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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

THe next, big flea market in Klagenfurt started today, the one in Viktring. I went there pretty early today, meeting Gervin at the market and together we searched teh area for some good deals.

Sadly, today was a pretty slow start, we both found some stuff, but it was nothing special, and far away from any cool new camera gear. I’m afraid I used up all my camera gear luck with the 2 new Olympus lenses. Btw. I found out today that the 35/2 came with a mint h

At the flea market

ood. Woho

And also btw, two films are 75% full, hopefully can finish them off tomorrow and then start developing on monday, since the forecast isn’t very good.

For tomorrow, I hope it will stay good. Want to take some panos

On the mountain

Weather in the city area was like fall, fog high above the city and no blue sky in sight. But then, we also know what do to so. As soon as you get up a mountain, you have a nice clear blue sky, with the clouds way bellow you.

View up the mountain

And thats what we did today. We excaped the grey skies of Klagenfurt and went to the Nockberge, more specific, to the Rinsennock near the Turracher Höhe.

PLenty of photos were taken on the trip up and down, some for normal photos, some for panos.  The panos you can find, as usuall, on my website. The links to the individual panos are here bellow:

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There are of course plenty of “normal” photos, and the will be at flickr tomorrow. Finished editing, and will let them develope tonight, but upload will take a bit. Soon

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.

In front of the waterfall

August is almost over, and so is the time I can use my train summer ticket. Again, I havn’t used it as often as I wanted. But today I decided to go, and went to Bad Gastein. Unlike last time, I didn’t went up the mountains, but decided to go thru the city to take some panos (and other photos).

Weather was kinda mixed, but at least it just looked a bit like rain, instead of actuall rain. Been lucky this time. Havn’t edited the photos yet, but the panos are ready. Enjoy them.

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They will be added to the voting list soon. In the mean time, please keep voting.

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

This weekend, the Alps Highland Games are happening in Wölfnitz, but northwest of Klagenfurt.  It started yesterday with the business games (not that interessting), and tomorrow are the “best of” (seen them today anyway), but today the “main” games were happening.

Taking the pano

First the whole thing was planned as a small photowalk, but in the end just 2 other people showed up, far less then I expected in the first place. Good think about the games were that we had no problem getting into the area, they asked all other people to leave several times, but anyone with a camera could stand right in the way and noone cared. like it should be

Quite a lot of photos taken (not uploaded yet) and one pano (see bellow), so I guess it was quite a good day. Just have to get a smaller pole for me that I can carry more easily.

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First sorry for the late post, had connection problems last night.

Taking a Pano

Looks like summer is finally back, the weahter is nice and no rain in sight.  Impossible to stay inside on such a nice day. I asked some friends, and apparently one agreeded to go cycling. We went the samy path as I yesterday, just extended it a bit to the east, making it 65 km in total.

The Drau

The part along the Drau tooks us abit longer the usuall, no wonder with 2 photographers :). Even had finally a change for one of the 2 panos I wanted to take. Sadly, the dam for the 2nd pano was closed due some maintance work, I guess there were repairing one of the flood gates there. Well, have to go there again soon then

Instead of going right back at the Annabrücke, we followed the cycle path to a small river passing into the Drau, for a short refreshing break. From there then it was straight back to home (including a short apple grapping break).

Where we went

Because of 1-2 more photo breaks on the way back, it got allready quite latethen, so not much left to do, besides editing some photos. But I allready know that I won’t do much more cycling tomorrow