Niklas Saers
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$362 and nothing to show for it: inside the SeeAir Kickstarter scam

In March 2023, I backed the SeeAir Tankless Dive System on Kickstarter. Compact, battery-powered underwater breathing gadget. Polished renders, a slick video, spec sheets that looked legit. $362 for the dive unit and a couple accessories. Seemed fair.

Recent Writing

December 22, 2005 • The Blog

Early Music Blog launched

Welcome to the Early Music Blog. This project was started by Niklas Saers after discussing it with a couple of friends and will hopefully be a place where people interested in early music will post their thoughts and stories and link up other early music blogs. I hope that you will find this site interesting and participate throught commenting and posting your thoughts and ideas.

December 22, 2005 • 30mm

Cat Clutter

Cat Clutter

December 20, 2005 • 28-75mm

Monday Night Drinking Club I

Monday Night Drinking Club I

December 18, 2005 • 28-75mm

Behind bars

Behind bars

December 18, 2005 • Music

What you really need to know about angles

In this last quote Mattheson's Der vollkommene Capellmeister, we go back to religion. There are just a few things that a good capellmeister cannot afford not to know:

December 17, 2005 • Music

The origin of music

Here is yet another of my favourite quotes from Mattheson's Der vollkommene Capellmeister:

December 16, 2005 • Music

The location of Paradise revealed

One of my favourite quotes from Mattheson's Der vollkommene Capellmeister is from the foreword: "...the four principal rivers wich originate ther [in Paradise]. But now the most common opinion on the location of Paradise is that it was situated in Mesopotamia toward Armenia, thus Eden must have been on the land which stretches between the Tigris and Euphrates up to the Armenian mountains. Certainly a fine spot!"

December 16, 2005 • 100mm

Snowgrass

Snowgrass

December 15, 2005 • FreeBSD

Mattheson on perfection

I'd like to quote Mattheson from Der vollkommene Capellmeister. In his foreword (I read from [the english translation][1] that's close to impossible to get hold of these days. Publishers take note: this book requires a reprint!) he writes:
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In France they say:

December 11, 2005 • Photography

Classic Nikon lenses on Canon EOS systems

Peter Spiro wrote an article making the argument to use Nikkor lenses on Canon EOS cameras. It fits nicely with the manual focus argument I've been making. Out of special interest, he has copied a table comparing 50mm lenses. I've decided NOT to go for a Canon 50mm lens, even though I've used my friends f/1.4 extensively.