Monthly Archives: May 2011

The difficulties of medium-format wide-angle photography

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Jim

I came across a great discussion of the difficulties in getting consistently sharp pictures using medium format digital cameras. Although it was written more than 3 years ago and updated about two years ago, I believe the basic situation still … Continue reading →

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Who is this guy?

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Jim

I took the picture at a Laguna Seca USRRC race, probably in 1968. It sure looks like Chuck Parsons, and what you can see of the car looks like the Simoniz number 10, but I’m not 100% sure. I’d like … Continue reading →

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Droid X battery: RIP

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Jim

You know how it is when you get new glasses. Before you go to see the ophthalmologist, you think you can see just fine. Your vision has deteriorated so slowly that you’ve adapted to it. When you pop on the … Continue reading →

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What’s your site’s rank?

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Jim

If you’re at all compulsive, you should probably stop reading right here. For the rest of you, and for the compulsive ones who just can’t help themselves, I’d like to pass on a little tidbit that I got from Brooks … Continue reading →

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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Jim

For the past 25 years, much of my photographic work has been a study of motion and its representation in a still image. The techniques that I’ve used have evolved from simple and classical (take a look at Alone in … Continue reading →

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Finding your audience

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Jim

This afternoon I finished a three-day workshop sponsored by the CPA, and given by Brooks Jensen. The title of the workshop was “Finding an Audience for your Work”. In the workshop, Brooks ties together many of the threads that he … Continue reading →

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X-Rite I1 Publisher/I1 Pro OOBE, part 7

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Jim

Now that I’ve figured out how to use it, I think the I1 Pro is adequate for making profiles that require reading 1000 or 2000 patches, if you don’t have to do it too often. While I’ve been impressed with … Continue reading →

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X-Rite I1 Publisher/I1 Pro OOBE, part 6

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Jim

I got an e-mail from X-Rite support this afternoon asking for more information. I sent it off. Meanwhile, encouraged by the fact that I had finally made a profile, albeit a terrible one, I started over. I printed a new … Continue reading →

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X-Rite I1 Publisher/I1 Pro OOBE, part 5

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Jim

Still no word from X-Rite, but Erica at Rods and Cones passed along an e-mail message from someone who does technical support for the X-Rite distributer that she works with. He said that, as I suspected, that message means that … Continue reading →

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X-Rite I1 Publisher/I1 Pro OOBE, part 4

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Jim

Still no feedback from X-Rite support. Nothing to do but rescan the 400 patches. This time it took at least half an hour. Sometimes I’d get two rows in succession right, but then it would take four or five tries … Continue reading →

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