Yearly Archives: 2025

Itoya large print albums – update

Printing, Technique

Two choices.

I continue building a collection of large print legacy albums containing some five decades of my best photographs.


A photographic legacy

I first wrote about these here and the other day when ordering more from B&H, which has the best prices, I found that the profiled album was out of stock. Digging around the splendid B&H site I discovered that there are actually two versions of the 13″x19″ Itoya large print album, at much the same price:


Two versions. Click the image for B&H.

The other version, at left, touts the high gloss ‘Poly Glass’ vinyl sheets but, for the life of me, they look identical to those in the version previously profiled. So I snapped up a couple and can confirm they are every bit as good as the original. Each of the 24 vinyl sheets comes with a black interleaver to prevent image bleed through to adjacent prints.

Putting the Boot in

Photographs

Sweet.

You can instantly recognize the two scummiest US professions, for they are the only ones still wearing suits – politicians and lawyers.

So it’s a pleasure to see one of the latter putting the boot into another rather than into one of their many abused clients.


On the Embarcadero, SF.

Panasonic G1, kit zoom.

For large prints from early Panny MFT originals I find there is too much chroma (mottling) noise in the printed image, but the new ‘Enhance’ option in the Develop module of LRc does a nice job of cleaning that up without significantly losing definition. For some reason it only works with RAW files, not with TIFF or JPG, so be sure to apply it to the right file format.

Embarcadero Architecture

Photographs

San Francisco at its best.

You can read more about this magnificent thoroughfare here.

I published three dozen candid snaps of the denizens of the Embarcadero area on San Francisco’s east side here.

This slideshow profiles the fine architecture to be found along this splendid thoroughfare, with three favorite Nikkor lenses – the 180/2.8 AF-D, the 80-200 f/4.5 zoom and the 200/4 pre-Ai – heavily featured. All wonderful, especially the 200/4.

You can view my favorite three dozen architecture images by clicking the picture below:


Click the image for the slideshow.