Yesterday, just before noon, I noticed some fog forming on the hills across from my house. I ran outside with my color Sony a7II — the IR cameras cut through the fog, which is not what I wanted — and got about ten minutes of making exposures before the fog blew away. Here are three… [Read More]
Archives for January 2016
How do adaptation errors add?
This is the nineteenth in a series of posts on color reproduction. The series starts here. You don’t have to read the whole thing if you don’t want to. I’ll try to make this post reasonably self-contained. If you get confused, reading the series from the beginning may be useful. In the previous post in… [Read More]
Some more color images of the hills across the way
I’m not driving since I’m tapering off the Keppra, so the only pictures I can make are still from around the house. Here are a few color ones. The weather this month has been fantastic for this kind of photography.
Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8, part 2
This is a continuation of the Loxia review that starts here. I took a walk this morning with my new lens on the a7RII. Here’s a distortion test, first with Lightroom’s lens corrections turned off: There’s just a little mustache distortion. With lens correction on: The distortion pretty much goes away. Here’s an image with… [Read More]
Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8, part 1
On Wednesday, the big brown truck brought a Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8 lens for the Sony alpha 7x cameras that I’d ordered on announcement day back in October. I tore into the package like it was Christmas. No pouch, which is OK with me, since I use the Domke wraps or climbing chalk bags, and… [Read More]