Category Archives: Scanning

…and then there was pincushion distortion

Posted on February 26, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is another in a chain of posts related to my effort to digitize my film library. Please click here to read the first in this series. In the RF-series lens collection made by Canon, there is only one true … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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Making digital images on the camera stand

Posted on January 25, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is the third in a series of posts about digitizing film. To start at the beginning, please click here. My camera stand project is now set up and running. I am using my Canon R5 camera and my Laowa … 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 →

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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 →

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Spinning time into gold with slit-scan images

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Brian Lawler

  My blog of day before yesterday told of the process of recording things that move in front of a photo-finish camera (also called a slit-scan camera). This is an S-Bahn train coming into the station. Its speed was constant, except … Continue reading →

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Difference of opinion makes a horse race

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Brian Lawler

In a recent blog I introduced you to the rotating panoramic camera, a complex mechanical device dating from the early 20th century. The heart of that camera is the roll of film, moving at a constant speed through the camera, … Continue reading →

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Panoramic cameras and images, Part I

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Brian Lawler

The first true panoramic camera was patented by William J. Johnston in 1904. Century Camera Company brought that camera to market in 1905 as the Century Cirkut Camera. The company later became a part of the Eastman Kodak Company, which … Continue reading →

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Alois was here

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Brian Lawler

Several of my students joined me and my colleague Prof. Martin Delp today for a tour of the Landsampt für Digitalisierung, Breitband und Vermessung, the Bavarian office for digitization and surveying. Here, the government creates maps, collects and distributes digital geographical … Continue reading →

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