August, 2009 | Keith's Photography Stuff

Rumour post bingo for forums

Forum rumour post bingo – your guide to how photography forums tend to react to rumour posts. top 20 list of comments. [...]

New review – Canon iPF6100 24″ printer

I’ve just published a lengthy review of the Canon iPF6100 printer.

This rounds out our reviews of large format printers from different manufacturers and covers using the printer for photographic ‘fine art’ printing. The review looks in detail at both colour and B/W printing

Article Link: Canon iPF6100 review

Borderless printing on the iPF6100

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New review – Spyder3Print SR

Keith Cooper has been reviewing the new Spyder3Print SR printer profiling system from datacolor. Produces icc printer profiles for colour and black and white. [...]

Full updated Article – Physical limits of camera design

Following on from further research and comments here, David Goldstein has written an updated and extended version of his article. This long article is also available in PDF format.

Article link: Physical Limits in Digital Photography

The article looks at the physics that explains the limits faced in camera design. It shows how the fact [...]

Apple offers Matte screens at last…

At last Apple have decided to offer the anti-glare option on the 15″ Macbook pro.

Apple offers matte finish screen as option

The screen brightness of my old 15″ Powerbook might be dimming, but at least it couldn’t stand in as a shaving mirror when I’m travelling, like the glossy finish screen on the [...]

Mamiya MF shift lenses on a DSLR body

I’ve got a box of medium format Mamiya lenses for a 645 film camera. Since the chances of me shooting film are pretty negligible (and essentially non-existent for commercial work) I was wondering what to do with these M645 Sekor lenses

I’ve an adapter to fit them on a Canon EF mount camera, but I’ve [...]

Reading the fine print – SWPP loses court case

If you want to join a professional business organisation, then do ask people what good they are for -your- business.

In my recent article on ‘How to become a professional photographer’ I noted that rather than join one of the photography organisations, I chose to become a member of the Federation of Small Businesses here [...]