David B. Brooks
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UMAX’s PowerLook 2702 Film Scanner; Affordable, And Great, 35mm Scan Quality
Scanners & Printers, Test Reports
David B. Brooks • Jul 01, 2005 • 0 comments

Writing about the latest and greatest products is exciting fun. When a really good product comes along with a price just about everyone can afford, that's much more than just fun--it is all too rare. In the past it seemed to be difficult to find a 35mm film scanner with good hardware performance, excellent software support, and a very modest price. But UMAX...
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Q&A For Digital Photography
Digital Help
David B. Brooks • Jun 01, 2005 • 0 comments

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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Q&A For Digital Photography
Digital Help
David B. Brooks • May 01, 2005 • 0 comments

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...
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A Different Printer Option For Photographers
Using The Konica Minolta magicolor 2350 EN Color Laser Printer
Scanners & Printers, Test Reports
David B. Brooks • May 01, 2005 • 0 comments

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From the earliest days of the digital darkroom it became progressively clear that the color ink jet would become the dominant printer for photographers. Dye sublimation printers still persist, but mostly as either snapshot or event photographer printers. The one digital printer that is familiar to office workers, but...
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Q&A For Digital Photography
Digital Help
David B. Brooks • Apr 01, 2005 • 0 comments

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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The Epson R-D1 Journey Begins
A New Digital Version Of A Classic Rangefinder Camera, And More...
Compact Digital Cameras, Test Reports
David B. Brooks • Apr 01, 2005 • 0 comments

Photos © 2004, David B. Brooks, All Rights Reserved

Early in 2004 Epson announced a new digital camera body based on a classic 35mm rangefinder model with a Leica lens mount. This back-to-the-future concept caused a stir among members of the photo press, and I wrote as much as was known then about it in a First Look in the July 2004 issue. My chief concern then was...
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Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
Digital Help
David B. Brooks • Mar 01, 2005 • 0 comments

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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Using Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 3.0
Software & Computers, Test Reports
David B. Brooks • Mar 01, 2005 • 0 comments

If anything over the years characterizes doing photography digitally, it is Adobe's Photoshop--now the standard mainstay application at the heart of a digital darkroom. I can't remember now just how many years ago I was introduced to Adobe's yet-to-be-released PhotoDeluxe 1.0 at a Comdex computer show. I was impressed with PhotoDeluxe at its beginning...
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Digital In Black And White
The Status Of Ink Jet B&W Printing In 2005
Digital Darkroom
David B. Brooks • Feb 01, 2005 • 0 comments

All Photos © 2004, David B. Brooks, All Rights Reserved

The December 2001 issue of Shutterbug I reported on my trials and experiments with different methods of printing black and white photographs with ink jet printers. Today the challenge to a photographer using a digital darkroom who wants to do black and white prints remains similar to what it was three years ago.
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Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
Digital Help
David B. Brooks • Feb 01, 2005 • 0 comments

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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