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Sample gallery: Fujifilm Acros 100 II – 35mm and 120 scans

14 Apr

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Between the DPReview TV crew up in Canada and the rest of the staff here in the USA, we were able to get our hands on several 35mm and 120 rolls of the newly-formulated Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 II film stock, set to hit shelves in North America toward the end of the month.

35mm images were shot by Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake on a trusty Nikon FE – 120 images were captured by Dan Bracaglia with his time-tested Mamiya 645 J. Due to photo lab closures related to the current health crisis, all samples were home-processed and digitized; 35mm photos were converted using Nikon’s ES-2 adapter and 120 images were captured using an Epson V550 flatbed scanner.

For more analog action, check out our Film Photography talk forum. And for those curious about how the new Acros II compares to the original film stock and/or the digital film simulation, check out the DPRTV’s review below:

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Metropolitan Museum adds 375,000 scans of artwork to public domain

18 Feb
“[Advertisement for Sarony’s Photographic Studies]” by Napoleon Sarony (American (born Canada), Quebec 1821–1896 New York) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has added 375,000 images to the public domain, each showing a scan of copyright-free artwork in the museum’s collection. Every image has a Creative Commons ‘CC0’ license, meaning they can be used for both personal and commercial purposes, and can be edited or used as parts of other projects.

This photo release follows the Museum’s Open Access of Scholarly Content initiative launched back in 2014, which made 400,000 photos available for non-commercial use. This latest photo release represents a slight change in the Museum’s policy: that all of its photos of public domain works are now accompanied by a CC0 public domain license.

Talking about this move, Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley said:

Today, The Met has given the world a profound gift in service of its mission: the largest encyclopedic art museum in North America has eliminated the barriers that would otherwise prohibit access to its content, and invited the world to use, remix, and share their public-domain collections widely and without restriction. This is an enormous gift to the world, and it is an act of significant leadership on the part of the institution.

The newly released public domain photos can be located using the search tool on the Creative Commons website.

Via: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Photomyne app scans multiple prints at a time

01 Jun

Last week we wrote about the Unfade app that lets you to scan and restore old photos using an iPhone. One of Unfade’s downsides, depending on your personal preference, is its simplistic approach that uses an almost fully automated process and hardly allows for any user input. The good news is that there are alternatives for those who want a little more control and efficiency.

One of them is Photomyne. The app is currently available for iOS, with an Android version to be released in the near future. Its main advantage over Unfade is the ability to scan more than one print at once, allowing for faster throughput. You can simply lay out several prints on a desk or scan directly out of an album. Of course this means reduced scanning resolution compared to Unfade’s one-print-at-a-time approach, but most users of this kind of app can probably live with the image quality. 

Once images have been scanned, Photomyne gives a few more retouching and restoring options than Unfade and sharing features are on board as well. A ‘discover’ feature lets you see other users’ scanned images in an Instagram-like image feed, as long as they have decided to make them public. Collaborative albums and cloud-only backup are currently in the development pipeline. Photomyme comes in several variants: you can either install a free version that lets you pay per session via in-app purchase, or a paid version for $ 5 that gives you a range of basic features. On top of that there is a $ 12 per year premium plan that includes unlimited saves, backup and access to your scans from desktop computers. 

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Unfade for iOS scans and restores old prints

27 May

The team behind the document scanning app Scanbot has used its smartphone scanning expertise to create Unfade, a new app for the iPhone that lets you scan old photos and restore their color using automated filters.

The app has been designed with ease-of-use in mind and works almost fully automatically. You simply need to hold your smartphone camera over a photo print and it will be scanned. The app then detects faded colors and presents the option to restore them using a filter function. Once images have been digitized and restored they can be sorted into albums. On the Unfade website the team also says that a range of new features are currently in the development pipeline, including editing features, image presentation options and sharing tools. 

Unfade requires iOS 9 or later and is compatible with the iPhone 5s and newer models in addition to a number of recent iPad models. The app is currently available at a 40% launch discount but will still set you back $ 4.99 in the Apple App Store.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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X-Ray Urbanism: Laser Scans Record & Reveal Sub-City Spaces

12 Aug

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scan 3d london underground

Produced from over 200 laser scans, this remarkable 3D representation covers surface features as well as subterranean spaces of it’s London subject, captured and stored as a series of over 10 billion points. This data-rich compositing process has been called everything from spatial scanning to volumetric photography, but the goal is simple: capturing all dimensions of the subject matter in digital space. And as the cost of the requisite technologies continues to drop, it may not be long before lidar (laser + radar) scanners become commercial household products or even smartphone features.

scanlab subeterranean mail rail

The duo behind ScanLabs has done remarkable projects around the world, both artistic and documentary in nature, but their work with Mail Rail illustrates the near limitless potential of the technologies they employ. Using scanner that sent out millions of laser light bursts per second, they have generated a ground-piercing, interactive rendering that is ahead of its time. Static views and videos do not do their captures justice, which may someday be best experience via virtual reality or in some other format yet unimagined.

scanlab tube details

scanlab volumentric photography rendering

Matthew Shaw and William Trossell were commissioned to help document The London Post Office Railway by the British Postal Museum & Archive before a section is converted into an underground ride. The nearly 100-year-old and 23-mile-long LPOR, or ‘Mail Rail’ for short, transported millions of pieces of daily mail beneath the city at its peak. Before a massive revamp changes this subterranean landscape forever, stakeholders wanted a method for preserving all elements of the existing spaces.

scanlab seen from below

As Geoff Manaugh summarizes this novel approach to spatialization, “Their 3D point clouds afford a whole new form of representation, a kind of volumetric photography that cuts through streets and walls to reveal the full spatial nature of the places on display.”

scanlab forest view

ScanLab has engaged in many other projects as well, including augmented archeology at concentration camps and digital preservation of D-Day landing sites. Some, however, are simply experimental, designed to push the limits and explore ways to hack the technologies they use. The company has done everything from generating surrealistic renderings of forests to scanning clouds and mist simply to see what will come out the other side of the process. They have even snuck into famous works of architecture and surreptitiously scanned buildings, then recreating them in perfect detail with 3D printers or CNC routers. Regardless of the short-term applications, the key is the long-term data storage – the information being preserved today may be redeployed in the future in ways not yet envisioned.

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Building Eraser: Smart Robot Scans & Deconstructs Concrete

17 Jul

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building deconstructing robotic system

Whether the building is a bare-bones warehouse or five-star hotel, demolition is an equally messy business – but perhaps it does not have to be. What if demolition teams could precisely separate the component parts of the concrete forming the walls, floors and ceilings of a structure?

building erasing robot design

ERO is an award-winning robotic solution that strips concrete on-site and step-by-step, saving time, energy and copious amounts of water (used to reduce airborne particulates) in the deconstruction process. It parses the pieces back into cement, aggregate and water as it goes, literally erasing a building rather than demolishing it.

building demolition robot

The robot scans sections and identifies the best ways to break them down into constituent parts for reuse or recycling. This approach switches the literal sledgehammer with a proverbial scalpel – the latter taking the form of a concentrated high-pressure water jet that cracks the concrete and allows it to be more carefully removed.

building deconstruction smart system

In the end, the graywater is reused, the particulates turned into aggregate for fresh construction applications and the rebar cleaned and sorted as well. This systematic recycling saves materials not just for future uses but also reduces waste along the way by mitigating the need to actively blanket the building demo site with water and saves time in terms of sorting through the rubble.

building compact eraser robots

From the  2013 International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) awards page: “The challenge with this project was to separate materials concurrent with deconstruction. Concrete is usually reinforced with a metal mesh inside. Common techniques involve using brute force to pulverize the concrete, which creates a mixed mound of waste material that needs to be separated before it can be reused or sold as second-grade metal or as a filling material. In order to overcome later separation and ease the transport of materials, the process had to start with separation on the spot. It was a challenge to switch from brutal pulverizing to smart deconstruction.”

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Dilbert Animated Cartoons – The Cabbage Conspiracy, Cat Scans, Chip and Dip and Vivid Memory

09 Aug

Go to www.babelgum.com to see all the new cartoons! www.dilbert.com by Scott Adams. RingTales presents Dilbert Animated Cartoons.Cabbages can’t use computers. Catbert scans. The Boss has a bright idea. The Boss has a photographic memory
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20 Mar

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