It was back in 2005, in the middle of the summer, when Stefan Hendricks, at the time moderator of oly-e, was fed up with constantly maintaining the FAQ on oly-e. So he set up a wiki and named it “olypedia”. On July 14, 2005 at 12:38 (and 24 seconds) he released his […]
Newsticker: Excire Search and OMDS Cashback
Excire Search 2024, the Lightroom plugin, has been available since today. This means that AI free text search is now also available in Lightroom. (Of course, I found the image above with Excire Photo – also with free text search. ) Newsletter recipients have a discount code in their newsletter with which […]
Digitising analogue material Part III
Digitize medium format. 35mm format is not a major problem. With anything larger, it gets hairy. I’ve already mentioned the Kodak Instamatic – I don’t really care about the 2mm missing at the top, but you have to come up with something for anything larger. If you still have working medium format […]
Cordless screwdriver with internet connection
Cordless screwdrivers are incredibly practical. I couldn’t have done the renovation in Rocksdorf without cordless screwdrivers. Cordless screwdrivers are also used for assembling cars and electronic equipment. The fact that you can set the torque with which the screw is tightened is particularly practical. When assembling circuit boards, the torque must not […]
Digitising analogue material Part II
Today it’s all about negative material in 35mm format. As already discussed in the last episode: Flatbed scanners and older slide scanners have a problem with the dynamic range of negative film. Some scanners try to solve the problem with multiple exposures. However, this only works if the “dynamic range” of the […]
Wellingtons protests
In Bavaria, wellies hang on town signs all over the countryside. Occasionally even two pairs – small and large. Of course, the authorities have already announced that this is absolutely illegal. You can’t hang things on signs at all. It could distract drivers. (But election posters are allowed – nobody looks at […]
Digitising analogue material Part I
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 up too […]
Colorfoto is out of print.
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 also had […]











