B&W Fine Art Photography
B&W Fine Art Photography
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 …
An underdog, often overlooked because of its big brother the 85mm f/1.4, that indeed performs marvellously. But this one is however one of the best Contax lenses ever made. 100% crops. Left center, right borders (on Canon 5D Mark II): The Sonnar is compact like a 50mm lens, razor-sharp, has no …
I’ve been thinking for a while to glue it on the Canon 5d mark II…and that should tell you something! It’s really the lens that you will reach in your bag more often that not, unless you shoot Nascar or Formula 1… Scary sharp, contrasty, doesn’t know what the flare is even if you are …
Wow! After the first photos this will be the word that will be out of your mouth when you will see the results. The pictures made with this handy zoom literally pops-out from the screen, even from the tiny one of the digital cameras, not to mention from an iMac! By any means this it’s …
One of the best “bang for the bucks” out there. Its strongest point is the colour rendition, tipically Zeiss despite the Yashica lineage. The first weakest point is the relatively vast amount of flare when shot in backlight (otherwise it would have scored a full 4 stars). Its second weakness is that the macro focus …