Visiting Munich for the 2016 Oktoberfest?

by Pete

2016 Oktoberfest

This year the 2016 Oktoberfest festival starts on September 17th at 12:00am until October 3rd and started in 1810 for the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig.

If you are planning on visiting the Munich 2016 Oktoberfest, pleased be aware that there will be extra strong security on all visitors. This could include banning all rucksacks and bag searches and spot checks on personal identity. In today’s world of people wishing to do harm to others for a range of reasons, this is understandable. For more information, see the Oktoberfest Insider website.

What to expect is sometimes based on what you know and have knowledge of. The Oktoberfest is the biggest peoples festival in the world serving a lot of beer. Many cities around the world have created their own Oktoberfest, but there is nothing like the original.

2016 Oktoberfest Logo Each year Munich holds a competition to select the design for the Oktoberfest. This year it was won by Linda Sophie Schultheis & Susanna Schneide.

Bierkrugs, t-shirts and many other articles are using the logo to identified this years “Wiesn”. It is now 50 years since the idea for a logo or icon first started.

Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible

by Pete

Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible

We apologise for being off-line

The Munich City Guide was off line for 6 days due to the web server at the hosting company being hacked. We take pride in offering a guide to Munich for English speaking visitors and depend on the services provided by a hosting company. Over the last 20 years the Guide has been operating this has happened a few times, mainly due to technical problems. Hacking is the latest challenge facing website owners and service providers. Our site was not hacked and regular checks are made to prevent any malware being distributed.

Were does the title come from?

In the early days of television in the UK, the BBC had a test card displayed when technical problems happened. The words ” Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible ” are part of British television history. There is an article about the very first video recorder used by the BBC, and when this stopped working for any reason, then the message ” Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible” was displayed.

Display cards

Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible BBC2 Testcard

Munich Guide and the Kodak DC120

by Pete

See how the Kodak DC120 camera transformed this website in 1997

The original Munich City Guide started in 1996, and in 1997 the first digital photographs from the Kodak DC120 camera appeared. To read about this interesting story, with original images, see the Kodak story here

The Kodak Digital Camera and the Anatomy of a Business Dynasty Downfall

Kodak pioneered the development of digital cameras early on, and the DC series was the brand’s consumer-grade line sold during the middle and late 1990s. It supported only serial port connections, as USB did not yet exist. Eventually, the DC series was replaced by the Kodak Easy Share digital cameras.

Nymphenburger Schloss Weighing in at a solid three pounds, the Kodak DC120 was a one MP digital unit featuring a compact flash slot and a 38-114 mm lens equivalent. First released in 1997, it also had a 3:1 zoom lens and 2 MB internal http://www.buyambienmed.com storage. It was an upgrade to the earlier DC 40 and DC50 models in that it also had a colour LCD for reviewing pictures. Sadly, photos were stored in Kodak’s KDC format rather than .jpg or .gif.

The DC120 required a great deal of battery power, using four AA-sized 1.7-volt lithium batteries. These needed replacement every 20 to 30 photos. Ordinary batteries could be used to preserve settings, but did not have the capacity to power the DC120 for taking pictures. The cost of the DC120 at the time was about $1000 US/£670.

This camera is now in Perth, Australia and it is hoped that photographs taken in the last few months will be added to this post shortly. If you have images from a DC120 and would like to share them with visitors, please make contact. Nowadays I use an Panasonic TZ31 digital camera.