27. September 2007
The PRO bundle
Hardware needs good software, software needs good hardware.
When good hardware and good software meets, quite amazing things can be achieved.
Every thing good comes in pairs!
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22. August 2007
LaserSoft SilverFast Multi Exposure
The SilverFast software from LaserSoft Imaging is the de-facto standard for scanner software.
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14. March 2005
Night Photography by Tom Axelsen
A lot of cameras are only used half of the time it's actually possible to use them!
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1. March 2005
Presenting your Work
Even for us amateur photographers, making some sort of presentation of our pictures is important...
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19. January 2005
A TLR with TTL - Improved adapter!
Baier Fototechnik did it again : they made a new accessory for us Rolleiflex TLR fans.
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11. May 2004
The Rolleiflex SLX - a description
At Photokina 2002 Rollei presented the first autofocus 6x6 medium format camera in the world - the Rollei 6008 AF. This is the most sophisticated camera in the 6000 series from Rollei.
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4. March 2004
A Digital Workhorse
Nearly three years ago I bought a Canon PowerShot G1 digital camera. The price was pretty high - around $1500 (1000 Euro).
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12. February 2004
Fast tele zooms
A 420mm f/2.8 tele lens?
Sure, would be nice to have, but the price would be extremely high and the lens is extremely bulky, right?
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6. February 2004
Hide your printer!
I allow myself to move a bit away from subjects directly related to photography, because I want to show you I'm "storing" my printer.
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21. November 2003
Finding new Papers
...what if there is a great paper out there that we haven't tried and that would give us the most amazing print, even though it didn't origin form the printer manufacturer?
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13. November 2003
Portraits of the Moon
The core focus of my interest in photography, and the majority of my subsequent study, has been in the area of portraiture...
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26. August 2003
Printing Black & White Photos #2 - Balancing the grays
"Printing black & white photos on a color inkjet printer can be tricky. Avoiding color casts is very difficult and often it can't be totally avoided."
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17. July 2003
SilverFast Ai 6 - for Minolta Dimage Scan Multi PRO
The SilverFast Ai scanner software from German LaserSoft Imaging AG is now available for the Minolta Dimage Scan Multi PRO (Multi PRO) and this is very good news for current and coming owners of the Multi PRO film scanner.
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11. July 2003
Canon 1Ds vs. film - Prints
This article is the third and last of my little series of comparing a high-end D-SLR - the Canon EOS 1Ds - with scanned film...
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23. June 2003
Kodak E100G
Despite the fact that the "digital photography revolution" is running faster and faster these days, new and quite amazing films are still being introduced...
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17. June 2003
Canon 1Ds vs. film - Medium Format
This is yet another article comparing digital and scanned film. Still a hot topic, although there seems to be a growing acceptance that digital belongs to the future while film is a thing of the past...
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11. June 2003
Canon 1Ds vs. film - 35mm
Digital versus film. Still a hot topic, although there seems to be a growing acceptance that digital belongs to the future while film is a thing of the past...
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4. June 2003
The Rollei Mutar 0.7 x on Bay II
This article is a continued story of my experiences with the Rollei Mutar 0.7 x...
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19. March 2003
"Flatbed Photography"
Using a flatbed scanner as a camera to scan 3 dimensional objects! You've probably heard of it before but have you ever tried it?
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7. February 2003
Picture Window Pro - an introduction
Ever heard of "Picture Window Pro"?
No?
Well, then read on, because here I'll introduce you to my preferred photo editing program...
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22. January 2003
Printing Black & White Photos #1
Printing black & white photos on a color inkjet printer can be tricky. Avoiding color cast is very difficult and often it can't be totally avoided...
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29. November 2002
The Commented Autumn 2002 Gallery
The autumn is over, I know. The winter is just about to come at least if you live as far north as I do (or in a similiar climate)...
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20. November 2002
Shooting the Leonid meteor storm
Every year in November (this year the 18. and the 19.) the Earth passes through dust tails from the comet Temple-Tuttle...
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31. October 2002
Scanner profiling on a budget 2/2
In this article I will continue to describe how you can make your own scanner profiles...
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25. October 2002
Scanner profiling on a budget 1/2
When setting up your digital darkroom you've spend a fortune on the computer equipment, on a printer, on a digital camera and perhaps also on a scanner...
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1. October 2002
Photokina 2002 - The day after
Photokina 2002 in Cologne ended yesterday. I haven't yet read any statistics on it's success, but let us just assume that it wasn't exactly a fiasco...
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27. September 2002
Photokina 2002
... However, days are certainly not over for Photokina. This year they have even enlarged the fair ground with 10% which is now 220.000m2 ...
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13. September 2002
About The Dutch Gallery
On a short trip to Holland this spring I managed to take a few photographs that I'm now presenting in The Dutch Gallery...
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4. September 2002
The Voigtländer Bessa R2 - a review
Voigtländer is originally an old German company (established in 1756!). The company has a long story in areas of optics and cameras.
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29. August 2002
What resolution do I need?
Well, I admit, I can not really answer that question. What this article really does is, that it shows how film looks scanned at different resolutions.
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16. August 2002
The Lowepro Nova 2 Camera Bag
On my recent trip to Norway I wanted to mainly use two cameras for landscape work - the Rolleiflex GX and my new Bessa R2...
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17. July 2002
The PHOTOgraphical.NET 3D Gallery
The 3D Gallery is a virtual space in which you can walk around and look at photographs.
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28. June 2002
The Rollei Mutar 0.7 x
Although both wideangle (f/4 55mm) and tele (f/4 135mm) versions were made of the famous ...
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14. June 2002
Medium format vs. 35mm vs. digital
This article will compare medium format scans to 35mm scans and also to 3.3mp digital camera files.
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10. June 2002
A Wedding Job
A friend of mine asked me a few month ago if I would photograph his wedding or to be more precise, take portraits of him and his wife on their wedding day.
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7. May 2002
The Rolleiflex 2.8 GX - a review
The Rolleiflex 2.8 GX together with the Rolleiflex 2.8 FX is the latest TLR (Twin Lens Reflex) from Rollei.
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22. March2002
CCD scanner internals
Should I use the image manipulation software that comes with my scanner or should I make "raw" scans and then manipulate them in Photoshop?
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26. February 2002
Digital SLR's
A Digital Single Lens Reflex or D-SLR is basically a 35mm SLR that uses an imaging chip instead of film to produce an image.
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15. February 2002
A TLR with TTL
Yes, I am a Rolleiflex TLR fan.
I don't exactly know why I like these old cameras so much, but they do have a certain quality that seems very appealing to me.
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8. February 2002
Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro - 4800 dpi on 120 film
The Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro has a resolution of 4800 dpi optical when scanning 35mm film, but when scanning 120 film the resolution is 3200 dpi optical.
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28. January 2002
Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro - Scanning negatives
Scanning negatives requires software, that knows how to deal with the orange mask that a negative has.
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23. January 2002
Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro - Review
Minolta has updated their multi format scanner again, this time to the Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro.
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8. January 2002
L'Abbaye du Thoronet
Le Thoronet is an old Cistercian abbey located in Provence, the south-east part of France, halfway between Draguignan and Brignoles.
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7. December 2001
Great Light
- Same subject, Two images
When you are out making photographs either in the city or out in the country, light or the "quality" of the light is very important.
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6. December 2001
PRINT Image Matching (P.I.M.) - for better pictures
EPSON has developed a technology they call PRINT Image Matching (P.I.M.), which is meant to enhance the color richness of the photos you print on your EPSON photo printer.
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30. November 2001
Jpeg2000 - a new picture format
Digital imaging is undergoing a revolution these days. We get better digital cameras almost every month or so and we get better scanners and faster computers etc.
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16. November 2001
Finding a Medium Format Scanner
The problem is: I like medium format cameras, but I also like to print digitally as well as manipulate images digitally.
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Uwe Ommers 1000 families.
Uwe Ommer - a France-based German advertising photographer - spend four years and traveled 250.000 kilometers (160.000 miles) in a cross-country vehicle to photograph families of the world.
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Ilford Delta 3200 Proffesional Film
The Ilford Delta 3200 is (as the name says) a very fast film. It's an ISO 3200 film and can be exposed between ISO 1600 to ISO 6400.
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The Photo Printer
Some years ago I tried out a color-ink jet printer. I scanned in some photos of mine just from the paper-prints, enlarged them, altered some colors on them and then I printed them out on the ink jet printer.
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Introduction to the "hardware" of traditional and digital photography.
This page gives a short introduction mainly to film-formats and cameras that I use.
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The Digital Darkroom
In the past many amateur photographers have been developing their own black and white photographs, but when it came to making color-prints, things got a bit more difficult.
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