News and Information About HABS, HAER and HALS Photography
There’s a really good (ongoing) discussion on the Large Format Forum about camera-scanning 4×5 and 5×7 negatives for HABS, HAER, or HALS. I use a DSLR (or Mirrorless) camera and a copy stand to photograph my negatives and create 30+ Megapixel digital photographs. Follow the discussion here: https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?157757-4×5-amp-5×7-Negatives-Camera-Scanning-with-Nikon-D800E&highlight=habs
There’s a really good (ongoing) discussion on the Large Format Forum about doing 4×5 photography for a living as a HABS, HAER, or HALS Photographer. Not working for the National Park Service or Heritage Documentation Programs, as an in-house photographer, but rather doing freelance HABS/HAER photographs of historic places for Cultural Resource management firms, cities,…
As one blog ends, another begins. Here in September 2025, my blogging platform since 2010 – Typepad – is going offline. So, I have migrated some of the old posts here to HABS-HAER-HALS.com at WordPress. I’m still not sure if that old Typepad blog will go away or be frozen as an archive. From 2025…