Ok… my birthday is only a few days away but somehow I don’t think this new Leica M9 made my wife’s shopping list… damn! If Leica fixed all that was missing in the M8 (which I am sure they did… fingers crossed) this would be the first digital camera I could be excited about in [...]
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The Leica M9… Coming Very Soon So Hide Your Wallet!
Posted in leica, tagged full frame leica camera, leica m9, new leica camera release on September 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Working at Less Than 100 Percent
Posted in creativity, d'Vinci Noir, film scans, hand-made paper, imacon scanner, indian hill imageworks, kodak, leica, New Artwork, pinhole, pinzonie, scanning film, stephen schaub, visualization techniques, zone plate, tagged kodak bw400cn and pinhole, pinhole on leica m, pinhole photography alt process, pinzonie pinhole photography on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most pinhole images are made using a pinhole that is very close to- or at the optimum size for- the chosen focal length and in most cases this is a good choice for general photography: it lets you get the best quality image a pinhole can produce. That being said, while testing the PinZonie I [...]
Film Scanning Technique 101
Posted in analog film technology, digital photography, digital technology, fabriano, film capture, film scans, imacon scanner, indian hill imageworks, kodak, kodak ektar, leica, New Artwork, Print Surface Resolution, scanning film, stephen schaub, visualization techniques, zone plate, tagged best color space, film scan to print, film scanning technique, film scanning tips, how to scan film, imacon scanner settings on May 15, 2009 | 12 Comments »
In this audioblog I present a philosophy of scanning film based on the understanding that in the end photographers make prints and our entire process from film capture to scan to Photoshop to printer is all based on making prints. I outline in detail techniques and settings which will apply to most scanners and will [...]
High Speed Pinhole and Zone Plate Photography, Part 3
Posted in a new eden, ACU-1 Developer, analog photography, Camera Technologies, diafine developer, fabriano, film scans, fuji film, Ilford Films, imacon scanner, indian hill imageworks, kodak, kodak ektar, leica, scanning film, stephen schaub, visualization techniques, Xtol Developer, zone plate, tagged alternative vermont landscape, fuji acros and zone plate, kodak tmy-2, kokak ektar, vermont color landscape, zone plate and ektar, zone plate color on May 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The final installment of this series provides information on all films tested, thoughts on Zone Plate and Pinhole as it relates to these films and observations and conclusion on this process. The audio portion can be heard by clicking on the Audio logo: note the audio portion is around 16 minutes. Pine, Vermont. 2009 28mm [...]
High Speed Pinhole and Zone Plate Photography, Part 2
Posted in indian hill imageworks, film scans, scanning film, film capture, kodak, TMY-2, Xtol Developer, imacon scanner, leica, zone plate, pinhole, ACU-1 Developer, tagged zone plate, pinhole, high speed zone plate photography, high speed pinhole photography, ACU -1 Developer and P3200, Xtol and P3200 on May 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In this audio blog I discuss my testing results for Kodak P3200 at an EI of 6400 for hand-held pinhole and zone plate photography as well as the new direction Part 3 in this series will explore. Click on the Audio Logo to listen… LINK: TMY-2 @ 1600 article here on FR.





