Leica Announces Little Impact to the M-System at Photokina

Anyone that follows my photography knows that I love the Leica M rangefinder system -using digital and film bodies – and the Leica glass is second to none in most instances.  So, with 3 new M bodies, 10 new lenses and 4 new cases introduced at Photokina, why am I… 

Lightroom Backup in the Cloud

I don’t know about your experiences, but in mine I have lost digital images due to hard drive failure.  Now to be fair, it has only happened once.  I lost a NAS drive in the late 1990’s – of course it had 2 years of pictures of my eldest son…. 

Twin Nieces

Vacation with the Fuji X-Pro1 and Voigltander / Leica Lenses

I spent a week at the Outer Banks of North Carolina with extended family. I shot over 800 images using only two lenses – a Voiglander Nokton 50mm f/1.5 (newest version) and a Leica M 28mm ASPH f/2.0.  The next few articles will be some reflections and experiences on this… 

Fuji Pulls Flawed X-Pro1 Firmware 3.0 – Golden Marketing Move

Fuji pulled the X-Pro1 firmware version 3.0 due to a flaw in the movie mode.  Today’s post is not about the photographic quality of the X-Series, but rather the reason that Fuji has made the X-Series the best camera on the market today.  I may be stretching, but I don’t… 

Switching Black Cartridges in an Epson R2400

I do not switch between matte and glossy paper often with my Epson R2400 because of the loss of ink. However, recently I did make the switch and put my PK cartridge in after running the ink out of my matte cartridge. Alas, the printer driver on my iMac, using… 

Windows XP: Hibernating Taking a Long Time

On my laptop I have been running Microsoft Windows XP, or sometimes known as WinXP. I use Service Pack 2 and havent’ had any show stopping problems. However, at one point my laptop would hibernate in about 20 seconds or less. To determine if that is fast, you have know… 

Post Processing Error with Nikon Coolscan 5000

Ok, so I have been using a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 for well over a year with no problems. Most of my scans are black and white film, saved as TIFF’s using the greyscale scanning. I have also used the slide feeder and the long film strip scanner with no… 

Online Backups

Backing up image files in Adobe Lightroom continues to be a hot topic. It is the most laborious and tedious part of my Lightroom workflow, but also the most necessary. Anyone that has lost an image because of poor backups, and I am one of those, will agree. I found… 

Scanning Negatives – Hardware Considerations – Part II

In our Part I Post on Scanning Negatives – Hardware Considerations we discussed the properties of light, film and glass (lenses) in making the perfect photograph. We then showed that these same properties are used to scan the negatives or slides when turning them into digital images. Here we discuss… 

Choosing a Film Scanner

Digital camera folks have it easy when it comes to taking a picture and then using it. Those of us who still use film have more work to do. While I’m not going to prove today that film still surpasses computer chips and CCD’s in detail and tonal recording, I… 

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