Archive 1. October 2005

Leica - D-LUX 2

Leica has a successor for the D-LUX in the works: the D-LUX 2. The name may be boring, but the specifications sound nice - 16:9 format, wide-angle setting of the lens equivalent to 28mm on full-frame, 8 megapixels, image stabilizer, manually adjustable aperture and shutter speed, RAW format.

That's not particularly exciting yet, but it has again what the old Digilux 1 had, but the Digilux 2 did not: an adapter for the Leica Spective. Which makes it interesting for Jutta again.

However, it will likely also get a Leica-typical price ...

License to Print Money

E.ON and RWE want to increase electricity prices - with flimsy justifications and, given the record profits of these companies, extremely absurd. But privatization and free-market economy are so great, everything becomes cheaper for the consumer - it's just strange that we don't notice it ...

But this will surely be dismissed again by great statisticians as mere perceived inflation.

TwistedDAV is a WebDAV server in Python that runs under Twisted. Very interesting if you want to build something on DAV - so far there was only the Zope source as an example and basis.