Quality ☆ Sven-S. Porst

Other

Sat, 05 May 2007 15:24:00 +0200

Additional things I bought and feel I can comment on.

Göttingen

Sat, 05 May 2007 15:24:00 +0200

Läden, die ich in Göttingen genutzt habe und meine Meinung dazu.

Stereos

Sat, 05 May 2007 15:23:30 +0200

The various music playing devices I owned I listed here. Both those for the home and the portable ones.

Cameras

Sat, 05 May 2007 15:21:56 +0200

I have been playing with cameras since I was very young. Growing up with my dad's old and low-tech camera's had the benefit of teaching me what all those numbers on the cameras mean. And being able to nick those cameras over time gave me access to a rather nice collection of analogue photography equipment along with a collection of nice lenses. Those have become particularly attractive since I started getting into black and white photography and developing films myself.

While I also had the opportunity to play with numerous digital cameras I only bought a single one so far as I find it very hard to strike the quality vs. size balance with those toys. Particularly so as none of them look like they have a durability close to that of the analogue cameras I used.

Computers

Fri, 04 May 2007 22:14:30 +0200

Strictly speaking my computer usage started with some programmable calculator my dad bought in the 1980s and then extended to playing games and writings silly Basic stuff on my friend's brother's Schneider CPC-464. But my first own computer was an Atari ST from which I ‘graduated’ to a Mac.

I have been an Apple-only computer user ever since. And I was highly enthusiastic about Apple's computers in the 1990s. I still think they have the edge when it comes to software. But their hardware – while having comparatively good design – has been a bit of a letdown in terms of engineering and manufacturing quality since the beginning of the millennium.

These pages tell the story of the devices I owned, listing their strengths and their weaknesses.