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オーストリアのチョコ (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:20:15 +0900

オーストリアのチョコ (Taken with instagram)

久しぶり火鍋 (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:02:54 +0900

久しぶり火鍋 (Taken with instagram)

A second with the X-Pro 1

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:24:36 +0900

Today at Bic Camera I quickly checked out the X-Pro 1 and did some minor comparison with my X100.

As you can see, both cameras are about the same size. The X-Pro 1 is a bit bigger, but the weight is about the same. The 35mm is a bit bigger, the 18mm is about the same size as the X100 lens and 65mm is of course longer

So what is different:

Quick access button, which is really awesome to quickly access a grid like menu where you can really change all the important things. No longer is it needed to go into sub menus to do some simple changes like ISO
No more idiot RAW button, button is all gone (or replaced by the Quick access one)
In general buttons are a bit shuffled around, the play button is on the right of the display, the View mode on top of the display and the AFL/AEL moved to the right side on the mini grip for a bit better access. The Fn button on top is at the same place. The AF motor mode moved to the front from the left side. The view mode change is at the same position.
All the Buttons are not any more extruding from the body, so it is much less likely that you will accidentally press one. Like it happens to me with the RAW button. The shutter speed button as a lock knob in the middle and the Exposure compensate dial is sunk into the body, so less likely to change it accidentally.
The back display looked almost the same, perhaps a bit bigger.
Menu is completely redone. Looks more clean, logical and easy to navigate. Especially thanks to the quick menu. I didn’t spend much time looking through it.
INSTANT ON. Yes, INSTANT. There is no lag. Turn the camera on, and you can shoot immediately. This was just the biggest wow and I had to try it out several times to actually believe it. So I am sure instant on is also from the sleep mode. But I couldn’t test that.
AF seems to be much faster, but I didn’t really test that in detail, but it felt that I could focus much faster than the X100.
And then the big WTF: The viewfinder is smaller and much darker than the X100 one. I mean this is a very visible difference. The X100 one is really big and bright, while the X-Pro1 is quite dark and smaller. I have really no idea why. But this is really quite a WTF here. No idea why the butchered the viewfinder so much. Thought the inside in the OVF is as awesome as on the X100, nothing changed here. The only thing I could spot is the Exposure compensation, this changed and looked a bit more easy visible to me, no more bar.
The lenses felt very light, it seems they have a plastic cover, but I really can’t say if this is true, but they felt much lighter than my Cosina lenses which are about the same size. Still solid build, OTOH, those have been touched by so many people and mishandles, I wouldn’t take them as real examples

I didn’t do any test shots on my SD card, I actually forgot about it, plus inside there with Neon light, it wouldn’t have made much sense anyway. For that I want some outside real life test shots.

Overall, a big step up, the AF seems faster, the camera turns on instantly. The second point is especially a wow, and one thing that makes me wish the X100 would have that one.

The big negative point is the less good viewfinder, no idea why. Perhaps because there is some additional glass inside? It didn’t change when I put on the 65mm, which I thought it would do, so perhaps this model has some issues anyway.

Still, very amazing camera, if I wouldn’t own the X100, I would buy that one right now.

Fuji X100 - a rough diamond

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:08:58 +0900

I own the X100 for about a month now and it is a pretty amazing camera, but at the end it is a rough diamond. This not a review or anything like this, for this you rather read the one on luminous landscape or dpreview, or just do a google run, there are many of them.

This is just a list of good and bad points, just to have a clear view of what this camera can do and cannot do.

Morning Sleep (ISO 200)

The Good

The camera is small and light and therefor the ideal camera to always carry with you and this point alone makes it a very valuable camera, because what good is a camera if you do not carry it with you.
It is a very solid built, very well made. Especially the fact that it does not have a retractable lens. This makes any camera a little bit fragile looking, like the X-1 from Leica
The very good view finder. It is the only small camera with AF and this build style that has this style of view finder and it is essential for me and the way I shoot. I especially love electronic overlay inside it, I personally think this is one thing that will appear more in future DSLRs and I hope in future pure range finder cameras, eg Leica or lesser a future Epson one (personally very unlikely)
A very big sensor, APC-S size and this is one essential thing, especially if you want to shoot at night, this cameras high ISO is really amazing. I haven’t seen any other camera that can take ISO 6400 images, in color, that are pretty much noise free. This is another thing that shows how much sensor technology has advanced nowadays and we will see ISO numbers as normal where the older (film) photographers have only dreamed about.
The lens is very well made, even wide open it has a very good resolution. Furthermore there is just a little distortion, actually almost not visible. And there is no vignetting at all. At f2 it might be a bit soft with slight CA, but from f4 on there is really no problem at all.
Silent leaf shutter. So this camera can take photos at almost no noise at all. Very nice thing. Plus you can flash sync at any speed, very nice thing.
Old type cable release connector, so you do not need to buy some expensive extra remote trigger, you can use your normal cable release.
A full hot shoe, that seems to be canon compatible with the pins, so you can use any canon trigger cable for a flash. If you use a Fuji flash it will automatically turn off the internal flash. If not, you need to activate the hot shoe, this is the dark part (I have not tried that yet as I am very happy with the Fuji Flash I have)
You can shoot even if the AF couldn’t be set, this is an amazing feature and I really love it, especially because it sticks then at a certain distance (about 3m) and you know where the focus will be if there is no AF lock. Personally this is the first camera I know that does this, you have to get used to, but when you know it, it is really happy. Rather get lucky out of focus, than not getting anything at all.

Night crawler (ISO 6400)

The middle

It has a Macro mode, but somehow I often have the biggest AF problems in there. And manual focusing is not fun with this camera. But at least there is a macro mode, because the closest normal focus is about one meter, which is normal for a rangefinder type camera.
AF is pretty OK, but not stellar. On the other hand I might be a bit spoiled by using DSLR cameras all the time, where the AF, even if it is not so stellar like on the Canon 5D MkII, but still faster. You will get moments where you have to focus twice to get it, but most the time it works. Plus it has a lamp, that can help a lot (if it turns on, which falls in bugs or strange functionality)

At the bar (ISO 3200)

The bad

The usage of the Jog dial is a disgrace. It is only used for some minor things, eg setting ISO when you are looking through the viewfinder, going to some info windows in the view mode, activating the close up for manual focus. But why is it not used for a custom menu like on the Ricoh GR?
The select wheel and OK button. While the wheel is a nice idea, it it is just too flaky and to easy to press and then go from one setting to another. So is the OK button, with big fingers you will very often press the wheel instead of the OK button and then end up with different settings. Lucky some of the important settings can be OKed with the shutter button, for example the ISO selection.
The manual focus is sort of a joke, I could life with the fact that is by wire and not direct, but it is so slow that it is actually unusable to use. The most you could do is focus with AF and then try to do some adjustments. I wished you could set it to a way faster speed or even better, if you move the ring faster it moves the focus much faster. Be prepared to a lot of hand movement when you want to focus from eg 5m down to 1m or less. A real lot. This is not a manual focus camera. Bear that in mind.
The menu system is a bit of a mess. Why do I have to go into sub menus to change from normal AF (one point) to multi point AF. Why is the custom save points so useless with saving only a view things, mostly JPEG related. Why can’t I customize the drive menu or have a custom menu with often used settings. Why is there only one button assignable as a custom button. Most of the above written complaints could be solved with a big software update anyway
Battery can be inserted the wrong way. I have no idea why they cannot design a battery like they do for SLRS, where you really can’t put it in the wrong way.
Slow wake up from sleep. And another thing I really don’t understand why this still exists today. Every dirt cheap DSLR has instant wake up from sleep, but why can’t this camera. I really cannot explain this, what could need so much time to wake up? I hope the next Fuji one, the X-Pro 1 will be much better, because this is a major negative point for people who need quick turn on time, eg street shooters (who hate this camera, or at least I heard that)
Lenscap cannot be used with the sunshade on. This is a big design miss a really big one, this shouldn’t be that way.
Bugs or just strange things. Like why does the AF lamp no fire sometimes, does this depend on the light or not. No idea, but sometimes it doesn’t even thought it is quite dark and it can’t really get an AF lock. Also I had twice that the battery display disappeared from the back LCD, no idea why. Minor things, but I haven’t seen that on any other camera before.
Design and position of the build in flash. While the flash is ok, its position is horrible. It sits right above the lens, so unless you remove the sun shade AND the additional mount ring for the sunshade, you will get nasty shadows. And additional flash on top is highly recommended. Also that you cannot control the time when the flash shoots, either when the shutter opens or closes is a bit weired, at the end this is just software that controls it.
The position of the exposure compensation dial, it can easily happen that it moves to +1 or -1 and if you do not check before you shoot you will have an over or under exposed shot. Lucky no other buttons turn or change that easy.

At night, everything is bright (ISO 6400)

The Ugly

RAW button. Why this button is there, why it exists and who really uses it are all mysteries that will never be solved. I do not know any photographer that changes between RAW and jpeg on a shot bases. Furthermore this button just changes the settings for the next shot. And why this is not an ISO button or cannot be custom set is another mystery.

The hard life (ISO 3200)

あけましておめでとう

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:22:46 +0900

Better late than never.

the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:55:32 +0900

the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support:

understatementblog:

The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…

みつばち（Mitsubachi）in自由が丘

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:52:10 +0900

If there is an awesome delicious restaurant it is Mitsubachi. It also has the most awesome name. Three 八 so it becomes みつ (Mitsu) ばち (bachi). Isn’t that awesome?

Anyway, without much ado, I just post some pictures of the shop, because this is way more interesting than boring writing.

Free or reserved tables each have a little mascot. Ours got the shops Mascot :D

Free floating monkey included

女子会〜and sorts

But this time there were a lot of couples … I didn’t feel so “lonely man”

The whole thing is just pretty stylish.

Non functional lanterns and functional lights. In the background the Awesome triangle of 8.

We have some hammock, but for decoration only ;)

Bigger tables are there too, and the shop has a Macbook with some Ghibli :D Of course the kids are Oshare too.

But now to the most important thing, the super delicious food there.

はるさめ。ちょ〜うまい！

本日のポテトーサラダ　カレー風味「もぐもぐもぐもぐ！」

ポテトフライとアンチョビソース。あのポテフライはすげ〜〜

アンチョビソース！すごいうまい！

チキンクリームドリア　カレー風味。最高！本当すごいうまかった！

いわい地鶏の岩塩焼き　柚子胡椒添え。これはNr.1。一番うまい！すごい！！！！

うますぎ！

ピクルス

自家製ラー油のピリ辛おぼろ豆腐やっこ

明太マヨれんこん揚げ。これもすごいうまい！

最終は日本酒。色々なある、焼酎も！本当すごい！

皆さん、是非ミツバチ行こよ！

Remove the haze

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:23:06 +0900

So one thing I recently found on the awesome Phase One Blog is how to remove haze from a photograph. If you take a landscape picture and expose it as usual you often end with blank spaces on both sides of your curve (visible in the Level display).

Lets take this picture I took from Osanbashi in Yokohama:

Canon 5D MkII and Canon EF 50/f1.2L @f4

It is darker because I underexposed it at -1/3EV to have more data in the dark area, which is easier to recover and there is a lot of haze because that day was quite cloudy and humid anyway. Furthermore the colors are all very mushy and the brown of the sea is not really visible. But not fear, this is all fixable.

Before you do any adjustments on the levels, all other things have to set into place. Fixing expores, brightness, highlight and shadow recovery, contrast and saturation, etc.

I increased the overall brightness a bit, added some shadow recovery (for the dark areas in the pictures) and added some clarity because this is a landscape shot. After this changes the picture already looks much better:

It comes to a point where it is much usable, but we can do better.

So in the final step we crop away all the unused parts in the three levels for red, green and blue:

Gone with all the not needed data.

After this change the result will look like this:

If all the levels are adjusted correctly the picture will not have any strong color casts. If there are any strong off casts the right side of of level for this color has to be adjusted and any other to get a good neutral color hast. Optional and better is to shoot with a color/white balance card and adjust at this level.

When both pictures are compared, it is very easy to see what you can do with this tool.

Here are two more examples shot from the Tokyo Government building and in the area around there from the Sanpo Japan Tower.

Left is before (unaltered, thats why it is not straight), right is the final edit.

It is clear how easy it is to get some more punch out of some dull pictures. Furthermore it is another reason why the only way to shoot is shooting with RAW.

Pure Symmetry

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:31:40 +0900

I love symmetry, whenever I am unable to hold my camera straight or fail to get the ultimate symmetry without post cropping I feel really bad. So when I got this shot, I really felt very happy. It is a homage to this guy, who always makes the perfect symmetrical shot.

清水寺、京都 (Kyomizu Temple, Kyoto). Canon 5D MkII / EF35/f1.4L

Can’t get better than this :D

Radioactivity in Tokyo, not

Tue, 03 May 2011 13:58:33 +0900

At least according to the Tokyo Government. But I am sure people will say this is all lies or so. Or probably a conspiracy by all the evil atomic nuclear plant producers around the world. Or Humpti Dumpty, or the Reenters or I really don’t know …

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building

When darkness falls

Mon, 02 May 2011 13:31:00 +0900

Went to Odaiba, some of the more awesome pictures I took there. Both with Canon 5D MkII and Canon 35/f1.4L

And it is another proof what awesome things you can do with a good RAW converter.

大台場、青海

Kuumba du Falafel

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:37:23 +0900

The most awesome Falafel in Tokyo. Unspoken, can be found here. It’s about 10min walk from Shibuya station or a view Minutes from Shinsen station on the Inokashira Line. 150% worth a visit, and the whole food is 100% vegan, so all the vegans out there can rejoice, and all the normal food people have to go there to know how awesome vegan falafel can be.

Warning sign, because the most awesome Falafel place is right behind it.

Actually the food there is so awesome that I forgot again to take a picture of it, so only remote shots are left from people eating it very very fast.

This is called a normal size, for only vegetables inside it is more than enough for any grown man. It is actually too much for me.

Half sized Falafel, with a fork the enormous delicious amounts of vegetables have to be eaten or else it is impossible to hold it in your hand :)

But not only Falafel is served there, also delicious Pizza.

Finally they have the first mobile phone made only of wood. Just the wooden batteries are not ready yet ;)

桜

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:03:59 +0900

So this years Sakura season is over and below is my collection. Nothing really super stunning this time as I did no experimentation, but there are some really nice ones I would say.

This time the pictures are from five locations: Tamagawa (多摩川), Jiyugaoka (自由が丘), Naka Meguro (中目黒), Shinjuku (新宿) and Odawara (小田原) in Kanagawaken. All were shot with a Canon 5D MkII and either the EF 50/f1.2L or the EF 35/f1.4L

near Tamagawa, the first ones to bloom

near Tamagawa, still too early

Jiyugaoka

Naka Meguro

Naka Meguro, it was really packed. Nobody, not even an Earthquake, can stop the Hanami :)

Naka Meguro

Naka Meguro, right across the river. Stunning.

Naka Meguro

Naka Meguro, it seems it is never stopping.

Jiyugaoka, this time more white Sakura

Odawara, take from top of the Odawara Castle. Sakura everywhere :)

Odawara

Odawara, the perfect one, in full bloom.

Odawara

Shinjuku, already starting to end

Shinjuku Park, different Sakura and luckily they are still in full bloom.

Shinjuku Park, one of my favourite

Shinjuku Park

Shinjuku Park, another tree in full bloom

Shinjuku Park

Recent Photos

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:57:09 +0900

I haven’t shot much last year, especially not much I am actually proud. But last week I was in Yokohama, Sakuragicho and went to the Oosanbashi Pier. That place is a feast for anyone interested into Architecture.

Below are two of my most favorite shots, thought they do not show much of the architecture, they just show my style.

Shot with Canon 5D MkII and Canon EF 35/f1.4L

Vague Distance

Deep Colors

Various Radiation Measurment Pages

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:45:00 +0900

UPDATE, 2011/3/28: added two new links.

With all the troubles nothing is more fun than to follow all the various web sources for radiation measurement. It is like a new hobby, instead of reading hyped web pages, I check those pages in the morning.

A list of them below

http://park30.wakwak.com/~weather/geiger_index.html

This is a private one, part of a small weather station in the center of Tokyo. The values are a good comparison material to the official pages. I used this as source for the images in my previous post.

http://atmc.jp/

This are graphs from all over Japan from the official government sources and converted into nice graphs. The page can be translated to english. Gets updates everyday.

http://www.bousai.ne.jp/vis/jichitai/kanagawa/index.html

This page is also an official one from the Disaster Prevention and Nuclear Safety Network for Nuclear Environment. The link above is for the Tokyo/Kanagawa area. This page also has an english version. The source for the Kanagawa area comes from here.

http://housyasen.uh-oh.jp/kanagawa/

I actually don’t know what the sources are, but this might also be similar to the atmc.jp page. Link above again goes to the Tokyo/Kanagawa area. This page is only in japanese.

http://japanstatus.org/

This one is an english page created for the Fukushima Power plant problem. Also has the radiation values from all over the country.

http://www.rdtn.org/

This is a collection of all the Official and Private Geiger counters all over Japan.

If I find more, I will update this page.

UPDATE, 2011/3/28

http://microsievert.net/

This one shows the radioactive amount in small flash animations that visually show how much radiation is there at the moment.

http://fleep.com/earthquake/

This page is a collection of various data sources and shows not only the radiation level for the important and affected prefectures, but also for the power plants itself, the water radiation levels and the current amount of earthquakes.

Why the western media is really bad.

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:26:00 +0900

UPDATE 1: I added two a link to the official tepco radiation reading from Fukushima and a graph based on this reading.

UPDATE 2: IAEA moved the disaster from a Level 4 to a Level 5

UPDATE 3: They have been moved up to Level 6

UPDATE 4, 2011/3/16: I cannot confirm if the Level 6 is from IAEA or just from the France Atomic Group. The IAEA web page is a horrible mess. I also added the radiation readings until noon today (2011/3/16) and besides a small spike up to about 0.50µSv it is now back at around 0.20µSv.

Blood sells.

Horrible stories sell.

Catastrophes sell.

The bigger the better.

Horrible in all its gore, as long as it is on the other side of the world.

Until the big earthquake here in Japan on the 11th March, I very much though that some of the newspapers in my country would have a high standard of reporting. Not like really good newspapers, like Die Zeit, but not as bad as the german Bild, or similar tabloids.

Well, I was wrong, I was so wrong. All of them reported like the world has ended. And not about the Tsunami, not about the cities that were literally removed from their place. Not about the hundred thousands of people now homeless, and who lost all and everything. No, there was one topic. And one topic only.

Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.

Yes, if you read the foreign media, then you would think there was no earthquake, there was just an enormous horrible accident at this power plant. One that surpasses Chernobyl, that would have already put more radioactive matter into the air than anything before and Tokyo is already doomed.

I am sorry to say, it is not so.

Yes, some of the titles are correct, but not correct in how they say it.

Yes, because of the huge earthquake, and following Tsunami the Fukushima Nr.1 Power Plant was hit hard. It’s four old reactors have huge troubles. But in no way it was like Chernobyl.

Why? Simple, because the whole thing is very different.

Although old (built around 1970), it is constructed very different. Not only is the reactor itself not build like the one in Chernobyl, which from it’s design was already unstable, but also the housing has an inner concrete hull around the pressure reactor, something Chernobyl didn’t have.
The powerplant was shut down right when the quake started, all the troubles started after, AFTER the whole system was shut off. Any troubles right now are with the heat left in the core. Chernobyl was tricked, overruled and then it blew. It exploded and the graphite inside, which does not exist in Fukushima, burned for several days.
The problem right now is with cooling the cores and keeping the pressure down. All the explosions where in the outer shell, outside of the inner concrete hull and were hydrogene explosions. Yes radioactive matter was released, but none of the inner fuel rods like in Chernobyl
TEPCO, even though there reporting is not top class, and could be better, continuously reported on the events in very detailed form. No doctored images are shown on TV, and no state controlled media reports outside.

So where are we know? Is the situation hopeless? No, two of the reactors (1 & 3) are cooled with sea water, 2 is now the main problem. The fuel rods still seemed to be exposed, but they try to put back water inside. 4 has burned, but on the outside and the fire was put out.

Radioactive matter was released, but it was minimal. The radioactive matter that hit Tokyo today, was way below any dangerous levels, and still lower than the radiation you receive when you take a transatlantic flight. The normal background radiation is about 0.27µSv (Micro Sievert) and tope level today was 0.89 µSv. Levels at the plants door were much heigher, in Millisievert. 100 Millisievert (1000 times more that 1 Microsievert) can be dangerous to humans, if you are exposed for a long time to it.

Tokyo, Hino, at 101m readings of today (2011/3/15).

UPDATE: Readings from today

Tokyo, Hino, at 101m readings of today (2011/3/16).

UPDATE: Data from the Fukushima plant itself.

Readings at the main gate from the Fukushima powerplant as off 2011/3/15:

Radiations big problem is always the time and the amount. Long time small amount is as deadly as short time high amount.

When I look at the last days, I doubt this will happen in Tokyo, and in the coming days, I do not think that this will change or happen. With every day passing it gets less and less likely that more radiation will be exposed. Simply because the reaction has already stopped, it is only the heat left that needs to be cooled down. If water can be re-circulated back into the reactor the whole thing can be brought under control.

My basic message is, do not believe too much what the foreign media says about it. It seems their understanding of this topic is minimal and they are not willing to understand it more.

Additional information can be found here.

Why chromes missing title bar sucks

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:16:06 +0900

In the recent months I use Chrome a lot. It is my primary browser at home and I also use it quite a lot at work. But at work I also use Firefox 4 Beta (currently 11) for my non-work browsing. Just to check it.

The most annoying thing of Chrome, next that you cannot make it open links in new windows, is the missing title bar. I can understand the idea, space. As modern displays get wider and wider and have less and less height (rant: 16:9 displays are IDIOTIC for computers) you need to save some space.

But as I have a lot of tabs open, you often do not know which one is which. When you can see just one or half of a word, it is often difficult to know where you are. Especially when you read posts from one and the same page, eg Slashdot. With Firefox I can see the full title and therefore know where I am, with chrome, I have no idea.

This is how firefox looks:

And this is how Chrome looks:

The Chrome top needs just a view pixels more, and is way less usefull. One more thing, if you disable the bookmarks bar in Firefox, you can still quickly access all the bookmarks through an icon in the URL bar, not so in Chrome. Actually, if you disable the Bookmark bar in Chrome, you can only access the bookmarks via the Menu item.

Of course Firefox itself is not the pinnacle of usefulness, just the removal of the status bar is a quadruple face-palm. But thanks to the 4-ever-bar, you can have that back. It is just very confusing when you are used to look at the bottom of the window for the URL info, and there is nothing there anymore. This breaks usability in more ways than you can image. No other browser shows this information the URL bar. Not only makes it no sense there, most of the important information has to be cut of, because half of it is used by the current URL anyway. They should have done it like Chrome and have the mouse over URL info at the bottom. Still Chrome doesn’t do it perfect too, because it also cuts off most of the URL …

Browsers, they all sucks. Suck memory. Meh …

雪降った！昨日夜すごい降った、帰るとはすごく大変。道は滑りやすかった。。。とめっちゃ寒かった。

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:41:51 +0900

雪降った！昨日夜すごい降った、帰るとはすごく大変。道は滑りやすかった。。。とめっちゃ寒かった。

2011卯年

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:24:10 +0900

Yeah, I did nothing in 2010, really nothing. And so nothing will happen in 2011, really nothing. Well, one year less to wait for death. The only final solution to this whole shit.

iPod Nano, some afterthoughts

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:40:00 +0900

I am using this little square box now for some time and I like it, even thought there is no album shuffle.

For example, the iPod Nano tells you when the battery is low. Some really nice feature. Thought it doesn’t help you when you forget to charge it in the evening.

But what sometimes makes me crazy is the fickleness of the interface. I just make a slight swipe and it is a swipe. Or sometimes he sees the touch, but doesn’t really interact with it. At the end it is not really a big problem, because I really do not use the interface that often.

Exploring the lists of your music is actually really cool, you can quickly jump to a letter and quickly scrolling through a long list is really awesome quick. Nothing of the endless clickwheel scrolling on my old one.

Last but not least, the external volume buttons are more useful than I ever thought. I use them all the time. Never thought I would.

All in all I am still very happy with it, and still recommend it.