Better Light News and Events

blue arrow Same Great Scanning Backs — Smaller Size with Faster USB-2 Interface
Better Light's NEW Hi-Speed (HS Series) scan backs are up to four times faster than before, without compromising the superior image quality our products are know for. Featuring a Hi-Speed USB-2 interface capable of transfer speeds up to 480Mbits/sec. with a Windows or Macintosh computer, these new models pack unprecedented processing power and storage capacity into a compact, lightweight system that is about the same size and weight as some 4x5 field cameras.

blue arrow 2006 - 5th "Almost Annual" Owners Conference Report
Educational programs are growing in importance at Better Light, and the Owners’ Conferences have been one of the most successful means of sharing the wealth of knowledge of staff and our talented owners. If you have never attended one of our conferences, this will summarize what you missed...another conference is planned for late spring 2007.

blue arrow 2006 - Owners Conference Field Trip to Pacific Ocean Beach
On the Saturday following the June 2006 owners conference, a group of photographers headed for the nearby Pebble Beach in San Mateo's coastline for a day of scanning. Click here to view some of the results.

blue arrow 2005 - 4th "Almost Annual" Owners Conference Report
After missing a year in 2004, the Better Light Owners Conference returned in June 2005 at the company's San Carlos, California headquarters. The program highlighted the diverse photographic applications of the scanning back.

2002 - New York Owners Conference Report
Our second conference was held in the Polaroid 20x24 Studio in New York City following PhotoPlus Expo East in November, 2002. This session included a high percentage of people involved in art reproduction – over 1/3 of the audience – from museums, color labs, and independent service bureaus.

San Francisco photographer Stephen Galloway will have a collection of prints showing at LIMN Gallery, 292 Townsend, San Francisco, from November 9, 2007 to January 5, 2008. The show is titled Ab Aeterno — a series of photographs all made with one material, mattress vine. The material, which much is decades old, is a massive tangle of sticks and strands, twisted and braided together. Between the initial ideas of the photographer and the material's behavior, certain forms and compositional tendencies emerge. The photographs retain the detail of the sticks, but they are now far from natural form. They are simultaneously sticks and wood and ideas and abstractions...created with the Better Light scanning back.

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New York City commercial photographer Tony Pettinato, of Pettinato Photography created this portfolio shot with his Better Light Super 6K-2 scanning back. It was featured in the "Backdrop" feature in the August, 2005 issue of Studio Photography & Design magazine. Click here or on image for larger view.

The Summer 2005 issue of Art News magazine featured a photograph created by Ben Blackwell of Oakland, California. Blackwell is the photographer for the University of California Berkley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, and operates a freelance business specializing in art reproduction for galleries, museums, artists and collectors. This photograph of the near 20-foot tall banana peel sculpture was composited with the outdoor scene in Photoshop. Both images were created with the Better Light scanning back. Click here or on image for larger view.