This is a continuation of yesterday’s post. If you haven’t read it, you should go back and take a look. It has been said about adapters and tilt: “They all convert a good copy of a lens optically into the equivalent of a bad copy of the lens. Or a great lens into a much… [Read More]
Lens adapters — FUD to enlightenment
Preface – feel free to ignore this In 1973, I left hp to join a small computer manufacturer called Rolm with the objective of designing a set of products that would get them into the telephone business. I designed a type of telephone switching system known as a PBX. I hired the engineering team, created… [Read More]
Exposure strategies for the Fuji GFX 50S — numbers
This is a part of series of posts on the Fujifilm GFX 50S You can find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series; just look for… [Read More]
Z mount and long lenses — practical examples
The question before the house is still, “Does the Z mount offer advantages over the F mount for long lenses?” Yesterday, I showed you how the Z mount and F mount interacted with very simple long lenses. It looked like the Z mount helped give the corners of the sensor a better view of the… [Read More]
Does the Z mount help with long lenses?
Some have said that the New Nikon Z mount makes things better only for short lenses, and affords no advantage for long ones. In order to test that, I constructed the following model: We are looking at the diagonal of the sensor, which is 42.3 mm. In order to get the opening available for the… [Read More]