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
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
And we are Back on Air. For some reason, no idea why, all posts since the last one you see kinda vanished in thin air. I’m nut sure right now what exactly is to blame, the last update seams to have fixed it, but lots of posts are gone. And since I usually never read my own blog, I havn’t found out about this. Until now at least. The photos I uploaded each time are there, but without some context, they arn’t that special.
I first wanted to embed the latest pano tour today after university right in the blog, there I then noticed that everything I wrote was neither published nor saved. Very annoying. Since unlike most of the other stuff, the tour isn’t so old news, I decided to add them today again, just that you know.
Welcome to the Tour
Some people will notice that I just resued the map from last year, but to get it working quick this was the fasted way. Maybe, when we get snow, I will take the panos again, and then do a proper map. So far, this has to do.
Speaking of christmas markets, after I picked up some local ebay winnings, I made a short trip across the market, first time I saw it without fog. Sadly still no snow. I had to wast some time there anyway , since I also was there to visit the next barcamp meeting. And for all of you out there who would like to visit it, mark the 6th and 7th of February next year, we will see each other at the University Klagenfurt then.
Finishing the last pano in the morning because I made a mistake in the render batch, it was soon time to go to university. I wanted to do the final patching there in the media lab, they have some VERY nice PowerMacs (2x 3Ghz Quad, 16GB memory, wacom tabletts……) that I wanted to test for that kind of work, also it looked very nice to work there. And it was indeed great, I just needed to add some music to my workflow, but with the build in sound system, no problem.
Editing Panos
I just wish I would have something as nice as this at home, but sure its another sing to upgrade soon. You just get used to something better so quick. Can’t show the panos yet since its not sure what ones I can be publish. But will try to figure that out as soon as possible.
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