Category: Tech Tips
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Film Camera Light Meters Aren’t Always the Best Way. Through the lens (TTL) light meters are by far the easiest way to meter for a shot, but can often be fooled by bright backgrounds or predominantly dark or light areas in the subject being photographed. That shot at the beach didn’t quite come out right,…
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A simple way to know your temperature is right on the mark. I have read many posts in film photography subreddits about “what is wrong with my film”, the user getting unexpected results that look like underexposure or strange color shift. While most of these can be racked up to human error during the shooting…
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How I GIMP along in post-processing – A Two Minute Read GIMP is an indelible tool I use in all of my post-scan editing work. As a FREE alternative to offerings like Photoshop and Lightroom, GIMP offers a complete suite of tools needed to get the most out of an image. I have learned to…
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Scanner manufacturers sometimes make big promises with high DPI ratings. Not so fast. When I started scanning my film to build a digital archive, the first scanner I bought was a Canoscan 9000F MarkII with a stated resolution of 9600 ppi, meaning the scanner can output a file of that rating, but PPI resolution does…
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Something to pay attention to when cropping photos. I love perusing the r/analog community on Reddit where there are some really nice photos from film photography enthusiasts. I quite often pick up some good ideas in this forum, but its also just fun to see what a new generation of photographers is doing with old…
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Improve performance with wet mounting. A Two Minute Tutorial. First a question. Would you spend USD 200 to significantly increase the quality of your flatbed scans (Canoscan 9000, Epson V… etc.)? If no….thanks for reading. If YES, read on! This is not a paid endorsement but a product I use in my scanning. I started…
One-Minute Reads about Film Photography 