My new 24" Canon Pro-2100 printer is now up and running. Yes! I am really old school about photographic images in that I need to print it to feel comfortable in evaluating the color, contrast, and composition as a final image. For me, a print is the final output of my creative endeavor, thus essential... Continue Reading →
Canon Pro-2100 – My Field of Dreams
From the heart warming movie Field of Dreams; if you build a (baseball) fields, they will come. Thus the idea behind my purchase earlier this week of a brand-spanking new 24" Canon Pro-2100 printer. If I make bigger prints, I will then sell these! Up till now I mainly sell 16 x 20" prints (on... Continue Reading →
LACP: 24 inch wide Canon Pro-2000 printer training
Untitled, Memory Pods copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Last night I attended the LACP (Los Angeles Center of Photography) training class in their printing laboratory to learn the basics on how to use their 24" wide Canon Pro-2000 printer. This is a wide-format printer that is available to LACP members (small fee; time plus nominal ink... Continue Reading →
Canon Pro-1 color icc profiles
Untitled, (Memory Pods), 2015 copyright Douglas Stockdale Day two of installing my Canon Pro-1 printer and after getting the basics in place as I wrote about yesterday, the next step was creating the color profiles (icc profiles) for my printing papers. I am starting with my basic proofing paper. This involved creating my first paper... Continue Reading →
Canon Pro-1 printer in the studio
Memory Pods, March 2015 copyright Douglas Stockdale Yes, there is a slightly used Canon Pro-1 printer now sitting in the studio. The Epson 4800 is in the storage area pending a posting on Craig's List, which will also includes a new in-the-box 220ml Photo Black ink cartridge. The Canon Pro-1 is only 13" wide but... Continue Reading →
Mystery on the Plano Trabuco – Buzzards circling
Buzzards, Mystery on the Plano Trabuco 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale In the Southwest the sight of circling buzzards is not a good omen as it foretells of something that might be dying or perhaps already passed on to its afterlife. I realized that an image of circling buzzards would make a great image for my... Continue Reading →
Canon 24-105mm lens test revelation
detail (100% magnification), Canon 24-105mm L f/4 lens, at 105mm at f/9 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last Friday I had found myself in the local Canon Service shop in Costa Mesa regarding some issues with the bottom left corner of my images and was informed that I need the flange back repaired for my 5D Mark... Continue Reading →
Canon 5D Mark 3 – Flange back repair (again)
Bottom left corner detail 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I recently left my Canon 5D Mark 3 body at the Canon Service center in Costa Mesa for repair of the "flange back", which the camera technicians stated was the reason for my latest series of crappy-corner images. Latest, in as this is the same image issue... Continue Reading →
Canon not supporting original 5D camera
Canon 5D body copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Maybe I might not be the last person to find this out, but I now know that Canon Service is no longer providing support, either maintenance, repair or replacement parts, for the original 5D body. I found this out last week when I drove over to Costa Mesa... Continue Reading →