Archives for 2015

This is a continuation of a report on a trip with the Sony a7RII. The series starts here. I made six or seven thousand exposures on the trip. Close to 90% of those were destined to be components of panoramas that I planned to stitch once I got back home. I made images for panoramas… [Read More]

This is a continuation of a report on a trip with the Sony a7RII. The series starts here. I ended up using ISO 100 and ISO 800 for virtually all my exposures on the Alaska trip. Since the a7RII is fairly ISOless from ISO 100 through ISO 500, there is little reason to use ISO… [Read More]

Two years ago, I took a boat trip from Montreal down the St. Lawrence and through the Canadian Maritime Provinces. I took a Sony RX1 and a Leica M240. The Sony didn’t survive the first leg of the journey, and I used the Leica exclusively. This occurrence was the source of some merriment on one… [Read More]

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]

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]