Photography and Photographical Issues

Slideshows, Photos, Curios & Etceteras

• Slideshows
  Hundreds of photos in slideshow formats, html and pdf:
  Birds, archipelago, travel, climbing, windsurfing, ...

  Some of these have a private character for family and friends, whereas others are of general interest. Some of the older ones are of questionable quality due to inferior scanning, inferior color management, and a poor monitor. Things improved with an advanced monitor 2007, better computer 2012, and a new scanning technology in 2013 and 2019 which has been used for the really old stuff from the 70s.

• Curios & Etceteras:
  • Old and Young, a portrait taken 2003 — almost 87 years between them!
  • For the really curious: I found an odd film format of 4x4 cm slide in our family's collection; a photo taken by a friend of my father 1962 at Lagnö, showing me as a little kid standing on the shore close to my father's boat.

Lightroom articles

• How to Recover Images from Lightroom Previews (July 2009, update 2013, 2014)
• Lightroom Color Management Hints & Tips (November 2008)
• How to preserve user-defined sort order in Lightroom 1.2 (October 2007)

Camera scanning

• New equipment: EOS 80D + Sigma 70/2.8 DG Macro Art (March 2019).
• What is the optimal aperture for camera scanning? (January 2019).
• Camera Scan vs Film Scanner. How to use a digital camera to capture old slides, and how the quality compares to a high-end film scanner (December 2018).

Film scanner calibration & optimizations

• An update to the film scanner calibration & optimizations article series (see below) that also shows what multisampling can do to reduce noise levels (January & February 2006).
• Film scanner calibration issues using an IT8.7 reference (December 2004).
  It's targeted towards those who are struggling with color profiles for film scanners, which both amateurs and professionals very often need to do due to the many problems associated with current hardware and software; but beware — it's not easy reading...

Converting AVCHD into MP4 files and compressing them

• Video Droplets A couple of free droplets for converting AVCHD/MTS video files into MP4 files, and then possibly compress them further (December 2014 and March 2015).

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