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Free XRF Spectroscopy Database of Pigments Checker

We just published the new Free XRF Spectroscopy Database of Pigments Checker. Pigments Checker is a collection of swatches of historical pigments that offers art professionals, conservation scientists, conservators and fine art photographers, a tool to evaluate and test their imaging and spectroscopic methodologies for pigment identification. “Pigments Checker Free Spectra Database” is an ongoing

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Technical Photography Filters Set

Technical Photography Filters Set

CHSOS offers the Technical Photography Filters Set at 970 euro + 20 euro shipping. They are the 4 filters (52 mm thread) that we use for our Art examination service and we test in our research publications. Visit our Technical Photography Filters Set page for more info. Technical Photography (TP) for Art diagnostics represents a

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CHSOS studio Viagrande

We got a new Studio

We are celebrating our new Studio! We moved to an 80 square meters (860 square foot) open space. It is an historical building (XVIII century) in downtown Viagrande, Italy, the Sapienza Palace.    

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Technical Photography for wall paintings. Nunziatella di Mascali, Sicily

CHSOS collaborated with Catania (Sicily) Archaeological authorities to contribute Technical Photography Diagnostics on the newly discovered XII century wall paintings in Nunziatella di Mascali, Sicily. CHSOS studied them with high resolution Visible, Infrared and Infrared False Color photography. We contributed “Indagine diagnostica multispettrale sugli affreschi” to the just published “La Nunziatella sopra Mascali”. Read our

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CHSOS Training fine Art Photographer

Training a Fine Art Photographer

We just delivered a 3-days Training program to Rene Gerritsen, Fine Art Photographer in Amsterdam. He generously contributed to our Low-cost Multispectral Imaging Crowd funding Campaign. We covered technical photography, infrared reflectography, reflectance spectroscopy, multispectral imaging and RTI. The 3rd day we moved to Savoca for field project in collaboration with Save The Soul of

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