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The difficulties of medium-format wide-angle photography

May 26, 2011 JimK Leave a Comment

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 obtains, and therefore what Joseph Holmes has to say about it is important to anyone… [Read More]

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Who is this guy?

May 23, 2011 JimK 3 Comments

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 some help with the identification before I put it up in the new auto racing… [Read More]

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Droid X battery: RIP

May 21, 2011 JimK Leave a Comment

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 new specs and walk out the door, it’s a shock. The world is so much… [Read More]

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What’s your site’s rank?

May 19, 2011 JimK Leave a Comment

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 Jensen at last weekend’s workshop. You’ve probably noticed the sales rankings at Amazon. If you’ve… [Read More]

Technical, The Last Word

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

May 16, 2011 JimK Leave a Comment

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 a Crowd) to esoteric and peculiar. Over the last 10 years, as I’ve shown the… [Read More]

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Articles

  • About
    • Patents and papers about color
    • Who am I?
  • How to…
    • Backing up photographic images
    • How to change email providers
    • How to shoot slanted edge images for me
  • Lens screening testing
    • Equipment and Software
    • Examples
      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
      • Fair 14-30mm zoom
      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
      • Good 100-400 zoom
      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
      • Good 18mm FF lens
      • Good 24-105 mm FF lens
      • Good 24-70 FF zoom
      • Good 35 mm FF lens
      • Good 35-70 MF lens
      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
      • Good 65 mm FF lens
      • Good 85 mm FF lens
      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
      • Marginal 35mm FF lens
      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
      • Tilted 30 mm MF lens
      • Tilted 50 mm FF lens
      • Two 15mm FF lenses
    • Found a problem – now what?
    • Goals for this test
    • Minimum target distances
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Printable Siemens Star targets
    • Target size on sensor
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Test instructions — postproduction
    • Test instructions — reading the images
    • Test instructions – capture
    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recommended photographic web sites
  • Using in-camera histograms for ETTR
    • Acknowledgments
    • Why ETTR?
    • Normal in-camera histograms
    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
    • A one-step UniWB procedure
    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

Category List

Recent Comments

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