Wanted List

This page lists cigars that I would like to obtain an example of to photograph.

Cuban Cigar Website is run entirely in my spare time and self-funded, and is not revenue generating in any way. The donations received through PayPal rarely cover more than 10% of the operating expenses. I am not an especially wealthy or prolific collector, and rely on the generosity of users to donate cigars for the photographs that appear on the site. If you find Cuban Cigar Website useful and would like it to continue to be updated with high quality content, I encourage you to donate.

Sometimes users offer to submit photographs they have taken themselves to the website. I will accept these, but where possible it is always preferable that I obtain an actual cigar. To create a perfect photograph requires a high-quality camera and studio setup and a lot of practice. Even when users have access to this, it is still better that I take a picture myself to get a consistent look across all the photos on the website. I also try to archive at least one single of every cigar that passes through my hands in case some future technology arises (3D scanning, for example), and all the cigars need to be recaptured in some way. This guide offers details the process of capturing photos for Cuban Cigar Website.

Cigars can be mailed to:

Alexander Groom
Parcel Locker 1006963954
260 Elizabeth Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia

I am happy to return especially rare cigars if required. Please contact me to arrange this. Also feel free to reach out if you have a collection of rare humidors or similar and would be happy to have me come spend a day photographing them at your location.

The cigars listed below are those for which I have no image at all, or the image I have is of such low quality that I have marked it as only a placeholder. Generally they will appear on the site as a grey silhouette.

Picture quality on Cuban Cigar Website has evolved somewhat over time. The latest photos are taken with a professional quality camera and lighting setup and macro lenses. They are the highest quality available anywhere (usually 600dpi+), and are more than adequate to be printed lifesize in a high quality art book, poster, billboard, or any other application. This standard of photography began being used in approximately 2016.

Between 2010 and 2016, most cigars were photographed with a high quality camera and light box, but were not saved at the high resolutions used today. These images are available at approximately 250dpi, which is adequate for the web, but too low for high quality printing. There are also numerous cigars that have had band updates since this period.

The images of cigars that were discontinued prior to 2010 are generally sourced from old Habanos Illustrated catalogues. The images used in these catalogues were fairly low-quality to begin with, and were manipulated to have perfectly straight sides and feet. Sometimes the image used was not a real cigar at all, but entirely created in Photoshop. The catalogues themselves are not printed to especially high quality, and have been scanned and reprinted by a secondary source before making their way into Cuban Cigar Website. The effective print resolution of these images is approximately 75dpi, which is too low for even poor-quality printing.

There are also a small percentage of cigars for which photographs were supplied by various contributors around the world. These are a mixed bag as far as resolution, focus and lighting quality go.

The cigars listed below fall into one of these groups. They are not my highest priority, but if possible I would like to obtain a single so that I can bring the images up to the highest standard.