Color Management on Windows 11

Source: How to configure Firefox color management I’m working on getting my new Windows 11 machine up and running with a new to me Wacom 24 touch display.  It seems like I’m not getting all the DR that the Wacom screen has that I saw when it was connected to my Mac so I’m trying to figure it out – first time on the Windows platform in a long time.  Love the machine … i9-12900k with 3080 GPU and 3Read more

Voigtländer Perkeo II – oh man, wow: So much performance in such a small camera! – YouTube

I’ve got the Perkeo IIIe with the rangefinder and haven’t used it very much at all, but I agree with this reviewer that they are really nice cameras.   I have a few of the Ikonta’s too, and the Bessa I, II and III.  It would be fun to compare them all sometime, but certainly the Perkeo’s are nicely built and very lightweight.  What is your favorite folding 120 rangefinder?Read more

EIZO and Lagom monitor tests for checking the quality of your display – that I found really useful!

I’m just setting up a 2nd hand Wacom Cintiq 24 Pro and wanted to check out the display for any flaws and found some great tools on Eizo’s site.   The one on the first link will run through a bevy of different tests so you can check for hot pixels, dead pixels, uniformity, sharpness, color gradation, and sensitivity.    Turns out the Wacom display is truly very good.  Try yours by following the links.  Monitors should be color managed too,Read more

Ukraine soldiers create modern day version of the painting, “Reply of the Zaporaozhian Cossacks” https://t.co/0PwXDvu65x” / Twitter

The heroism of the Ukrainian people has been inspiring, but also their humor. Here some soldiers take time out to recreate a scene of a painting that purports to be the writing of vulgar and poetic f…off letter to occupiers of their land in 1676.   I can see a 4×5 large format camera set up to take the picture.  Would love to see the actual photo sometime.   Slava Ukraini!Read more

PSA Journal 1959-11: Vol 25 Iss 12 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

I just learned today that the Internet Archive has many thousands of publications and journals going back 100 years or more on their archive.  Wow! You can search for photography or art or whatever your interest is. Shown here the cover of Photographic Society of America 1959-11 volume 25, Issue 12 but you can see all 61 pages if you get a free account.  Totally amazing resource!  Other photo related publications they have include Popular Photography, Signal, AfterImage, Aperture, ModernRead more

Have You Seen My Acutance?

Roger Cicala from Lens Rentals always writes with clarity about technical issues.  If you’ve ever wondered about MTF charts this should help a lot. Two takeaways for me and one note: Lens Acutance can be improved with sharpening in post, lens resolution can’t. Differences in the MTF between sagatial and meridal result in differences in the bokeh or out of focus areas of a lens.  The closer the two lines are, the better the bokeh (perhaps a bit subjective). AndRead more

Shooting 20×24 Portraits With A Massive Camera & Unique “Instant” Process [Instant Shoots] – YouTube

I’m super interested in the  process that Ethan Moses shows here in this video to make ‘instant’ color ULF photos. Here instant really means direct positive color process, and not anything as easy as a peel apart film.   He’s built a film holder that can double as a developing tray so that he can pour the chemicals straight into it after exposing the film.  It looks like a lot of fun and the results are quite amazing.   He alsoRead more

[PRO] PHOTO. Go and shoot

Great resource for getting information about Russian cameras and lenses and see sample images taken with them.  Actually the site does test many international brands but is very comprehensive with the Russian made ones. Photographer from scratch. Photography training, photography training courses, technique reviews, photography history, lens reviews, camera reviews Source: [PRO] PHOTO. Go and shootRead more

Historic Camera Club Librarium – Resource

For those of you who have interest in very old cameras or the companies which made them, this site can be a great resource.  Searching is a bit hard if you don’t know what you are looking for, but there is a lot of great historical information here Historic Camera Club Librarium The site has also two timelines which are interesting: the illustrated camera timeline and a photography timeline. It uses some older web design elements which are a bitRead more

A Just Noticeable Color Difference

For a long time I’ve wondered what kind of image test could reveal a camera system’s ability to accurately capture color tonality and separation.  Grapes, peaches, apples, leaves on a tree, skin and all kinds of things really aren’t just one color but a whole range and often speckled with lot’s of small bits of color.  Some sensor’s like the fat pixel Kodak pro MFDB sensors do a great job with this when shot at base ISO but a lotRead more

Camera Bloggers Alliance

Mike Eckman’s blog is pretty cool but if you need more camera fix then you can check out the  Camera Bloggers Alliance RRS feed on his page too. Here are a bunch of RSS feeds for some of my favorite vintage camera and photography related sites.  Click on the article name to be taken directly to the arti Source: Camera Bloggers AllianceRead more