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Hi Vinny: It's large format because I use large format cameras: Graflex, Cambo. The only difference between what I do, and anyone here, is using a DIY mechanism for stitching together images from a...

rdenney removed my digitiler post in image sharing. He said "Tiled images do not meet our definition of LF, and please read the guidelines about marketing products" No private message to discuss...

I'm looking forward to what you do Thanksgiving! Great stuff!!!!

If anyone would like to publish their large format images in a deep-zoom viewer (OpenSeadragon javascript software) I wrote a blog post which may be helpful.

OpenSeadragon on Tumblr

The process...

Hi Vance, I recognize your camera! Nice job! You made a great camera out of now-consumer stock parts. However, once you get into making anything with movements you're in a world of pain. Of...

Hi Vance. I wouldn't say anyone is trying to "get them down". I'm currently building a large format device. Though I essentially program computers for a living I'm still using a scroll saw, dremels...

How deep is a rain puddle in the Mojave dessert after a small rain-shower? If there IS a large-format market, please show me where. All I see is a few hundred people poking around ebay auctions...

Do you have a Flickr page or place we can view your photos?

That's a great photo of your Mother! Doesn't get any better than that. I too have become the family photo-historian. I recently posted photos of my Mother when she was a ballerina. Although she's...

I agree with Pere, a drum scanner provides the least amount of optical distortion, light loss, between digital sensor (pixel) and negative/print. But if you are going to use a camera/lens setup then...

You might get some wax paper at the grocers and keep that with you, that's a way to get wax onto something too; rub it against the wood. Also, any bar soap can be used in a pinch. I have a little...

Great stuff! Bracan, do you have a flickr or other online image place? If so, you might put in your signature. Thanks for sharing! Also, what focal length is the Aero Ektar, excuse my ignorance.

My 2-cents about that never-ending argument ;) Canon skews colors a tad bit on the red side which favors people. So if you DO NOT want to become obsessive about processing than Canon delivers great...

One of my bugbears about lighting in general is that it's one thing to light inanimate objects and quite ANOTHER to light the human face. You can get a cheap LED and shoot interior real estate...

Again, I HAVE LED Lights, both the Fiilex and an Aputure $200+ light, probably similar to what you're using. I read the OP and if he's spending $400 Euros for LEDs then I agree he can get some good...

He wants to buy an LED light manufactured for outdoor use where output in lumens is the goal, not color accuracy. I don't think I'm splitting hairs, just trying not to be argumentative ;) LEDs are...

Nothing can really replace a good even color light source like strobes, which are cool, or quartz, which is warm. Gels don't really increase light, but DECREASE/subtract some of the alternating...

Even in BW I'd think you'd want to be careful of the color output of your lights. If a light emits little of the red wavelength, for example, bricks would turn out dark. Also, LEDs do not deliver a...

Let us not forget the under $1,000 solution 153414

The stark landscapes. I didn't know about the looney part ;)

I looked at your photos on Flickr. Very nice. Just one question. They have coyotes on Mars?

I understand this is a film forum; pardon my digital talk. I got back into photography in 2008 when I bought a second-hand Sigma Dp1. The Foveon sensor reads light vertically, like film, and it was...

I'm 54. I just sent a letter to my Dad thanking him for getting me into photography. Sad that it never occurred to me to do that until I read your post. I remember having a darkroom in the 5th...

Great stuff!

When it's going out for a byte ;)

I was thinking some more of the OP's confusion. Perhaps it is that he thinks of RAW files as having the same range from black to white, but with more "detail" vs...

Cambridge In Color is very good. Also this, bit depth

First, I find this stuff frustrating myself. So please don't think I feel I know everything ;)

A RAW file is based on the bayer sensor,...

"Whenever I export it as any file type other than .DNG (Adobe's RAW type format), I loose contrast in the darks and shadows." The converter only does what you ask it. Sorry if this sounds rude but...

Keep in mind you can't really view a RAW file. It has 12 to 14-bits at each pixel location (RGB) and your monitor can show only 8-bits. So somewhere blacks must be pegged to start in an 8-bit space...

I can't force anyone here to learn what I know about digital photography ;) Again, any camera that produces RAW files, no matter how old, can give you 16,383 gradations of light reading/measurement...

When most DSLRs measure light they do so through dedicated sensors above the pentaprism. You can look at this diagram of a DSLR For reasons discussed above, they have limited value for spot-metering...

You're talking about TTL metering, which I agreed up above has no advantage--probably a disadvantage.

Hi Drew. I think we're talking past each other. I am not disputing the value of a spot-meter. From from it! You keep thinking that I'm suggesting using a DSLR, AS IS, with a long lens as a...

Not sure if you're being funny or poo-pooing the concept. A light meter and camera use the same materials and circuitry. The only difference is that a light meter takes a reading and provides a...

Just to be clear what I'm suggesting. I wouldn't use the TTL metering of a DSLR either. I'm talking about using the sensor as a meter surface. You zoom into what you want to photograph then take a...

Another idea is to use a cheap, used, old, banged up DSLR with crappy long lens and practice interpreting histograms in night shooting. I would think you'd learn a lot more aobut the light using an...

I agree with Drew, a digital scanning back for the Graflex is technologically doable today. Very risky that a device would ever sell enough to earn back its investment, let alone a profit!

It is...

Not worth doing if it isn't both. I'm currently on my seventh iteration of a camera trigger for a project I'm working on and near tears. That would come for you too. That said, there comes a time...