I actually thought that the equivalence discussion was “over” by now, because it had become generally accepted that you can’t compare a 35mm sensor with a medium format sensor with a cell phone sensor with a whatever. That was probably a mistake. There is still a lot of conversion going on. Equivalent […]
Newsticker: Photopia is dead
I’ve just received an e-mail from Hamburg Messe: Hamburg Messe und Congress will not be continuing the PHOTOPIA Hamburg imaging festival, as it is not economically viable in the current difficult market environment. “Our aim is to offer attractive and high-quality events. In our opinion, PHOTOPIA will not be able to realise […]
About professional photography
Another old article. From January 2019, when “people photography” was “in” – now it’s apparently bird photography. But nothing else has changed. In recent years, many self-taught photographers have managed to reinterpret the term “professional photography”. A “professional” is no longer someone who sells his craftsmanship or journalistic work, but someone who […]
Research: Earth’s shape recalculated
Osaka University of Technology – Ōsaka kōgyō daigaku – has launched a project to research methods for evacuating areas: We conduct research and development into the construction of an evacuation guidance support platform for regions expected to be subject to flooding, fire, and earthquake damage, via AI for predicting localized torrential rain, […]
Fiction: Olympus 2019-2023
This article was written at Christmas 2018. Now, over five years later, this article is also extremely “funny”. What might have been if it had been… In 2019, Olympus celebrated its 100th anniversary with a new camera that made all previous cameras look “old”: the E-M1X. A technology carrier in which everything […]
Future: Canon, Nikon, Smartphone.
Eintracht Frankfurt – Hoffenheim Bundesliga match on 10/03/2024. 2:1 for Eintracht Frankfurt through Dina Ebimbe after a cross from Götze. Subsequent goal celebration on the touchline. Right in front of a Nikon photographer’s camera. A photographer and another photographer immediately join in: Mobile phone and Canon R. Mirrorless cameras have made it […]
5 photographer’s quotes
Many photographers decorate their websites with quotes from more or less famous photographers, camera books and photography schools are given a touch of meaning with famous names and recently there are even photographer quote acts on YouTube. Cool. Generates traffic. I’ll go along with that. But I don’t take other people’s wisdom, […]
Base fees
Verdi (a German trade union) has developed an online fee calculator for “creative professionals”. This is also accessible to non-members and is intended to give a rough overview of what a reasonable calculation looks like. The most important thing is the “categorisation”. There are four levels: EG5, EG9b, EG11 and EG13. You […]











