Better than better

This rather enthusiastic article goes on about the great technological advances in digital cameras this year. How digital cameras are getting more responsive, like conventional cameras are today. How sensors and with them image quality improves, again like film today. How storage capacity gets bigger, how image stabilisation will be part of any camera... 

From the series Photographic Japanese

切現 [きりげん] (kirigen) is Japanese for clip test. It is easy to remember because kiri means ‘to cut’ and gen is the gen in genzou (development). At the lab I daringly used kurippu tesuto, thinking it is probably an imported term anyway, but far from it. There is actually a Japanese term for it, which I always note and appreciate. ... 

Photos from Bali

It took a while, but here they finally are: pictures taken during our one week holiday in Bali, Indonesia in January. The reason for the delay is that we simply took too many pics: 4 rolls of film and over 100 with the digital. Editing and captioning those takes longer than you think. And even after an admittedly not very stringent edit, 156 pictures... 

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