B&W Fine Art Photography
B&W Fine Art Photography
Today we’ll talk about an old timer, the Nikkor 20mm f/3,5 UD. It is a pre-Ai (or non-Ai, if you prefer) lens from the late ’60, and it certainly shows. It is beautifully crafted, something you have to handle to fully appreciate it. Even the lens cap is amazing: a single piece of what I …
I don’t do a lot of video, if anything at all. For this reason I, like many others fellow photographers, have ignored till now a piece of software that every respectable videographer uses since the beginning. I’m talking about Magic Lantern. In short, it is an alternative firmware, free and open source, that works in …
If asked, what would you say has been the most fundamental innovation in camera design of the last, let say, 10 years? I can almost hear you all shout in chorus: “MEGAPIXELS! TONS AND TONS OF THEM!!!”. And yes, I agree. We’ve come a long road from the 3 Megapixel cameras, and now the …
The 50mm focal is one of the ones I like the most. Besides, it’s really hard to get a bad 50mm, because the manufacturers have found fool-proof recipes since the dawn of time. So even an old lens should perform splendidly, and the biggest differences with more modern designs should be lack of autofocus and …
If you’ve not read this previous post so far give it a skim: Best film scanner: Canon 5D Mark II vs Drum Scanner vs Epson v700 You will see what level of (very high) quality you can expect using a digital camera as a scanner, as long as you setup everything nice and properly aligned …
If you shoot film and you don’t are much into chemicals, or don’t have a basement in which to keep a gigantic 5×7″ enlarger, you’ll soon end up with the need of a way to import those beautiful pictures you’ve taken on the computer. What? Why I didn’t say straight on “you will need a …