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Microstock analysis

Posted on August 7, 2007 By David Kilpatrick

We have come across this site which presents an exceptional analysis of microstock sales:

http://www.perrush.be/SYF_micro_E_1.html

Not that, in your editor’s opinion, the results are all that wonderful – it would be easy enough to secure the same monthly earnings from a single direct sale to any publication, and it’s more interesting by far to try to place work directly with clients, talk to them, deal face to face or by email. But this is the best and most detailed analysis of microstock we have yet seen.

-DK

Stock Photography, Uncategorized

The Leaf Lumina scanning camera (1995)

Posted on August 6, 2007 By David Kilpatrick

David Kilpatrick reported in January 1996 on the performance of the Leaf Lumina, which Icon had acquired in early 1995 as one of the first digital studios to operate in Britain. Read this report on prices and technology in 1995-6 and weep!

Nostalgia Zone, Tests / Reviews, Uncategorized

Canon EOS 1n-RS (Photon magazine, February 1996)

Posted on August 6, 2007 By David Kilpatrick

BACK in 1996, David Kilpatrick and Andy Aitken reviewed the latest Canon for David’s Photon magazine. It has something which the Canon EOS 1D MkIII of 2007 also features – 10 frames a second. But to achieve this it had to sacrifice focus tracking and use a pellicle mirror, with the lens permanently stopped down during fast sequences. This article makes interesting reading in the light of developments since in the digital domain. Continue reading »

Nostalgia Zone, Tests / Reviews, Uncategorized

Judging colour in the darkroom

Posted on August 6, 2007 By David Kilpatrick

David Kilpatrick explains why controlled conditions are important and shows an example of a ring-around chart – something to keep pinned on your darkroom wall, made from your own test negatives or slides. This article was first published in 1996, and the principles if not the identical corrections can be applied to making inkjet tests from digital images. It is still most relevant to darkroom colour printing, for those who want to keep this art alive.

Darkroom, Features, Techniques, Uncategorized

Cromazoning with just two lights

Posted on August 6, 2007 By David Kilpatrick

Dean Collins invented ‘cromazones’ – predictable, variable studio backdrop color from a gel-filtered background light. David Kilpatrick sets out to show how two low-cost strobes switchable down to quarter power give all the control you need. Continue reading »

Features, Studio Lighting, Techniques, Uncategorized

Sony and ASDA team up in UK for photoprinting service

Posted on June 20, 2007 By David Kilpatrick

ASDA and Sony launch fastest digital photo printing service on the market

Britain’s second largest supermarket chain invests in multi-million pound deal to install 260 kiosks in 130 stores across the UK to maximise customer convenience and profits

LONDON, 20th June 2007 – By the end of 2007, ASDA customers will have access to the fastest digital printing facilities on the market with new Sony printing kiosks. The Sony kiosks utilise state-of-the-art printing technology to create standard 4×6″ photos at market leading speed.

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