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Everything has a beginning...
...and everything starts with a decision, including this blog. Over the past few years, I have repeatedly had to fight against myths that course and workshop participants had from social media. It is precisely these myths that I will be addressing here. But I also want to include entertaining and instructive topics. It also helps me if I can always refer to a written source.
Photographing like in the old days
You always meet interesting people at photography events. So do Elvis and Miha Halilović, two Slovenian designers. Together they founded the company Ondu Pinhole in Velenje, Slovenia, in 2013, which mainly produces pinhole cameras that do not require expensive optics.
However, they have recently started producing fully-fledged view cameras. They acquired a taste for the large format through the Ondu Pinhole 4x5 inch. The 4x5 inch format has the advantage that you get a postcard-sized picture with a contact print. The brothers hesitated for a long time because the view camera presented them with problems. But they found the solution to all their problems and there are now 3 models in the Eikan series.
Taking photos with your smartphone and tablet
The best camera is always the one you have with you. But did you know that your smartphone and tablet can do more? The integrated camera app that comes with your smartphone and tablet only does JPEG. However, the camera sensor can do more. JPEG images are only 8 bits, but the sensor can do 16 bits with a colour depth of 14 bits. These 8 bits mean 28 = 256 colours can be displayed. Whereas the sensor can capture 214 = 16384 colours. This means that data is used very wastefully. Once data is lost, it can no longer be recovered. So get the maximum out of your sensor, I'll show you how.
