When I was working at Hewlett-Packard in the early 70s, I remember walking through optical labs and noticing the benches the engineers used to set up experiments. The most striking thing was the top: a huge slab of four or six-inch thick dark-gray granite pockmarked with holes on a regular grid. The bench had many… [Read More]
Archives for January 2014
Looking back – and forward
I’m starting to take stock of the last couple of months’ work that I’ve done on this blog. In October and November, two things hit me at about the same time. They were interrelated and complementary, so I pursued both. The first was the challenge of making sharper pictures for the firehouse series. That led… [Read More]
Taming the Sony a7R shutter
The is a guest post by Huntington Witherill, a prolific, versatile photographer who has mastered both the technical and artistic parts of the pursuit. He’s also a great lecturer, teacher, and friend. You can see his work here. He’s been working on the a7R shutter slap for a couple of weeks now, and he’s come… [Read More]
Photographic quality
Let’s take a break from the technical minutia and spend at least one post on a photographic issue that’s important – or should be important – no matter what you think of the a7R’s shutter. Brooks Jensen just posted a rumination on photographic quality. Rather than summarize Brooks’ post, I suggest you read it –… [Read More]
Shutter slap testing with ISO 12233, part 12
Ferrell McCullough proposed an idea a couple of days ago that sounded better and better the more I thought about it. Why not do some testing of the strobe-lit images with rear-curtain synch at various shutter speeds? We could then see blur that was big enough to show up during the strobe duration at discrete… [Read More]
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