Thoughts are free, who can guess them?
They flee by like nocturnal shadows.
No man can know them, no hunter can shoot them,
with powder and lead: Thoughts are free!
About www.weisserth.net
Tobias Weisserth
Hamburg, Germany
photographer & independent gearhead

First heavy snow in Hamburg

Posted by polarapfel on Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:25

Winter arrived

Hamburg, Germany. December 6, 2011. All rights reserved.

Winter decided to visit Hamburg today with the first heavy snowfall tonight after some smaller showers already occurred earlier this week. I had my GF1 with me, happily taking a couple of snapshots after we finished a dinner snack at the Christmas market downtown.

I guess Hamburg is not New York

Posted by polarapfel on Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:15

Mönckebergstraße Weihnachtsparade

Mönckebergstraße, Hamburg. Germany. November 2011.

I genuinely enjoy living in Hamburg. The city has posh, swanky areas that appeal to my sophisticated side and on the other hand, it’s laid back enough so I can feel good enough about myself leaving the apartment with a shabby, laid back look. Some areas of Hamburg certainly have that urban grittiness associated with the world’s top cities such as Paris, London, New York and Tokyo, but looking closely, I guess “Hamburg is not New York” – at least not when considering the Christmas Parade taking place during the weekends on Hamburg’s premier shopping mile, Mönckebergstraße.

Masahiro Suzuki, General Manager R&D, Nikon interviewed about the Nikon 1

Posted by polarapfel on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:30

Since the launch of Nikon’s new Nikon 1 camera system, public reactions have been very strong with a lot of negative feedback on blogs about the apparent shortcomings of Nikon’s new camera system.

imaging resource has conducted an exclusive interview with Masahiro Suzuki, General Manager R&D of Nikon. Asked about the image quality of Nikon’s new cameras, his answer surprises:

MS: We are quite confident that we achieved almost exactly the same quality as our DSLR.

DE: (surprised) The same quality as DSLRs.

MS: Yes…Please evaluate! (laughs)

DE: Yes, obviously, we’ll test and we’ll hold you to that! That’s very interesting, because this is a much smaller sensor, but you say the same quality.

MS: Mm-hmm.

I really doubt Nikon’s cameras will be able to live up to this claim.

Motorola sucks. Android sucks.

Posted by polarapfel on Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:05

I have given it enough time. This is not a flame war initiated by an ignorant addict to Apple’s iOS devices. But enough is enough. Android sucks. This blog post is based on my personal experience of running the stock Android my Motorola Defy came with for several months.

Large prints available in limited edition

Posted by polarapfel on Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:53

The BadJupiter Project is now offering large print editions of some of my work from the In Motion series. Available now, you can order prints of “checking“, “A tribute to Harley Davidson” and “Balanced“.

Prints are limited to 80 prints of each released images. More images will be released soon.