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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. I had […]
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 fishcap, said […]
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 Oly stuff, […]
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 days. Which […]
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 in M […]
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 YouTube in […]
I started translating some articles into English some time ago, but stopped because the effort involved in translating almost 2000 articles was beyond my imagination. Now that I’ve been doing daily content for over a year and I’ve had a lot of requests for English versions, I’ve decided to post all new […]
I already discussed this in the last FolyFos. OMDS has switched off the A-GPS service. For those who don’t know: GPS needs a current directory of satellite orbit data to determine the location. With normal GPS, the receiver can get the data from the satellite and then use it to calculate the […]
After I received an e-mail and doubts were expressed in the comments about the weight of my tripod, here is a picture of it. I had never weighed the tripod. It is definitely very heavy. I have now found the old brochure for the SCS-1 at Cambo, and with all the accessories […]
Helge has sent me the following “call for help”: Following a request, I checked the feasibility of a battery adapter for the OM-1. Reinhard was kind enough to measure the battery for me. I have now built a prototype and am looking for someone in Vienna who can provide me with an […]
Novoflex has built a bellows for mFT, with mFT connections at the front and rear. Here you can see the Apparillo with a 75mm at the front and an E-M5II at the back and a Novoflex Castel-QP at the bottom. This is the Arca-Swiss sled hanging on the bottom. It has lots […]
Over the next few days, we will once again be inundated with annual reviews – most of which have already been broadcast – because the first one to come out will benefit from the fact that people are not yet sick of it. But this day is still a day to sit […]