression and configurable (Show me more…)