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Tag Archives: Brian Lawler
From variable-frequency drives
to hand-bound books
It’s been about a month since I wrote my last blog. It was about variable-frequency-drive high voltage motor controllers and a 1935 book sewing machine. The relevance of that is cloudy, but suffice it to say that I have been … Continue reading
Electronic motor control
and my obsession with a 1935 bookbinding machine
This is the second part of my obsession story. To read the first part, please click here. And that’s where my odyssey began. Alternating current induction motors use the frequency of the line power (60 Hz in our case) to … Continue reading
Obsessing on a 1935 bookbinding machine
I get obsessed about my projects. My current obsession is the restoration of a 1935 Smyth book sewing machine in the Shakespeare Press Museum at Cal Poly (I was the faculty advisor before I retired). That machine sews the spines … Continue reading
Running the five-color
Pearl press postcard
In 2019 I began the restoration of an 1895 Pearl press, a treadle-powered letterpress that was donated to the Cal Poly Shakespeare Press Museum. That press was a rusty machine when we took delivery of it. I took it to … Continue reading
An EOS R follow-up:
two months later
I bought the Canon EOS R camera in May after considerable research and a one-week rental test of the device. I am the Staff Photographer of Festival Mozaic, a classical music festival in San Luis Obispo. Each year I shoot … Continue reading
Posted in Art, New technology, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Technology
Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Canon camera, Canon EOS R, EOS R, Festival Mozaic, Grace Park
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The Laowa Probe macro lens – after a week
I have been shooting with the Laowa lens now for a week. Of course it rained for three days, so I didn’t get out as much as I had hoped. My overall impression of the lens: it’s well-built. It’s beautifully … Continue reading
More on the Laowa wide angle macro probe lens
In my blog last week I described how the Laowa lens had arrived, and how I illustrated it so that the world would have access to its dimensions. I have been using it for several days now (though we were … Continue reading
My new Canon EOS R mirrorless camera
and a new world of high ISO shooting
I was excited when Canon and Nikon both announced their mirrorless pro (or semi-pro) cameras last fall. The time had come. Sony has been in the market for three generations now, and Canon had made a few attempts (EOS M, … Continue reading
Cal Poly’s TAGA students win the Kipphan Cup at TAGA 2019
The Cal Poly TAGA team has won the prestigious Helmut Kipphan Cup at this year’s conference of the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts. The Kipphan Cup is awarded to the university team whose technical journal is judged to be … Continue reading
Posted in People, Printing and Printing Processes
Tagged Aileen Vasquez, Ana Gonzalez, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Cal Poly GrC, Cal Poly TAGA, California Polytechnic State University, Erica Taylor, Graphic Communication, Hannah Nguyen, Kayleigh MacDonald; Jessica Rose, Lauren Helms, Nicole Cullop, TAGA
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