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December 20, 2007
Buy, Hold, or Sell with Graham O'Keeffe
Up today is Graham O'Keeffe, a general partner at Atlas Venture, in the latest installment in the Buy, Hold, or Sell series on the alarm:clock euro.
Active as a venture capitalist in Europe for over 10 years, O'Keeffe is deep into wireless. You can see it in the investment he makes – he did Atlas' early investment in Orthogon Systems, the point to point, high data throughput unwired device-maker that was acquired by Motorola last year; and he's currently on the boards of PicoChip, Ubiquisys, Icera Semiconductor, and Shozu, all developing enabling technologies for more pervasive wireless services.
That interest in unwired tech also influences his hobbies, like flying radio-controlled airplanes. But the next big purchase he will make is for his other interest: photography. (The photo used here is his own).
The UK-based tech investor is looking at acquiring a new Nikon D300 Digital SLR to replace his Nikon D70, a camera that has created "lots of fantastic photos", he said.
The D300 camera has12.3 megapixels, 51 pt autofocus, a lightweight magnesium alloy body, and a 3" LCD with VGA resolution. (Image above sourced from Nikon website).
The Nikon Capture NX software editor, sold as an option is "just a great piece of software". He uses it for colour correction, for example.
Afterwards he will often use Adobe Photoshop for manipulating the digital images. For editing videos, Adobe Premier is the software of choice.
As the owner of a Nokia N95, he often uses that devices camera, which has 5 megapixels and Carl Zeiss Tessar optics.
"For shooting and sharing random events when you're out, the Nokia camera is fine – it goes everywhere," said O'Keeffe.
"Uploading to flickr is part of the fun," he said and he uses portfolio company's software Shozu for that.
We suggested that 5 megapixels is pretty good for cameraphone, but he pointed out that without a great lens, those pixels are not worth a lot.
O'Keeffe's Nikon lens has a vibration reduction feature, said: "Although you can correct focus afterwards, you want to get as much right in analogue before it even goes to digital," he added.
The importance of the analogue was one photography lesson gleaned from Terence Donovan who O'Keeffe met briefly when he was at Oxford (Donovan was a well-known UK fashion photographer. He directed the Robert Palmer "Addicted to Love" video.)
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