David B. Brooks

The Epson Perfection 2450 Photo
An Affordable All In One Scanner For Photo, Digital
David B. Brooks  |  Feb 01, 2002

Digital technological progress continues at a rapid pace and shows up in new and improved products on a regular basis, all driven by relentless market competition. As we progress along this path, a level of both higher capability and lower cost occasionally...

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Acer ScanWit 2740S
An Affordable 35mm Scanner With Digital ICE
David B. Brooks  |  Jan 01, 2002

Acer is not a familiar brand within the digital photography realm, but it is an internationally established maker of personal computers and computer peripherals, including an extensive line of scanners. This newest model Acer...

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New NegaFix In SilverFast 5.5
The Color Negative Scanning Problem Solved
David B. Brooks  |  Dec 01, 2001

New NegaFix In SilverFast 5.5

The Color Negative Scanning Problem Solved

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Digital Darkroom
Digital In Black And White
Ink Jet Printing Problems And Solutions
David B. Brooks  |  Dec 01, 2001

The output device for most digital darkrooms has become the photo-realistic ink jet printer. The printers that are designed to produce high quality photographic image reproduction are primarily color printers. They can be used for a wider...

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Canon S600 Bubble Jet Printer
David B. Brooks  |  Nov 01, 2001

Not everyone with a camera needs or wants a dedicated photo printer, but more and more computer users with cameras could use a good letter-size printer that also makes good photographic prints. Canon's newest S600 Bubble Jet printer has...

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The Lacie Photon 18 Blue Flat Panel Display
David B. Brooks  |  Oct 01, 2001  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2000

The LCD flat panel display advantages are well-known--a smaller footprint, lower weight, greater energy efficiency, and more consistent color performance over the lifetime of the monitor. Until recently however, the LCD flat panel display has...

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The Sony Vaio Slimtop Pen Tablet
A Dream Computer For Digital Photographers
David B. Brooks  |  Sep 01, 2001

The few times I have written about personal computers in the past there has not been a product that supports digital photography out of the box. Although Windows PCs available on store shelves today have much more general capability when applied...

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The Canon CanoScan D2400UF Flat Bed Scanner
David B. Brooks  |  Sep 01, 2001

Flat-bed scanners with a high-resolution specification are usually accompanied by a film scanning capability. Reflective scanning rarely requires much more than 600dpi, but film scanning demands much more resolution. With a hardware resolution...

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The Epson Stylus Photo 1280 Printer
David B. Brooks  |  Jul 01, 2001

Over the last few years the technology performance advances Epson has brought to ink jet photo printing has moved at an amazing pace. I've not just wondered how they have been able to improve photo-realistic printing so dramatically, but...

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Digital Darkroom
Software Roundup 2001
New And Improved Tools For The Digital Photographer
David B. Brooks  |  Jun 01, 2001

Corel Print House 2000
Although there is a large selection of consumer entry-level photo applications for Windows, there are few off-the-shelf packages for the Mac. The Corel Print House 2000 is a welcome alternative. In fact, at...

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