Lloyd Chambers just posted this on his blog. While I agree with Mr. Chambers that shutter-induced vibration is a problem, I don’t think this is the best way for the photographic community to deal with it. I don’t think the argumentative tone of the petition in general, and the demand that Sony publicly call their… [Read More]
Archives for 2014
On vibration control, part 2
Before we go any farther, I’d like to deal with an assumption that I’ve been making all along. It’s not a conjecture that I’m comfortable with. The only reason that I’ve been holding on to it is that, if it’s not true, there’s not much we can do with a tripod to control the shutter… [Read More]
On vibration control
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]
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]
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