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Vogue is a household name? That’s right, it’s that magazine for starving models, designer clothes, luxury cosmetics and so on. They also do greenwashing so that the clientele on the yacht in St Tropez can have their blood diamonds polished with a clear conscience. But because they want to be all woke, […]
Es gibt mal wieder Cashback: 100 Euro für: 12-200, 75-300, 60mm Makro, 20mm f/1,4. 200 Euro für: 100-400, 7-14, 12-100, 17mm f/1,2, 25mm f/1,2, 40-150 f/2,8, 45mm f/1,2, 300mm f/4, 8-25, 12-40, 40-150 f/4, 90mm Makro und das 150-400 ist 50 Euro billiger geworden.
I read a question in a forum: “I want to film a wedding with a fixed camera on a tripod. I have an OM-1, 60mm, 7-14 and 40-150 at my disposal. What should I take?” The answers are, as usual in forums, broadly diversified from “leave it” to “14mm” to “40-150”. What […]
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. […]