36 frames

As soon as at comes to Apple computers, troubles start for me. And today was no different. Last week I got a cheap 160Gb external harddrive, USB was broken for some reason, but Firewire works fine. Since I wanted the disk for my old G3, who just has USB 1.1 that was fine by me. I just needed it to copy my scanned images, around 1gig for 36 frames, with USB that took over half an hour, I hope Firewire 400 will be faster. Problems started with the lack of a Firewire cable, at least the local store had one in stock I could pick up.

Johannes and Johannes talking about the script

Pluged cable in both sides, fliped the power switch, and finally I heard the You-pluged-something-new-in-sound. I expected it to work, but again, I was wrong. Unless almost all USB drives I connected in the last 5 years, the Firewire Version had to be special and demanded a driver. No problem, lets look at the Maxor website. First thing I noticed: Right, Seagate bought them a while ago. Second Notice: Nice, extra section for Maxtor Products. Third Notice: Why is there no driver for my drive??

Turns out you need the CD, and if you don’t have it, you’re out of luck, no driver on the Product page. But luckily the net is smart, a completly different drive has the same driver, for Firewire at least, and when I find that driver, it can work. I found the driver, it worked and I instantly burned me a CD with that driver one – Just in case. Next time I need to scan some film, I gotta install that driver on an 7 year old G3 with OS9 – Any bets?

Me enjoying the audio lab (Note so self: Use 20mm more)

After drive chaos, it was time to go to University to met up with Johannes, our video project was coming along nicely, and today we had our syncro speaker there to dub in Bavarian. The Macs gave us again some troubles, but nothing a good reboot dosn’t fix. After that, it worked pretty well, all spoken parts recorded, and we even started with the poster/DVD cover a bit. With some luck, we should be able to finish it tomorrow. Unless the Macs screw us again.

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Another Barcamp taking place at the university,  great way to meet people and talk about the latest technology.  Funny thing, as soon as the Barcamp started today, the snow started to fall, and we got quite a lot today. Since we were indoor, no big deal. Sessions today were all pretty interesting, just a tad short maybe, but we don’t have infinite time – sadly.

Waiting Line - Click for Pano

Aula Session - Click for Flash

Within the sessions I even found some time to take a few panos and some more photos. Looks like the developing machine will run hot the next days

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Weather still not great, but at least it looks like its improving.  Only upside, I could do the scanning today. Mac-problems keep me from finishing both today, so the 2nd one has to wait for tomorrow. I hopefully finish the 2nd one tomorrow after shopping.

For the Mac Problems, I need to find a way to move files from my G3 (OS9) to my WinXP computer over the network, anyone of those Mac Gurus out there have an idea how to do so? Everything is welcome.

Frame from the market

Photo wise, I finished to scan and post process the Efke film, looks very nice, lens (russian 50/2) might wasn’t the best and it looks like my Zorki has some minor light leaks towards the bottom. Have to take so gaffer tape with me next time.

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the weather didn’t really improve over the least days, so with no good weather to take photos, it was at least good weather to develop photos. Since I hadn’t found my XTOL yet, I mixed up some of my 10 year old Microphen powder – and that worked great. I finally managed to develop on of the EFKEs too, turned out great too.

Left EFKE, right Delta 400

With 2 films developed, it was time to “restock” my savings, so I took one of my bulk films with me when I visited Gervin in the evening, and we  split that up in 20 films. And for 5 cent a film, its very nice.

20 rolls, 5 cent each

Who said film has to be expensive. Now I just need to shoot that

P.S.: Just calculated the film costs:

1 roll HP from Bulk : 5 cent
3ml Rodinal (500ml for 9€): 5 cent
Agefix 125ml 1€ for 20 films: 5 cent
Total: 15 cent. FILM IS CHEAP

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As an annual christmas tradition, we made our usuall family roundtrip today. We started with a trip to Wolfsberg, one I planned to do a time lapse on. Camera and everything was ready, but I didn’t consider the rain, the moving wipers would have ruinied it. The rain got softwer once we arrived in Wolfsberg, but still it was no weather to walk around.

After a qiute big christmas lunch and the tree ceremony, we headed to my aunt in Völkermarkt for the 2nd Christmas Dinner of the day, again lots of food. And again, plenty of rain over here, rendering my walking plans all useless. I just can’t hope the weather improves over the next days. I know I have some films to develope, but I need to get some shopping done too.

Speaking of shopping, time is now way due for a new mobile phone. Looking for something with a decent screen and a full hardware keyboard. Any affordable suggestions?

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Day started with a taxi job to Villach. My plan was, while I was there, to take a nice walk around the snowy town. Sadly, I totally underestimated the traffic there, instead of walking there for half an hour or more, I just was stuck in traffic all the time. No chance to go anywhere there. And soon then I was heading back to Klagenfurt again, without even taking a single photo.

At least I managed to go for a small walk across the city, and found a perfect late Christmas  gift, so it wasn’t that bad after all.  Things got even better in the evening, when a kind UPS man rang the bell (surprised they were still working at 8pm).  Know Santa usually dresses in red and has a beard, but still he brought me the a  nice  (and most likely the most expensive for this year) present.

Now I still throw off some old “freeware” for Vector or DTP of the computer, as usuall Microsoft stuff takes the longest. I wanted to install everything today, but I’m afraid that’s moved to tomorrow.

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After a day full of snow coming from the sky, the later one cleared up today to a beautiful clear blue. Being a Sunday, we took the opportunity today and were going to visit my grandpa, not only it was nice to say hi to him again, it also was a good way to get out of the city to some very nice winter scene, giving me the chance to take a few photos.

Blue Sky, White Roof

He got there around  as much snow as we did in the city, just few people walking over it. I was hoping he got a it more,  but the Winter isn’t over yet. The forecast says it might get warmer the next days, but for my guess, that’s to far in the future.  And right now its cold enough that the snow should stay a while.

Winter Forrest

Tomorrow it looks like I will visit Villach, lets see how much snow they got over there. Maybe even time for a quick pano, wonder if they have a nice Christmas market up there.

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After an interesting but nevertheless long series of classes, university is over for the year, and today was the first day for of the holidays. Quite interesting, it was also the first time we really got a lot of snow, around 15cm / 7 inches, bit less in the city itself. And again the city proofed itself totally unaware that the winter comes with snow, and judging how some people were driving, they must think its summer now. For me, the snow was more then welcome, after getting the right cloths (and the hat, of course), I headed for the city.

Closed for Winter

I not only managed to finally fill the Delta 400 (looking forward to the results) in the Bessa, but also 70 shots on the 5D, including the way overdue Christmas Pano, what luckily turned out even better then expected, the timing for the light was just perfect.

Click for Christmas Pano

I hope I can manage to start developing the Delta 400 among some other films tomorrow, some people say Delta 400 is an awesome film, but I have some doubts it can beat the mighty TriX, that’s still my favourite.  And I pretty much doubt that even the Delta 400 will take that place.

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Quite earyl this year, the Perchten were roaming Klagenfurt again. I called some friends together, and later teamed up with Johannes in the city and we looked for a good spot to take some photos. Sadly the evening didn’t go nearly as well as planed, first my flash broke AGAIN, then some beverage accident due some idiots I left a bit earlier. but at least between that, it went quite nice.

Fireshow

I now have plenty of images to upload, hope I will have enough time for that tomorrow. After getting the water today, starting my darkroom is the top priority now

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