This is a continuation of a report on a trip with the Sony a7RII. The series starts here. If you go on a trip like this, the cruise company will make clothing recommendations, and you’d be well-advised to heed them. But they don’t usually focus on the needs of photographers. So, at the risk of… [Read More]
Archives for September 2015
Cruising with the Sony a7RII – picking gear
I’m back from a two-week cruise on a smallish – 60 passenger – boat. We started in Sitka, Alaska, and spent the first weeks exploring the fjords, glaciers, and forests of south-eastern Alaska. We continued south to British Columbia, and looked at the northern BC coast, Haida Gwaii, the east coast of Vancouver Island and… [Read More]
AutoPano Giga 4.2
There’s a new version of AutoPano Giga out. It’s even better at using all the CPU cores than the old one: The above is with a dual hexcore system, so there are a lot of physical cores to use. It’s not the memory hog that it once was, although this was with a 12 42… [Read More]
Raw and film
I wrote a piece on the different worlds inhabited by those who consider raw files to be the reference for camera performance and those for whom the lodestone is a developed file. I posted it here, and put another version on the DPR Sony alpha 7 forum on DPR. In the ensuing discussion, several made… [Read More]
Sony a7RII menu system
There are those who say that I’m prejudiced from my long usage of Nikon (and sometimes Canon) equipment, but I’ve been using alpha 7 cameras for most of my photography since they were first shipped, and I still find the menu system cumbersome, confusing, and awkward. The situation has not improved with the a7RII, and,… [Read More]