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

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.

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.

Food break

I was planning to visit Salzburg to take a lot of panos for some days now, and with Joao visitng Salzburg on his family trip across Europe, I decided to go today, meet up with him and check out Salzburg.

As usual, he didn’t made it easy for me to find him, not telling me where he was when I could look it up, then telling me where he was and instantly going somewhere else. Took me 1,5 hours to finally find him.

Joao chimpin :P

After dropping some stuff (films) at the hotel, we went to the city, me taking the Bessa, he had his D70. But the moment I changed over to the pano stuff, he grabed my Bessa and tried to keep it

With noone knowing anything in Salzburg, we mostly stumbled across the city, looking for places to take photos of, meeting his family several times and going on a few dring searching breakes. There are awefully few stores in Salzburg, btw.

This lasted almost the whole rest of the day, and after visiting castles, old buildings and other stuff, and also a short break in the park, it was time for me to get the train back home.

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.

So, weather forecast said it would be all sunny today, but in real life, it took it until mid-afternoon to clear up nicely. It might took some time, but in return the day ended really nice, beautiful sky. Tomorrow should be like this, so I’m going to take more tomorrow.

Taking the Pano

For quite some time, I wanted to take this pano, first I thought about asking the city (once I’m better known for this), but today I’m not ready to wait so long, I just take my stuff, go and take the pano. I made it different then I first thought I will, but it worked just as good.

I took 2 more panos, just in case this one won’t stitch or blend together, but as you notice, it worked almost flawless. I still had to repair a few spots in the basin, but looking on how I took it, Its much better then some of my early tripod versions. And I have to say, I REALLY like the view

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Enjoy.

The weather was quite nice today first, so I did the best thing you could do (next to go up a mountain) and went off on my bike.

I did the same river side route as last time, but sadly the weather changes, and the blue sky turned into the grey clouds. Not the best weather for photos, specially panos. But in exchange, I found some nice places I will go the next days.

The weather stayed cloudy the whole rest of the day, so I delayed my pano experiment in the city again. Maybe tomorrow. But nevertheless, I went to the city, they have some sort of “Arabic Nights” there now, mostly an excuse for a flea market of the stores to kick their old stuff out. The Foma 200 is almost full, and I really enjoy the extra stop against other 100 films. Can’t wait to develope that one.

Again, rain was fore casted and nothing happened. But it was a close call, we had dark clouds all day long, so I would went far away even with good weather forecast. It just looked to much like rain.

Taking photos

Anyway, I refused to sit down here at home all day long, so I at least went to the city a bit, taking the Bessa and some new Foma 200 film to try out. I really want to see how that film performs, should be the perfect daytime action film, with extended evening usability. Just hope it tonal range and grain is fine.

Ugly plastic statue

Weather was as unstable as expected, even got some light drizzle in the city today. So luckily I didn’t went any further away. Also in the city, I finally saw the new replica of the “Wörthersee-Madl”, who according tot he legend created our lake. The original was made of brass, the replica was something like glass fibre reinforced plastic and looked just ugly. Luckily they already promised to bring the old brass one back.

First night back in the own bed was great, not that I had a bad sleep there, but its nice to have a bad that its wide enough that you don’t sleep in feer of falling down. Been to the city most of the day, giving back the key to he flat in Vienna (not that I used it :P), ad also had some other stuff to do there.

With the nice weather, I should have taken the digital camera with me too, and start to redo some panos around the central square for the website. Might do that the next days.

Other then that, not much news. Might show some new panos from Wolfsberg tomorrow.