Tech Tips – Process and Photography Tips from the International Leica Society
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by Richard Rejino
2y ago
October 2021 Multiple Monitors on M1 Macs M1 Mac? Turns out you CAN run more than 1 external monitor. You need DisplayLinkManager 1.5.0 software and a USB-A to HDMI adapter such as the StarTech USB32HD4K, and a USB-A port (dongle). Backup Strategy For offsite storage, purchase a few additional external drives, clone to them, and keep them offsite in various locations. Update them monthly. Various cloud storage solutions, if you have lots of data, are often too slow to be useful. External drives are cheaper than ever now. For a working drive of this year’s images, use fast SSDs (1000 mbps or hi ..read more
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Photography: A Weapon of Choice: The Story of “Dias Eternos” and Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen
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by Richard Rejino
2y ago
Photos by Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen To interview Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen, LHSA’s 2020 Photography Grant recipient, is to come away with the impression that she is as gregarious and engaging as she is intense and passionate. Ana Maria describes herself as a fighter for women’s rights who has chosen visual storytelling to document the injustices they endure. To hear her in a presentation and see her work is to feel and see an intense desire to defend those rights through the power of her images. Her story is one of personal growth, discovery, and following a burning passion for making a difference ..read more
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White Sands Light
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by Albert B. Knapp MD & Ruth Oratz MD
2y ago
White light refracted by the White Sands shatters into the full spectrum of visible color. Aristotle believed that all color was derived from black and white, light and darkness. In 1666 Sir Isaac Newton purchased his first prism and began a series of experiments culminating in the crucial observation that white light was composed of all colors. He passed a beam of light through the first prism resulting in a continuous rainbow of hues, and then a second prism remixed these disparate rays back to a uniform white. Newton then chose the mystical number seven for his polychromatic vision – red, o ..read more
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Consistent Colors in Digital Workflows: An Introduction to Color Management
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by David Knoble
2y ago
Not all images are created equally! Instagram, Flickr, Facebook and LFI all provide ways to share your images online, so your images could be seen on various computer displays, phones and tablets – all containing different types of screens. Blurb and Artifact Uprising are two on-line self-publishing book companies where you can have your images bound in print with different paper types. You can order prints on many more paper types, metals and under acrylic or even print them yourself on inkjet printing systems. Did you know that using the same image with no adjustments for all of these would ..read more
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Deep Depth of Field in Poor Light
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by Dick Gilcreast
2y ago
If the light is dim, how are we able to get good depth of field if we don’t want to use flash? We need to stop down for more depth — but then the shutter speeds get too slow and we need a tripod. Or do we? I learned this lesson backwards while-attending the Naval Training Center at Bainbridge, MD in 1955. I was using an older black dial Leica lllf equipped with a brand new 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor I’d bought for my fledgling freelance photo business in New England, just before bring drafted following college deferment. I had sent for the camera, Weston meter, and some film from home. I knew the great ..read more
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Late Days: Alehouses & a Spook House
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by Douglas Richardson
2y ago
When the article Early Days: Prelude to Spring by Albert B. Knapp MD and Ruth Oratz MD in the 53/2 issue of Viewfinder documented a spring season passed under Covid-19 conditions, I wondered what I might do to document an English late autumn in which our freedoms were still restricted by measures intended to limit the spread of the disease. England lacks the open spaces of the US, so while Albert and Ruth have a property through which a river flows, the only thing that might flow into my property would be the occasional rainwater runoff from the car parking area in front of my garage. I would ..read more
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The Leitz Birthdays Book
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by Ed Schwartzreich
2y ago
Perhaps 10 years ago, I was asked by one of our members whether I knew of “The Leitz Birthday Book” and how to obtain one. I had no idea what that person was talking about, but not wanting to appear as ignorant as I felt, I replied “perhaps you could tell me more”. I must admit I had mental images of my own baby book from earliest childhood. Well, it turns out this was a publication of Leica Historica, LHSA’s German counterpart, and had pictures of rare prototypes and the like. It was all news to me and sounded quite interesting. I had become a member of Leica Historica sometime prior to that ..read more
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THE LEICA VARIO-ELMARIT-SL 24-70MM F/2 .8 ASPH
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by Jonathan Slack
2y ago
Here it is, Leica has just announced the new Vario-Elmarit- SL 24-70mm f/2.8 ASPH for L-Mount cameras. It’s smaller and 300 grams lighter than the 24-90mm, has a constant f/2.8 aperture and is only a little bit more than half the price of it’s bigger sibling. Even cheaper if you buy it as a kit with the SL2 or SL2-S. Conventional wisdom would have made such a lens both bigger and more expensive than the 24-90, so what’s the story? A careful examination of the lens body gives a clue: “Made in Japan” (all the other SL lenses are “Made in Germany”). Leica has had successful collaborations for man ..read more
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Shades of New York
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by Jim Lager
2y ago
During 1940-1945 direct delivery of Leitz Wetzlar product to E.Leitz, Inc. New York was terminated. In 1946-1947 Leicas and their accessories began to reach the American market. American Leica enthusiasts who wanted a lens hood could not obtain it. Leitz New York had orders they could not fill. During the War years production of lens hoods and other small accessories commenced in the Leitz New York machine shop. The illustrations show various lens hoods bearing the E.Leitz, Inc. New York marking. In some cases the finish and workmanship did not match the genuine Wetzlar product but at least or ..read more
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‘Stealth’ Leica Factory Upgrades
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by Richard Rejino
2y ago
Never officially listed, they were sometimes available on request While the factory at E. Leitz Wetzlar can hardly be described as a cottage industry, it retained some aspects of the precision workshop mentality well into the postwar era. Indeed, the company treated Leica owners as de facto members of an elite club and considered Leica cameras as long-term investments rather than mere hardware. In modern terms, one could say they provided exceptional customer service, but it was a lot more than that. They would, at quite a reasonable cost, convert your fixed-lens Leica I into a model II or eve ..read more
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