Category: analog photography

Digitizing large format aerial photography film transparencies

Michael Bennett

One of the challenges (and rewards) of managing a digital production lab for a university research library is working with the wide assortment of analog formats that are collected within its archives, special collections, and map library holdings. For instance, we’ve recently begun conversion work on a 2002 aerial survey of Connecticut that was originally […]

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Is putting a darkroom in a bar a good idea? Guess we are going to find out

Udi Tirosh

“I’ll have a whatever’s on tap and two stacks of Ilford paper please”. I know this is not what you expect to hear in a bar. Consider this though: darkrooms are being less common, there is a renaissance for film and everyone loves beer. So why not combine a darkroom with a bar. And this […]

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This 24 square meter contact print is the largest ever

Udi Tirosh

Looking at a print 24 square meters large up close is impressive, but having it made from a contact print elevates it to quite a different level. Contact print is a way of printing photographs in which the negative (or positive) is pressed against a the photo paper and then exposed. This creates a photo at […]

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