I haven’t posted much here lately. I’ve been involved with another project that’s taking up a lot of my time. But there are some interesting posts coming. I’ve ordered a Hasselblad X2D 100 and the new quick-focusing 38 mm f/2.5 lens. I’ll be testing those and reporting on my findings in this blog. I’ve also… [Read More]
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Lightroom sharpening of Leica Q2 Monochrom files
I received a request to look at how Lightroom sharpens the Leica Q2 Monochrom (Q2M) files. Before I get into the graphs and numbers, I need to point out that there are three kinds of sharpening: Input, or capture sharpening Artistic sharpening Output sharpening The first has as its objective to get the file sharpness… [Read More]
Gelling the light source for better balance in B&W scanning
With light sources anywhere near D50, when scanning B&W negatives or positives, the green raw channels saturates well before the red and blue ones. It occurred to me that gelling the light source might even this out, and give me a higher SNR in the scans. I ordered a Rosco Minus Green #247 gel filter… [Read More]
You’re an old photographer if you can remember…
You’re an old photographer if you can remember: The smell of a freshly opened canister of Kodachrome 135. When those canisters were made of aluminum and had screw-on tops. Having a bunch of those aluminum canisters in your camera bag to hold various small bits. Buying 35mm film in 100-foot rolls and loading the cassettes… [Read More]
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