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Digital Darkroom
Made Easy
Digital Sepia Toning
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Feb 01, 2001

In the old days, in a wet darkroom, we frequently sepia toned our black and white prints. The real goal of sepia toning a print was to alter the chemicals in the emulsion to improve the life of the image. But, of course, many folks simply liked the look...

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LightingPortraiture
Lighting For Black And White Portraits
The Black And White Thing
Steve Bedell  |  Feb 01, 2001

I get a whole new way of seeing things when I put black and white film in the camera. It seems like I have a little Photoshop Desaturate command that goes off in the back of my head and suddenly I see everything in shades of gray. Anyone who's...

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The Darkroom
The Darkroom
Using The Right Enlarger Lens, Exception To The Rules
Darryl C. Nicholas  |  Feb 01, 2001

Almost all enlargers will accept lenses of different focal lengths, designed so you can match the focal length of the lens to the size of the negative that you are printing. If you do not, your negative might not print correctly.

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Epson Expression 1640XL
A Quality All Format Scanner
David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 2001

Only recently have individual photographers been offered affordable scanner models that can scan 6x4.5 and 6x6cm 120 film images with quality sufficient to match that of the latest 13x19" ink jet printers. A new large format (12.2x17.2")...

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Do It Yourself
Build A Low Cost Film Drying Cabinet
Tom Fuller  |  Feb 01, 2001

Our project this month is to turn a hanging garment bag into an effective film drying cabinet. Although this is just barely a Level 2 Project (see the April 2000 issue for an explanation of my DIY complexity scale), it requires the wiring of an AC...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
The Times They Are A Changin, Digitally That Is
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2001

Take a look at the photograph of me that accompanies this month's column. Nothing remarkable, wouldn't you say? I am standing in front of the Applied Science Fiction (ASF) stand at the photokina 2000 show in Köln, Germany, last...

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Buyers Guide To Tripods
Choosing Different Pods For Different Jobs
Dave Howard  |  Feb 01, 2001

As there's no such thing as the one perfect camera for all photographic pursuits, there's also no one perfect tripod all camera support tasks, although I'll admit to having taken a rather inordinately long time early in my...

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Digital Darkroom
Black And White In Color
Something Extra From Monochrome Digital Images
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2001

One of the reasons purists often refer to black and white prints as "monochrome" is that it's a much more precise term that also covers prints made in sepia and other tones. One of the advantages of working with monochromatic digital...

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All Manual 35mm Cameras
Total Control Is In Your Hands
Peter K. Burian  |  Feb 01, 2001

After more than a decade of technological innovation, the multimode SLR cameras now dominate just about every brand on the market. Packed with a full array of capabilities, their "intelligent" exposure meters, multiple Programs, "fuzzy logic" computers, and predictive AF systems offer valuable...

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Adobe Photoshop 6
David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 2001

Probably the one computer product most closely associated with photography is Adobe's Photoshop. Adobe releases a major upgrade of Photoshop every so often that incorporates improvements the company's programmers have developed since...

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