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Introducing the Eggscan

March 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Important news around this time of the year from a small but innovative start-up company located in Bonn, Germany - Eggjet. In addition to their Eggjet-Printer series they now offer 2 3D Egg scanners.

These are some of the specs:
The egg-scanner with the best value for private use:
- single-egg-input
- 3D scan-system
- 300 dots per Egg
- [...]

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Tags: Distraction · Humour · News · Printing · Scanner · SilverFast · Uncategorized

Changing Scan Creation Date

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

This post was inspired by the DDQ (Digital Darkroom Questions) newsletter from Tim Grey. I can highly recommend his newsletter because it deals with practical issues from”joe average end users” like you and me. He also publishes a blog with interesting thoughts and ideas on Digital Imaging.
The idea of his newsletter is that subscribers get [...]

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New Fine Art Print Gallery Site from Peter Wolff

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

 

Photographer Peter Wolff from photographical.net has started a new website dedicated to his fine art prints. This time no technical reviews (although we love his reviews) just plain beautiful photography. A quote from his gallery:
I insist on a naivity in my images, in which my own astonishment of the subject shines through and hopefully [...]

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Tags: News · Photography · Photography Business · Photoshop · Scanner · SilverFast

SilverFast 6.5 and Leopard

October 24th, 2007 · 10 Comments

The current version of SilverFast 6.5.x is not fully compatible with Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5. With the official launch of Mac OSX Leopard on October 26th this week a lot of users are asking us whether SilverFast will be ready for Leopard ? The good news and simple answer is “Yes, of [...]

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Tags: Digital Photography · News · OSX · Photography · Photoshop · Scanner · SilverFast

SilverFast Quick Tip: Sepia Effect

June 20th, 2007 · No Comments

It has been a while since our last SilverFast Quick Tip. To make up for it we present a new screencast called: ” SilverFast Global Color Correction Sepia Effect”. This screencast and lots more are also available as full size quicktime movie via www.silverfast.com. Enjoy and be creative with SilverFast!
Google Link to SilverFast Global Color Correction [...]

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Tags: HowTo · Photography · Processing · Quicktips · Scanner · SilverFast · Tips and Tutorials · Video

The Future of Film

May 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Ilford marketing director comments on the future of film.
As far as anyone can anticipate future market trends, it seems that film in general will be with us for some time yet, with black-and-white maintaining its own dedicated following.
Ilford Photo: The Future Of Film

Technorati Tags: Analogue photography, Film, Imaging, SilverFast

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Tags: Photography · Photography Business · Processing · Scanner · SilverFast

SilverFast Quick Tip: Scanning very old negatives

May 16th, 2007 · No Comments

This SilverFast Quick Tip was inspired by a post in our LSI-Forum. Rather than scanning in positive mode and having to tweak the image in Photoshop, SilverFast provides a simple yet powerful solution.

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Panoramic Links and HowTos

April 10th, 2007 · No Comments

John McCarthy left a wonderful comment in another post on this blog which inspired me to present some interesting sources on the art of panoramic imaging and editing.

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Tags: HowTo · News · Panoramic · Photography · Scanner

Getting the most from your scanner

March 28th, 2007 · No Comments

There is a very interesting quite technical article from Paul Butzi on whether the software matters when trying to get the maximum quality out of a scanner.
Rather to my amazement, it turns out what scanner software you use makes a difference, and the manufacturer’s software in this case is the clear loser.
He performed a series [...]

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