Introduction Distortion is one of the classic lens aberrations and comes in various forms. We will have a look at them, see which ones are easy to correct and how to create correction profiles for those lenses with complicated wavy distortion patterns.
Introduction Tilt/Shift lenses are rather exotic, they are mostly used for architecture or table top photography, and with the wide availability of post processing (correcting converging vertical lines and focus stacking) you see them very rarely nowadays, even amongst professional photographers. In this article I will tell you what Tilt/Shift lenses are all about and … Continue reading Working with Tilt/Shift lenses
Introduction Leica users where the first to discover that their old compact wide angle lenses with the rear element close to the film/sensor plane have some color cast issues on digital cameras. This is an issue that cannot fully be solved by the optical design – at least when following the quest to create compact … Continue reading How to: Correcting Color Cast in Lightroom
Introduction Especially in the western world it is hard to find any useful information on the MS-Optics lenses, let alone an overview. Having used quite a few of them myself I decided to put such an overview together and collect as much information as I can. The guys from mkdirect51.com as well as japanexposures.com allowed … Continue reading Overview: MS-Optics Lenses
Kodak Gold 200 is something special these days. I don’t have the feeling it has ever been a highly praised 35mm film, but it is one of the few color films that is affordable and still widely available in 2022. Processing and scanning was done at urbanfilmlab in Germany.