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So, been to the flea market again today, and since its hard to find stuff, I needed a better point of view. And of course, you can enjoy them too.

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Taking photos

Also found some stuff, just some minor photo gear, like a film bulk loader. I “found” a Nikon FM with 2 lenses, but sadly the body wasn’t working like it should, so again, no Nikon for me. Guess I will rather just keep looking for an OM-1. Noone has one left, or?

Oh, and btw, if anyone has some bulk film he dosn’t need. I would

Weather looked quite nice today again, feels much more like July or so then september. Even when it was a bit cloudy first, it cleared up nicely and even was quite hot later. Thought cycling in summer was hot, good I decided not to go far today

Shooting around

Once back, I went in the city, there was still plenty of light and I wanted to test my new Olympus lenses with a slower film too. I took an APX 100 with me, but laer in the city I noticed I should have taken the efke 25 with me. Have to stop down even in dimm cloudy light

Will take an efke with me to the flea market tomorrow. Should be fun. Everyone else who is comming to the flea market in Viktring tomorrow, call me

Taking photos

Since the computer at my aunts house was breaking down last week, they finally got a new harddrive to replace the broken one in their computer. In result, I visited them today to put it in and get everything on it running again.  Might took some time and again no extended bike trip today, but In return I should get my 50l apple cider barrel soon

The pano from yesterday is done too,  need to get there with much more water and a bit better light, but still think for a test its not too bad. For those who don’t know it, this is the Ebenthaler Waterfall, bit east of Klagenfurt. Would love to go there again with some dry ice  to make fog

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In the evening I went to the city again, just wanted to fill up the last few frames of the film in the OM and the Bessa. Love the 55/1.2 more and more  The 35/1.7 suddenly feels so slow. Also met a friend on the upcoming “Alpen Adria Bio Fest”, not seen her for quite some time. Might go in there tomorrow afternoon for a quick pano.

Taking the pano

With prett good weather again today, I decided to go cycling. I planned to go along the river again, but severl people showed up, everything went just to slow. When I finally had time again, I didn’t wanted a longer tour anymore

Instead, since someone made a rquest for it, I went for the Ebentaler Watterfall for a nice pano. I expected a bit more water then there was, but otherwise it dosn’t look that bad. But still I think it worked well. Pano looks good, but is still rendering right now, so wait for tomorrow please.

MY new shiny baby

Since it was quite a short trip, I went to the city, and just wanted to visit the photostore to see if there is something new in the 2nd-hand shelf. Allredy from the distance, I spotted some Olympus lenses, and on a closer look, there were some really nice ones. 35/2.8 shift, 24/2, 35/2, 55/1.2. The 24 and the 35/2.8 were a bit expensive, but the 35/2 and the 55/1.2 were priced VERY cheap, and I couldn’t resist and 5 min later, and with 50€ less, I walked out with 2 neat lenses. Both look very good, sure no hardcore user. Specially the 55/1.2 is interessting, its the erly version with rare earth elements (noticing a yellow cast), good thing this one should be the best version. Allready shot one film, will develope soon.

Aout shooting the film, in the evening we had a meeting with the flickr group, mostly fun, but also start to talk about the upcoming photo workshop. Something realy cool will happen this year

2nd half of the big flea market today, not that I have found something special to buy (new celluar, but to expensive), but at least I meet quite a lot of friends today, and also could take some panos I intedded to take yesterday, but it got to late for that. And panos look good. What do you think, calendar or not?

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Also, all the “normal” photos are now editied and put on flickr, feel free to check them out.

Cleaning the enlarger

Also; I worked a bit on my new enlarger. First step was cleaning, and after 3 hours of taking it appart, cleaning it with some pretty strong chemicals and putting it togther it works like new.

My only problem is the lens, its the 105mm one for 6×9 format, so with 35mm negatives they turn out rather tiny, everything fully extended allow me barly to cover 10×7 inch. Need to find at least a 80mm lens for it. If anyone out there has expirience with the Durst U70 model, please contact me.

My new enlarger

It was time for the Altstadtzauber again, a bit festival in the inner, old part of the city, with a huge flea market that lasts all night long, music concerts and other magic or artist shows. Quite cool stuff.

Flea Market at night

Main even, for me at least, was again the flea market. I was primary looking for some camera equipment, but also other stuff (need another hat, and a new headlight), and also to take some photos. I went with the 30D+20/1.8 (simply love that combo) and headed to the city. I was in for quite some time, exploring the areal. Not much photo related stuff, most interesting camera was a Olympus 35 SP rangefinder, rest was just a lot of Practica and Minolta cameras.

But then I found a rare thing, one of them had a nice, old enlarger there. It was a Durst U 70, quite a old model, but still looking good. Lens is a 105mm, so I might have to get a shorter one, but in case I get a 6×9 camera, I have the right stuff. This now is properly my oldest piece of equipment, they were build first in 1947

Me at the flea market

Later at 3, when I thought about going home, I meet Robert (know him from the medieval games), and we went across the flea market again, taking more photos.

In the evening, I went there again with Gervin, looking for more stuff and also of course, taking more photos. And those will be then edited tomorrow and put on flickr. Stay tuned.

P.S.: With the help of code-guru Ben, my shadowbox works nicely again.

Out with Michi

All panos are done and uploaded to Panotopia, not the the last one very special or so, but they are online now.  Feel free to enjoy them. While the last few panos were rendering, I went to the city, playing with the 20mm and meeting up with Michi, he wanted to borrow the 30mm.

Us all dealers, first shot as free

Later that day, I went to the “ackern” festival, some sort of rural festival. Georg Holzer started SiliconAlps.tv today, and the launch party was there. Didn’t know all of the people there, but enough to have fun, and since I wanted to take somephotos there anyway, it was fun. Photos are on flickrs, panos are done, but not interactive “yet”.

Quite some news up here, but lets start slow. The Northland outdoor store we have here had a water problem some time ago, and that turned into a renovation sale. Since I was still looking for a not to expensive set to go on fixed rope routes (hope dict.cc was right here), but sadly nothing in my size left. Guess I have to look some other shops.

Cycling to the city

Back home, I started to feed Autopano with some panos, and it looks like I realy picked the only pano to start with that Autopano dosn’t like. I had 2 others that were very much like this one, and a few others that were close, and none of them made as much troubles as the first one.

And the new Pano2VR is realy great, made everything much easier. Here are 2 for today. You might have noticed the poll on the right, have 7 panos left, tell how many you want each day

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While Autopano was rendering the panos, I decided to go to the city, testing my 20mm in “good” conditions for once. I’m allready quite happy with it in dark bars, lets see how nice it is during daylight. AndI must say, I’m very pleased with it. Also, since Microsoft made Photosynth public, I wanted to give that a try too. Anyone who has Windows and want to give it a try, look here.

More panos tomorrow

Actually, I wanted to finish at least a few panos from my trip yesterday, but no luck. At first, i tried to do all at once, was a bit to muh and it send Autopano to the deepest pits of the computer hell.

Next thing, I got a bit distrcted from the postman who got me my 20mm, but after some testing, I went back to the panos. I adjusted a few for rendering, clicked render and went off to the city to test the new lens.

In the city, I stumbled across Georg, kwentin, Christian and others, so the city trip was shortend a bit and we went to the Irish pub for some drink and talk. At least I could play a bit more with the lens there.

Bar discussion, taken by Georg

After midnight we went home again, I checked the computer and it turns out the pano didn’t render as smooth as possible, have to give it a little more attention.

The problem then was, from the first crash Autopano seam to have suffered a bit, it was a bit slower then usuall, and just when I was about to finish the panorama again (after some big troubles), it just locked up while repositioning the frames. Very bad, since you can’t save then. So you have to wait a bit to see more of Salzburg. Hopefully tomorrow.

Weather was kinda mixed again, a week ago I would have said it was nice, but with the last few days, t was just ok. But that wasn’t to bad, since I had a few things today, first playing taxi for my cousin, she needed to get to te train, short holiday in Vienna.

Back home from that, I started something what I actually wanted to do days ago, I finally got my sensor cleaned. And I have to thank Werner again for suggestion the Arctic Butterfly, this thing works just perfect. Now its shiny new again.

Later I went for lunch with my dad and brother, somehow promised them to go with them. Pizza was good too

Taking photos in the city

In the afternoon I went to the city, the biggest bookstore in town had their Book-Market up again. They build up a huge tent on the main sqaure, with hundrets of books to sell, most of them pretty cheap. Even found a cool old geography school book about my place from 1927 (latest date I found in the book). Interessting stuff.

They should get more stuff out tomorrow, so I might gonna check again. And also, I’m very close to finish the roll in the Zorki. Now I just need some rain so I can start developing.