I’d already done a PATLive on the first evening of Imaging World and talked about what was going on. On Saturday, I went back there and had a look around the stands I’d missed before. One of them was ‘Z-Cam’ – a micro four thirds video camera. Z-Cam are a Chinese company […]
The discussion is currently in full swing in the comments section of a rumour site: has OMDS actually secretly fitted a new, more powerful processor into the PEN? Did Sony perhaps accidentally supply a processor that incorporates the fast AF found in Sony cameras? The reason for these speculations is Robin W’s […]
Back in 2012 – yes, yes, the old man’s reminiscing about the good old days – I met Michael Piepgras at Photokina. That’s the bloke on the right, next to the screen. And on the screen is HDR Projects Platin – an HDR programme with a few pretty cool features that even […]
Another PATLive. Just a normal one. It’s simply that time again, and this time there’s a photography theme: ArtFilters. Exactly. That childish rubbish that no self-respecting photographer would even touch. I SHOOT RAW. And all that. Even though I discuss ArtFilters in my books every time, their reputation is disastrous. This time, […]
I think by now everyone has heard of ‘LOFIC’. That’s short for Lateral OverFlow Integration Capacitor. You don’t need to know exactly how it works; the key point is that it allows you to capture more light per pixel without the pixel ‘burning out’ – in other words, without the pixel turning […]
… and was therefore sold off. This is a story that has been told over and over again for decades, and that doesn’t make it any more true. From a purely accounting perspective, it was true. The division reported as ‘Imaging’ in the financial statements had, for decades, largely been posting losses. […]
Imaging World has now published the visitor figures. 14,800 visitors. More than last year, when – as far as I can remember – there were around 13,000. (If anyone still remembers the exact figures, please correct me!) So far, so good. Unfortunately, not quite. Last year’s target was 15,000 visitors. And this […]
This is a 2CV6 with 29PS. Built in 1983. It reached the breakneck speed of 115 km/h. A brilliant burst of acceleration at the traffic lights. 1988 at a campsite in Yugoslavia. The 2CV was manufactured for roughly 40 years with almost no changes. OK. The engines got more powerful, a third […]
DJI showcased three things at the trade fair: There were only rumours about the Neo3, and I even added one of my own in a small group: that the Neo3 has a LOFIC sensor. No, it doesn’t. There weren’t even any rumours about the camera. Yet this camera is the spectre that […]
I did, after all, say in my books at the start that LEDs were no good. Then I said that LEDs require huge LED panels and that there are no decent light modifiers for them. And now I’ve been to Imaging World and seen LED spotlights with outputs of up to 2.4 […]
As I mentioned during the last PATLIve, I’ve taken apart my first original BLX-1. The battery was dead – it wouldn’t charge and read 0.00 volts. So I took it apart. All it took was a small screwdriver and about two minutes. Then it was open. Open one side, pry it open. […]
I’d thought I still had a photo from Berlin saying ‘You are leaving the democratic sector’. But all I had was ‘You are leaving West Berlin’. Perhaps there never was a sign like that in the first place. I’ve only found a sign saying ‘End of the democratic sector, Berlin’. What does […]
