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Film Photography NewsFilm Photography Reviews
Efke’s IR 820 Infrared Film; A Unique IR Option
Roger W. Hicks  |  Feb 01, 2008

There is a saying: remember, you are unique, just like every other human being. There is also the question of how far we are shaped by our genes, and how far by our upbringing.

 

Similar observations apply to infrared (IR) films. No two emulsions are quite the same (genetic uniqueness), and even with the same emulsion, each photographer has a different regime for...

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Editor's Notes
Black And White Is Back...Again
George Schaub  |  Feb 01, 2008

Those who have been around for a while have to be amused by the occasional proclamation that another black and white renaissance has occurred. This pronouncement from industry wags is made every few years to usher in another glorious age for black and white photographers and printers. This time around the gushing is around new inkjet papers, dubbed "exhibition quality"...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Cameras And Imaging Software; The Raw Facts
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2008

"There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't."
--Robert Benchley

After asking what digital point-and-shoot camera I use people are often surprised when I tell them it's a Canon PowerShot S500 Digital ELPH. "Isn't that obsolete?" is usually...

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Digital Help
Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 2008

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might encounter with matters such as color calibration and management, digital printer and scanner settings, and working with digital photographic images with many different kinds of cameras and...

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Classic Camera ReviewsMedium Format Camera NewsMedium Format Camera Reviews
Mamiya Press; A Medium Format Rangefinder Camera
Robert E. Mayer  |  Feb 01, 2008

There were two models of the versatile Mamiya Press medium format rangefinder cameras in the 1960s and '70s, the Universal Press and the Press Super 23. These cameras were designed to be more compact and in many respects more versatile than the bellows type 4x5 and 2x3 press cameras of that era, such as the Speed Graphic, Busch Pressman, and Linhof Technica. The main...

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Canon’s Speedlite 580EX II & Metz’s Mecablitz 58 AF-1C Digital;
Jack Neubart  |  Feb 01, 2008

I've been a long-time proponent of Canon Speedlites, and also an avid follower of Metz flashes. I always liked the Metz for its sturdy quality and reliability--I'd owned a Metz potato masher (handlemount, in the old vernacular). But when I switched to the Canon EOS system, I became a devout Canon shoe-mount advocate, finding these flashes dependable and robust. I...

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Printer NewsPrinter Reviews
Canon’s imagePROGRAF iPF6100; Wide Format For Gallery And Display Prints
Jon Canfield  |  Feb 01, 2008

The introduction about a year ago of 12-color pigment printers by Canon was a major addition to the fine art and photo printing area. No longer did only Epson own this category. For the first round, Canon brought out the 17" iPF5000, 44" iPF8000, and 60" iPF9000 wide format printers. Using a new LUCIA pigment inkset, these printers offered long archival life...

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Digital Darkroom
Black & White Conversions; A Powerful New Tool In CS3
Ben Willmore  |  Feb 01, 2008

Black & White
In previous versions of Photoshop, the most common method for converting a color image to black & white was to use the Channel Mixer. It was a clunky, counter-intuitive process that forced you to think like Photoshop instead of allowing your brain and eyes to naturally digest what was being done to your image. The new Black & White...

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Business Trends
Legal And Business Practices For Digital Photography; On Guidelines, Licensing, And More From ASMP’s Judy Herrmann
Maria Piscopo  |  Feb 01, 2008

As digital technology grows it's critical for photographers to enlighten themselves about the most essential business and technical practices. The legalities associated with digital capture are quite different from film and need to be addressed in the everyday business of digital photo shoots. The work of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Universal...

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Aperture In Black And White; Conversion Strategies For Mac Users
George Schaub  |  Feb 01, 2008

Mac users can use Aperture to attain good foundation monochrome images from digital camera and scanned RGB files. Because Aperture treats the original raw file as sacrosanct, and works in Versions from what it dubs the Master, many options can be explored before exporting the file to image-manipulation software for further refinement. As with any conversion software, I suggest...

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