There’s a new mode in the firmware released today for the GFX 50S, 50R, and 100: auto focus bracketing. You set the near distance, the far distance, and the interval, and the camera bangs away between those focal points. But what does it use for a step size? Using a GFX 50R and the 23mm… [Read More]
How focus-bracketing systems work
I’ve done a lot of testing of the focus bracketing (Fujifilm’s name for it), and focus-shift shooting (Nikon’s) on the GFX 50S, the GFX 100, the Z7 and the D850. I expected that the users of these systems with be people who did focus bracketing or focus-shift stacking manually, and they wanted some way to… [Read More]
Photography and trade-offs
Some time ago, looking for a way that math-averse photographers can figure out what focus-bracketing step size to use with the GFX 100, I posted this. Yesterday, I received a question from a reader: … I’m a bit flummoxed by your asking “how much out of focus is acceptable” re the star target images. My… [Read More]
Picking a camera is like picking a dog?
On one of the DPR fora, a photographer was saying that amatuers should pick their cameras for their ergonomics, since all of today’s cameras are capable of making great images. He compared buying a camera to going to the shelter to choose a dog, and said you need to get the one that speaks to… [Read More]
Dancing flowers and grasses
A few weeks ago, I showed you some images I’ve been making in my studio by shining light through a Japanese bamboo sculpture. Last summer, I had been creating some heavily manipulated images by writing computer programs to perform distortion and fusing of conventional still photographs. I set that aside when I got involved with… [Read More]