Collaborative Large Format Scanner Comparison

Source: Collaborative Large Format Scanner Comparison This is an older study of mostly older scanner technology but its still interesting to review and compare the different machines.  The difference between detail and also DR can be seen between the older professional / prepress machines and the newer consumer products like the Epson flatbeds.Read more

Stand Development Darkroom Guide | The Art of Photography

Stand Development is a film developing process that involves placing film in a tank of highly diluted developer and letting it “stand” with no agitation. Source: Stand Development Darkroom Guide | The Art of Photography I just watched this video and thought it was a pretty useful introduction of stand development. It covered the potential advantages of the technique such as tolerance to exposure variance, more sharpness and dynamic range and also some of the potential pitfalls such as bromideRead more

Depth of Field, Angle & Field of View, & Equivalent Lens Calculator – Points in Focus Photography

Depth of field and equivalent lenses tool on Points of Focus This is a really cool tool that I found today while looking for a quick way to find the equivalent lenses for different formats.   For example, full frame DSLR equivalents to my Rolleiflex/Schneider 300mm f/4 APO PQ lens, would be a 164mm f/2.2 lens.  Equivalents for that same lens in my Olympus OMD E5 and 8×10 Linhof cameras would be 82mm f/1.1 and 1232mm f/16 respectively! This toolRead more

Gerhard Steidl Is Making Books an Art Form – The New Yorker

My wife handed me her Newyorker magazine saying that there was something about photography in it that I might like to read.  It was in fact a very interesting article on one of the best photo book publishers.  A bit of a longer article but highly recommended. Gerhard Steidl is the printer whom the world’s best photographers trust most. Source: Gerhard Steidl Is Making Books an Art Form – The New YorkerRead more

Quick Comparison: Noritsu LS-600 vs Kodak F135Plus

I have a Pakon 135+ scanner for 35mm film and it works very well since you can feed it a whole roll of film at a time, but I’ve wondered what else is out there and thought this comparison was pretty useful.  Wish there were something similar for 120 films! Source: Quick Comparison: Noritsu LS-600 vs Kodak F135PlusRead more

Photoshop Color Matching Technique on Vimeo – Great technique!

Russell Brown dropped this color matching tutorial in photoshop using the RGB channels and its really quite amazing – fast and easy.  Maybe this is what I have been looking for to get the colors right on my color negative ‘scanning’? It is easy to shoot a negative over a lightbox but inverting the negative and adjusting black and white points doesn’t get you to the right colors because of the orange film carrier and also because well it’s film.Read more

Szarkowski 1966 – “The Thing Itself”

“the factuality of his pictures, no matter how convincing and unarguable, was a different thing than the reality itself. Much of the reality was filtered out in the static little black and white image, and some of it was exhibited with an unnatural clarity, and exaggerated importance. The subject and the picture were not the same thing, although they would afterwards seem so.  It was the photographer’s problem to see not simply the reality before him but the still invisibleRead more

Excellent and thorough LED light comparison using the Sekonic C-700 spectromaster. 

  Director of Photography Timur Civan used the C-700 in the 2017 LED Light Shoot Out where 28 of the industry’s leading LED light fixtures were tested for color accuracy in daylight and tungston modes.  This was a very thorough test and quite useful. 28 LED light color accuracy shoot out I have and use the C-700 spectromaster and have been testing the LED lights available for standard lamp sockets primarily and its a very useful tool.  What I find theRead more