An EPFL lab is preparing to digitize The Panorama of the Battle of Murten, a 100 by 10-meter painting created in 1893 by Louis Braun, in an undertaking that will yield one of the largest digital images ever made. [Read More]
I recently had a bad case of fungus in a Sony kit lens. The fungus was between the two outermost lenses that are assembled together in a glued plastic case. I placed it in a cleaned vacuum box with enough rubbing alcohol to submerge it — I actually had to tilt the box to cover […]
Hitler’s personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, was one of the infamous dictator’s primary propagandists, and tens of thousands of the photographer’s photos exist on glass plate negatives.