Archives for 2015

This is part 3 in a series of posts on a prototype of the Kolari Vision thin-stack sensor modification for the Sony a7II. The series starts here. Not a worst case lens at all, the Leica 24mm f/3.8 Elmar-M ASPH is an good performer on the a8II, provided you stop it down a bit. How… [Read More]

This is part 2 in a series of posts on the prototype Kolari Vision thin-stack sensor modification for the Sony a7II. The series starts here. There are many reasons to expect that lenses designed for the zero-thickness sensor stack of film will do better with a thinner stack on a digital sensor, and the previous… [Read More]

The nice folks at Kolari Vision have loaned me a prototype of a Sony alpha 7 Mark II (hereafter called the a7II) which has been modified with a thinner sensor stack and removal of the anti-aliasing (AA) filter, with the aim of providing better corner performance with rangefinder legacy lenses. Though a prototype, I expect… [Read More]

I’ve been working on a series of photographs all made from the same location. I may move my tripod a few feet, but, since the hills which are the subject are several miles away, there is no discernible effect, other than my being able to point the camera in slightly different directions because of foliage… [Read More]