Understanding MTF Charts Original article posted on January 13, 2009 by Michael Reichmann Do I Really Need to Know This Stuff? Actually, yes, you do. Pay attention. It’s important 🙂 You especially do if you’re one of those photographers who enjoy thinking about, reading about and talking about lens sharpness. The reason is that the word sharpness is vague and can … [Read more...]
Michael Reichmann
Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.
Rediscover – Understanding Resolution
Understanding Resolution Digital Vs. Analog The traditional analog world was easy to understand. Negatives and prints were continuous tone and one simply made an enlargement from the negative or transparency to the size needed. Today, in the digital environment, many newcomers get-tripped up by the concepts of input and output resolution and terribly confused as to what … [Read more...]
Rediscover – Understanding Aspect Ratios & The Art Of Cropping
Understanding Aspect Ratios & The Art of Cropping A Bandage for Poor Composition, or a Creative Tool? An old saying in photography has it that – "If your photographs aren't good enough, it's likely because you aren't close enough". This is often misunderstood to mean that one should be shooting with a long lens, or just doing close-ups. Not so. What is meant is that … [Read more...]
Rediscover – Sensor and Sensibility
Sensor & Sensibility Understanding Sensor Issues Starting with apologies to Jane Austen fans for the title of this article, let me add as well that this is not a treatise on sensor design. Rather, it is simply a primer on some of the basics, intended to help photographers understand what is going on behind the scenes of sensor design and manufacture. The idea being, to … [Read more...]
Henry Wilhelm Interview
In the late Summer of 2008, Michael Reichmann interviewed Henry Wilhelm, founder of Wilhelm Imaging Research for a video in the 2008/9 Epson Print Academy. As part of Luminous Landscape's Back to the Print series, we are re-publishing here the complete 68 minute video interview in two parts. We feel that the material covered in this interview is as relevant today … [Read more...]
