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Ein lang gehegter Wunsch ist in Erfüllung gegangen: die alten Fotos meiner Familie zu digitalisieren.

I have been slowly getting back to participating on ipernity again, and it was such a pleasure to learn that Explore is finally up and running! I don't know about you, but this was an important tool for me to use to meet new people and as another way to keep up with old friends! I didn't realize just how much I would miss it until it was gone! I know some people look at Explore as litttle more than a "popularity contest", but that is not the real purpose of this feature. It was intended as a…

Anfang März 2015 teilt das Bezirksamt Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg den Verkauf eines Großteils des RAW-Geländes an der Revaler Straße an ein Göttinger Immobilienunternehmen mit. Die riesige Industriebrache (70.000qm) des ehemaligen Reichsbahnausbesserungswerkes (RAW) hat sich über die Jahre zu einem in nah und fern bekannten alternativen Kulturzentrum entwickelt. 2014 feierte der RAW-Tempel e.V. sein 15jähriges Bestehen. In den ehemaligen Werkhallen haben sich stadtbekannte Clubs an…

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Entgleiste Historische Dampflok des Lausitzer Dampflok Clubs beim 26. Heizhausfest des Sächsischen Eisenbahnmuseums in Chemnitz Hilbersdorf am 18. August 2017

15.08.2017 : Man muss sich sputen mit der Terminplanung, auch wenn's noch 9 Monate hin ist. Rundherum schlagen schon wieder Termine für tolle Fototreffen ein. Hamburg findet natürlich 2018 auch wieder statt, alternativ am WE vor oder am WE nach dem 1 Mai (den man aber vielleicht auch noch einbauen kann). Programmideen gibt es schon, dazu werde ich mich in den kommenden Monaten mit Klaus und Volker beraten. Tragt euch vorsorglich schon mal ein, wenn ihr wieder dabei sein wollt. Den Doodle d…

Am 17./18. Juni 2017 nahm die Weißeritztalbahn nach 15 Jahren den Betrieb zwischen Freital-Hainsberg und Kipsdorf wieder auf. 2002 waren große Teile der Strecke durch die Jahrhundertflut schwer beschädigt worden und es dachten wohl Viele, das Ende der Bahn sei gekommen. Im Dezember 2008 konnte der planmäßige Betrieb zwischen Freital-Hainsberg und Dippoldiswalde wieder aufgenommen werden. Nun, 2017, konnte auf der gesammten Strecke der Betrieb wieder aufgenommen werden. Dieses Ereignis wollte ich…

== EN == Hi everyone, I've received today the final proposal from the IMA.... I replied I was ok to accept. Papers will be signed / sent tomorrow... I'm very affected by some of the comments I've seen on the last post,.. I've been doing my best and worked hard to let ipernity survive... I don't see many person who would have worked as much as I did, without any other interest to keep the service online. Kind Regards Christophe. == FR == Bonjour tout le monde, J'ai recu…

February 20th, 2017 ...for a while for personal and family reasons. I will continue to look at the fine pics here and comment and upload every now and then, but I have to attend to more important things (believe me, there are some ;-)) more often in the coming months. Please keep in touch anyway, I have not left for good. Update April 8th: By now this has become a 24/7 job (and I am doing that with great devotion). The time I can spend here is very limited and I will utilize it mostly on…

last edit 16. feb. If you are interested, what's happening just now in the former (at least semi-) democratic US, then read this. It's a very clear description of the processes started by the new president and the future we have to expect. I will post further interesting links in the future. medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5#.58sd40xh2 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-refugee-ban-fires-attorney-general-sally-yates-department-of-just…

[EN] Hello to you all, The ipernity team presents to you all our very best wishes for the new year! Since the announcement of ipernity’s shutdown, we received many proposals and messages of support either from users and businesses. With the help of several community members, especially Claus-Peter , Paul ( autofantasia ), Eric Desjours , and, William Sutherland , the idea that ipernity could be managed by the community has made its way and seems to be the most realistic solution.…

No doubt most of us from pre-digital days have collections of slides and/or negatives, waiting to receive a new digital rendering. I have been asked what process I use to copy these slides and negatives: here's a short summary of what I do and why I do things this way. Over the years I have owned a couple of dedicated slide/film scanners and, frankly, I was never totally satisfied with the results from them. One of the characteristics of the old slide film, particularly Kodak, was that it w…

Zufällig bin ich eben über dieses gestolpert: Keegan, the Photo Coach. Ich sag mal weiter nix, einfach ausprobieren und bei Jaqueline Esen nachlesen Hier der Link zu Keegan: keegan.regaind.io Und hier zum Artikel von Jaqueline Esen: fotonanny.blogspot.de/2016/10/wie-krass-ist-das-denn.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just by accident I stepped on Keegan the Photo Coach : IMHO a masterpiece in Artificial I…

====== UPDATE as my 'Club' membership has expired in the uncertainty of the IMA takeover many of the images in the article are not in my most recent 200 and thus will not be visible in the article ====== I've posted a couple of images on ipernity using ND filters made from welder's glass, a cheap way of emulating a Lee Big Stopper filter, and you can go to much higher ND factors too, I've made 900x and a 9600x ND and another which I guess is around 100,000x but I've not found a use for yet. I originally made the filters when I was using a 'point and shoot' and really didn't want to spend as much on an ND as I had on the camera. If you buy the bits off eBay the total cost of a filter is around £3

Jan. 19th, 2016 By the time I retired a couple of years ago I had accumulated over 50 years of photography some 6.000 slides and an unknown number of negative films. All these treasures were boxed up in our basement and we hadn't looked at it for years. And then I dicovered Panoramio, a photo sharing platform, which allows to geotag photos and place them on Google Earth. I decided, that this had to be my thing and I started scanning and uploading my slides. Scanning was done with an availab…

Auch für 2016 planen wir wieder ein Treffen von fotobegeisterten Hamburg Fans in der Hansestadt. 2015 hatte sich insgeamt 21 auf den Weg gemacht, einige von weit her. Wer sich einen Eindruck verschaffen will, kann hier mal schauen, was 2015 auf dem Programm stand : www.ipernity.com/group/1631517 Wir planen wieder für 2 Tage, wer mag kann eine dritten Tag anhängen. Ich werde wieder drei Tage in der Stadt bleiben. Als Highlights sollten neben den Stadtrundgängen dieses Mal eine Fleetfahrt d…

Being a Panoranio expat and having explored Ipernity now for about two weeks I like it better here every day. A well organized GUI and a multitude of functions I have not known in the other world are making the live easy here. In addition many functions can be customized by the user, albums can be organized in folders (a function I find very useful, not only for my own photos but also when browsing other member's galleries) and other nice features. Everything seems to be stable and working witho…

After 2.000 Photos and almost 11 million visits in the recent six years at Panoramio, Google has changed the appearance and functionalities of the platform in a way, which is simply unacceptable to many users. And it's not only the appearance, it's full of bugs! Every other day a new surprise. Moreover Google is evermore greedy for data and expects more and more data to be integrated into their "services". Given the recent disclosures of Edward Snowden it's time to look for an alternative.…

... well, sounds easy, just set it to the lowest possible value, mostly something between 50 and 100 you may say. However, actually it's not that easy. Surprisingly some cameras have their best (read)noise performance somewhere else. Both my EOS 60D and my 70D have the lowest read noise at ISO 160. This is also true for all CANON SLRs with the 18Mpix sensor and the Digic 4 Processor. And ISO 125 and everthing being a multiple of that should be avoided at all, because at these settings the camera…