David B. Brooks

The Kodak Professional RFS 3600 Film Scanner
Worth A Second Look
David B. Brooks  |  Oct 01, 2002

Well over a year ago I sat down to write about the Kodak Professional RFS 3600 slide and 35mm film scanner. Physically, in what I then called a swoopy design, was a mechanical package offering good specifications of 3600dpi resolution, 36-bit color depth scanning at a dynamic range of 3.6. Besides the...

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Canon Bubble Jet S9000 Photo Printer
New Six-Color Wide Format Ink Jet Produces Quality Images Fast
David B. Brooks  |  Oct 01, 2002

Canon Bubble Jet has been a mainstay of personal computer color ink jet printing from the beginning. After what seemed like periods of mercurial enthusiasm supporting digital photography in the past, Canon has made a major commitment with new six-color...

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Microtek Scanmaker 8700 Pro
Is This The Ideal All Around Scanner
David B. Brooks  |  Sep 01, 2002  |  First Published: Sep 01, 2001

The Microtek Scanmaker 8700 Pro flat-bed, dual-bed scanner provides the typical 8.5x14" reflective print scanning of a flat-bed plus Emulsion-Direct film scanning via a film drawer that accommodates all film sizes from 35mm through 8x10". For a...

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Digital Darkroom
B And W Negative Scanning
A Step By Step, Easy Way To Quality Images
David B. Brooks  |  Sep 01, 2002

Scanner software driver pre-scan tools have come a long way in the last few years, but scanning black and white silver-based film negatives has remained a neglected stepchild. This is not to say some scanners don't work OK with some black and white negative films. But if you want optimum quality with all...

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The New Sony CPD E540
The Big Screen Monitor You Can Afford
David B. Brooks  |  Jul 01, 2002

If any one component is the keystone of an effective digital darkroom it is your computer's monitor. Everything that is accomplished in the adjustment of brightness, contrast, and color, and the work of cleaning defects or retouching a portrait, is...

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First Look
Photoshop 7.0, Is It Worth The Upgrade
David B. Brooks  |  Jul 01, 2002

When I read the general description of what was new in Photoshop 7.0, my expectations were high that what I would experience would justify a full upgrade number from 6.0 to 7.0. After whining to the Photoshop team about poor retouching tools for the...

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Epsons Stylus Pro 5500
Is This The Ultimate Ink Jet Photo Printer
David B. Brooks  |  Jun 01, 2002

In one sense ink jet photo printers are very much like 35mm SLR cameras. There are a number of mass-produced, relatively inexpensive models that target the amateur and enthusiast photographers, and then there is a high-performance model specifically designed...

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Apple Power Mac G4 And Operating System OS X
Is This The Ultimate Photographers Desktop Setup
David B. Brooks  |  May 01, 2002

A new desktop computer model, a new operating system, and a new monitor model all at once is a rare occasion for a product test and review. Besides putting me on my toes by requiring me to learn new ways of working, I used the release of two graphics applications for the OS X operating system, Corel...

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Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO
A New Multi Format Film Scanner That Raises The Bar
David B. Brooks  |  Apr 01, 2002

Most photographers want to use the best tools available and hope they can afford the best. When it comes to film scanners, Minolta's latest DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO sets the standard for a reasonably affordable scanner. This new Minolta scanner...

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Epson Stylus Photo 820
You Can Not Afford Not To
David B. Brooks  |  Mar 01, 2002

One constant with the past in this new digital world of photography is that it isn't quite a photograph until you have an image printed on paper in hand. The new Epson Stylus Photo 820 answers that need by offering the best in print quality at a...

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