This post has the 1:1 crops from the Leica WATE on the Sony a7R images referenced in the preceding post. Center, 16 mm, f/4: Center, 16 mm, f/8: Center, 18 mm, f/4: Center, 18 mm, f/8: Center, 21 mm, f/4: Center, 21 mm, f/8: Upper left, 16 mm, f/4: Upper left, 16 mm, f/8: Upper… [Read More]
Archives for December 20, 2013
Leica WATE on the Sony a7R
There’s been some interest in how the Leica 16/18/21 Tri Elmar ASPH — aka the WATE, for Wide Angle Tri-Elmar — performs on the Sony a7R. Because it is designed with its exit pupil quite a ways from the sensor plane, there is reason to suspect that it should work well on the a7R. The… [Read More]
Controlling for shutter slap
There have been recent reports of possible shutter-induced blur with tripod-mounted a7R/50mm lens combinations at speeds as fast as 1/160 second. I’ll be testing for this later, but I’d like to assure you that that hasn’t affected the aperture series that I’ve presented so far in this set of posts. Mindful of possible shutter-slap effects,… [Read More]