Leica M lenses coding for digital
Digital Photography Review write: Leica has announced that all new M system lenses will carry a new 6-bit code (painted in black/white dots) which will allow the upcoming digital M camera to identify...
View ArticleHow to make a cable release and serial port cable for the Canon Digital Rebel...
"How to make an (electrical) cable release for the Canon Digital Rebel and how to trip the camera’s shutter with your computer’s serial port. Applicable also to some other Canons (e.g., Digital Rebel...
View ArticleDigital discontent, or, I bitch about Canon
A friend and I went shooting yesterday at a local park. The group behind the park are applying for a grant and wanted some photos for the application, so we grabbed a Canon 20D and a few lenses and set...
View ArticleLeica digital lens code database
There’s now a growing database of Leica’s lens codes for use on the M8. Why pay $120 and wait 6–8 weeks to have Leica code your lenses when you can do it yourself with a marker? Check out this how-to...
View ArticleFilm is digital and digital is analog
Think you’re cutting edge and cool because you lead an up-to-the-minute digital lifestyle and shoot digital because film is old? Fuck you! Think you’re more virtuous than the unwashed infidel masses...
View ArticleDSLRs and pinholes made from film: a match made in heaven
I posted the other day about Roger Cline‘s instructions for making perfect pinholes and zone plates using graphic arts film, which is totally sweet on its own. Repeatable and perfect pinholes? YES! But...
View Article"Digital Alternatives" digital/alt process workshop, NYC
This 10 week class at ICP in New York City, meets on Fridays from 10am to 1pm starting on February 2nd. It is called Digital Alternatives, but we will be going back and forth between the digital lab...
View ArticleInsane new image colorization interface & algorithm
Here’s the abstract of a paper by Anat Levin, Dani Lischinski, and Yair Weiss: Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie. The process typically involves...
View ArticleFilmtagger: free tagging software for film scans
The description for Sverrir Valgeirsson‘s free Filmtagger software says it all: Filmtagger is an application for those of us that still like to shoot film but use the computer to manage our photo...
View Article$25,000 Holga
Holga-Cam of the Apocalypse by RoFi Mike. Made without any cutting, the “Holga-Cam of the Apocalypse” is the product of my love for low-tech experimentation and obsession with cutting edge technology....
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