If you wish to meet and speak with Dr Hellmuth in person (auf Deutsch, en español, or in English) the following opportunities are upcoming:

  • FLAAR + BGSU intermediate through advanced course on Digital Photography as Input for Wide Format Inkjet Printing. Sept-Oct 2002, via the Internet (so you do not have to attend nor be resident at Bowling Green State University). Anticipated cost is under $1100 but will include either 2 days personally accompanying Dr Hellmuth in late September at Photokina (Cologne Germany) or 1 day at SGIA-DPI tradeshow Oct 30th in St Louis or two days at PhotoExpo East New York Nov 1-2. Airfare etc not included; the cost is course fee only. The first past offering of this course had participants signing up from England, Chile, Germany, Mexico, and across the USA.
  • FLAAR, introductory, intermediate into advanced panoramic photography in the Highlands of Guatemala , late November into early December. In person, estimated course fee $1200, not including airfare nor local accommodations, though we could consider accepting participants via the Internet (in which case course fee $500). Features the Pano/WideView BetterLight digital pano system. We may also use the Seitz SuperRound Shot 70mm 220 film version as well (FLAAR has all of these).
  • FLAAR + BGSU, back by popular demand: intermediate through advanced course on Digital Photography as Input for Wide Format Inkjet Printing. Jan-March 2003, via the Internet, anticipated cost under $1100 (so you do not have to attend nor be resident at Bowling Green State University) but will include 2 days personally accompanying Dr Hellmuth at PMA photography tradeshow March 4-5, Las Vegas (tradeshow and lecture program is March 2-5, 2003).
Testing the BetterLight, Cambo
  
PhotoExpoEast
Tanja Tathjen from Germany (left) with Nicholas Hellmuth (right) testing the BetterLight, Cambo, Kaiser rePRO tri-linear camera system in the FLAAR photo studio within the Popol Vuh Museum, Francisco
Marroquin University.
 
Dr Hellmuth at PhotoExpoEast tradeshow checking the output to see if it has horizontal banding defects.

If these dates are not convenient and you wish professional consulting services from Dr Hellmuth, FLAAR, and/or Bowling Green State University, please check out our description of consulting services on all FLAAR web sites (listed under consulting). Nicholas Hellmuth is available to fly to your location anywhere in the world or you can come here to Ohio or to our university in Guatemala and work with you in English, en español, or auf Deutsch. We also understand written French and basic spoken French but don't write or speak it well.

Inquiries by e-mail ReaderService@FLAAR.orgin case you receive no answer, write CustomerSupport@FLAAR.org. We prefer all initial contact to be by e-mail, but if you are unsure whether your e-mail has gone through, use our VoIP / Vonage telephone #, 419
823-9218 and ask for Patty, Andrea, or Flor.

Please explain who you are, what you seek to get out of such a course, your approximate level (beginners are considered as well as seasoned pros), and what equipment you have (most people don't yet have the equipment which is why they want to take the courses, to learn what to buy; so it is not a pre-requisite that you already have the equipment).

We are unable to provide consulting via fax nor via this e-mail; this mode of contact is exclusively to apply for consideration to be accepted for a course. It is during the course that you will get the information and access directly with Professor Hellmuth.

Please do not use this e-mail nor fax to ask for FLAAR reports: to do that requires filling out the inquiry form.

Please do not use this e-mail nor fax for questions on hardware or software: with 20,000+ readers per month on this web site we are not able to answer personal questions individually unless you seek professional consulting services on a regular fee basis. If you wish free information, this is readily available via the FLAAR Reports, which can only be accessed by filling out the inquiry forms.

If you do not wish to fill out the inquiry form, but still want the reports anyway, we are setting up a new web site, www.wide-format-printers.NET where you can buy the reports without being limited to just three titles. However it will be several months before you can get all the reports by paying for them. In the meantime, three reports are free.

 

Last checked Nov. 15, 2002.
First posted Apr. 23, 2002