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[EN] How I digitize my Kodachrome slides Original pic: Camera: Minolta X-700 Lens(es): various Film: Kodachrome 64 slide film Photographed with: Camera: Nikon D500 Lens: AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8G Diacope attachment: Nikon ES 1 Kodachrome slide film is comparable to three black-and-white films placed on top of each other and separated by color filters. In contrast to other slide films (e.g. Agfa, Fuji etc.), Kodac…

Executive Board (elected by the Ipernity General Assembly on March 25, 2023 and April 7, 2024) William Sutherland , United States, President Corinne Pommerell , Luxemburg, Treasurer Rob Stamp , United Kingdom, Webmaster Laura Fletcher , United States, Moderator Executive Assistants ( appointed by the Executive Board in accordance with ARTICLE VII,10 of the IMA Statutes ) Helena-Paule Fitoussi , France (hotline, spam removal) Stefan Roßkopf , Germany (IT) S…

Instead of counting comments in discussions as in previous meetings, we will be using the voting website PollUnit.com . The German developers of PollUnit provide the interface in English and French, as well as German. At the time of writing they are testing Spanish. But this is hardly an issue when voting is with ✅ and ❌. There is also an abstain option between them. The previous separate discussions for each voting topic will instead be separate PollUnits. You will open these with a un…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. One month until IGA. Sign up by April 3rd in order to attend. Our annual membership meeting will be held online on Sunday April 7th 2024, 5pm [Correction: 6pm] Paris (16:00 UTC) . Please see Sign-Up Procedure for IGA . For anyone who has not attended previously, a look at the IGA group will give you an idea of how the meeting is conducted online. There are two mandates open for election. 2. Meeting in the real world. We are ind…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Two months until IGA. Sign up for the meeting now. Our annual membership meeting is due to be held on Sunday April 7th 2024, 5pm Paris (16:00 UTC) . "When are the others turning up?" Don't delay, please see Sign-Up Procedure for IGA . For anyone who has not attended previously, a look at the IGA group will give you an idea of how the meeting is conducted online. 2. Speaking of groups of animals... Our…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, "We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne." - Robert Burns With the ringing in of the new year, we wish our ipernity community a year of joy, laughter, and of course, lots of shared photos and images! The team is grateful for everything we've done together in the past year. May the excitement of what's yet to come fill our website and your lives. 1. Revision for user creating a new group. Relating to item 20 of the 'problems' di…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Seasons Greetings! With the coming change of season we are reminded that we are a global community. We are happy that here on our website we are able to enjoy, both the cold low winter light and the brightness of hot summer. What a pleasure to share these moments with each other. We are thankful for this community which shows us how varied our world is. Peace be with you. 1. Statement from our Club President about AI images. We've noticed th…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Bulletin from our club president. On 7 October 2023 we were presented with a claim for monetary damages from a well-established and reputable German-headquartered company that specializes in obtaining compensation from intellectual property theft (e.g. copyright infringements) because of the actions of an ipernity member. He is now a past member because his account was promptly deleted along with the image that had been uploaded without the photog…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Revised Landing Page. The selection of images for the Landing Page has been made, and the software update implemented, see Explore . You will note that the image changes each time the page is refreshed. This is on a random basis, so you might get the same image twice, but most of the time it will be different. We hope that this refresh, suggested by our membership, helps new members engage with the text and our website, and that our current me…

Not all of my photos are on Ipernity (nor on Flickr*). I have placed a number of photos on my personal website: swansonphotos.com/P/p and follow the links. There are all of our travel photos, as well as links to pages that describe our travels. After trying various systems to make static photo sites, I discovered HUGO. The above link points to a HUGO-created site, which includes some very nice interactive albums of photos on a specific "theme". * Flickr is threatening to remove mos…

This is a not-quite-up-to-date list of travels involving my wife and myself. I've included travel experiences from before we met. Many of these travels involve photography. We are both avid amateurs, and really started taking lots of photos when digital cameras came out. Anyway on to the list (which is located at swansongrp.com/trips_all.html ) Hmm, seems that Ipernity has truncated the entire entry, so this is just part 1... - - - - - - Introduction -- First of all, this list of trav…

World Photography Day is an annual, worldwide celebration of the art, craft, science and history of photography. This year our club’s World Photography Day group will honor the day by accepting photographs taken on Saturday, August 19th, 2023. Each photographer may submit one photo (for 2023 a second photo will be allowed if placed in the description of your first photo). Submissions will be accepted through the end of August to allow time for editing, processing, and uploading. S…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. The ipernity homepage. You can now click on the artist's name to go directly to the original photo. This will pause the slideshow ready for your return, after viewing the original. This new link will hopefully be beneficial to the artist as well as to non-members who will see exactly what our main individual photo pages look like. 2. Group highlight. A group that had lain dormant for many months now has a new admin team. New admin, Roger, w…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Picture-in-picture (PiPs) in lightbox. The full screen 'Lightbox view [z]' now displays PiPs. It does not allow you to edit your own PiPs, but the feature is designed to help you be aware of PiPs when viewing other people's photos. The outline rectangles appear as you move the mouse, and then fade out when you stop moving the mouse. This is unlike the main photo page where they are always visible when the mouse is over the photo. The recta…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Last Saturday, March 25th, 2023 the Ipernity General Assembly 2023 took place. The previous Board of our Association was discharged for its activities in 2022. The following links provide information on the course of the Assembly and the results: ● Agenda of the 2023 IGA ● Participants in the 2023 IGA ● President's report on 2022 ● Treasurer's report on 2022 ● Annual financial report for 2022 ● Minutes of the 2023 IGA…

How the IGA will be run 2023 (Note: Some links will only be available after being signed up to attend) As an international community, the IGA takes place online and will be on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 6pm CET. The IGA takes place in the 'Ipernity General Assembly' group's discussions found here: IGA Group Discussions 1) How to Sign Up Register to attend by March 20th, 2023 (follow sign up procedures here ) 2) How To Vote Learn new voting method for 20…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Website update: Improved album listing when uploading Until now, if you wanted to put a photo into one of your albums, it was often difficult to find this. This was because your albums were previously displayed based on the order in which they were created, with the most recent albums on top (see the following illustration, left-hand). In addition, the list was limited to fifty albums. This limit was expandable, but it was cumbersome. The di…

For other languages: ipernity members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Dear members and friends of ipernity, As the year is ending we are grateful for all the time, energy and kindness you give to our photographic community. Your loyalty and dedication warms our hearts. Thank you so much for being part of ipernity. This year we would like to inv…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Winter is here Yesterday was the meteorological beginning of winter. We have updated the homepage pictures accordingly. We thank all those who contributed with pictures, as well as those who helped with the selection. You can browse the picture collection, which also contains many new photos, in this album , but also as a slide show on YouTube . 2. Take your camera to snap fresh winter pictures If you feel the desire to show winter pi…

[New as of April 2022, latest minor edit to instructions August 2023] Since the native replace feature of our website no longer works for all file types, we are offering you an alternative replace function for photos today. How does it work? Short, summary version: - find the old picture, set it to 'private' and copy the picture number, - upload the new image, set it to 'private', click 'Replace', - paste the number of the old picture and start the process. In detail: ❶…