Not Quite CSI, but close.

April 30, 2008 | Lance, Personal Blogs

Well I was contacted by Phillip Sanfilippo of the Miami Dade Police Department a few weeks ago requesting that I come help teach a workshop on digital photography for law enforcement I had visions of CSI:Miami. I thought I was going to be working with Horatio, Calleigh , Natalaia and their team that I have spent the past couple of years watching on TV. What could I possibly teach these guys? They had high tech everything. I quickly found out there is a big difference between TV and real life!

Well it was a little different , in a good way. The students that were from a variety of departments were normal people eager to learn about how digital photography will enhance their jobs. One of the specific things I was demonstrating was how to cope with the lose of the use of Polariod film eventually for the collection of fingerprint evidence off of objects.

The equipment I was using was a Phase One P45+ with the Mamiya 645AFDII and 120mm Macro lens on a re-purposed Polaroid MP4 copystand with new fibre optic lighting . This provided to be an excellent tool for capturing the highest quality detail from the forensic evidence. From my calculations on some objects we were able to do a 7000dpi 1:1 reproduction!

They provided me with imprint samples and various types of fingerprint evidence to use in the training. (definitely not CSI-Miami evidence)

Here is a sample of the a fingerprint captured from a spoon.

It was a great day and hopefully what I had taught these folks will assist them in solving some crimes.

I was awarded a certificate of appreciation and now have a MDPD shirt as well!

Miami Open House Event May 7,2008

April 28, 2008 | News, Lance, Personal Blogs

Please click below link for invite to our May 7 event in Miami. We will be demonstrating a full color work-flow from image acquisition , viewing and output.

Hope to see you there!

L

Wow! 1,014 Megapixel Pano.

April 28, 2008 | Lance

Recently I had the opportunity to meet Ignacio Gurruchaga of District Lab / in-dependent at one of our events here in our Miami location. Ignacio is both a photographer and high-end printmaker/finisher. His lab has a large 50″ lightjet and specializes in museum quality acrylic mounting by appointment only. In the front of his lab he has a gallery space where he hold exhibits for photographers he prints for. In the back of his space is his lab. On all of the walls you will see examples of work he has produced and also a collection of prints that were generated by old negatives of various formats and glass plates. Most of these were images of Cuba from many years ago. It was like walking through a museum.

One project that caught my attention was one that he did for Art Basel this year . He took a 360 degree pano of where his is lab located to capture all of what goes on around it. He has a few neighboring business (an auto body shop and concrete plant to name afew) and a homeless man. This one particular pano (as pictured) is comprised of 26-P45 files stitched together. Once this file was created he printed out 26 - 50″x120″ panels and placed them in the interior of his exhibition space , called in-dependent.It is truly breathtaking the amount of detail and of course the subject mater that captures the personalities of the people and the characteristics of the businesses.

One final note is that this was all produced within a few days from capture to print.

You can view a smaller copy of this pano that is on display at our Miami offices.

For more information regarding this print or other services that Ignacio offers please email him at IG@disctrictlab.com and check out in-dependent.com .

Thank you for the print Ignacio.

L

Our recent podcast appearance

April 23, 2008 | Lance, Personal Blogs

I don’t know how I let this one slip, but a little more than a month ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Scott Shepard for his weekly radio show and podcast Inside Digital Photo.

Download the podcast, or read on for more information.

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Old San Jaun PhotoWorkshop

April 22, 2008 | News, Lance, Personal Blogs

Capture Integration is excited to announce their support of the GetDPI Digital Imaging Workshops. Lance Schad of Capture Integration will be traveling along to their next workshop in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they will be photographing primarily street and travel photography . Continue reading Old San Jaun PhotoWorkshop…

ZINK Instant Printer

April 16, 2008 | Lance, Personal Blogs

I am a big tech/gadget head and am always coming across cool little items. I thought that this one may interest a lot of you folks that come to our site. Continue reading ZINK Instant Printer…

Grand Opening of Peter Lik Gallery

March 14, 2008 | News, Lance, Personal Blogs

Since I moved down here to sunny Miami I have spent a lot of time wandering around. At the end of last year while strolling down Lincoln Rd I noticed that a Peter Lik gallery was opening soon. I was very excited because I have read about his work and his galleries that he has around the world.

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Stop Wasting Paper - Great New Software Product!

February 18, 2008 | Lance, Personal Blogs

How many times have you wanted to make a photo print only to waste valuable paper through the regular Mac OSX printer driver? Many times you are probably answering. Well yes there have been many RIP programs out there that have allowed you to do visual layouts and apply color management, but they have been very costly and difficult to use.

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R.I.P. Polaroid Instant Film

February 18, 2008 | News, Lance, Personal Blogs

Last week I read some upsetting news. Polaroid is closing its plants that make their instant film. They claim that they will have enough film to last through the end of the year. They are also looking for companies that would be interested in taking over production. This only leaves Fujifilm around for instant film. Here are some links to Fuji’s offerings on their site(it is hard to find things on the site):
http://www.fujifilm.com/products/instant_photo/fp100c.html
http://www.fujifilm.com/products/instant_photo/fp100b.html

Unfortunately the Fuji offerings do not manipulate like some of the Polaroid films do. Our technician Doug Peterson, who is a big fan of emulsion lifts is near tears.

More news available here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080208/ap_on_hi_te/polaroid_film_4

Lance

A short intro

February 13, 2008 | Lance, Personal Blogs

Before joining Capture Integration in late 2007, I spent just under two years as the Eastern Area Sales Manager for Phase One. This was a great experience that allowed me to get a perspective working on the manufacturers side of the industry. Prior to working at Phase One I had spent 17 years pioneering and equipping some of the best photographers in the world with medium format digital systems. It is nice to back working directly with the end-users as I feel that is my forte.

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