PHOTO PRO TIPS

I was walking through my local camera shop today and saw the new Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 paper line sitting on the display rack. This is a great product for the Green Shooter. The paper is made of 90% bamboo fibers and 10% cotton. Bamboo is fast growing renewable wood resource product that is already used in a millions different products from cutting boards to snowboards. Bamboo has been used to make paper by the Chinese for centuries and now it;s made into beautiful digital fine art inkjet paper. I wish I had found this before I made my last portfolio!

With a natural warm tone to the paper and a smooth matte surface, it’s ideal for your warmer colored images or if you want that warm black & white look. It’s been coated to work well with all inkjet printers.

I’ve found ICC profiles for the following printers on Hahnemühle’s website (I’m sure more are on the way soon):

• Epson Stylus Pro 3800
• Epson Stylus Pro 7800/9800
• Canon PIXMA Pro9500
• Hewlett-Packard (HP) Photosmart Pro B9180

The Bamboo 290 line comes is 20 and 50 sheet boxes in sizes 8.5″x11″ up to 17″x22″. It also comes in 3″ core rolls 24″, 36″, and 44″ wide by 39′. Prices start at $26.95 for 20 Sheets of 8.5″x11″.

If you’ve used Bamboo 290, please let us know by making comments here.

UPDATED: So, as Johnny Danger pointed out in the comments below, I didn’t upsample the 5D to match the native resolution of H3Dii in the original test article. I have added two new slides to illustrate this and it really shows how much better the H3Dii is compared to the Canon 5D. I’m still amazed that this little blog post gets about 100 unique visitors a day and is the #3 link when you do a Google search for h3dii.

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As you may have followed in my Daily Photoblog, I’ve been testing out the new Hasselblad H3Dii 39.1MP Back. The camera is just awesome and really fun to shoot with after being in 35mm format DSLR for the past 4 years. And the files I pulled off it were amazing. The image quality, sharpness, and dynamic range just blew my mind. But is it worth $30,000? Better yet, is it worth a $500/day rental versus a $150/day rental for Canon 5D?
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