Anfang 2021 habe ich hier über die Einstellung der Ersatzteillieferungen an externe Reparaturwerkstätten berichtet. In der Folgezeit gab es dann einen Livestream von “Olympus”, um das, was ich da angesprochen habe, “einzuordnen”. Im Verlauf des LiveStreams gab es folgende, wörtliche Aussage: “Zehn Jahre lang garantieren wir, beziehungsweise versuche wir alles, um dieses […]
Bei der Lektüre eines Buches aus den 80ern des letzten Jahrhunderts bin ich über ein Wort gestolpert, das ich schon lange nicht mehr gehört oder gelesen habe: Redlich. Bestenfalls noch in Kombination mit “bemüht”. Und da bedeutet es dann eher so: war ein kompletter Versager. Warum ist das Adjektiv so “out”? Eigentlich […]
Photographing things whilst they still exist. It doesn’t have to be in black and white to look the part. In light of recent events: Paris. The red poster in the centre shows a Turkish and an American flag; above them, in red, is a Kurdish (?) text that I don’t understand; below, […]
Many years ago, I covered the ‘Pub Festival’ in Neumarkt twice a year for the local daily newspaper. There were loads of bands and venues, and I set myself the challenge of visiting every band, photographing them all and writing a piece about each one. That was – quite a feat. I […]
To people who only have a hammer, every problem is a nail. And the realisation that cordless screwdrivers also exist can sometimes come as a surprise – and sometimes it broadens one’s horizons. I had a moment like that recently. Someone explained to me that the German mFT community is simply irrelevant. […]
Sometimes you feel as though you’re trapped in a time loop. You shouldn’t throw clothes away – they’ll come back into fashion at some point. One such recurring theme is the story of improved autofocus thanks to a different battery. The story first emerged in the Olympus community back in 2004. When […]
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. […]
