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The shoe boxes and the slide boxes and old negative strips. A horror. Thousands of unlabelled pictures. Is that historical or crap? Some of the shoe boxes have been moved from the first estate to the second and third estates, and occasionally photo albums have been dismantled because they took […]
There used to be a photo magazine in Germany that was the biggest. In other words, the one with the largest paid circulation. Affectionately known as “Klofoto”. It belonged to the WEKA publishing group, which also owned Franzis-Verlag, which printed almost three dozen of my books. As a result, I […]
Mark Humpage was Olympus Visionary many years ago and is remembered by German fanboys for one action in particular: He took the E-5 and the Fisheye into the Blue Lagoon in Iceland and submerged it while the video was running: Of course you have to go to the shower afterwards…. […]
Anyone who owns a 35-100 knows the problem: the lens hood – which is not exactly cheap – tends to crack and then constantly fall off the lens. And even if the lens hood doesn’t break, the plastic mounts wear off over time. Helge has now measured and rebuilt a […]
Diesen Blogbeitrag gibt es nicht auf Englisch, weil man dazu einen deutschen Blogbeitrag von Hauke Fischer kennen muss. Nämlich den hier. Ihr wisst ja, meine Kommentare zu seinen Blogbeiträgen beschränken sich im Allgemeinen auf zwei Worte: “Genau so!”. Diesmal muss ich aber meinen Senf dazugeben. Gerade weil ich eben aus […]
There were once…. three crazy people with a dream: Volker Koehne, a former architect, Siegfried Tschoppe and Georg Richter. They wanted a galleon. It wasn’t about the cannons. No, simply a sailing ship in this shape. Must. Absolutely. In 1978, they bought an Icelandic cement transporter that had been a […]
Do you know the feeling? You wake up and feel like you’re in a bad sci-fi novel? It started over a decade ago when the manufacturer I photographed their products for decided to save the cost of the photographer and had the product images generated directly from the design data. […]
Pergear is not really a lens manufacturer in that sense. It’s a Hong Kong distributor for all kinds of Chinese photo stuff of varying quality. And they also sell a few lenses and SD cards under their own name. A few people in China took a look at the Olympus […]
Today I visited Pierre again, who has now opened his store in Bad Bergzabern. Pierre is an Olympus veteran and has been photographing with Olympus since analog times. And he does it for a living. He is what you would call a professional photographer. His whole place is full of […]
Sigma, actually known for good lenses – the 75mm f/1.8, for example, is manufactured by Sigma – shows how they manufacture mirrorless cameras – in this case the “Sigma fp“. You can also see why none of the cameras leave the factory with “0” shutter releases. 348,000 views in 5 […]
I got another question about a problem that many people underestimate. The brightness of the display doesn’t seem to be right. You take pictures in the studio or outside in the current bad weather, realize that the camera overexposes for strange reasons – or even in the studio the pictures […]
First the bad news: in my last annual review for 2022, I predicted that a camera and two lenses would arrive in 2023. Half a camera arrived – the TG-7 – and the 90 mm macro. My apologies: At the time, I only reproduced what OMDS officials officially claimed on […]