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Leica WATE on the a7S at 21 mm

July 9, 2014 JimK 2 Comments

I re-ran the tests of the previous post with the WATE set to 21 mm focal length. The Expodisc images: f/4     f/11 f/16 The corners are fine. The garden scene: The upper right corners:   More than a bit soft, but not as soft as at 16 mm. OK The best all around f-stop… [Read More]

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Leica WATE on the a7S at 16mm

July 9, 2014 JimK Leave a Comment

A reader wrote in to say that his WATE (aka Leica 16-18-21mm f/4 Tri-Elmar ASPH) had blue corners when used on the Sony a7. I thought I’d try the lens on the a7S. Expodisc shots at 16 mm: No corner casts to speak of. My usual scene at 16mm: The upper right corner: Soft, like… [Read More]

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High-ISO push processing with the Sony a7S

July 9, 2014 JimK 2 Comments

I ran a similar series of bookcase pictures as the ones I posted earlier today, only with 3 stops higher ISO settings. I put a Zeiss 35 mm f/2 Biogon ZM on the Sony a7S, using a Novoflex adapter. I put the camera on a big RRS carbon fiber tripod. I set the ISO to… [Read More]

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Push processing a7S images

July 9, 2014 JimK 4 Comments

When I post flat-as-Kansas corrected SNR vs ISO curves like I did yesterday, I often get emails saying, “That can’t be right. Show me some pictures.” I always oblige. I put a Zeiss 35m mf/2 Biogon ZM on the Sony a7S, using a Novoflex adapter. I put the camera on a big RRS carbon fiber… [Read More]

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  • About
    • Patents and papers about color
    • Who am I?
  • How to…
    • Backing up photographic images
    • How to change email providers
    • How to shoot slanted edge images for me
  • Lens screening testing
    • Equipment and Software
    • Examples
      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
      • Fair 14-30mm zoom
      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
      • Good 100-400 zoom
      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
      • Good 18mm FF lens
      • Good 24-105 mm FF lens
      • Good 24-70 FF zoom
      • Good 35 mm FF lens
      • Good 35-70 MF lens
      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
      • Good 65 mm FF lens
      • Good 85 mm FF lens
      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
      • Marginal 35mm FF lens
      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
      • Tilted 30 mm MF lens
      • Tilted 50 mm FF lens
      • Two 15mm FF lenses
    • Found a problem – now what?
    • Goals for this test
    • Minimum target distances
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Printable Siemens Star targets
    • Target size on sensor
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Test instructions — postproduction
    • Test instructions — reading the images
    • Test instructions – capture
    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recommended photographic web sites
  • Using in-camera histograms for ETTR
    • Acknowledgments
    • Why ETTR?
    • Normal in-camera histograms
    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
    • A one-step UniWB procedure
    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

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