MinTasy
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About

The person behind MinTasy.

I'm Kevin, and I live in Berlin. I work as a coach and trainer; the rest of the time I spend with a camera, a controller, and tools – preferably on things others have written off: old consoles, CRT monitors, film cameras.

Kevin smiling sideways into the camera, warm light against a pale wall

Focus areas

Photography
Street and night photography, often with long exposures – film and digital.
Blog & hobbies
Workshop, garden, aquarium, and electronics: projects with plans, mistakes, and solutions – and whatever else is going on.
Gaming
A journey in five levels: games, series and systems since the NES.

Now

As of October 2026

  • I'm sorting through some 270 photos for the gallery on this site.
  • I keep building this website – no tracking, photos and game data on its own server.

Background

I started out with an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk, then studied media informatics. My thesis became an iOS app that helps people learn photography: it reads the phone's camera data and the image itself and turns them into tips. After that I worked as a software developer. Today I'm a coach and trainer, and the job brings together everything I've learned: business topics from the industrial clerk apprenticeship, IT from studying media informatics, and cross-functional topics such as project management. I searched for this kind of work for a long time – at last a job that feels meaningful to me.

What drives me

  • Photography

    Street and night photography, often with long exposures. Film as well as digital – I scan my negatives myself and develop the images on the computer, with an eye on light and composition.

    Open the gallery

  • Gaming

    It started on the NES. For a few years I streamed role-playing games and put the videos on YouTube. Live events like Awesome Games Done Quick still fascinate me, and these days indie development draws me most, where creativity and tech meet.

    Open the Gaming Journey

  • Retro tech and hardware

    I bring CRT monitors, old consoles and handhelds, record players, and classic cameras back to life – and then actually use them. I'm just as happy with new hardware and put together PCs for friends and family.

  • Craft and DIY

    Painting models, working on my own car, woodworking, restoring old furniture, building greenhouse terrariums, and 3D printing: my favourite projects need both precision and trying things out.

    Open the blog

  • Film, music, and voices

    In films I watch for camera work, composition, and sound design – and for the voices. Ever since growing up with Die drei ??? radio plays, I've been fascinated by how dubbing and voice work bring characters to life.

    All my films

Gear

What's in use right now – for photography and for play.

Cameras in use
  • Fujifilm X-E4
  • Canon EOS M50
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark II
  • Canon Digital IXUS IIs
  • iPhone
Film cameras
  • Canon EOS 50E
  • Olympus XA2
  • Olympus AF-1
  • Pentax 17
Lenses
  • Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD
  • Fujinon XC35mm F2
  • Fujinon XF18-55mm F2.8-4 R LM OIS
  • Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM
  • Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM
  • Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
  • Canon EF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 IS STM
  • Canon EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM
Film and scans
  • Plustek OpticFilm 8200i
  • Lab scans (Noritsu)
Consoles and handhelds
  • Game Boy Color
  • Game Boy Advance
  • Game Boy Advance SP
  • Nintendo DS
  • Nintendo DS Lite
  • New Nintendo 3DS XL
  • PSP
  • PS Vita
  • PlayStation
  • PlayStation 2
  • PlayStation 3
  • Wii
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Steam Deck
  • Steam Frame
  • PC
Screens
  • CRT TVs
  • CRT monitors