# Kasper Bergholt

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## Posts

- [The Nikon D3 in 2026 ~ Review, Photos, Thoughts](https://bergholt.net/nikon): I'm very pleased with the Nikon D3, which rekindled my interest in the visual arts & photography. See Nikon D3 photos, read reviews and see D3 specifications.
- [Danish Artist ~ Kasper Bergholt](https://bergholt.net/about): Contemporary Danish artist Kasper Bergholt works in the edges and margins of post-photography, visual art, poetry, and digital archeology.
- [Sun: Triptychs for Solar Eclipses](https://bergholt.net/sun): August 12th 2026, a total solar eclipse crossed continental Europe, the first visible here since August 11th 1999. The word eclipse comes from the Greek ekleipsis, “a leaving out.” Against that omission stands phaínesthai: to come into appearance. Sun is a triptych consisting of a system poem, which regularises the noun column of a 2011
- [Sandflugtsmonumentet, Tisvilde / The Sand Drift Monument, Tisvilde](https://bergholt.net/sand): The 1738 sand drift monument at Tibirke, Tisvilde. Three faces, three languages: Danish, Latin and German, cut into sandstone.
- [The Pentax K10D in 2026 ~ Review, Photos, Impressions](https://bergholt.net/10d): The Pentax K10D was released in 2006 following a range of CCD DSLR's starting with the *ist D released in 2003. Click to read Pentax K10D review & see photos.
- [Gibson, Wordsworth, Shakespeare (3 x Williams)](https://bergholt.net/poetry): In 2011 I wrote a system poem. In 2024 I inscribed it into the Bitcoin blockchain. In 2025 I finished a photography-based work, ICE | July | 1982, built around the idea of William Gibson's Black ICE: the membrane that, in Neuromancer, protects data against intrusion. In 2026 I returned to the same poetic structure
- [The Leben CS-600 ~ An Introduction to Leben Tube Amplifiers](https://bergholt.net/tubes): This blogpost on the Leben CS-600 and the Leben CS-600X tube amplifiers started out as a thorough introduction to vintage tubes after buying a Leben CS-600.
- [Garden of the Royal Danish Library in Light Snowfall](https://bergholt.net/snow): Garden of the Royal Danish Library (Det Kongelige Biblioteks Have / Bibliotekshaven) in Light Snowfall, shot in Winter 2023 a few days before Christmas.
- ['Objects for an Ideal Home'](https://bergholt.net/objects): 'Objects for an Ideal Home' is a series of photographs spanning sea urchins, tube amplifiers, teapots and vintage cameras & lenses.
- [Sunbuck Kondo Audio Note KSL-M7 preamplifier clone](https://bergholt.net/clone): 5U3C tube for a Kondo Audio Note KSL-M77 preamplifier clone. The preamplifier clone is based on two ECC81/6201 driver tubes fed by a 5U3C tube family.
- [Pentax *ist DS ~  2026 Review ~ Photos ~ Impressions](https://bergholt.net/istd-2): The Pentax *istD series marked a significant milestone for Japanese brand Pentax when it was introduced in the early 2000s. See photos & read impressions here.
- [The Pentax K5 II s in 2026 ~ Review, Thoughts, Impressions](https://bergholt.net/k5): Copenhagen artist Kasper Bergholt on the Pentax K5 II s, the anti-aliasing-filter-free APS-C DSLR from 2012, paired with a Zeiss 35mm f/2 and an SMC-A 50mm f/1.2.
- [The Pentax 77mm 1.8 Limited Lens in 2026](https://bergholt.net/pentax): The Pentax 77mm f/1.8 lens, the brainchild of Japanese lens designer Mr. Jun Hirokawa, a designer who clearly marches to the beat of his own drum.
- [Viktor Shklovsky: On Flax from 'On Freedom of Art', The Third Factory, 1926](https://bergholt.net/flax): Viktor Shklovsky: On Flax (1926). Explore key excerpts from The Third Factory on the digital archive of artist and photographer Kasper Bergholt.
- [Art & Degas' Obsession](https://bergholt.net/art): Explore the art of Edgar Degas through a tiny paint fragment from "Dancers Practicing in the Foyer", which is a part of Glyptoteket's "Degas' Obsession" exhibit.
- ['Flora Excursoria Hafniensis'](https://bergholt.net/flora): 'Flora Excursoria Hafniensis' takes its part of departure in a book published in 1838 by the Danish Botanist Salomon T. N. Drejer of the same title.
- [The Nikon D4 in 2026 ~ Photos & Thoughts](https://bergholt.net/nikon-d4): In June 2023, I got a cheap Nikon D3 to document a series of relatively rare vacuum tubes (starting with the 6CS7 family) for the Swiss Radiomuseum and Wikipedia. The project reignited my interest in visual art, leading to a number of photo series—perhaps a few too many (see an overview here). In December, I treated
- [6CS7 Tubes: Data, Specifications & Usage](https://bergholt.net/6cs7): Originally designed for use in televisions and radios, 6CS7 tubes are rarely used in audio products. The chief designer and owner of Leben Hi-Fi Stereo Company, Mr. Taku Hyodo, who is often referred to as one of the eight best tube amplifier designers in Japan, has a fondness for the 6CS7 type, presumably because of
- [Bill Evans: The Paris Concert Edition Two](https://bergholt.net/evans): « Unfortunately, many of our best performances are out there in the universe someplace, and you still as professionals have to go in at ten o’clock on Wednesday and make a record and hope that every few records you might catch a really good day. And the rest of it is being professional and, certainly
- ["The Time Is Out of Joint" in Shakespeare's Hamlet](https://bergholt.net/time): Why does Hamlet say "The Time Is Out of Joint"? A close reading of the line from Act 1, Scene 5: Meter, grammar, editions, and Derrida's Specters of Marx.
- [The Carl Zeiss 35mm f/2  Distagon, Pentax Mount (ZK) in 2026](https://bergholt.net/zeiss): I got the Zeiss 35mm f/2 with ZK mount after having worked with a Carl Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/2 macro with a Nikon D3 for various projects.
- [Yixing Clay Teapot & Broussonetia Papyrifera Wrapper](https://bergholt.net/tea): Pu Erh Tea wrapper hand-made from fibre of the Paper Mulberry tree (Latin: Broussonetia Papyrifera) by Essence of tea produced.

## Pages

- [Copenhagen Metro Shaft](https://bergholt.net/moca): This photograph was taken in the Copenhagen Metro in June 2023 with a Nikon D3 from 2007 and a 55mm f/2.8 lens from around 1989, and it was one of my first photos to turn out well, I think, along with a shot of the Kaktus Towers in Kalvebod Brygge. I think the work triggered
- [Kaktus Towers](https://bergholt.net/kaktus-towers): Kaktus Towers, Kalvebod Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark. Two highly distinctive buildings designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). The towers rise to 100 and 80 metres respectively. Close to 500 balconies, staggered from floor to floor, give these semi-futuristic buildings their 'Kaktus' name. The recent opening of IKEA's rooftop terrace has made photographs from new angles possible,
- [exergue](https://bergholt.net/exergue): Kasper Bergholt (b. 1978) - Wikidata - Q140937826 - Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Danish Library), bibliotek.dk and universitetshistorie.ku.dk. Sources on academic work, including VIAF id, Google Scholar id, and ORCID id tied together in schematic markup, Artfacts, Hvedekorn, Slagtryk. -- Archival record, 15:48, August 13th, 2026Triptych: A Prolog Realisation of Sun, a System Poem (Github).
- [NetLock BBS / FidoNet Node 2:236/444](https://bergholt.net/netlock): A borrowed modem, a basement in Hillerød, Denmark, and a Danish BBS on Maximus that held FidoNet node 2:236/444 from July 1994 to February 1996. Told by its Sysop.
- [Steen Duelund: Introduktion til en dansk lydpioner](https://bergholt.net/duelund): Steen Duelund: introducing a Danish sound pioneer Steen Duelund (1943 to 2005) sits somewhere between what you might call audio craftsmanship and audio experimentation, a slightly mythical figure and to some a slightly esoteric one. He's best known for favouring natural materials, silver, silk and linseed oil, alongside a scientific bent. He trained as a
- [cookies & privacy ~ bergholt.net](https://bergholt.net/cookies-privacy): bergholt.net only uses cookies for logged in users (of which there is only one, me). No cookies are set for visitors, and no data is stored or shared.
- [Chronotopes, Bakhtin, Time Glitches](https://bergholt.net/chronotopes): "In the literary artistic chronotope, spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought-out, concrete whole", Mikhail Bakhtin.
- [Open calls](https://bergholt.net/open-call): 'Moons, Castles, Trees | AI Chronotopes' was an open call for artists exploring the intersections of Artificial Intelligence, image-making, and temporality within the framework of the 2025–26 edition of The Wrong Biennale, the world’s largest decentralized digital art event.Participation was free and open to all; selected works will be exhibited online from November 2025 to