When I was in college, I learned a colloquial formulation of the laws of thermodynamics: The first law of thermodynamics says you can’t get something for nothing; the second law says you can’t even break even. Exposure in digital photography is a little like that. I’ve been talking about ETTR for a while now. You… [Read More]
Archives for February 2013
Scheimpflug for dummies
In making the test images for the previous post, I reacquainted myself with the frustrations of using live view in its present incarnation to adjust tilt angle and focus. What I really want is to be able to see magnified views of two portions of the image of my choosing simultaneously, so I can see… [Read More]
Stitched panos: slide or spin?
I’ve been following an email thread by some sophisticated and accomplished photographers that has touched on making stitched panos with (mostly) medium format technical cameras. The discussion has been almost entirely about lenses and backs/bodies that are appropriate to sliding panos. Since that’s not the way I make panos, I started wondering what I’m missing…. [Read More]
Sony RX-1 review, part 13
I shoot raw exclusively, and if I do HDR I do my compositing in post. When I’m doing handheld HDR – or tripod-mounted HDR, for that matter — what I want from a camera is to have it make a series of exposures as rapidly as possible at various shutter speeds. I want to be… [Read More]
Sony RX-7 review, part 12
Some test images. Stitched panorama, camera held vertically 1:1 detail from pano Barrel distortion test (top of frame, correction turned off)
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