This is a continuation of the tests of the previous post to see how much the a7 suffers from shutter shock with and without the electronic first curtain shutter. Instead of the Zony 55, this time I used a Nikon AF Nikkor 180mm f2.8 ED. It’s an older lens, and not as sharp as some… [Read More]
Archives for March 27, 2014
Sony a7 EFCS: how much difference does it make?
A reader asked me to run some tests to see how much the a7 suffered from shutter shock with and without the electronic first curtain shutter. I was intrigued. I decided to start with what should be a pretty easy test, so I used a 55mm lens. Since I haven’t tested the a7R with this… [Read More]
A Photoshop oddity
There’s an old technique in chemical photography for making etching-like images. You sandwich a negative and a positive of the same image together just slightly out of register, and print the whole thing on lith film, then you make your print from the lith. I thought I’d see what happened to one of the firehouse… [Read More]