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Contact. If you need help with studio equipment, large-format cameras, prepress scanners, we will do our best to respond. A reader responds to our e-mail: "Thanks for the response. Your info. has been very helpful and I will continue to surf your site before making ANY purchases." However we are not the proper place to ask where to buy a $299 scanner or a point-and-shoot camera. We do not list a phone number because we are usually photographing on location in Central America or in our German office evaluating large format digital color printers.
You can see the German office of FLAAR Digital Imaging on www.large-format-printers.org, www.wide-format-printers.org, and see the equipment we are testing on a sister site www.FineArtGicleePrinters.org
FLAAR still maintains a studio in Guatemala and tests photography equipment on location throughout Central America, especially in Honduras. Our digital studio is equipped courtesy of Apple Computer, QMS (laser printer), ProDirect (hard drives), Heidelberg CPS (Saphir Ultra2 scanner), EFI Fiery hardware RIP courtesy of Electronics for Imaging, Encad NovaJetPro scanner courtesy of Encad, HP DesignJet printers courtesy of Hewlett-Packard, Epson 7500 courtesy of Epson USA, a DisplayMaker XII courtesy of MacDermid ColorSpan and countless other accessories provided by their respective manufacturers. Additional equipment was purchased courtesy of seed money of $100,000 generously provided by a benefactor who wanted us to upgrade from traditional film into the digital world of the coming millennium. We also received considerable assistance from Japan's National Museum of Ethnology through Japan's Ministry of Education.
FLAAR has one of only five large-format digital panorama cameras in the world, the Dicomed Field Pro modified by Michael Collette with a Better Light turntable and Better Light pano software. FLAAR also has the last Seitz SuperRound shot 70mm computerized triple-mode panorama, linear, and turntable camera systems produced in Switzerland. This model is no longer made. This summer we acquired the newest version of the BetterLight digital panorama photography system. By attending the main international trade shows (such as Photokina and CeBIT in Germany) as well as comparable trade shows in the USA, and by visiting the corporate headquarters to learn about the companies and their products directly, we are able to bring pertinent information to the Internet. We had an educational visit in Copenhagen with technical people of PhaseOne, Scanview, and Color Crisp. To learn more about laser printers we visited QMS headquarters in Mobile, Alabama. Our visit to Lexmark in Kentucky was part of our review of the Lexmark color laser printer. We also have visited the former Dicomed headquarters and naturally the headquarters of Better Light, indeed were personally trained to use these cameras by their developer, Michael Collette. We just returned from visiting the headquarters of Hewlett-Packard large format printer division in Barcelona, Spain. The week before we were at the headquarters of BEST color management RIP software in Krefeld, Germany. FLAAR editors recently visited ColorSpan in Minneapolis and Oce in Chicago. As you can see, FLAAR works hard to bring you the latest information on digital imaging hardware. Most of our reviews are based on our visiting photo studios and asking working photographers what equipment works best for them. Same with large format inkjet printers and scanners. We just returned from India where we visited sign shops to see what equipment was being used there. FLAAR maintains an office at Francisco Marroquin University (our photo studio in the museum on campus is pictured above). FLAAR recently set up a larger equipment evaluation facility at Bowling Green State University of Ohio. The Foundation for Latin American Anthropological Research itself has evolved from an institute dedicated to professional photography of ancient art. The FLAAR Photo Archive is is described on www.maya-art-books.org and www.maya-archaeology.org
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