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New Camera!
It's happy days for the Henry Walters' Library Online. We've just received our new camera upgrade and everything appears to be working as it should. We're now shooting with a 33-megapixel camera (that's 33 million pixels!!!) It's a large-format camera body with a digital back and a 120mm lens, all custom-designed and built by Stokes Imaging in Texas to go with their software.
So far things are going great, which is a big relief. We had tried to install this camera a few months ago and the images were showing too much noise. The black background was streaked with blue and the gray squares in our MacBeth color checker looked like they were covered with green moss. So back to Texas it went and after extensive corrections and testing, it's back home in Baltimore with no moss in sight.
In other good news, we have a new LaCie color correction monitor. The old one suddenly and mysteriously blew out recently and it had to be replaced. Trials and tribulations. Back up to full production now, though.
So far things are going great, which is a big relief. We had tried to install this camera a few months ago and the images were showing too much noise. The black background was streaked with blue and the gray squares in our MacBeth color checker looked like they were covered with green moss. So back to Texas it went and after extensive corrections and testing, it's back home in Baltimore with no moss in sight.
In other good news, we have a new LaCie color correction monitor. The old one suddenly and mysteriously blew out recently and it had to be replaced. Trials and tribulations. Back up to full production now, though.
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