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Leica M9 progressive underexposure examples

August 5, 2013 JimK 2 Comments

There’s been an interesting thread on the L-Camera Forum that was started by someone who’d read this post about getting better results with the M9 by treating the camera as if the ISO dial didn’t go past 640. In the ensuing discussion, there was some healthy skepticism about my findings and about the applicability of… [Read More]

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Data scaling

July 19, 2013 JimK Leave a Comment

This is the kind of tech-heavy post that I’d normally put in The Bleeding Edge. I’m posting it here because I think the topic is so important to digital photographers. It starts out with a history lesson, but you can ignore that if you’re impatient. Over the next few posts I’ll be dealing with the… [Read More]

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Making art in isolation

July 2, 2013 JimK Leave a Comment

In the same Luminous Landscape thread that sparked my last post, the topic of learning from the work of famous photographers working in your chosen genre(s) came up. In my previous post, I made the point that your work is your own, and you should let your work dictate your choice of equipment. Unsaid, but… [Read More]

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What camera is best for street photography?

June 30, 2013 JimK 3 Comments

There’s an old thread on the Luminous Landscape board that I just noticed. The original poster wanted to know what camera is best for street photography. As you might imagine, that question evoked a lot of discussion about the definition of street photography. Horses for courses, as the adage goes, and you need to identify… [Read More]

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Just say “no” to roll paper

May 25, 2013 JimK Leave a Comment

I’ve finally delivered all the prints that sold during the CPA In Motion show. It’s taken me longer than I expected because of two large(ish — the definition of a large photographic print has been changing over the last ten years) prints. I normally print the Staccato images on C-size — 17×22 — Exhibition Fiber… [Read More]

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  • 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

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