In the fall of 1958, when I was a photographer for my high school newspaper, I borrowed a Linotype font chart from the newspaper office, taped it to the darkroom wall, lit it with two blue-dipped photofloods, metered it with a Weston Master II, and made a bunch of handheld exposures at various shutter speeds… [Read More]
Archives for March 9, 2014
Handholding the a7 and a7R, part 3
I’ve been asked to compare a7R handheld sharpness to that of the Nikon D800E. Here goes, although this is adding one more imponderable to the mix. In the previous testing, the lens was the same for the images made with both cameras. Not just the same model, the very same lens. Since handheld testing requires… [Read More]
Handholding the a7 and a7R, part 2
The cameras: the Sony a7 and a7R. The lens: the Sony/Zeiss (aka Zony) 55mm f/1.8 Sonnar FE. The lighting: a single Fotodiox LED-200WA-56 daylight balanced variable-power flood. ISO set to 400, f-stop set to 5.6, focusing in single shot AF mode with the small focus area setting, drive set to single, the exposure mode set… [Read More]