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I have now collected what I have accumulated in the last 20 years of Olympus batteries. From left to right: FS-BN1. This is the battery pack for the FS-HV1, the high-voltage pack for the FL-50 and Fl-50R. (Anyone else remember this flash?) The packs have almost all died by now, mine is […]
In the mFT system, there has been a fast 20mm almost since the beginning. The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7. It is actually offered in version 2. And Panasonic sent it to me. We shot part of this video with the 20mm Pana anno 2010 with the Olympus E-P2: The E-P2s were not yet […]
Since 2009 this blog is running now. Always in German. Because I saw no reason to write it in English. Sure, I had English-speaking readers from the beginning, especially when the blog was still running on Blogspot, you could see exactly where the visitors came from. But since I never made a […]
I am a journalist. A journalist is someone who interviews people and builds an overall picture from many small snippets, from whose publication he lives. At least that’s how it should be. For this to work in the long run – outside of Q-bubbles – several factors are necessary: Confidence of whistleblowers […]
First of all, the bad news: Olympus has not produced any parfocal FT/mFT lenses yet. I don’t know about Panasonic, I haven’t had all the zooms in test yet. To those who don’t know the term, parfocal means that you focus on a subject with a zoom lens and then you can […]
In the last post, I already did a bit of a history lesson. This time it’s about lenses. The inclined expert will be able to identify the two cameras: One is the E-1 from 2003, the other is the E-M1 from 2013. In each case, the respective kit lenses came out with […]
This time we’re talking about things that Olympus has had for a long time. And we’re not even talking about ProCapture, which we already had with the RS. The E-330, for example, was able to show guide lines for passport photos. The E-5 could do multiple exposures up to four frames. The […]
The Fotonoid has been a topic here on the blog a few times. Here and here. On the photo he is standing on a stage with Mrs. Winkler, the former boss of Smart. Why do I always come back to him? Because I find him not only extremely nice, but also extremely […]
For the past year and a half, I’ve been holding an online regulars’ table on YouTube almost every month. You can always find the links at oly-e.de under Forums/Usertreffen/Stammtische. There I always talk about rumors that have come to my ears and I am so convinced of some of them that I […]
Die KSK ist eine ziemlich seltsame Institution. Für viele ist die Existenz dieser Einrichtung unbekannt – und selbst viele, die sie kennen, haben eine falsche Vorstellung davon. Mir geht’s hier gar nicht drum, dass man als Künstler durch die KSK zu einer erschwinglichen Krankenversicherung kommt (und eine alberne Rentenversicherung) – das betrifft […]
A few weeks ago I wrote that NFTs would be great for artists – not so much for buyers. Fail. In the meantime, crypto-scammers have come up with the great idea of scouring the Internet for content that can be linked to NFTs and sold. This has gone so far that not […]
Mein Dänemarkaufenthalt nähert sich dem Ende, ich habe meine Einreiseanmeldung schon ausgefüllt, morgen geht’s wieder retour. Heute ein bisschen das Wetter noch ausgenutzt und noch ein paar Fotos mit blauem Himmel gemacht. (Was angeblich hier in der Gegend im Januar nicht sooo häufig ist.) Das ist bei Nymindegab, ein paar alte Fischerhütten, […]