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Advanced facilities—designed to enable new levels of learning NESOP provides more than 14,000 square feet of facilities—including an extensive digital imaging lab, classrooms, traditional photography labs, the NESOP Center for Photographic Exhibitions (NCPE) and more. We offer a wide range of industry-standard equipment—from cameras of all formats to powerful computers to specialized lighting. You learn using the same equipment you’ll be using in your career.
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Also located in the main facility at 537 Commonwealth Avenue are individual shooting bays that are adjustable to allow for use in shooting product and table-top assignments as well as portraits. In addition, there are three private portrait studios fully equipped with Photogenic lighting and accessories for shooting portraits or fashion.
The school's Digital Support Lab is located on the 3rd floor of the main building, equipped with Macintosh G4 computers, 19-inch Lacie monitors and Epson and Hewlett-Packard printers. This lab exists to provide digital support—including downloading, archiving and Internet access—to all NESOP students. All buildings on the NESOP campus are connected via a wireless high-speed T1 connection. The Digital Support Lab houses NESOP's library, containing various photographic resources including periodicals and photography books. Rare books and videos are kept in a secured location; access is offered to students upon the Dean of Students' approval.
This building also contains the school's fully equipped stockroom, six private 4x5 film-processing rooms and three gang darkrooms. NESOP is proud of the fact that, along with updating its facilities and equipment to offer the newest imaging technology (digital), it still finds value in offering traditional (analog/film) printing facilities.
Equipment Includes:
New in 2007: NESOP is proud to annouce Profoto as its primary choice in strobe lighting. Profoto lighting is a workhorse and a mainstay in the advertising and fashion worlds; as such, we offer it as an integral tool for NESOP students as they prepare for their careers in the industry. Within this line, NESOP now offers: | • | 35 Profoto Acute D4 Strobe Heads | | • | 1 Profoto Acute D4 Ring Flash | | • | 11 Profoto Acute 2 2400 Power Packs | | • | 2 Profoto Acute 2 1200 Power Packs | | • | A full line of light modulators and accessories to support the Profofo Strobe line | Among its equipment, NESOP also offers: | • | 55 enlargers, 22 located in individual color printing darkrooms; able to support film formats 35 mm to 4x5 and print sizes up to 30"x40" | | • | 44 Calumet 4x5 view cameras | | • | 2 8x10 view cameras | | • | View camera lenses from 65mm up to 360mm | | • | 3 Hasselblad 501cm medium format cameras with 80mm and 160mm lenses and Polaroid backs | | • | 4 Apple iBook G4 laptops | | • | 3 Portable Digital Studio Stations each equipped with an Apple eMac computer, Fuji Finepix S3 35mm digital camera and Nikon 28-105mm lens | | • | 8 Fuji Finepix S2 digital cameras with Nikon 28-105mm lenses and Nikon Speedlites | | • | 20 flash/light meters consisting of Sekonic L-358, Sekonic L558 and Gossen Luna Pro F | | • | 12 portable lighting kits containing 2 Photogenic PL1250 monolights with a full line of light modulators and accessories to support the Photogenic Strobe line | | • | 40 Nikon 35mm SLR film cameras with 50mm lenses | | • | 35 Bogen / Manfrotto 3021 tripods with 3029 heads for field use | | • | 15 Bogen / Manfrotto heavy-duty tripods with 3047 heads for studio use | | • | An assortment of lighting and accessories from Smith Victor, Mole Richardson and Lowell Lighting | | • | 8 Quantoum QB1 compact batteries | | • | A Colex RTK 3240 RA-4 roller transport processor for color printing | | • | 1 Canon 300mm f2.8 L IS USm w/Image Stabilizer lens | | • | 1 Nikon AF-S Nikkor 300mm f2.8 GED lens | | • | A custom 48"x32" high-output ultraviolet exposure box for platinum printing, cyanotype and other alternative processes |
Digital Imaging Facility
Our digital imaging facility, located at 650 Beacon Street, is a fully color-managed facility constantly updated with the latest in imaging software and technology. It is made up of two digital classrooms, a digital lab and a scanning room. The lab is staffed at all times by lab technicians who are available to assist students as needed.
The digital imaging facility is outfitted as follows: - 25 Macintosh G5 computers each typically equipped with:
| - | Apple 23" Cinema HD display or LaCie 19" monitor | | - | Epson photo printer | | - | Wireless T1 Internet connection |
- 10 Mac Pro Xenon 64-bit workstations each typically equipped with:
| - | LaCie 19" monitor | | - | Epson photo printer | | - | Wireless T1 Internet connection |
- All machines in NESOP's digital imaging facility are equipped with the most current version(s) of a variety of imaging softwares, including:
| - | Adobe Lightroom | | - | Adobe Photoshop | | - | Adobe Bridge | | - | Macromedia Flash | | - | Macromedia Dreamweaver | | - | Photo Mechanic | | - | Keynote |
- The scanning room has multiple workstations to accommodate all film formats and print scanning. Scanning equipment includes:
| - | Nikon 8000ED film scanner | | - | Nikon 4000ED film scanner | | - | Epson Expression 1640XL film and print scanner | | - | Imacon Flextight III film scanner |
- Advanced students will learn to use additional equipment such as:
| - | Epson 7800 large format printer | | - | Eye One colorimeter for display calibration |
Each classroom in NESOP's digital imaging facility contains an instructor station with a digital projector and audio system. The classrooms and lab are set up for printing using color correct viewing stations and lighting.
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