Huntington Witherill sent me this: The Sony A7r is (IMO) a ground-breaking camera that will, I believe, experience wide spread use. However, the camera currently has a couple of nagging issues, one of which is a decidedly short battery life. The vertical grip (Sony part #VG-C1EM, which then facilitates the use of two (2) batteries,… [Read More]
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More on adapters
As I mentioned here, I’ve quite a stable of lens adapters. They all came in boxes that are too big for me to use in a storage cabinet, let alone a camera bag. They’ve been sitting in a pile in a Sterilite bin. When I change a lens on a digital camera, I have a… [Read More]
The dog that didn’t bark
There’s a Sherlock Holmes story that turns on something that didn’t happen. Hold that thought. Last night, at the request of the celebrating priest, I photographed a Christmas Eve service. Not wanting to be intrusive, I left the big lenses at home and packed light: D4, 14mm f/2.8, 70-200 f/2.8, tripod, cube head. I thought… [Read More]
On adapters
I have a ragtag collection of Nikon F-mount to Leica M-mount, Nikon F-mount to Sony E-mount, and M-mount to E-mount adapters from Novoflex, Metabones, and MTF. None of these are inexpensive; all cost over $200, and one cost more than twice that. As has been discussed before, none are the correct length, almost certainly on… [Read More]
M240 & a7R corner sharpness
There have been repeated assertions on some photography fora that the a7R is deficient in corner sharpness. These statements go beyond the situations where corner smear develops because of ray angles that deviate significantly from orthoganality (what you get with many Leica M-mount lenses), and say that the a7R is soft in the corners in… [Read More]
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