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I finally used my DIY UV box for making Van Dyke wet prints – Here’s my complete process

May 23, 2022 by Luigi Barbano Leave a Comment
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It’s been a little while since I built my UV Box but sometimes, life gets in the middle of our fun projects! Now, I’ve finally tested the UV Box and I can say that it works great. I made a test with two different negatives: a very soft flower subject lighted with painted light and a very sharp subject lighted with a very contrasty light. I wanted to see how this printing process deals with different subjects.

I proceeded with some step tests to find the corrected exposure for my negatives. I did 2 seconds steps and as you can see in the video, I was a little optimistic with my first strip of 2,4,6,8 seconds of exposure. In the end, the correct exposure resulted in 11 minutes.

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How to build your own DIY UV exposure box for when the sun won’t shine

Feb 17, 2022 by Luigi Barbano 1 Comment
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I was always told: if you have to do something, do it with your own style! So here is my Italian style UV box to expose the papers coated with antique photographic processes.

At the origin of photography, many technologies of printing required exposure to UV light. In those times, the sun was the perfect source and the exposure was usually made outdoor. But the quantity of UV light from the sun can vary a lot in different seasons or with different weather. Plus, baby it’s cold outside now in winter! For this reason, I decided to build a UV Box.

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Clearing my mind of digital bad habits with a pinhole film camera

Feb 22, 2017 by Luigi Barbano Leave a Comment
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Digital photography created a wonderful new world of opportunities but it also changed the way we photograph, instilling in us a lot of bad habits.

One of the worst effects of digital photography is to make us shoot too much and post process even more. It’s kind of strange, even with a strong film background, when we use digital we forget to have a slow approach to our subjects.

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OVF vs EVF – A Philosophical Difference

Dec 16, 2016 by Luigi Barbano 7 Comments
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OVF vs EVF! Let’s the bloody war begin ;)

 

The world is divided in two… always, that is why there is people making a lot of money selling t-shirts for opposite points of view!

The users of mirrorless camera are not different, photographers loving the optical viewfinder and photographers loving the electronic viewfinder and hating each other.

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Dear Fujifilm, you are one firmware option away from the perfect camera!

Nov 28, 2016 by Luigi Barbano 4 Comments
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A love story with a little hate feeling.

Last year I bought a new Fuji X-Pro 1, it was a great deal a few days before the X-Pro 2 was on the market. I bought it as a camera to keep in my pockets, not really as a serious option. But, I loved it since I started to take the first pictures. I even bought a second one, used and converted it to infrared.

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