Archives for April 2016

This is part of a series of posts about the Nikon D5. The series starts here: Nikon D5 — read noise vs ISO setting This is a continuation in the development of a testing protocol for measuring the AF speed of camera/lens combinations with static targets. I swapped the 135/2 DC-Nikkor for a more moderns… [Read More]

This is part of a series of posts about the Nikon D5. The series starts here: Nikon D5 — read noise vs ISO setting One of the things that people would like to get a sense of is relative autofocus (AF) speed across cameras with quantitative results and a well-defined testing regime. To my knowledge,… [Read More]

This is part of a series of posts about the Nikon D5. The series starts here: Nikon D5 — read noise vs ISO setting Do you remember the movie This is Spinal Tap? In one memorable scene, a band member rhapsodizes over a amp whose knobs go to eleven, instead of the usual ten, as… [Read More]

This is part of a series of posts about the Nikon D5. The series starts here: Nikon D5 — read noise vs ISO setting As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been unable to model the behavior of the D5 sensor as the ISO control is changed using the standard model. That’s not the… [Read More]

I have a much better test than this one now. Here it is. I’m leaving this post up for historical reasons, but I strongly recommend that you use the new test. From the mailbag: I just found your blog and have been really enthralled by all the data you’ve got! I had a question I… [Read More]