David B. Brooks

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Kodak Professional RFS 3600 Film Scanner
David B. Brooks  |  Apr 01, 2001

Early last fall those of us who attended the Seybold Conference in San Francisco were surprised by Kodak's new futuristic looking 35mm film scanner for the consumer market. Kodak has been making scanners for photo labs and service bureaus...

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Konica Minolta’s DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II; The Best 35mm Scanner Gets Better And More Affordable
David B. Brooks  |  Nov 01, 2005

I must admit I was surprised that just two years after I reviewed the Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 the company would come out with an improved and substantially modified new model. As I noted in my report then, the 5400 was well ahead of the game in performance and value. So, what motivated Konica Minolta to make such a major change so soon? It is probably due to a number...

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LaCie 324i LCD Display: A Top Display For Serious Photographers
David B. Brooks  |  Mar 15, 2012  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2012

If you are a serious digital photographer you probably have a good D-SLR camera. And you expect it will capture sharp, finely focused, high-quality photographic images. It follows that the display you choose should be capable of reproducing all the attributes and qualities your camera has recorded. Most of the displays sold with computers in box stores, however, are not much better at reproducing photographs than the old-type big and heavy CRTs we had back in the mid-1990s.

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LaCie’s 320 LCD Monitor; Three New Professional Display Models From LaCie
David B. Brooks  |  Mar 01, 2007

The very first LCD display that was designated "professional," and specifically intended for use by photographers and graphic artists, was a LaCie Photon Blue model, which I reported on in the past. So when LaCie announced a new 300 Series of three different sized models for professional use, I thought it time to look at LaCie's LCD displays again.

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LaCie’s 320 LCD Monitor; Three New Professional Display Models From LaCie
David B. Brooks  |  Mar 01, 2007

Technical Specifications
LaCie 320 LCD Monitor, Item Number: 130734
Technology: A-TW-IPS
Diagonal Dimension: 20"/51cm
Display Area: 16x12"/408x306mm
Maximum Resolution: 1600x1200
Dot Pitch: .255mm
Color...

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LaserSoft's SilverFast 4
David B. Brooks  |  Apr 01, 1999

I reported on the new Nikon Super CoolScan 2000 in the February issue with all of its exciting new features like ImageClean and Multiple Scan Sampling. My enthusiasm was dampened only slightly by my finding the Nikon software not quite equal to the rest of...

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LaserSofts SilverFast DCPro
David B. Brooks  |  Jan 01, 2004

When editing photo files, Photoshop is the first application that comes to mind. When it comes to scanning software, LaserSoft's SilverFast has acquired a similar association. However, most who are familiar with SilverFast, due to the many scanners...

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LaserSoft’s SilverFast PrinTao; Is This “The Path” To Easy, Efficient, And Flexible Photo Printing?
David B. Brooks  |  Dec 01, 2006

With a digital camera, a computer, and a printer, all that remains to make photo prints is an application that will access and open your photo files and send the images to the printer. That's simple enough. But there are obviously other issues--what about color matching between screen and print? How do you get to the pictures you want printed? There are also questions...

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Photo Accessory Reviews
LG ColorPrime IPS LED 27EA83-D: A 27” Adobe RGB Monitor
David B. Brooks  |  Dec 27, 2013  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2013

LG Electronics is the first to offer a new pro-graphics LCD display with LED backlighting. It also has the wide Adobe RGB color width, and will adjust to the lower 80.0 CD/m2 white luminance to provide color-managed printing brightness. The new display is optimized for Microsoft Windows with WQHD 2560x1440 resolution and multitasking windows, “dependent on content, device, interface and/or graphics card,” according to LG. The 27” diagonal size has a base physical resolution of 1920x1080 pixel resolution that may be doubled by the software driver with some PC systems running Windows.

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Make Your “Colorblind” Computer See As You Do; Datacolor’s Spyder3Elite/Pro And Print Profiling Products
David B. Brooks  |  Jul 01, 2008

You read the headline right--that new, off-the-shelf computer you just bought is colorblind! Even though your computer sends RGB color information to its display so colors will appear on the screen, the computer does not know what colors its user is seeing. That seems like a contradiction, unless you realize that personal computing hardware and software grew like topsy...

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