Tag Archives: Brian Lawler

Acting is easy!

Posted on April 19, 2026 by Brian Lawler

Introduction: The photos in this post were all taken by my wife, Ashala, on 70mm Ektachrome 64 film with a Hasselblad ELM camera. Those photos were stored away in my “archive” in a binder from 1981 until recently when I … Continue reading →

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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 →

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…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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76 yards…what do you get?

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Brian Lawler

Yesterday at sunrise a huge concrete pumping truck showed up at my shop construction site. It was about 6:30 in the morning. I had set up my time-lapse camera on a tripod overlooking the site, and the shutter was activated … Continue reading →

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It took 20 years to get all that in there…
and just a few days to get it all out for storage.

Posted on January 12, 2026 by Brian Lawler

14 months ago I announced with pride that I had received a building permit for a new shop to be built on my friends’ property here in San Luis Obispo County. It had taken about two years to get that … Continue reading →

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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 →

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