Technical articles about photography

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About

I have an interest in photography and shoot some on my own, mostly in the genre of landscape photography. You can see some of my work on a dedicated web site: Anders Torger — photographs. While being foremost an art there are also many technical aspects to photography which I as an engineer find fascinating. As a developer of photographic software (see Lumariver) I also have a professional interest in getting into the details.

I had some idea that maybe I should start a blog focused on technical aspects of photography, but realized it would be too much work and would not allow me to return to old articles and revise them when I have new knowledge. So instead I decided to make this simple web page where I can publish articles in my own (extremely slow) pace and update when needed.

Articles

• How to focus a landscape scene - a guide of how to use hyperfocal distance and tilting together with tables to make sharp high resolution photos of landscape scenes.
• Review: Linhof Techno - a review of the Linhof Techno digital field view camera. The review doubles as an introduction to technical cameras in general.
• An image sensor noise test - a test looking into the noise performance of a two DSLRs and one medium format sensor.
• Guide to second hand medium format digital backs - if you are curious about digital medium format and/or are considering investing but cannot afford a new system, read this first.
• Leitz Fokos rangefinder mini review - is a vintage rangefinder a useful tool for the landscape photographer?
• Arca-Swiss D4 review - a review of one of the more popular geared heads, together with comparisons and a brief overview of the alternatives.
• Display calibration and profiling with Argyll - an introduction to display calibration and profiling, and a detailed workflow using Argyll.
• Inkjet printer profiling with Argyll and Colormunki - how to make accurate high end ICC profiles for your inkjet printer and favorite papers using the open-source Argyll color management system and a low cost photospectrometer.
• Making a camera profile with DCamProf - how to make a high end general purpose camera profile that can replace the bundled profile in your favorite raw converter, using my own open-source tool DCamProf.