Nikon has been at the forefront of 35mm film scanning from the beginning, and has enjoyed a top position in the field most recently with the CoolScan LS-1000. Just a short time ago Nikon announced a new CoolScan that would be better and easier to use, but...
The early rumors were pitting microsoft's new, yet to be announced application against Photoshop. How wrong the pundits were. Microsoft's new PhotoDraw 2000 is a quite different approach to a graphics and photo application because Microsoft...
A few years ago the manufacturers of ink jet printers were struggling in order to make printers that could lay down very tiny dots--very close together. During those days if you tried to make a black and white print, it tended to look a little grainy...
"The tone he produces on rough platinotype paper by skillful printing and carefully aged mercury baths cannot be reproduced by any mechanical process." --George Bernard Shaw on the photographs of Frederick Evans
When a writer friend heard
that photographer Les Jörgensen takes landscape and location photographs
using a high-resolution digital back on a view camera, and goes into
the field with a computer, batteries, battery...
One of the truly liberating aspects of shooting black and white film is the relatively low cost of setting up and maintaining your own darkroom. When moving to a new studio recently, I was forced to break down my existing darkroom and consider whether to...
This column will attempt
to provide solutions to problems readers may have in getting into and
using digital cameras, scanning, and using digital photographic images
with a computer and different kinds of software. Allq...
There is a popular misconception that digital imaging is limited to color photography. That's simply not true. Digital imaging embraces all the same aspects of color--or lack of color--that conventional photography does. Part of this lack of...