Archives for 2016

I photographed a Christmas Eve church service a couple of days ago. My initial plan was to take a D5 with a variable aperture 80-400 mm lens and a D810 with the 14-24 f/2.8. But then I got worried about the acoustical shutter noise. I knew people would be too polite to make it an… [Read More]

This post covers my current thoughts on off-site photographic backups. It should be understood in the context of this paper on backups in general. I should revise that page soon. There are two basic approaches to off-site backups. One is to do local backups to portable media, and regularly carry that to a safe place…. [Read More]

This is a continuation of a series of posts about bokeh and lenses that are designed to optimize it. The series starts here. In this post, we looked at the bokeh of the Zeiss 135 mm f/2 Apo-Sonnar ZF.2, the Nikon 135 mm f/2 DC-Nikkor, and the Sony 135 mm f/2.8 STF with parts of the… [Read More]

This is a continuation of a series of posts about bokeh and lenses that are designed to optimize it. The series starts here. We’ve seen that in the Zeiss 135 mm f/2 Apo-Sonnar ZF.2, and to a lesser extent in the Nikon 135 mm f/2 DC-Nikkor, that out of focus (OOF) point sources are rendered… [Read More]

This is a continuation of a series of posts about bokeh and lenses that are designed to optimize it. The series starts here. I set up one of my regular bokeh-evaluation scenes, and photographed it with the Nikon 135 mm f/2 DC-Nikkor and Sony 135mm T/4.5 (f/2.8) STF lens. I made images with the DC-Nikkor both… [Read More]