Category Archives: Art

These are blogs that relate to art, art photography, artwork reproduction, and fine art in general.

Der Fingerpokenspieler

Posted on March 24, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is a tale of making unruly film behave ruly so it can be digitized. It started last November when I built a camera stand for digitizing my archive of actual film. I have written seven posts (To read them, … Continue reading →

Digitizing 70mm film

Posted on February 20, 2026 by Brian Lawler

I have now digitized over 2,000 photos from film, mostly 35mm color slides. It has been fun, and relatively easy. My system is holding up well. The archiving envelopes are working well enough, and the small corrugated boxes that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Building things, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Scanning, Software | Tagged 3D printing a film carrier, 70mm film, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Digitizing film, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Digitizing film requires an entire ecosystem

Posted on February 1, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is the fourth in a series about how I am digitizing film from my past, and making it part of my digital archive. The start at the beginning, please click here. I knew that once I started digitizing my … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Gadgets, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Scanning, Software | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, copying film to digitial, Digitizing film, NegativeLab Pro, scanning film, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

500,608 Readers!

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Brian Lawler

My Blognosticator reader-odometer passed 500,000 today; that’s something to be proud of. Fourteen years ago I began writing The Blognosticator. Since then I have written and illustrated 354 posts, received 680 legitimate comments, and have enjoyed not having to delete … Continue reading →

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More on the camera stand project

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Brian Lawler

In yesterday’s post I described how I built a camera stand to re-photograph (“digitize”) my film. In order to be more helpful, I thought I would share here my working drawings and my engineering drawings so that others might make … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, Gadgets, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, building a photo copy stand, building things with CNC machine, Digitizing film, reproducing film, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Building a camera stand on the CNC machine

Posted on November 17, 2025 by Brian Lawler

I have thousands – tens of thousands – of photos on film. These include 35mm negatives and slides, 120 film from my two Hasselblad cameras, and a boat load (a small boat) of 70mm sprocketed Ektachrome film. The 70mm era … Continue reading →

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Thin lines and fine type

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Brian Lawler

This is the fourth in a series of analyses of the output of the Landa S10P press. If you would like to start at the beginning, click here. Whenever a printer gets out a magnifying glass, there are bound to … Continue reading →

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Printing high-resolution line art on the S10P

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Brian Lawler

Update: I have been reading about financial troubles at Landa. The company has asked for protection from its creditors in an event similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. With over $500 million in debt, the company hopes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, History, New technology, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Scanning, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Landa ink-jet press, Landa Nanoprnting, Landa S10P, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Not printing colors that the press can print

Posted on July 17, 2025 by Brian Lawler

Note: Landa recently announced a new version of their press, the S11P. The most significant difference is speed. Where the presses I have tested print 6,250 two-sided impressions per hour, the new Landa press can print at twice that speed. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, Graphic Arts people, New technology, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Color profiling a Landa press, Landa Nanographic printing technology, Landa S10P press, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Exploring the capabilities of the Landa S10P press

Posted on June 30, 2025 by Brian Lawler

I recently finished a year teaching at Cal Poly. I retired from that institution in 2020, and was rehired last year to fill-in for a colleague on leave. The course I taught was Color Management, which I had taught for … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, Education, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Scanning, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Landa SP10, Nanographic technology, Press testing, Testing the Landa press, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment