Sony posted the Release 2.0 firmware for the a7II yesterday. Among other things, the release makes uncompressed raw an option. I did a set of dark-field histograms with no lens attached, the shutter set to 1/2000 second, and the drive mode to single shot. at all ISO settings. I’m posting all the whole stop ones… [Read More]
Archives for November 2015
Covering your tracks
I believe that, in many circumstances (journalism not being one of them), that all’s fair in photography. Composite away. Use convoluted curves. Is there a cigarette butt in the foreground? Clone that sucker out. But don’t let the viewer see what you did. It’s like the joke about the young man who was interested in… [Read More]
Small-tent photography
When it comes to photography, I’m a big-tent person. In fact, I’m a big-tent guy about most things, but I’ll just stick to photography here. If there’s any kind of photosensitive material involved in the creation of an image, as far as I’m concerned, it’s photography. That puts me at odds with the people who… [Read More]
Comparisons across generations of capture devices
In this post a couple of days ago, I talked about the shorter-than-I-had-first-thought useful lifetime of lenses, specifically excluding lenses with adorable flaws – deviations from conventional perfection that make the lens and the way it renders a scene an integral part of the image creation process, as opposed to just getting out of the… [Read More]
First post-op images
Since my brain surgery, the only photographs I’ve made have been from my studio window. I have made some, though, and the storm we had last week provided me some nice cloud shadows. All of these are several IR-modded Sony a7II exposures blended together in Ps. Lens was the Otus 85/1.4.