Equipment

Gibellini TCN45V2

Leave a Comment / Equipment / By

This past month I dedicated myself to getting back into the darkroom and making more B&W images. I’ve always wanted a top-of-the-line precision view camera and now I have one: a TCN45V2 field camera from Gibellini, in Modena, Italy. In addition to a rotating back, this field camera folds fairly flat yet supports a wide variety of movements: front tilt, shift, and swing, and rear tilt and swing. A fantastic platform to use with my collection of 4×5 lenses from Sinar, Rodenstock, Fuji, and Caltar.

Gibellini TCN45V2 Read More »

Finally, a black-and-white digital camera

Leave a Comment / Equipment / By

Yesterday the British Journal of Photography reported that Leica has announced a new rangefinder camera, the Leica “M” Monochrom, that includes an 18 MP, full-frame CCD sensor stripped of its conventional Bayer Pattern filter. As the camera does not “see” colours, says Leica, “every pixel records true luminance values to deliver ‘true’ black-and-white images that are significantly sharper than comparable exposures from a camera with a colour-sensitive sensor. On their website, Leica imaging writes on the Leica “M” Monochrom: The Leica M Monochrom more than satisfies the expectations of discerning

Finally, a black-and-white digital camera Read More »

Autofocus and the Canon 7D

Leave a Comment / Equipment / By

Much of my photographic efforts over the past six months have been devoted to curling, particularly since I became involved with the Laurier Golden Hawks High Performance Centre in November. Since then I’ve photographed a number of teams and clinics in a variety of different curling clubs. When setting up the High Performance Centre website, I consciously chose a grayscale theme because my intent was to convert all the curling photographs to black and white. My reasoning, which I think was sound, is that black-and-white photographs would unify the various

Autofocus and the Canon 7D Read More »

Portraits with the Canon 7D

Leave a Comment / Equipment, Projects, Software / By

It’s been a busy week this past seven days: a shoot of a mortgage broker on Tuesday night; photographing the Schweigen Trio of Wilfrid Laurier University musicians on Saturday; and then shooting a subset of the sales and marketing teams at Sybase iAnywhere this past Monday. Here’s an example of the portraits from the shoot at iAnywhere, one I was particularly pleased with. The glass blocks at the entrance to the firm’s cafeteria formed an interesting background, with the glass exhibiting an olive-green hue from ambient light in the late

Portraits with the Canon 7D Read More »
Scroll to Top