Author Archives: Marek Lewandowski

Olympus LS-5 (LS-11) vs. Sony ICD-SX750

Posted on 2011/07/24th by Marek Lewandowski

So, vor einiger Zeit habe ich den Olympus LS-5 gekauft (bis auf die Farbe und die Größe des eingebauten Speichers ist der LS-5 identisch mit dem Olympus LS-11). Wie hier schon beschrieben habe ich nach einem Ersatz fĂźr Sony ICD-SX750 … Continue reading →

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Tascam DR-07 vs. Sony ICD-SX750

Posted on 2011/01/23rd by Marek Lewandowski

Ich habe ein Upgrade fĂźr meinen Sony ICD-SX750 gesucht. Bei dem Sony hat mich ein relativ auffälliges Rauschpegel den eingebauten Mikrofone und ein relativ schmales Stereobild gestĂśrt. Von vorne weg: ich brauche ein Aufzeichnungsgerät als Pendant zu einer videofähigen SLR … Continue reading →

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Calibrating Gossen Lunasix 3 (LunaPro)

Posted on 2010/05/20th by Marek Lewandowski

Gossen Lunasix 3, although built around the early ’70, is a very capable hand-held meter even by today standards. It beats my Canon 20D built-in meter in terms of actual low-light performance by 5 stops. Unfortunately it belongs to one of these designs, that relied on mercury battery voltage staying constant throughout their life and mercury batteries were banned few years ago. This article describes, how to deal with this problem. Continue reading →

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On CdS meters

Posted on 2010/04/07th by Marek Lewandowski

Here: on CdS light meters v0.3.pdf you can find the most up-to-date version of my writeup on CdS meters. This is work in progress, but I wanted to use this excerpt in a web discussion already. I will update this … Continue reading →

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De-brick a Fujitsu-Siemens Loox (Or flash it back to original)

Posted on 2007/03/08th by Marek Lewandowski

Well. I got me a PDA. A Loox 610 BT from fujitsu-siemens. Used of course, and a brick too. Quite dead a brick to be exact. It was sold as good, arrived with a crashed flash, I won’t dig into … Continue reading →

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