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Testing for decentering by eye

March 25, 2016 JimK 7 Comments

[Edit. Although I’m leaving this post up because several people have linked to it, I now recommend a different method as quicker, easier, and less prone to false positives: Simple decentering test And now back to the original post:] You hear complaints all the time about the quality control of various lens manufacturers, and horror… [Read More]

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A photon transfer capture protocol

March 24, 2016 JimK Leave a Comment

Warning: this is a technical post that assumes a fair amount of knowledge on the part of the reader. Jack Hogan and I have been working on photon transfer analysis of sensors for some time. He and I wrote some Matlab code to analyze pixel response non-uniformity (PRNU), to plot complete photon response curves, and… [Read More]

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Zooms vs primes for learning — guest post

March 24, 2016 JimK 1 Comment

A few days ago, I wrote a post about zooms versus primes for people learning photography. Over on DPR, David Braddon-Mitchell posted something that I really liked. Oh, you caught me; probably one of the reasons that I like it is that the writer agrees with my point of view. However, I think his post… [Read More]

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Photography is communication – or is it?

March 23, 2016 JimK 5 Comments

I have always thought of photography, or any other art I can think of, as a communications vehicle. The artist has something to say, and wants to say it to an audience. The audience gains something from the art, in the case of photography, from seeing the work. The photographer gains satisfaction, even if she… [Read More]

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Sony a6300 — little things

March 22, 2016 JimK 12 Comments

This is part of a long series of posts about the Sony a6300. The series starts here. I like the Sony a 6300 a lot. It has an excellent two-speed sensor, a beefed-up construction that’s reminiscent of the a7RII and a7II, really accurate and Johnny-on-the-spot autofocus, a manual EVF/LCD switching mode that takes the cursing… [Read More]

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  • About
    • Patents and papers about color
    • Who am I?
  • How to…
    • Backing up photographic images
    • How to change email providers
    • How to shoot slanted edge images for me
  • Lens screening testing
    • Equipment and Software
    • Examples
      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
      • Fair 14-30mm zoom
      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
      • Good 100-400 zoom
      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
      • Good 18mm FF lens
      • Good 24-105 mm FF lens
      • Good 24-70 FF zoom
      • Good 35 mm FF lens
      • Good 35-70 MF lens
      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
      • Good 65 mm FF lens
      • Good 85 mm FF lens
      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
      • Marginal 35mm FF lens
      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
      • Tilted 30 mm MF lens
      • Tilted 50 mm FF lens
      • Two 15mm FF lenses
    • Found a problem – now what?
    • Goals for this test
    • Minimum target distances
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Printable Siemens Star targets
    • Target size on sensor
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Test instructions — postproduction
    • Test instructions — reading the images
    • Test instructions – capture
    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recommended photographic web sites
  • Using in-camera histograms for ETTR
    • Acknowledgments
    • Why ETTR?
    • Normal in-camera histograms
    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
    • A one-step UniWB procedure
    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

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