There’s an article in the March/April 2012 issue of photo technique entitled “Mastering the Camera Histogram for Better Exposure”. The article contains some important misstatements. I’m not sure how they got by the magazine’s vetting process, but, if they gain currency by inheriting the stature of the magazine in which they are published, they may… [Read More]
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NEX-7 — correcting images with purple corners
I have been using Cornerfix to correct NEX-7 images that have discolored edges and corners. It does the job, and it does it well. It supports batch processing, which is useful. Originally written to correct deficiencies in Leica M8 images, it works with any camera for which a Adobe DNG file can be generated. Here’s… [Read More]
Is digital photography a left-brain pursuit? — part 3
We move on to another historically important art photography capture genre, cameras that are used when maximum quality is desired, and size, weight, convenience, and speed of operation are all much less important. In the film world, this usually means a view camera using sheet film of 4 x 5 or larger. It’s hard to… [Read More]
Is digital photography a left-brain pursuit? — part 2
In the previous post, I compared the experience of capturing images using professional-level 35mm single lens reflexes both with film and digitally. I’d like to move on to other cameras with historically large roles in art photography. Next up is the 35mm rangefinder camera. In the film world, if we restrict ourselves to cameras currently… [Read More]
Is digital photography a left brain pursuit?
Over the weekend, I attended a CPA members’ workshop. In one of the plenary sessions, someone said that digital photography and conventional chemical photography were qualitatively different in that the former was a left brain activity, and the latter used the right brain. While I thought it was a novel idea, I was at the… [Read More]