Archive 5. October 2003

ES5 developers remove backdoor

And do we believe you? Nope. Better not to. Once a liar, always a liar. At heise online news you can find the original article.

Grafmatic Sheet Film Holder

A very interesting peripheral for large format cameras with Graflex mount: with this magazine you can expose 6 film sheets in succession without having to deal with cassette changes. In principle something like a revolver cassette that you can pre-load - has some similarity to the pack film cassettes for Polaroid, except that the films here are not bent, but rather pushed backwards inside the cassette through the click-clack process.

Particularly cool: you could adapt these parts to other cameras. I at least have the option of such an adapted cassette for my Polaroid 600 SE.

Update: I won the auction on eBay. Let's see what I get now.

Here's the original article.

Fight against windmill[...]e>Chimney sweep

If I consider that the exhaust duct of the gas burner might be clogged with a bird's nest (and I know from my own experience that this is not absurd - at our place not only was there a bird's nest in the air shaft, but an entire crow was sitting there and had to be rescued by the fire department), I'd rather let the chimney sweep earn his money. And all these smoking chimneys around here - where people have switched to wood burning - should probably also be properly maintained.

I think Mr. Theisen should rather switch to tilting at windmills.

Here you can find the original article.