Be Straight And Honest.
I was doing some research in Krems last week and was made aware of an initiative that I had never heard of before, although it actually falls right into “my thing”. The Topothek. It’s all about collecting visual and audio documents on specific locations from the last 150 years. And then, of […]
There are things that I once explained in a book and then copied and pasted them into a dozen other books and then thought to myself “Everyone has really got that down pat now, I don’t need to go over it again”. And then I realise: Nope. Of course, I could then […]
Under a comment it said again: “And then there is a pole on the left in the picture and it has to be cropped away or something and you are very quickly well below 40% of the original megapixels and below 200dpi. “ If, when creating a photo book in A4 landscape […]
…. Someone wants it, Professionals rent camera equipment if they can only do a job with it. That’s why there are companies that do just that: Rent out equipment. Lensrentals is a big player in the industry. At the end of the year, they always have statistics on what they have lent […]
There was once a website “6 megapixels are enough”. And Olympus once said that 12 megapixels would actually be enough. (Then came the Sony sensor with 16MP). Around 2010, a man at a view camera manufacturer’s stand at Photokina explained to me that lots and lots of pixels are super good – […]
I have once again made “Copy&Paste”….. Seriously, it’s not my fault that the OM-1II is so strange. It’s an OM-1 with a few nice things built in, a few other nice things forgotten, a completely new AF logic and which is claimed to be the best of all cameras. I don’t claim […]
I’ve already written the article “This is a bird”, which was about recognising birds. And what the camera recognises as birds. Many birds, for example, are only recognised by their beaks and so the white box is not around the whole bird but only around the head. At least as long as […]
I’ve now got through the OM-1II book and I think I’ve found pretty much all the changes that have been incorporated into the OM-1II compared to the OM-1. I will divide the changes into two categories: Firmware Update and Hardware Update. We’ll start with the hardware update because that’s the shortest list: […]
Another newsletter came out today. “OM system ambassador Chris Poplawski presents his favourite functions of the OM-1MarkII”. As I’m about to finish the book about the OM-1II, I’m naturally curious to see if the specialist has found anything that I haven’t. So have a look. Here’s the link without all the spyware. […]
I have already mentioned it several times. Most recently in November last year. The topic of sustainability. The brown cardboard box printed with environmentally friendly ink was sold to us as brutal progress and a sustainability report officer had now been appointed. That’s marvellous. They have obviously realised that they are overfulfilling […]
In 1979 I bought a record by Georg Kreisler. The Everblacks. There’s a song on it that was already a bit older back then – an “Everblack” – namely Bidla Buh. And there’s a line in it: “Because the Danube is so beautiful near Dürnstein.” Now that I was practically round the […]
Rohrendorf is actually a wine tavern village. One winery next to the other and since Rohrendorf is actually a suburb of Krems, which calls itself a wine town, all tourists in Rohrendorf go to the Heurigen. I was at Giovanni’s. Not a wine tavern. Even if it looks like a simple Italian […]