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Using our onsite, mobile, non-invasive and non-destructive methods to evaluate historical prints. Ask for our art examination service or participate to our Training programs to learn these methods and set up your own laboratory.
I was making a budget for a museum that asked my consulting and training to set up their imaging lab and I thought that almost $800 for a photo editing software (Photoshop CS6) was a bit too much. Photoshop is an amazing tool which definitely merits its considerable cost. Though, the point is that the…
Sometime before Christmas, Moshe Caine, college professor of Photography, wrote me to ask if I were interested to contribute to his new work, a free electronic ibook for iPad: “Interactive photo imaging”, an interactive textbook for students of photography and interactive media. Of course, I was more than pleased and I provided some material regarding multispectral…
This is the list of filters we use for Technical Photography. VIS, RAK X-NiteCC1. X-Nite CC1 transmission curve. Downloaded from www.maxmax.com IR, IRTR, IRFC, IRF Heliopan RG1000. Heliopan RG1000 Transmission curve. Downloaded from www.hoyaoptics.com UVF B+W 420 + X-NiteCC1. B+W 420 is necessary to stop the reflected UV together with the X-NiteCC1 to exclude any…
Madder lake is reported in the literature to have a characteristic pinkish-orange UV fluorescence, both in microscopy cross-sections imaging [1] and UV Fluorescence Photography [4]. Madder lake is the only historical red lake known for showing UV fluorescence. So, its UV fluorescence allows its identification. Though, I never could observe any UV fluorescence in my madder…
iPad and android tablets will find huge application in technical art documentation and examination. They will make conservation, documentation and examination procedures faster. In this blog I report on some applications I found for my iPad to better explain the multispectral imaging features I notice on a painting in a more straightforward way to the collector or museum professional…
